Building a Data Cloud to enable Analytics and AI-Driven Innovation

If you're moving your On-premise data/EDW to the cloud, you are not doing it so that you can run your old Reports against Cloud Data Warehouse. Yes, the cloud enables Real-time Analytics at scale, but the beauty of Cloud Data Platforms is that you will be able to start using Predictive Analytics and benefiting from AI-driven innovation (simply because of the vast amount of the Data cloud vendors had to train the ML models they are giving us to use – or customize).

And there is nobody better to talk about that journey – from Data Science, Data Warehousing, Machine Learning to Business Transformation, than Lak (Valliappa) Lakshmanan!

Lak is a Director of Data Analytics and AI Solutions at Google Cloud (https://twitter.com/lak_gcp), the author of many fantastic books on all these topics (https://aisoftwarellc.weebly.com/books.html) and was recently named one of the Top 10 people in the World defining the new Database Landscape that will be powering the next generation of business (https://www.protocol.com/manuals/the-new-database/people-to-know-database-industry).

AGENDA

6:00 – 6:15 Introductions, Networking & Opening remarks
6:15 – 7:15 Feature Presentation
7:15 – 7:45 Q&A – Unique opportunity to chat with Lak!
7:45 – 8:00 Manning Publications raffle & Closing remarks

Please bring along plenty of enthusiasm and questions – we're looking forward to it being a fun-filled evening :)

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