This Hands-On Workshop is designed to give participants a wholistic view of the VantageCloud Lake Ecosystem. It will introduce the unique, open, and connected approach to supporting Open Table Formats (OTFs), enabling cross-read, cross-write, and cross-query of data stored in a variety of OTFs and open catalogs in multi-cloud and multi-data-lake environments. A large part of this workshop wou,d be around console functionality. Participants 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).
You will explore the capabilities of the VantageCloud Lake Console including ask.ai, Teradata’s generative AI-powered tool.

• Speakers
  • Margarete Feicht, Product and Training Specialist, Teradata
  • Mario Rozario, Manager, Technical Delivery and Enablement, Teradata

Explore booths featuring the latest trends and innovations from Teradata partners and sponsors.

Kick off Possible 2024 with a welcome reception in the expo hub featuring an opening speech by Teradata's Chief Revenue Officer, Richard Petley.

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

Broaden your knowledge with 10-minute talks on AI, analytics, and data management by specialists from within our customer and partner community.

The roundtable sessions will happen over lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday and will feature small group discussions. An expert host at each table will provide thought leadership with an overview of the roundtable topics, followed by open discussion.

Session 1: Delivering responsible AI for Unilever

Giles Pavey will outline Unilever’s approach to delivering company-wide responsible AI. This will include: setting standards, assuring AI systems meet all requirements, and building a culture of responsible AI.

• Speaker
  • Giles Pavey, Global Director of Data Science, Unilever

Session 2: Balancing the need to manage data risks while driving data opportunities

ANZ is a multinational banking and financial services company. Peter will share his insights on a career spent implementing data and analytics strategies that seek to balance customer, shareholder and regulatory imperatives. He will also discuss the challenges and opportunities that arise from managing data and analytics teams across different business units, platforms, and jurisdictions, as well as the benefits of having a data-driven culture and a clear vision for data strategy and governance.

• Speaker
  • Peter Gavin, General Manager Data & Analytics, ANZ Bank New Zealand

Session 3: Scaling AI

The Very Group is a digital retailer with flexible payment options for their 4.4 million customers. Join this discussion to learn more about the strategies taken to implement AI across those retail and financial functions. Good governance and controls across different business units enable AI projects to be more scalable and easier to get into production. Michelle will explain the use cases that are already delivering value across the business.

• Speaker
  • Michelle Williams, Data Product Owner, The Very Group

Session 4: Uniting business and technology on the data transformation journey

In this round table, Mohit Mohan, Head of Technology for Enterprise Data & Insights, will lead a discussion on the practical intricacies of uniting business and technology on the enterprise data transformation journey. We'll explore the complexities of revamping enterprise data platforms to turn raw data into actionable insights, and how embracing data products within a distributed ecosystem is vital to evolving ANZ’s data architecture into a more hybrid, open, and interconnected data ecosystem.

• Speaker
  • Mohit Mohan, Head of Technology, Enterprise Data & Insights, ANZ Bank

Session 5: A clear strategy for modernizing to cloud

Discover the strategic decision-making process that led to the VantageCloud on Google migration, the meticulous execution of the project, and the transformative benefits realized. Discuss identifying and overcoming challenges when migrating from on-premise to cloud such as: security approvals, compatibility.

• Speaker
  • Daniel Azzopardi - Head of Data Platform Engineering, Vodafone

Pick your choice from or our expert-led tracks on AI/ML, data analytics and more!

Session 1: Driving analytical best practice across all areas of business and technology

Admiral is a UK-based Financial Services company with businesses in the UK, Europe and the U.S. Admiral has been evolving their data platform to enhance their capabilities and earlier this year they successfully migrated to VantageCloud on Google Cloud Platform. Join this session to hear about the evolution of Admiral’s data analytics platform, the adoption of Cloud native solutions to enhance analytical capabilities, and Admiral’s operational excellence program to drive analytical best practice across all areas of business and technology.

