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The possibilities of a new, AI-driven future are here. Breakthroughs like generative AI will fuel exciting opportunities in creativity, productivity, and innovation. Our impressive lineup of top executives and industry changemakers give insights on how to tackle the world’s most complex business challenges while empowering decision-makers with better information.

Teradata senior executives

Teradata executives share the latest innovations in cloud, data, and analytics. Their unique perspectives help you transform your business in ways you never thought possible.

Possible Agenda

See how modern enterprises energize operations, captivate customers, and create massive value through AI-powered strategies.

Monday, 11 September

10:00 AM | Registration opens

Head to the registration booth to pick up your name badge and event materials.

8:00 AM | Ancillary and 1:1 meetings start

Participate in one-on-one sessions to connect and collaborate with peers and industry experts.

10:15 AM – 12:45 PM | Hands-On Workshop: VantageCloud Lake

This hands-on workshop is designed to give participants a holistic view of the VantageCloud Lake Ecosystem and its various components. It will introduce the new VantageCloud Lake architecture and provide access to the new VantageCloud Lake Console. In the Console, you will be introduced to the new SQL Editor along with the new In-DB Analytic Functions Explorer. Attendees will also be able to explore the new compute architecture by using the new VantageCloud Lake storage mechanisms: OFS (Object File Storage) and NOS (Native Object Storage).

12:30PM – 2:00 PM | Hands-On Workshop Lunch

Enjoy lunch between workshops in the Tyburn Kitchen.

1:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Hands-On Workshop: ClearScape Analytics

This hands-on workshop will have attendees using their own laptop to access a Teradata ClearScape Environment. The course will move quickly through an introduction, data prep/feature engineering, model training, horizontal and vertical scaling, bringing in your own model (BYOM), model ops, and conclude with partner APIs and workbenches. Attendees will continue to have access to the environment for 30 days after the hands-on workshop.

5:00 PM | Welcome Reception

Meet fellow attendees, network with industry peers, and kick-start your Possible journey.

Tuesday, 12 September

8:00 AM | Registration opens

Head to the registration booth to pick up your name badge and event materials.

8:00 AM | Breakfast and Expo Hub opens

Get energized with a breakfast snack and explore the Expo Hub: a showcase for the latest in AI/ML, cloud, and data innovation. Registration open.

10:00 AM | Welcome

Let us introduce you to the future of AI innovation as we open up a world of possibilities with Emcee Kate Russel, Journalist.

10:10 AM | Transformative Trends and Industry Disruptions

Avi Goldfarb, best-selling author and researcher: Emerging trends and industry shake-ups that are redefining the business landscape.

10:35 AM | Enterprise 2030: Preparing for the AI-driven decade

Jacqueline Woods, Chief Marketing Officer, Teradata, and Isabel Togoh, Associate Editor, Forbes: Modernizing AI and data strategies for the enterprise of the future.

10:55 AM | Executive Keynote: Fuel the Future

Steve McMillan, President and CEO, Teradata, and Andy Hill, CDO, Unilever: How innovation, business outcomes, and AI acceleration intersect to fuel your future.

11:30 AM | Going Farther and Faster

Todd Cione, Chief Revenue Officer, Teradata; Vimal Endiran, Managing Director - Cloud First, Accenture, and Teresa Tung, CTO, Accenture: The impact of strategic partnerships in shaping your success journey.

11:50 AM | Success Stories: Bringing the Future to Life

Hear directly from Noah Schellenberg, a Manager in the Decision Science Center of Excellence at Tetra Pak, on the changes they’re making to drive more business impact.

12:10 PM | Lunch in the Tyburn Kitchen

Meet with your peers and industry leaders as you take a fuel break for lunch in the Tyburn Kitchen.

1:25 PM | Fuel the Future

Emcee Kate Russell, Journalist, returns as we kick off the afternoon’s session of speakers.

1:30 PM | What's Fueling the Future + Fireside Chat

Hillary Ashton, Chief Product Officer, Teradata: Exploring future-state drivers for AI/ML and data. Followed by a fireside chat with Steve Pimblett, Chief Data Officer, The Very Group, to discuss Innovation with impact.

2:10 PM | Regional Insights and Roundtable Introduction

Join Richard Petley, Regional Sales EVP, Teradata, as he delves into regional industry trends and sets the stage for our upcoming industry-specific roundtables.

2:20 PM | Break

Grab a snack and have a chat, then jump back in.

