Fuel your future at Possible Orlando

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

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

Let us introduce you to the future of AI innovation as we open up a world of possibilities with Emcee Katie Linendoll, Consumer Tech Expert and TV Personality.

Kara Swisher, Editor-at-Large, New York Magazine: Emerging trends and industry shake-ups that are redefining the business landscape, followed by an audience Q&A session.

Jacqueline Woods, Chief Marketing Officer, Teradata, and Janet Haas, SVP, Forbes: Modernizing AI and data strategies for the enterprise of the future.

Steve McMillan, President and CEO, Teradata, and Jack Purvis, Senior Director, Chief Data Office, DirectTV: How innovation, business outcomes, and AI acceleration intersect to fuel your future.

Todd Cione, Chief Revenue Officer, Teradata; Vimal Endiran, Managing Director - Cloud First, Accenture; and Sriram Anand, Global Head of Delivery, Data & AI, Accenture: The impact of strategic partnerships in shaping your success journey.

Explore the Expo Hub and meet with your peers and industry leaders as you take a fuel break for lunch.

Emcee Katie Linendoll, Consumer Tech Expert and TV Personality, returns as we kick off the afternoon’s session of speakers.

Hillary Ashton, Chief Product Officer, Teradata, and Todd Wilkes, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Premier, Inc.: Exploring future-state drivers for AI/ML and data.

Join Jordy Almgren, EVP Americas Sales and Services, Teradata, as he delves into regional industry trends and sets the stage for our upcoming industry-specific roundtables.

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

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.

Sponsor Roundtables:

• How to Run Modern Marketing on Teradata VantageCloud (Michael Trapani, Head of Product Marketing, ActionIQ, and Mark Swenson, Director, Industry Expert, Teradata)

Industry Roundtables:

• Generative AI (David Socha, Teradata Vice President Industry Business Development Americas, Teradata; Vaikunth Thukral, Teradata Product Innovation Office, Teradata; Sriram Anand, North American Market Leader Data & AI and Global Practice Head of Delivery, Accenture)
• ESG (Frank Lim-Saavedra, Senior Partner, Teradata)
• Business Value Engineering (Tim King, Insurance Industry Expert, Teradata)
• Customer Experience (Monica Woolmer, Industry Expert, Customer Experience, Teradata)

Peer Customer Roundtables:

• Bell Canada (Ryan Levman, Director, Data Engineering)
• The Data Brains (Mark Cooper, Principal)
• Banco Itau (Rodrigo Yuji Maruyama, Superintendent)
• American Airlines (Yash Joshi, Director of Data & Analytics Engineering)
• Texas Health (Michael Parris, Chief Data & Analytics Officer)
• Meijer, Inc (Tim Zeitter, Big Data Infrastructure Technical Manager)

Head back to the mainstage as we prepare to close a day of learning and then celebrate with your peers.

Join us for an informative panel discussion where Teradata thought leaders will share insights on leveraging data and technology to reimagine the future of your business, moderated by Jen Wray, VP, Presales Technology, Teradata.

Panelists:

Mike Hutchinson, Chief Customer Officer, Teradata 
Billy Spears, Chief Information Security Officer, Teradata 
Chandana Gopal, Research Director, Future of Intelligence, IDC
Nimit Jain, Head of Artificial Intelligence, AWS

Emcee Katie Linendoll, Consumer Tech Expert and TV Personality, wraps up the day and previews what’s to come.

Network and unwind with your peers at Possible.

Enjoy an evening of celebration and entertainment.

Enjoy breakfast in the Expo Hub.

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

Dive into another day of discovery at the Expo Hub, featuring exhibits on the latest in AI, ML, and data technologies.

Jordy Almgren, EVP Americas Sales and Services, Teradata, kicks off a day of hands-on experiences and interactive sessions that promise to provide practical insights and actionable takeaways.

How can you ensure your organization is well-prepared for its future requirements? How can you transform the process of building a data ecosystem to expand your capabilities, even when confronted with unexpected challenges? In this session, Rick Greenwald, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner, will explain conventional approaches to software purchases and illuminate how you can raise your game by approaching software use and expansion to build a stronger and more flexible foundation for your data estate.

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.

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 Eduardo Kassner, Chief Data Officer and GM, US, Microsoft , on how Teradata and Microsoft are driving innovation, anticipating market needs, and evolving offerings to address market demands.

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

Modern Platform/Architecture
Ben Sanders, Sr. Director Solution Engineering - Cloud Acceleration, Teradata

Data Management/Governance
Daniel Tehan, Senior Director, Ecosystem Architecture, Teradata

Accelerating Analytics AI/ML
Katrina Conn, Sr Director, Pre-Sales Data Scientist, Teradata

Grab a snack and have a chat in the Expo Hub, then jump back in as we prepare for technical sessions and hands-on workshops.

10:30 AM | Session 1: Teradata and Microsoft: Innovation roadmaps dispelling myths and delivering cutting edge technology
Join Venkat Rajaji, Vice President of Product Management, for a deeper look into Teradata’s innovative technical roadmap. Then hear from Microsoft's  Eduardo Kassner, Chief Data Officer and GM, US, on Microsoft's innovation.  Attendees will leave with an understanding of the innovations both organizations are developing and see several myths debunked!

11:30 AM | Session 2: Ensuring Cloud Migration Success
So, you’ve been given a mandate to migrate your mature data warehouse into the cloud. What now? Will cloud-native repositories accommodate your existing workloads? How do you prepare a diverse community of tens of thousands of users? How do you migrate hundreds of terabytes of data? In this presentation, Mark Cooper, Principal, The Data Brains, will share tips and best practices drawn from first-hand experience to help ensure your cloud migration success.