• Speakers
  • Susan Lee, Domain Lead, Data Tribe, Admiral Group
  • Sean Pride, SQL Data Warehouse Developer, Admiral Group
  • Vicki Whitesmith, Customer Success Manager, Teradata

Session 2: OTF/Data Products/Data Placement Session

In today’s data-driven world, businesses face the challenge of managing ever-growing volumes of data across increasingly complex environments. This breakout session will explore the transformative role of Open Table Formats, such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi, in modern data management strategies. We will discuss how these formats offer unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and interoperability, enabling organizations to optimize their data architectures for both performance and cost-efficiency. Attendees will gain insights into the wide range of Teradata's Open Table Format offerings and how they support critical features such as ACID compliance, schema evolution & real-time analytics capabilities Join us to discover why Open Table Formats are essential for navigating the complexities of modern data management and achieving your business goals.

• Speaker
  • Subhadip Bandyopadhyay, VP Software Engineering, Teradata

Session 3: Sicredi: ClearScape Analytics Leads to 25x Model Processing Improvement for Predicting Client Income

One of the largest financial services provider in Brazil, Sicredi is using Teradata ClearScape Analytics and leverages Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) capabilities for machine learning (ML) and leading data science best-practices. By reformulating its models with ClearScape Analytics, Sicredi sees a 25x improvement in model processing compared to Databricks. This leads to meeting the demands of its rapidly growing customer base, offering more personalized and targeted financial solutions for its clients as well as reduced data transfers, improved compute processing efficiencies, and cost savings of over $650K USD.

• Speaker
  • Matheus Daniel Pierozan, Sr. Credit Risk Analyst, Sicredi

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Session 1: AI Unlimited with Microsoft Fabric

Pursuing an Open and Connected Data strategy for analytic workloads in the AI era: a closer look at Teradata’s AI Unlimited Workload on Fabric.

• Speakers
  • Rob Lundy, Product Marketing Specialist, Teradata
  • Zidan M, Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft

Session 2: From chaos to creation - ANZ’s journey towards a hybrid cloud data mesh

Learn how ANZ, one of four major banks in Australia and the largest in New Zealand by asset size, is redefining its enterprise data ecosystem to establish a data-product-driven strategy. Explore how converting raw data into actionable insights and leveraging data products within a distributed ecosystem is crucial to modernizing data architecture into a hybrid, open, and connected data ecosystem.

• Speaker
  • Anshul Kumar - General Manager, Enterprise Finance and Data, ANZ Banking Group

Session 3: Panel discussion: Getting value from your AI Investment

Learn how to realize full value from AI investments. Explore challenges of data, scale, and deployment of AI projects, identify ways to activate AI innovation with control and governance, and find out how to operationalize AI projects to deliver ROI. 

• Speakers
  • Gareth Owen, Head of Data Platforms, TSB Bank
  • Daniel Vieira, Head of Customer Intelligence & Analytics, Jerónimo Martins
  • Chris Hillman, Chris Hillman, Senior Director, Data Science – International, Teradata
  • Moderator: Martin Willcox, SVP of WW Sales Analytics, Teradata

Broaden your knowledge with 10-minute talks on AI, analytics, and data management by specialists from within our customer and partner community.

Get inspired by what's Possible as Teradata executives and industry leaders share their vision for the AI-driven future. Hosted by Katie Linendoll, Consumer Tech Expert and TV Personality.

Session 1: AI Innovation: Product Strategy and Roadmap

• Speakers
  • Hillary Ashton, Chief Product Officer, Teradata
  • Louis Landry, VP Technology and Innovation, Teradata
  • Tim McIntire, SVP, Software Engineering, Teradata
  • Dan Spurling, SVP Product Management, Teradata

Join friends and colleagues for a night to remember as we explore the Art of the Possible at our celebration.

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

Broaden your knowledge with 10-minute talks on AI, analytics, and data management by specialists from within our customer and partner community.

The roundtable sessions will happen over lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday and will feature small group discussions. An expert host at each table will provide thought leadership with an overview of the roundtable topics, followed by open discussion.

Session 1: Navigating the complexities of modernization

U.K.-based insurance company Admiral Group migrated to Teradata VantageCloud on Google Cloud for improved performance and connected analytics for customer management, financial visibility, and revenue optimization. Join this session for lessons learned in navigating internal processes like company goals, security requirements, network bandwidth, and more.

• Speaker
  • Susan Lee, Domain Lead – Data Tribe, Admiral Group

Session 2: Cloud modernization is a balancing act

Find out how Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), a leading corporate and investment bank in Austria, has successfully migrated at scale with proper planning and governance. Hear how modernizing in the cloud enables RBI to leverage machine learning (ML) models for big data, connecting network banks to do advanced analytics.