2:30 PM | Industry and Customer Roundtables in the Expo Hub

Engage with your peers and industry leaders to share experiences and gain fresh insights. Connect 1:1 with a Teradata expert to get real-time answers to your questions in the Meeting Center.

Industry Roundtables:

  • Financial (Simon Axon, Financial Services Industry Director, Teradata)
  • Telco (Hans-Peter Misra, Director Telco Industry EMEA & APJ, Teradata)
  • Customer Experience (Yann Ros, Senior Business Consultant, Teradata)
  • Driving Value (Niall O'Doherty, Director, Industry, Business Consulting and Solutions, Teradata)
  • The E in ESG (Varun Kohli, VP WW Commercial Operations, Teradata, and Chris Hillman, Senior Director, Ecosystem Architecture, Teradata; co-hosted with Accenture) 

Peer Customer Roundtables:

  • Commercial International Bank (Ahmed Shalabi, Head of Enterprise Information Management)
  • Raiffeisen Bank International (Andreas Tattersall, Head of EDWH Delivery)
  • ABANCA (Jorge Garcia Romaris, Director of Data, Analytics, and RegTech)
  • The Very Group (Steve Pimblett, Chief Data Officer)
  • Telefonica Argentina (Alejandro Salevsky, Director of CIO Office)
  • Lloyds Banking (George Cairns, Personalisation Lab Product Owner)

3:30 PM | Break

Grab a snack and have a chat, then jump back in.

3:45 PM | Discover what’s next with thought leaders

Discussion and Q&A around insights and learnings from an industry panel moderated by Martin Willcox, VP Analytics & Architecture, Teradata

Panelists:
Sri Raghavan, Principal, Data Science and Analytics, AWS
Oliver Bussman, Founder and CEO, Bussman Advisory AG
Mike Hutchinson, Chief Customer Officer, Teradata
Richard Petley, EVP Regional Sales, Teradata

4:15 PM | Closing

Emcee Kate Russell, Journalist, wraps up the day and previews what’s to come.

4:30 PM | Networking Reception

Network and unwind with your peers at Possible.

Evening | Possible Party

Enjoy an evening of celebration and entertainment featuring The Wilde Ones.

Wednesday, 13 September

8:00 AM | Registration

Head to the registration booth to pick up your name badge and event materials.

8:00 AM | Expo Hub open

Enjoy breakfast in the morning and then dive into another day of discovery at the Expo Hub, featuring exhibits on the latest in AI, ML, and data technologies.

9:00 AM | Welcome

Richard Petley, EVP, Regional Sales – International, Teradata, kicks off a day of hands-on experiences and interactive sessions that promise to provide practical insights and actionable takeaways.

9:10 AM | Fueling the Future through Innovation

Join Daniel Spurling, SVP, Product Engineering, Teradata, as he takes the stage for our opening keynote. Embark on a journey through the current technological landscape and into the future of data-driven innovation. Daniel will offer his unique perspective on where we are, where we're heading, and how Teradata is positioned to lead the charge.

9:35 AM | Partnering for Innovation

We live in a world of unprecedented innovation. Transformational shifts such as the cloud, AI, remote work, and the consumerization of technology create immense pressure and rapid change. Come hear from Daniel Spurling, Vice President of Engineering, Teradata, and Tina Diamond, Azure Solutions Sector Director, Microsoft, on how Teradata and Microsoft are driving innovation, anticipating market needs, and evolving offerings to address market demands.

9:50 AM | Track Exploration

Get a preview of what will be covered in our expert-led tracks:

Modern Platform/Architecture
Matt Hallam, EMEA Director Vantage Modernisation, Teradata

Data Management/Governance
David Jerrim, Director, Ecosystem Architecture, Teradata

Accelerating Analytics AI/ML
Martin Willcox, VP, Presales Technology, Teradata

10:00 AM | Break

Grab some coffee or tea and a snack before heading to the breakouts and hands-on workshops.

10:30 AM | Technical Session Track 1: Modern Platform/Architecture

Session 1: Charting the future together: How customers help shape Teradata's technical vision
Join Venkat Rajaji, Vice President of Product Management, Teradata, for a deeper look into our technical roadmap for VantageCloud™. Venkat will share how Teradata's product team is incorporating customer feedback into the development of products and services.

