October Birmingham Digital & DevOps Meetup (Virtual)

Hi All,

Our next Virtual Meetup will run with the theme of all things DATA!

We have a number of talks, including vendor demo's and insight from engineering teams.

Timeline and content as follows:

• 18:00: Welcome
• 18:05 - 20:00: Talks
• 20:00: Close

Our talks will include:

1) Neo4J - Event Data Analysis - Patient Journey presented by Ravi Anthapu

Synopsis: Graph Databases are well-suited to perform event-based data analysis. It enables you to quickly draw new and meaningful conclusions from massive amounts of data. But what is "event-based modelling" and why are graph databases so good at it? We will take a look at the Patient Journey data model using synthetic patient data generated by Synthea. We will see how this model enables us to analyze patient outcomes and behaviours quickly.

Presenter Bio: With more than 25 years of experience in leadership roles within technology-driven environments, I have a demonstrated track record of driving business development, building innovative solutions and platforms to optimize processes and efficiency, turning around underperforming operations, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enabling top-line growth and profitability. Delivered Neo4j solutions for complex projects right from Architecture, Design, hands-on development, and user adoption.

2) Capgemini - Automated Test Data for Relational Data presented by Andrew Edwards

Synopsis: It's important to have high quality test data to ensure good test coverage. Testers found that defining the test scenarios was straightforward but creating the test data for those scenarios was laborious. This demo shows how we developed a Test Data Generation tool to make generating test data faster and make defining test cases simpler for testers.

Presenter Bio: Worked in Capgemini for 11 years in the Data & Analytics space working on a variety of projects; Data Warehousing - ingesting and transforms GBs of data into Oracle warehouses and marts, Big Data - ingesting TBs of data into a Hadoop cluster and using Hive and Impala for transformation, APIs - sub-second querying of data in a HBase database, Reporting and Cloud Migrations - currently migrating large and complex warehousing and reporting solutions to AWS. I am an AWS Solution Architect certified and have a particular passion for continuous improvement and striving for more modern, stable, resilient and performant solutions.

3) Talend - Building trust in data to help enable digital transformation by Darren Brunt

Modern data platforms are distributed, diverse, and dynamic in nature, making it difficult for organizations to actively manage and maintain confidence levels in their data. This can ultimately lead to distrust in the most foundational element supporting decision-making processes in today’s digital world– data.
In this session we will explore how establishing a vision and practice for ‘Data Health’ to help manage discoverability, literacy, reliability and value from data can help organisations deliver trust and confidence in their core digital assets to support transformative change.

Presenter Bio: My key passion is supporting data-driven, innovation projects to enable digital leadership and transformational change within high potential organisations using relevant, modern technologies. I help relate how new technologies can enable organisations transform and leverage data as a trusted asset for actionable insight and business value. With more than 20 years supporting organisations with their digital transformation journeys, I have helped many companies navigate the challenges to their ‘data nirvana’.

If you would like to speak please do reach out to one of the organisers, it would be great to more people from the community involved!

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NOTE
The virtual session will run using MS Teams, with the link provided within this page closer to the time.