• Speaker
  • Andreas Tattersall, Head of EDWH Delivery, Raiffeisen Bank International

Session 3: Innovate with data science at scale

Discover how The Lottery Corporation (TLC), a gaming company in Australia and New Zealand, leverages ClearScape Analytics™ at scale for models to achieve tangible ROI. Learn how models driving anomaly detection and next best offer provide benchmarks for others to follow, and get a preview of TLC's roadmap for exciting developments like stock optimization, incident impact modeling, and revolutionary finance modeling.

• Speaker
  • Stewart Campbell, Head of Customer Analytics and Data Scienc, The Lottery Corp

Session 4: Revolutionizing financial predictions with ClearScape Analytics

Sicredi, one of Brazil's largest financial service providers, revolutionized their client income prediction model with Teradata ClearScape Analytics and the Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) approach. The integrating machine learning (ML) and advanced data science methodology resulted in a 25-fold increase in model processing efficiency, outpacing Databricks. This transformative journey led to a surge in customer satisfaction and drove significant operational improvements. Dive deeper with data scientist, Matheus Pierozan, to uncover the strategic moves that resulted in innovation, efficiency, and revenue growth.

• Speaker
  • Matheus Daniel Pierozan, Sr. Credit Risk Analyst, Sicredi

Session 5: GenAI: how, when and why

GenAI is all the rage today. Combining experienced technology platforms like AWS and Teradata to develop GenAI solutions is about more than building complex architectures. The idea is to build something that will materially and incrementally address challenging business outcomes that could not be tackled effectively without applying GenAI technology. In this roundtable, we will discuss the challenges of identifying problems that are indeed GenAI worthy, creating GenAI applications that are as sustainable as they are cost effective, and how to address unwanted artifacts such as hallucinations. Don't miss this opportunity to compare experiences with proven practitioners and thought leaders.

• Speakers
  • Sri Raghavan, Principal, Data Science and Analytics, Amazon Marketplace
  • Pranay Dave, Director Product Marketing - AI/ML and Generative AI Teradata

Pick your choice from or our expert-led tracks on AI/ML, data analytics and more!

Session 1: Alior Bank – Analytics Journey to the Cloud

Alior Bank offer consumer and business services that combines traditional banking with innovative solutions. In this session, Mariusz will explain the data journey of the Bank, since the Bank’s inauguration in 2008, through different stages of growth and cloud migration and transformation.

In Poland’s highly regulated financial market, Alior Bank and Teradata had to introduce new operational models, and accelerate product development, in order to comply with very specific and strict regulations.

The presentation will focus on the business justification of their cloud journey, how the data warehouse and analytical environment fits into the broader Bank’s cloud strategy, what business outcomes have been achieved so far, and how the platform will be developed in the future.

• Speaker
  • Mariusz Klys, Director of Data Department, Alior Bank

Session 2: Modern data architecture trends and how Teradata VantageCloud storage facilitates efficient data processing

Explore how Teradata VantageCloud’s flexible storage and compute approach can facilitate efficient data processing and improved price/performance of workloads running through the platform. Understand the primary data structures needed to support a trusted and modern AI-driven analytics environment.

• Speaker
  • Bob Fintel, VP, Techbology, Teradata

Session 3: Implementing AI that scales at The Very Group

Learn how digital retailer The Very Group has implemented AI to improve business performance. Discover how its “AI guild” ensures projects are run with governance and controls in place, and discover how various use cases are paying dividends across the business.

• Speaker
  • Michelle Williams, Data Product Owner, The Very Group

Pick your choice from or our expert-led tracks on AI/ML, data analytics and more!

Session 1: Jerónimo Martins multi-step journey to a next generation data analytics ecosystem

Jerónimo Martins are an international Group based in Portugal with over 230 years of know-how in the food business. They address the daily needs of millions of consumers in three countries (Portugal, Poland and Columbia), through a value proposition based on quality food at competitive prices.

Over the past few years, Jerónimo Martins have been modernizing their data analytics ecosystem. Last year, Jerónimo Martins successfully migrated their production system from on-premise to the cloud. They use Teradata’s hybrid capabilities for Disaster Recovery (DR), but as the next step of their journey they're now looking to leverage Teradata’s next generation VantageCloud Lake architecture and have recently completed a successful Proof-Of-Concept to evaluate how it will allow cost-efficient DR in the cloud utilizing object storage; enable independent business units to unlock innovation using the latest cloud-native AI capabilities; and maintain the full financial control and governance that would come with a centralized system.