Session 2: Migrate and modernize: Peer panel discussion
Join Ahmad El-Kays, Head of Data Architecture, Prarie Payment Joint Venture; Andreas Tattersall, Head of EDWH Delivery, Raiffeisen Bank International; and Venkat Rajaji, VP Product Management, Teradata, for an interactive discussion about their experiences migrating and modernizing their data analytic ecosystems with Teradata. Led by Brian Grant, Solution Engineer, Teradata, customers will share valuable insights into the strategies that have enabled them to achieve their digital transformation goals and drive business growth.

Session 3: Telefónica Argentina: Enabling advanced data driven decisions in a challenging business environment
Join Horacio Mansilla, Director of Digital and Big Data, and Alejandro Salevsky, Director of CIO Process, to hear how they’re transforming data analytics at Telefónica Argentina. With an objective to deliver advanced data-driven decisioning for the business in spite of a challenging environment, they’ll share their strategies on platform modernization and the associated changes required for people, skills, and processes.

Session 4: Stronger together: Leveraging VantageCloud and Microsoft Azure at Swedbank
The partnership between Microsoft and Teradata combines the global footprint of Azure with the advanced analytic capabilities of VantageCloud. To begin this session, Microsoft’s Mike Z., Principal Cloud Solution Architect and Teradata’s Rob Anderson, Senior Consultant will discuss how deploying VantageCloud on Azure can reduce infrastructure complexity and provide real-time business intelligence.  Mike and Rob will then be joined by Håkan Jonsson, Lead Architect for Data Strategy at Swedbank.   Håkan will share Swedbank’s migration journey and how they combine the two technologies to drive insights and analytics across the business.

Session 5: Exploring on-premises and hybrid deployments
Join Sanjay Tyagi, Vice President & General Manager, OEM Solutions, Dell Technologies, and Steve Mazingo, Product Manager, Teradata, as they zero in on the ins and outs of on-premises and hybrid deployments. Come learn about the various options and discuss their advantages in terms of performance, cost, scalability, security, and functionality. Sanjay and Steve will share real-world case studies illustrating the capabilities of on-premises and hybrid cloud architectures. Expect to gain new insights into developing the right strategy for your business.

10:30 AM | Technical Session Track 2: Data Management/Governance

Session 1: Implementing the data mesh concept: an engineering approach
Join Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst as he explains how to implement a successful data mesh that enables a data-powered enterprise. An engineering approach provides a practical architecture and governance framework to deliver connectivity across domains while encouraging a decentralized approach to stewardship and implementation. Learn how to balance different design patterns and create separate schemas for each domain to build a data mesh that does justice to both business and technology considerations.

Session 2: Future of data management at Swedbank
In this session, Sead Pašalić, Chief Product Owner, Group BI, CFO Office, will discuss data management at the Swedbank Group. He'll talk about how Swedbank position their data platforms to support the group's data transformation and how cloud native technology will help them consolidate their data warehouses in order to be technologically ready for the organization's transformation to a data mesh setup.

For the second half of this session, Sead will be joined by Stephen Brobst, Chief Technology Officer, Teradata, for a discussion on the future of data management. The discussion will be moderated by David Jerrim, EMEA Director of Ecosystem Architecture, Teradata, and will be open to audience Q&A.

Session 3: Embracing the power of the data fabric
In this session, Sebastian Barreda, Product Director, Teradata, will  provide technical updates on Teradata’s ecosystem tools. He'll also share real-world examples of how Teradata customers have successfully leveraged Teradata and third-party tools to extend their data fabric capabilities.

Session 4: Data management success stories: AI-driven data quality and creating a customer 360
In a world of ever-increasing complexity, nearly all organizations are facing challenges with data management. In this session, Andreas Tattersall, Head of EDWH Delivery, Raiffeisen Bank International will explain how RBI and Nationwide Building Society are leveraging Teradata's products and services to gain deeper insights into customers and drive data-driven decision-making. Come learn from your peers who will be sharing their stories via video, live presentation, and discussion.

Session 5: Embracing the modern data stack ecosystem with VantageCloud
Join Adam Tworkiewicz, Developer Advocate, Teradata, for an overview of the exciting and evolving modern data stack along with a live demo. We will explore how new tools for data ingestion, such as Airbyte, and transformation, such as dbt, are making data loading processes agile and transformation processes more reliable and easier to document and maintain. We review how to leverage the scale and performance of VantageCloud in conjunction with these key tools of the modern data stack. Attendees will be provided with insights to improve their data workflows; integrating more data sources; performing transformations with ease; and deriving value in their business intelligence, machine learning, and other analytical processes.

