Modern Data Warehouses in the Cloud: Use Cases + Live Demo

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Please join us for an exciting evening to learn more about Modern Data Warehousing in the cloud through use cases and a live demo from Slim Baltagi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/slimbaltagi/), Director of Big Data and Machine Learning at Cervello Inc., an A.T. Kearney company.

Schedule:
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Networking over pizza and drinks
6:30 pm - 6:35 pm: Welcome and intro by Capital One
6:35 pm - 7:30 pm: Talk by Slim Baltagi from Cervello
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm: Q&A, discussion and more networking

Sponsors:
• Capital One (http://www.capitalone.com/) is hosting the event and offering pizza and drinks.

Talk description:

In this talk, we'll

1. Look at key challenges of the legacy data warehouses such as data diversity, complexity, cost, scalabilily, performance, management, ...
2. Look at how modern data warehouses in the cloud not only overcome most of these challenges but also how some of them bring additional technical innovations and capabilities such as pay as you go cloud-based services, decoupling of storage and compute, scaling up or down, effortless management, native support of semi-structured data ...
3. Show how capabilities brought by modern data warehouses in the cloud, help businesses, either new or existing ones, during the phases of their lifecycle such as launch, growth, maturity and renewal/decline.
4. Share a Near-Real-Time Data Warehousing use case built on Snowflake and give a live demo to showcase ease of use, fast provisioning, continuous data ingestion, support of JSON data ...

Bio:
Slim Baltagi is a Director of Big Data and Machine Learning at Cervello, an A.T. Kearney company. Cervello is a fast-growing professional services company with an elite team of creative problem solvers highly specialized in helping organizations win with data.

Slim is an IT leader with many years of extensive Big Data experience and more recently Machine Learning. As director, architect and engineer he delivered many end-to-end data projects to major Fortune 500 companies in many verticals.

Slim enjoys being considered a thought leader, speaking at many conferences and organizing many advanced analytics meetups at major tech hubs in US cities and abroad.