Big Data Summit Agenda
October 21-23, 2012

Networking Opportunities & Session Breaks

Executive Exchange

Keynote Presentation

Focus Group

A visionary speaker addresses the entire summit audience on a topic determined by the Summit Content Committee.

Led by a vendor, these sessions allow executives to discuss business drivers within a particular area of technology. Presentations are 15-20 minutes followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A.

Executive Visions

Analyst Q&A Session

A panel of IT executives has an in-depth discussion on a critical IT business topic. Audience members have an opportunity to pose questions to the panelists and moderator.

A high-impact, open-forum session covering the latest technology research and led by a member of our analyst partner community.

Thought Leadership

Vendor Showcase

Led by a member of the vendor community, these sessions will provide an overview of cutting edge technology topics and pressing business concerns.

Presented by a member of the vendor community, these sessions are divided into three 10-minute long elevator pitches on the newest technology solutions and services.

Think Tank

Case Study

Focusing on a specific topic or initiative, these interactive, open-forum style sessions allow the attending 15-20 delegates to discuss best practices and have lively debates.

Learn about recent technology implementations from the IT executives who drove the projects at their organizations. Presentations are followed by Q&A sessions.

Roundtable

Open Forum Luncheon

An interactive, focused session led by either an analyst, industry expert or member of the vendor community.

Led by a moderator, these sessions allow attendees to have informal discussions on pre-determined technology topics.

Day 1, October 21st, 2012 - Big Data Summit

7:00am -
2:00pm

Golf Tournament
Best Ball Golf Tournament - includes lunch

Registration & Greeting to the Big Data Summit

Exclusive CIO Think Tank
Pre-summit introductory discussions

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Welcome Reception

7:00pm - 10.00pm

Gala Dinner & Welcome Remarks

Day 2, October 22nd, 2012 - Big Data Summit

7:00am - 8:00am

Networking Breakfast

8:10am - 8:50am

Keynote Presentation

Big Data, and Better Business Outcomes - A Strategic Foundation for Analytics

Today's winners are those who can analyze large volumes of information in real time - but also provide business insights to leaders, like yourselves, as business or market events are occurring. To truly achieve competitive advantage, such organizations can find insights, answer questions and take action faster than their competitors. In this session, we will highlight industry "thought leadership" where organizations are applying big data management strategies to enable business insights in real-time to realize the Watson vision today.

9:00am - 10:00am

CIO Keynote Presentation

Creating Value for the Enterprise

Generally speaking there are four ways in which big data can create significant value for the enterprise: By collecting and storing more accurate and detailed transactional data in digital form, big data can unlock significant value by making information transparent and usable at much higher frequency; Big data allows ever-narrower segmentation of data and therefore much more precisely tailored products or services; Sophisticated analytics allow for significantly improved management decisions processes; and Big data can be used to improve the development of next generation products and service.

This keynote session will be an insightful discussion about how Big Data can create value for the enterprise. The session will include an overview of Hadoop as the key technology to realize these opportunities and some pointers to assist in getting started.

10:05am - 10:35am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Aligning Your Strategic Initiatives with a Realistic Big Data Analytics Roadmap:
3 Key Strategic Advantages, and a Market Validated Roadmap for What you Really Need, and When

Topics to be discussed:

10:35am - 10:50am

Networking Break

10:55am - 11:25am

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Using Culture and Process to Improve IT's Ability to Execute

How can IT function improve its ability to execute by improving its processes and changing its culture? Improving performance in a sustainable way is challenging to say the least. In this session, we will discuss how to overcome the most important challenges, while building and sustaining momentum. We will demonstrate the repeatability of this approach and how it can be used by other IT organizations. Finally, we'll show why maximizing IT performance is important to the larger IT strategy of improving business results.

CIO Think Tank

Big Data Analytics and the Cloud

As firms seek cost effective and accelerated methods for the deployment of "Big Data Analytics", many are looking to Cloud based solutions as the answer for speeding the deployment of analytics, along with the providing a nimble, cost effective infrastructure. Join this session of industry leaders as we discuss the challenges and advantages to providing analytics within Cloud based solutions.

11:30am - 12:30pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Executive Visions

Big Data Security Strategies for 2012

Controlling and protecting sensitive client and employee information and transactions has become a crucial part of modern business. Factors such as increasingly sophisticated security threats and the sheer pace of technology innovation have raised the bar substantially, while longstanding questions about trust and confidence must be asked in a new light.

This session will discuss a number of crucial security solutions focused on Big Data, including:

12:35pm - 1:35pm

Networking Luncheon

CIO Thought Leadership

Big Data Transformation

Have you noticed that there's now "big data" about Big Data? Not only is Big Data increasingly dominating the attention of CIOs across all industries, but the bombardment of big data about Big Data leaves us CIOs scratching our heads regarding what to do next.

The science of measuring, assimilating and forecasting the environment for the purpose of assessing the impact of the environment upon strategies, operations, tactics, ships, weapons, platforms and people needs Big Data and creates an order of magnitude more Big Data.

In this session, we will share some of the unique aspects of Big Data along with some nuggets for the transformation, which may apply beyond the commercial/industrial sector.

