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London 2023

Registration and breakfast networking

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Opening Keynote: Transform your Business with Data-Driven Strategies

Fireside chat with Snowflake

Chart the future of your Data Intelligence Journey: Alation Platform Vision and Roadmap

Networking and coffee break

DataIQ 100 Panel: The Power of Data: Perspectives from Visionary Minds

The DataIQ 100 profiles the most important and influential people in data-driven businesses and the innovators who support them. Join us for an engaging panel discussion moderated by David Reed, Chief Knowledge Officer and Data Evangelist at DataIQ, alongside the top three most influential people in data: Sanjeevan Bala from ITV, Loretta Frank from Kellogg, and Steve Pimblett from The Very Group. Delve into the ever-evolving data landscape as they explore trust, value, and innovation. Gain insights into how these leaders harness data to drive business success while addressing challenges like democratization, governance, and trust.

Networking lunch

Product Breakout 1: Active Data Governance at Vattenfall

In today's data-driven landscape, organizations face immense challenges in effectively managing and governing their data. In the past, data governance was positioned as defensive first to mitigate risk and often overlooked the offensive side of guiding people to the proper use of data. This breakout session explores how Vattenfall adopted a federated, people-first approach to empower data consumers to get the data they need, find the answers they seek, and move the business forward. You will learn how this approach enabled Vattenfall to establish, optimize, and innovate with data.

Business Breakout 1: Trusted AI needs Trusted Data: Seizing the GenAI Opportunity

Organizations are embracing the promise of Generative AI by taking advantage of Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate and inform decision making. The companies that will win are those that are able to blend public and private data sets to build their own LLMs. In this context, trusted data becomes key. Join this session to learn why data intelligence is a key enabler for delivering on the promise of GenAI.

Discovery Breakout: Alation and Anomalo: Purpose-built for the modern financial services enterprise

In an era where financial landscapes are rapidly transforming, the shift to modern solutions like Anomalo and Alation is crucial. This session dives into the unique challenges of building a modern data stack for financial services, emphasizing the sheer volumes of transactional data, intricate use cases, and mounting data quality imperatives. We’ll shine a light on just how vital data quality and governance are in driving AI/ML-driven financial decisions. Learn from industry experts Pedram Birounvand, Former Head of Data & Processes Digitization at EQT Group, Athena Sharma, UK Financial Services Lead at Artefact, and Jeremy Stanley, Founder & CTO at Anomalo. Join us to delve deeper into the indispensable role Anomalo and Alation play in addressing the intricate challenges of today’s financial realm, elevating your strategic approach.

Product Breakout 2: Alation Open Data Intelligence Platform

The power of Alation lies in its open architecture. Using our Open Connector and Open Data Quality Frameworks, this approach helps to unlock a myriad of solutions. Integrations with third party tools including data classification, data access, and data quality provide the flexibility to build your best of breed data environment. Join for a deep dive session, featuring a customer speaker, as we provide a hands-on product demo.

Business Breakout 2: How to assess your organization's Data Maturity

Building data intelligence comes requires not only the right technology solution, but critically, the right people and process solutions as well. This breakout will provide an overview of how to assess, and grow, your organization's data maturity.

Networking and coffee break

Product Breakout 3: Alation Cloud Service: Customer insights and best practices

Join this session to learn how customers leverage Alation Cloud Service's cloud-native capabilities to gain efficiency. Hear customer insights about faster time to value and best practices for moving from their on-premises instances to Alation Cloud Service. Discover how a customer is driving innovation while at the same time removing administrative overhead.

Business Breakout 3: Calculating the Business Value of Data Intelligence

To secure budget and show success, data leaders must be able to articulate the business value of their initiatives. In this session, we will share Alation's business value framework that includes ready-to-use formulas you can implement to calculate the business value of a data catalog, and case studies demonstrate how data leaders have used this framework to secure executive buy-in.

Discovery Breakout: Choosing the Right Catalog: Considerations to make for Long Term Success

Discover key insights and strategies from recent customer experiences in our fireside chat-style session. We'll tackle vital topics including the evaluation process, success criteria, stakeholder buy-in, building a strong business case, and handling unexpected challenges. Join us for actionable insights to make informed decisions for long-term success.

Product Breakout 4: Exploring Data Products: A Collaborative Alation Session

Data product strategy relies on the exchange of data between those who manage it and those who need it. Most businesses use a data catalog as the collaborative hub where this exchange takes place. By treating data as a tangible asset — and reconsidering how data is found and used — organizations can truly realize its value.This will be an interactive session, and so come prepared to discuss topics including: 1. Does your company utilize 'Data Products' today? Are they integrated into Alation? 2. Explore the role and significance of 'Data Products' within your organization. 3. Share your experience with the Alation object used to capture 'Data Products' and explain your choice. 4. Discuss the essential features required for an effective Data Product in your Data Catalog.

Business Breakout 4: Planet Governance: The Natural History of Getting Data Governance Done

Why is data governance so difficult? On the governance journey, we face internal obstacles like bias, uncertainty, and social pressures. How can data leaders channel natural instincts... to support data governance, rather than obstruct it? Join us to learn how you can craft a data governance plan that puts people first. This will be an informative, enjoyable, interactive session. And leave with tips and tricks to make YOUR data governance initiatives successful!

Discovery Breakout

Details coming soon.

Networking reception

Registration and breakfast networking

Product Breakout 5: Leveraging Alation REST API as part of Data Mesh implementation at Allegro

Allegro are in a process of transition from a situation where the responsibility for data lies with several data engineering teams to a Data Mesh setup where hundreds of software engineering teams maintain data products. The presentation will focus on how the Alation API is leveraged to scale our data landscape, and how it is used to manage the data catalogue content (MDE), enrich table data as well as maintain documentation. As part of democratising the responsibility for maintaining documentation, they'll demo how a github action can be used to convert existing github docs to fully formatted Alation articles, that are available to all data consumers: analysts, product managers and product owners as well as developers.

Business Breakout 5: Case Study - An integrated Data Catalog and Data Quality solution

Learn how Silicon Labs have started down the path to delivering transparency around E2E data flows and data quality enabling trust in critical business data.

Product Breakout 6: Alation Analytics

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Business Breakout 6: The value of the Alation Data Catalog in a decentralized company with an eco-system of technologies

The transport industry is undergoing the largest transformation seen since the introduction of the combustion engine. Propelled by technology, disruptive products, services and business models are changing the landscape forever. For companies with a rich heritage, currently amongst the market leaders, transformation is a must. In this talk, I will present my view on how a company like Scania can leverage the culture which brought us to where we are today in the needed transformation from a truck OEM to a transport solution provider. In short, the strategy is to delegate mandate close to the action and know-how, while keeping governance centralized for holistic aspects. Here, a data catalogue is key.

Networking and coffee break

Closing Keynote: Why most digital transformations fail – and what you can do about it!

The human element in digital transformation is critical. However, evolutionarily, resisting change can be a good thing. It ensures that we keep in our known physical and social realms and stops us from doing things that risk our social bonds or status. Ancient regions of our brains control our unwillingness to change and “we often have little choice but to follow the affective dictates that they provide”. Jon Eklöf is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer of GKN Aerospace Engines. In parallel he researches digital transformation. His research resides at the intersection of general management and computer science.

Data Radical Awards

Join us in celebrating Alation customers that are leading the charge in driving data culture. Named after the company’s podcast, “Data Radicals” these three awards recognize the companies and individuals leading the charge in transforming their organizations with data.

Networking lunch