1:45 PM | Session 3: Migrate and modernize: Peer panel discussion
Join Teradata customers for an interactive discussion about their experiences migrating and modernizing their data analytic ecosystems with Teradata. Join Ben Sanders, Senior Director Solution Engineering, Teradata, along with panelists Ryan Levman, Director - Data Engineering, Bell Canada, and Radhika Amarnath, Director - Data Engineering, Centene, to hear insights into the strategies that have enabled them to achieve their digital transformation goals and drive business growth.

2:45 PM | Session 4: How Unum Accelerated Cloud-powered Analytics at Scale with VantageCloud and VantageCloud Lake
Rationalizing our customers and driving positive experiences to create simple, modern, and personal benefit experiences for those that Unum serves, while continuing to identify and support opportunities to create a more efficient, automated business. Unum continues to leverage a modernized Analytical platform that balances Analytical and Customer Experience capabilities. This not only reduces development costs and provides a faster time to market, but also increases the quality of our digital experiences with a modernized analytical platform with the ability to leveraging near real-time data.

3:45 PM | Session 5: Peer Panel: Exploring on-premises and hybrid deployments with Dell and Wells Fargo
In this session, we'll zero in on the ins and outs of on-premises and hybrid deployments. Steve Mazingo, Product Manager, Teradata, will share the various options and discuss their advantages in terms of performance, cost, scalability, security, and functionality. Steve will then hold a fire side chat with Teradata customers Eric Wilson, Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering and Cloud Migration, Wells Fargo, and Manikandan Rathinavelu, IT Director, Dell. Both Wells Fargo and Dell have evolved their Teradata platforms and have continued plans for the future.

10:30 AM | 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.

11:30 AM | Session 2: Success stories: Overcoming data management and governance challenges
In a world of ever-increasing complexity, nearly all organizations are facing challenges with data management and governance. In this session, Teradata customers will explain how they are leveraging our products and services to solve business challenges and fuel business growth. Come learn from your peers from Texas Health Resources, OSF Healthcare, and Federated Co-operatives Limited who will be sharing their strategies, best-practices, and learnings.

1:45 PM | Session 3: Unlock Data: Embracing the power of data fabric
The focus of data management has evolved into treating data as a strategic "product" to drive effective downstream analytics. ​ Join Teradata Product Managers Sebastian Barreda and Mohammad Nahhas as they dive into how our differentiated Query Fabric, Semantic Knowledge Maps, and embedded ML can create a formidable data fabric and performant decentralized architectures (like Data Fabric or Data Mesh) while empowering users to harness data in their estate. 

2:45 PM | Session 4: Amica Mutual Insurance: Identity and access management automation in the cloud, do it Henry Ford's way
Join Mark Wilkinson, DBA, Amica, and Ray Raichura, Sr. Security Architect, Teradata, to understand the lessons learned in managing users' lifecycles across multiple environments and how to follow an automation foundation approach that will reduce labor costs via security model standardization and automation. Attendees will learn the value in striving for a consistent and efficient architecture to eliminate bottlenecks and security threats.

3:45 PM | Session 5: Embracing the modern data stack ecosystem with VantageCloud
Join Janeth Graziani, 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 | Session 1: Accelerating Model Development to Manage a Healthy Credit Portfolio at Scale
Come learn from Sicredi, a cooperative financial institution from Brazil, about the analytics challenges they faced, how they solved them, and the excellent results they achieved combining the power of Vantage and modern analytics tools at scale.

11:30 AM | Session 2: Harnessing the power of generative AI to drive business outcomes
Generative AI has begun to revolutionize the field of data and analytics. Learn about its impact on enterprise analytics and innovation through real-world use-cases from both AWS and Teradata. Jared Dean, Solution Architect, AWS, and Martin Willcox, Vice President Presales Technology, Teradata, will share tools and strategies on how to make generative AI work with proven scalability, leading to high-value business outcomes.

1:45 PM | Session 3: AI Everywhere: Scaling and automating AI/ML for optimal business impact: Leveraging ML at scale at Banco Bradesco’s
Stay ahead of the curve with the latest trends in analytics in this engaging session with Camila Tiemi Yoshimura Alves, Data Scientist, Banco Bradesco, and Pablo Escobar de la Oliva, Product Manager, Teradata. Dive into the transformative power of ML/AI and GenAI and explore their impact at an enterprise level. Learn about the key considerations for effectively scaling AI/ML, the pivotal role of automation, exciting developments in ClearScape Analytics™, and success stories that showcase the significant capabilities of Teradata in scaling AI/ML for business success.

2:45 PM | Session 4: Customer impact story: Saudi Telecom Company extends customer value management with advanced analytics
Come hear from Ahmad Hussain, GM Customer Value Management-Consumer BU and Khalid Al-Yemni, Business Analysis Consultant from Saudi Telecom Company (STC) on how STC has  leveraged AI/ML to advance customer value management into different business units by creating new use cases.

3:45 PM | Session 5: AI Experimentation at Scale: How a  serverless experience can drive more business value
AI/ML requires experimentation freedom! Join Artur Borycki, Engineering Fellow, Teradata, and Chris Twogood, SVP Product Marketing, Teradata, to understand what innovations Teradata is bringing to empower teams across your organizations to focus on AI/ML experimentation and not technology. Attendees will learn about the impacts of data evolution, mathmatical simulations, and strategies to derive value from experimentation.

This hands-on workshop, led by Dallas Bowden, Principal Cloud Lab Engineer, Teradata, and Rao Nuthakki, Senior Technical Trainer and Developer, Teradata, 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).

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.

Grab a snack and have a chat in the Expo Hub.

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