• Speakers
  • Antonio Bandeira, Global Systems Architecture & Integrations Director, Jerónimo Martins
  • Rodrigo Carreiras, Data Technology Manager, Jerónimo Martins

Session 2: Data Culture: supporting business change in a world of AI

Discover why many organizations have invested in data culture to develop a more data-confident, adaptable workforce. Join this open and engaging panel discussion to discover what it takes to transform your data culture, including the opportunities and challenges involved.

• Panelists
  • Cayleigh O'Dwyer,Senior Manager Data & Analytics Culture & Strategy, Lloyds Banking Group
  • Carl Kane, Data Capability & Culture, Bank of Ireland
  • Rob McCormick, Head of Data, The Very Group
  • Vicki Whitesmith, Customer Success Manager, Teradata

Session 3:  5 AI/ML use cases that you didn't know you could run on Teradata

Join Teradata Data Scientist Chris Hillman for a review of five valuable AI/ML use cases that you probably didn’t know you could run on Teradata. Learn more about how we can run workflows such as Image Processing, Image Classification, Voice of the Customer, Long Short Term Memory (LSTM’s) and anomaly detection. Come with your questions as Chris has dedicated time set aside to take questions and discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of different AI/ML use cases.

• Speaker
  • Chris Hillman, Senior Director, Field Technology, Teradata

Enrich your understanding of the Associate VantageCloud Lake 2.0 exam content with our comprehensive exam preparation session. Gain the latest insights into vital topics, including fundamental relational and dimensional concepts, data architectures, VantageCloud Lake architecture and components, data distribution and access, security and privacy, and Teradata tools and access. Whether you're gearing up for the certification exam or simply seeking to expand your knowledge, this session is tailored to your needs.

As a bonus, all participants who attend the entire session will receive a complimentary testing voucher for the VantageCloud Lake exam, redeemable within three months.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to ask your questions and elevate your VantageCloud Lake knowledge. Reserve your spot today, as space is limited!

• Speaker
  • Russell Mayes, Platform Engineer, Teradata

This Hands-On Workshop is designed to give participants a wholistic view of the ClearScape Analytics Open Analytics Framework. Through the use of the Python language, the attendee will learn how Machine Learning (ML) model training and inference can be accomplished. This workshop will feature a collection of use cases to demonstrate (a) training and inference with a single model (b) Micro-modeling, and (c) using Open Analytics Framework seamlessly in the background to run scikit-learn in Teradata Vantage. Finally, join us for a sneak peek into the future of ClearScape Open Analytics: Large Language Models and GPU compute clusters.

• Speaker
  • Alexander Kolovos, Senior Software Architect, Teradata

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Session 1: Seamless Data Enablement

Learn about Teradata's differentiated query fabric; no-code, low-code ingestion products; and embedded machine learning (ML). You can create a formidable data fabric and performant decentralized architectures (like data mesh), as well as empower users to harness trusted data as the foundation for production-ready AI projects.

• Speakers
  • Debjani Pandia, Director Product Management, Teradata
  • Meeta Vouk, Vice President  Product Management, Teradata

Session 2: AWS and Teradata- Better together with GenAI

GenAI is all the rage today. Combining experienced technology platforms like AWS and Teradata to develop GenAI solutions is about more than building complex architectures. The idea is to build something that will materially and incrementally address challenging business outcomes that could not be tackled effectively without applying GenAI technology. In this roundtable, we will discuss the challenges of identifying problems that are indeed GenAI worthy, creating GenAI applications that are as sustainable as they are cost effective, and how to address unwanted artifacts such as hallucinations. Don't miss this opportunity to compare experiences with proven practitioners and thought leaders.

• Speakers
  • Sri Raghavan, Principal, Data Science and Analytics, Amazon Marketplace
  • Pranay Dave, Teradata Product Marketing Director

Session 3: From embeddings to transformers, how LLMs work

In the context of generative AI, explore how LLMs are created and how they work. This presentation will also include a demo focused on building, using, and interacting with LLMs.

• Speaker
  • Daniel Herrera, Principal Developer Advocate, Teradata

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