Executive Exchange

Roundtable

Roundtable

CIO Think Tank

Building a Mobile App is Not a Mobile Strategy

Everyone wants their own mobile application, but to make it successful requires thorough planning. Most organizations treat their mobile applications as rather simple - but "cool" - forms of advertisement and underinvest in the technology, choosing generic form-fitted applications.

This session will be an open forum discussion around mobile strategy, and how building a mobile strategy is more than just having your own application. It means working with third-party mobile apps, mobile ad networks, and using offline marketing to drive the mobility process and provide significant value for the users.

CIO Think Tank

Big Data in Social Media

In the intersection between social media and Big Data, we find that they share two common factors from which they derive their value and existence: the connections between the people that use them and the information they share.

As an example, Facebook collect and store vast amounts of information on their users, which analyzed can enable personalization and better user experiences. While gleaning insight and contextualizing interaction in social environments is nothing new, the challenge in doing so has been pushing the boundaries of available technology. Organizations across the social business spectrum are beginning to understand the vast intelligence that can be derived by looking at millions of conversations taking place.

This session will discuss the potentials of Big Data in Social Media and the interesting privacy, legal, and regulatory issues that arise as a result. Where do we draw the line?

3:30pm - 4:30pm

CIO Executive Visions

Bringing Big Data to the Enterprise

Enterprises are awash with data, easily amassing terabytes and even petabytes of information. It has been estimated that humanity creates around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data - per day. To phrase it differently: 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the past two years: by sensors gathering climate information; through social media interactions; with digital pictures and videos posted online; and by transaction records of in-store purchases, just to name a few.

Big data extends far beyond structured data, including unstructured data of all varieties (such as text, audio, video, click streams, and log files). Big data is often time-sensitive and must be used as it is streaming in to the enterprise to maximize the value to the business. Big data is more than a challenge - it is an opportunity to find insight in new and emerging types of revenue. It is an opportunity to make your business more agile and to answer questions that used to be beyond reach.

This executive panel session will discuss the core big data analytics technologies with the components you need to manage, navigate, secure and explore your data.

Topics to be discussed include:

4:35pm - 5:05pm

Executive Exchange

5:15pm - 7:00pm

Reception

7:00pm - 9:30pm

Networking Dinner

Day 3, October 23rd, 2012 - Big Data Summit

7:45am - 8:45am

Networking Breakfast

9:00am - 9:40am

Keynote Presentation

Big Data - Actionable Results

The world is instant and changing fast, and the ability to extract real value from information is the new currency of business, but only if enterprises can manage and exploit the massive volume, velocity, and variety of "big data," converting it into actionable information that can be strategically applied across the organizational ecosystem. Traditional - early generation business intelligence (BI) approaches don't have the flexibility and responsiveness required to respond to changing business priorities and market dynamics at the speed of today's business. The underlying complexity of big data demands a new set of information approaches, architectures, and business science disciplines like nothing we have seen in the past two decades.

Learn how implement the right information management and analytics architectures and systems to harness the value of big data to proactively manage information-related risk, enhance customer and citizen experiences, optimize performance, and discover new market opportunities.

9:45am - 10:15am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Speed to Cloud & Big Data

The rise of big data have significant potential to transform the way in which organizations manage and analyze their information. With the cloud you can gain access to solutions that easily scales up and down to any size you need and allows you to pay only for the resources you use. It provides elastic capacity on demand with no financial commitments or contract minimums, and allows access to your stored data from virtually anywhere and at any time.

This open forum executive discussion will provide the attendees with valuable insights on how to leverage the cloud for your big data needs and provide a baseline of core principles and strategies.

10:20am - 10:35am

Networking Break

10:40am - 11:40am

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Developing and Common Language between Business and IT

Modern organizations need to make advancements across their organization to define an enterprise data model (EDM), a canonical data model (CDM) and a business reference architecture model (BRAM) that enables both business and IT to speak the same language. The CIO need to leverage their EDM for managing data at rest and as a model for the CDM.

In this session, we will discuss leveraging the CDM for both service oriented and message driven architectures in our Channel Services layer to achieving significant value in leveraging BRAM, help categorize business requirements, technology capability, business processes, vendor capabilities, application rationalization, and simplification in addition to identify opportunities to develop and leverage shared services.

We will also share journeys and provide specific examples of how we have applied models to recent acquisition and application portfolio management efforts in addition to observations for future opportunities.

CIO Think Tank

Making Big Data Actionable

Many companies are undertaking "Big Data" initiatives. How can we be certain that these initiatives are aligned with business opportunities and challenges? What are the appropriate processes to reinforce this alignment?

How - specifically - are other companies monetizing Big Data? What are the challenges and obstacles that companies are facing and how are they overcoming these obstacles?

CIO Thought Leadership

Information Overload - The Big Data-Driven Organization

Big data comes in different formats, from different sources, and resides in many different places. Business intelligence (BI) and predictive modeling (PM) tools can help you remove complexity from your data acquisition process and ultimately present critical information in a way that is helpful and clear.

This session will help you increase your ROI from these services and technologies, and confirm ways of using them to their utmost capacity. Create a concrete business strategy that makes getting results from BI and PM tools easier and faster than ever.

12:20pm - 1:20pm

Concluding Remarks & Networking Luncheon