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See what’s Possible in your business. You’ll be surprised.

Possible brings together business and technical industry leaders to discuss the latest trends and strategies in cloud, data, and analytics. Through this event series, Possible executives around the globe provide insights and proven approaches to unlock new value, reach goals faster, and become more resilient in today’s dynamic business environment.

Rethink

Rethink

your data and analytics approach to make your operations more resilient to change.

Empower

Empower

your business by linking your data and analytics strategy to business outcomes.

Accelerate

Accelerate

by quickly transforming business models and customer experience to drive innovation.

Event agenda

View the agenda below or download the PDF to see what high-impact cloud, data, and analytics topics are covered at this event.

October 4 - Rethink

14:00 - 14:20 | Welcome to Possible

Get an overview of the day’s events.

Speakers:
Jacqueline Woods, CMO, Teradata
Tomoji Takahashi, Geo VP, Teradata

14:20 - 14:40 | Economic Outlook: How the current​ climate will impact your business

Today, with various geopolitical risks and environmental changes occurring, global factors and the global economy are changing every minute. How will these changes affect Japan’s economic situation? And what should Japanese companies do? These issues will be discussed in this session.  

Speaker: Naoyuki Iwatani, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

14:40 - 15:10 | State of the Industry: Providing users with insights gained from analyzing data derives new business value 

Gartner continues to receive numerous inquiries from Japanese companies that want to become data-driven but don't know where to start or how to prepare. The most important step is to change the behavior of each and every individual in the organization. This session will explain how IT and DX departments can gain business value by using data.  

Speaker: Tatsuya Ichishi, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner

15:10 - 15:30 | The Future of Cloud Analytics and Data: Innovation at massive scale

Hear from Teradata's executive leadership on their vision for helping companies find breakthrough results. 

Speaker: Steve McMillan, President and CEO, Teradata

15:30 - 15:50 | Breakthrough Disruption with the Complete Cloud Analytics and Data Platform

Discover how organizations are turning data into their most valuable asset by leveraging the cloud to deliver competitive advantages.

Speaker: Hillary Ashton, CPO, Teradata

15:50 - 16:10 | Innovators in the Field: Credit Saison

Credit Saison formed a digital team from scratch in 2019 and has rapidly expanded its digital and data efforts since then. It plans to expand its current digital workforce of approximately 200 people to 1,000 by 2024. This session will feature Credit Saison's digital and data initiatives along with its people and organization, including the fusion of enterprise and startup cultures as well as communication efforts between the system side and the business side.  

Speaker: Kazutoshi Ono, Senior Managing Executive Officer and CTO, CIO, Credit Saison

16:10 - 16:30 | Innovators in the Field: Yahoo Japan

Yahoo, which provides not only a search engine but also various digital services such as auctions and shopping, utilizes the vast amount of data generated from these offerings to provide better services. Yahoo shares the value of the data with its customers every day. This session will introduce how Yahoo analyzes and utilizes its big data. In addition, it will provide an overview of Yahoo's efforts to help Japanese companies make the most use of their data.  

Speaker: Hiroki Taniguchi, EVP, Chief Data Officer, Yahoo Japan

16:30 - 16:50 | Closing Statements: ​What else will be Possible?

Bring proven solutions to your business that can make an immediate impact.

Speakers:
Tomoji Takahashi, Geo VP, Teradata Japan

October 5 - Empower & Accelerate

14:00 - 15:00 | Spotlight Success Story

Track 1 Spotlight Success Story: Analysis of video, POS, and Customer Voice

NTT East opened a new unmanned store that connects rural producers with urban consumers as part of its Online Merges with Offline (OMO) initiative to promote regional development through the use of ICT. In addition to POS data, the store attempted data tracking by combining camera images and customer service audio. In this presentation, we will report on our efforts in funnel analysis by combining POS and video data in addition to association analysis by combining POS and voice data.  

Speaker: Mai Shintani, Research Engineer, NTT East

Track 2 Spotlight Success Story: The Key to Using Data to Improve Customer Experience

As the digital society advances, improving the customer experience when customers interact with brands and services is becoming a key to business success. However, not many businesses are able to provide an optimal customer experience even though they are promoting various initiatives. This session will explain why it is difficult to understand customers, how to utilize customer data, and how to improve the customer experience. 