10:30 AM | Technical Session Track 3: Accelerating Analytics AI/ML

Session 1: Jerónimo Martins: Transforming Insight and Analytics to Improve Customer Experience
Join Daniel Vieira, Head of Customer Intelligence and Analytics, Jerónimo Martins, to hear how this innovative retailer is transforming their advanced analytics capabilities to greatly improve customer experience and operational efficiencies. We will discuss use cases in areas such as personalization and forecasting, and look ahead to where Jerónimo Martins are going next with regards to advanced analytics.

Session 2: How to run a successful hackathon: Lessons from The Very Group
Organizations host hackathons for training, tool development, and testing. A hackathon can be a great way for data scientists to collaborate on solving real-world problems, but how do you ensure the experience is productive? In this session, The Very Group will share tips and advice based on their experience running a hackathon focused on solving customer analytics challenges.

Session 3: AI Everywhere: Scaling and Automating AI/ML for Optimal Business Impact at Abanca
Stay ahead of the curve with the latest trends in analytics in this engaging session with Jorge García Romarís, Director of Data, Analytics, and Regtech at Abanca, and Pablo Escobar de la Oliva, Product Manager at Teradata. Dive into the transformative power of AI/ML and explore their impact at an enterprise level. Learn about the key capabilities for effectively scaling AI/ML, the pivotal role of automation, exciting developments in ClearScape Analytics™, and the ABANCA success stories that showcase the significant capabilities of Teradata in scaling AI/ML with automated ModelOps for business success.

Session 4: Unleash AI innovation across the enterprise with Teradata and AWS
How can businesses deliver maximum value from Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) projects, and scale them fast from proof-of-concept to production?  Chris Hillman, Data Scientist, Teradata, and Bogdan Vrusias Manager, AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS), will provide answers in this impactful session. Find out how the seamless integration of Teradata VantageCloud and ClearScape Analytics™, with AWS and Amazon SageMaker, empowers teams across your organization to innovate with powerful AI/ML tools and services. The result? Breakthrough insights that solve your most complex challenges, reveal new opportunities, and sharpen your competitive edge.

Session 5: AI Experimentation at Scale to Drive More Business Value
AI/ML requires more experimentations freedom so that you can get accurate results and enable mindset of mathematical simulation to drive value from AI/ML pipelines. Join Chris Hillman, Senior Data Science Director, Teradata, and Artur Borycki, VP Engineering Fellow, Teradata, to understand how data evolution can influence accuracy and bias in AI/ML models. Freedom of experimentation in AI/ML is not just about ability to use any model is also about ability to use data as a fuel for getting real value.  Find out what innovations Teradata is bringing to empower teams across your organizations so that you can focus on AI/ML experimentation and not technology.

10:15 AM – 12:45 PM | Hands-On Workshop: VantageCloud Lake

This hands-on workshop is designed to give participants a holistic view of the VantageCloud Lake Ecosystem and its various components. It will introduce the new VantageCloud Lake architecture and provide access to the new VantageCloud Lake Console. In the Console, you will be introduced to the new SQL Editor along with the new In-DB Analytic Functions Explorer. Attendees will also be able to explore the new compute architecture by using the new VantageCloud Lake storage mechanisms: OFS (Object File Storage) and NOS (Native Object Storage).

Led by:
Margarete Feicht, Senior Technical Trainer, Teradata
Koti Kothika, Service Operational Excellence, Senior Technical Trainer & Change Enablement, Teradata

2:30 PM | Break

Break for an afternoon refresher prior to the final sessions.

1:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Hands-On Workshop: ClearScape Analytics

This hands-on workshop will have attendees using their own laptop to access a Teradata ClearScape Environment. The course will move quickly through an introduction, data prep/feature engineering, model training, horizontal and vertical scaling, bringing in your own model (BYOM), model ops, and conclude with partner APIs and workbenches. Attendees will continue to have access to the environment for 30 days after the hands-on workshop.

Led by:
Jean-Charles Ravon, Principal Data Scientist, Teradata
Alexander Smirnov, Data Scientist, Teradata

4:45 PM | Event close

Three days of revolutionary insights, empowering connections, and hands-on experiences have come to a close. Thank you for joining us at Possible 2023!

Thank you to our Possible sponsors

Diamond sponsor

Accenture

Gold sponsors

AWS
Microsoft

Silver sponsors

Dell Technologies
FICO
NetApp

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