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Category: Conference Whispers

  • Conference Whispers: CONEXPO-CON/AGG & IFPE 2020

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    North America’s largest construction trade show, CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE are held together every three years in Las Vegas. There were endless examples of Industrial Intelligence of Things (IIoT) and edge computing. The conference featured 2.7 million net square feet of exhibits, over 2,300 exhibitors, 150 educational courses, and 130,000 attendees from 150 countries. The intelligence enabled by sensors continues to expand as does the visibility of the results. The digital transformation of the construction site is underway with multiple vendors offering supply chain and job site integrated views. The show closed one day early due to COVID-19.

  • Conference Whispers: TDWI Las Vegas

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    TDWI Las Vegas was an educational and strategy event for 425 attendees, including 66 international attendees from 15 countries. Four major educational tracks featured over 50 full day and half-day sessions, as well as exams available for credit on related courses to become a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP). The educational tracks included: Modern Data Management, Platform and Architecture, Data Strategy and Leadership, Analytics and Business Intelligence. The strategy Summit featured 14 sessions, including many case studies and a special session on Design Thinking. The exhibit hall featured 20 exhibitors and 6 vendor demonstrations and hosted lunches and cocktail hours.

  • Conference Whispers: Oracle Next Generation Cloud Analyst Summit

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    Oracle’s 2020 Next Gen Cloud Analyst Summit allowed 40 industry analysts from North America to see executive product managers and customers talk about Oracle’s newest offering. There were four breakout session topics: Data and Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure, Identify Management and Core Cloud Security, as well as Application Development and Integration. Attendees were able to hear the story of Oracle’s digital transformation and migration to the cloud in addition to four other Oracle customers’ stories.

  • Conference Whispers: CES 2020

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    CES 2020 allowed over 175,000 attendees from 160 countries to see more than 4,400 exhibitors and 250 conference sessions, with 11 official venues totaling over 2.9 million net square feet of exhibits. Attendees described the event as “huge,” although many first-timers used the word “overwhelming.” There were advances and capability announcements across the 36 product categories and 22 marketplaces, including Internet of Things, now more appropriately called Intelligence of Things. CES 2020 brought current technology advances in 5G, quantum computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality together to welcome the new decade of technology and the 4th industrial revolution.

  • Conference Whispers: Tableau Conference 2019

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    Summary: Tableau Conference 2019 allowed 18,000+ attendees to see over 650 presentations. Attendees described the event as fun, although more than a few were disappointed. There were major advances and capability announcements across the platform, including data management and augmented analytics. Some capabilities, such as write to database, require enterprises to take additional independent steps to avoid orphaned data copies and the related governance issues. The conference was notably inclusive, featuring closed captioning, signing and the story of the historical achievements by the group known as the Code Girls.

  • Conference Whispers: World Crypto Con Las Vegas 2019

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    World Crypto Con 2019 (WCC) was part of Vegas Blockchain Week, which also included CoinAgenda, WCC Mine and World Crypto Poker Tournament (WCPT0). WCC had 2,000 attendees and 137 speakers on panels in four major streams. The four streams at WCC included a Main Conference, Blockchain Developer Conference, Mining Conference and educational workshops. The conference had 85 sponsors and 40,000 net square feet of exhibits.

  • Conference Whispers: Teradata Universe 2019

    Conference Whispers: Teradata Universe 2019

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    Teradata Universe 2019 allowed 2,000+ attendees to see over 250 customer sessions and workshops highlighting Teradata’s technology in real-world, and often highly complicated, environments. Attendees felt their goal of seeing what worked for others was met by the conference. Major announcements by Teradata included their Cloud Forward/Cloud First initiatives and the introduction of Teradata Vantage to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Teradata Vantage, which can leverage object store in Azure and AWS, is available “as a service,” and can be purchased on a consumption basis. Teradata officially entered the analytics market with the announcement of Vantage Analysts and Teradata Customer Experience. Teradata’s Hadoop Migration Program announcement was well received by those with large installations.

  • Conference Whispers: PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019

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    PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019 allowed 30,000+ attendees to see over 2,000 machine providers over 900,000 net square feet of exhibits. There were vendors ready for Industry 4.0 that could collect any and all of the data you would like – and those that weren’t. Some data requires a separate license, some is stored in historians, and some is stored in the cloud. There were machines that are reconfigurable and those that can teach themselves. There was even a robot with a neural network embedded on a chip that only needs to see examples to learn.

  • Conference Whispers: Black Hat USA 2019

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    Black Hat USA 2019 provided 20,200+ attendees with an opportunity to dive into training, try their hand at white hat activities, attend briefings, listen to the keynote and attend a large variety of sponsored parties. Artificial intelligence-based security tools have arrived and may foreshadow the future state of cyber warfare. Solutions for data management and related actions focused on security operations centers were displayed. White hat tools to self-test Windows 10 against process injection and self-protecting data software development kits were announced, as were vulnerabilities in common consumer products. Finally, the gaping privacy loopholes created by GDPR were also presented.

  • Conference Whispers: Predictive Analytics World 2019

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    Mega-PAW 2019 clearly demonstrated that predictive analytics is ready for primetime and can lead to fantastic results, but success is far from guaranteed. The 720 attendees had seven tracks across five co-located conferences to choose from. With so much desired content, many found themselves missing a presentation if they hadn’t brought colleagues to cover concurrent sessions—a positive sign of a good conference. While there were some food misses, attendees found the conference interesting and had a takeaway from each speaker.