Speaker: Hisato Ono, Senior Manager, Industry Expert, Teradata Japan

15:00 - 15:30 | Industry Showcase: How to create a digitally native organization

In the post-COVID-19 era, companies are required to accelerate DX promotion, but to succeed, they first need to overcome many obstacles, such as a lack of DX literacy in the field, a lack of DX themes suitable for their company, and an inability to promote DX proactively in their own companies. This session will explain the DX internalization method for sustainable DX promotion based on DX human resource development.  

Speaker: Yoshihara Hiromine, Chief Sales Officer, STANDARD

October 6 - Empower & Accelerate

14:00 - 15:00 | Spotlight Success Story

Track 1 Spotlight Success Story: The next steps of AI and data utilization

Daihatsu's engine development division began using AI in 2017 and has achieved a variety of results. What started as an informal working team of three people has now expanded to a company-wide scale, and "field-driven" AI utilization has become widespread. As the driving force behind this initiative, I will introduce the winning pattern for field-driven AI utilization and success in the manufacturing industry.  

Speaker: Mugen Taiko, Data Science Team Leader, Daihatsu Motor

Track 2 Spotlight Success Story: The Latest Trends in Data Utilization in the Manufacturing and Automotive Industries

In the manufacturing and automotive industries, both in Japan and globally, the use of data to add new value and efficiency to the business has become a major topic of interest. This session will explain the latest trends and use cases in data utilization. 

Speaker: Hiroshi Yano, Manager, Industry Business Development, Teradata Japan

15:00 - 15:30 | Industry Showcase: AWS solutions and case studies for acccelerating manufacturing DX with IoT and AI/Machine Learning

Today's manufacturing industry is experiencing a shift toward business models that provide new value, such as remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and automated operations by collecting and utilizing data generated from products and equipment in real time. This session will introduce the trend of cloud utilization in the manufacturing industry and offer specific ways to utilize IoT, AI, and machine learning-related services provided by AWS along with examples of customers that have actually realized DX by utilizing AWS cloud. 

Speaker: Michitoshi Yoshida, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services Japan

October 7 - Empower & Accelerate

14:00 - 15:00 | Spotlight Success Story

Track 1 Spotlight Success Story: Free data placement with transparent access layers

In order to realize "MagicBox," the concept of Rakuten Travel & Leisure Service's advanced analytical environment, pipeline design and data allocation strategies are very important elements to deal with the diversification and siloing of data. The idea of collecting data in one place has already reached its limits. We are focusing on Trino, a technology that enables cross-analysis without being aware of where the data resides by linking with various distributed systems. In this session, we will introduce the results of our verification of Trino and Teradata QueryGrid.

Speaker: Keijiro Suzuki, Senior Manager, Rakuten Group

Track 2 Spotlight Success Story: The Best Data Analysis Environment Available in the Cloud Today

What features should a data analysis environment infrastructure built on the cloud have? This session will introduce a new data analysis infrastructure with features that are useful for the cloud. These features can help overcome the limitations of on-premises systems while considering the configuration of a system that takes advantage of the cloud. 

Speaker: Tetsuya Sawai, IoX Manager, Technology Sales, Teradata Japan

15:00 - 15:30 | Industry Showcase: Modern Cloud Data Platform Enabled by Teradata Vantage

Teradata Vantage, Teradata's connected multi-cloud data analytics platform, is the most highly regarded cloud database for analytics. In this session, NTT DATA and Teradata data and analytics experts will discuss the platform and deepen your understanding of why Teradata Vantage is so highly rated and what features it offers to drive more value from your data. 

Speakers:

  • Kaito Moriyama, Solution Engineer, Teradata Japan
  • Toshiharu Niwa, Deputy Manager, Data Management Section, NTT Data

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Connect with industry analysts, executive peers, and thought leaders who are driving modernization strategies and building future-ready enterprises. Their insights will help you reach your business goals faster.

Teradata senior executives

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