Beer & Analytics IX - Oct 11th, 2022
VII — Lansdowne Horticulture Building
Beer & Analytics
Beer & Analytics IX was on October 11th, 2022 at the Lansdowne Horticulture Building and was a great success and a fun evening of networking and fantastic presentations!
Schedule
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Registration |
| 5:30 PM – 5:55 PM | LinkedIn Meetup Networking, Beer and Food |
| 6:05 PM – 6:10 PM | Opening Remarks, Martin McGarry |
| 6:10 PM – 6:35 PM | Beyond Explainable AI – Ima Okonny, Chief Data Officer, ESDC |
| 6:35 PM – 7:00 PM | Data Silos Suck – Cobey Haskins, Account Executive, Snowflake |
| 7:00 PM – 7:25 PM | Driving Business Results with UiPath’s Automated Testing Platform – Joshua Overland, Director, Growth Sales, Americas, UiPath |
| 7:25 PM – 7:50 PM | Enjoy the Freedom to Develop with SQL, Java, Python, R & SAS Without Any SAS Licensing Cost – Chris Long, Vice President of Global Technology Teams, Altair |
| 7:50 PM | Closing Remarks, Martin McGarry |
| 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Conference Booths, LinkedIn Meetup Networking, Beer and Food |
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM – Registration
5:30 PM – 5:55 PM – LinkedIn Meetup Networking, Beer and Food
6:05 PM – 6:10 PM – Opening Remarks, Martin McGarry
On QuietEvents Channel to allow you to socialize, eat and drink, or listen:
6:10 PM – 6:35 PM – Beyond Explainable AI – Ima Okonny, Chief Data Officer, ESDC
6:35 PM – 7:00 PM – Data Silos Suck – Cobey Haskins, Account Executive, Snowflake
7:00 PM – 7:25 PM – Driving Business Results with UiPath’s Automated Testing Platform – Joshua Overland, Director, Growth Sales, Americas, UiPath
7:25 PM – 7:50 PM – Enjoy the Freedom to Develop with SQL, Java, Python, R & SAS Without Any SAS Licensing Cost – Chris Long, Vice President of Global Technology Teams, Altair
7:50 PM – Closing Remarks, Martin McGarry
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM – Conference Booths, LinkedIn Meetup Networking, Beer and Food
Speakers
Ima Okonny
Ima, the Chief Data Officer at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), has over 22 years of experience in the field of data. She has extensive experience with building the evidence base through the development of analytical databases and tools, implementing departmental data reporting and release strategies, data management, data privacy protocols and with forward-looking policy development and research.
Ima has an educational background in Mathematics, Computer Programming and Public Management and during her time with the Government of Canada, she has received several nominations and awards for her leadership and results. She is passionate about helping organizations develop the capabilities required to ethically and intentionally unleash concrete business value from data.
Cobey Haskins
Cobey Haskins leads the Federal Government relationship for Snowflake’s Public Sector team in Canada. Snowflake is an organization that is focused on helping all organizations mobilize and drive outcomes from their data by ensuring Data Silos are broken down and all consumers have access to what they need, when they need it. Cobey has spent more than a decade in technology working along side AWS, Microsoft and Google to help organizations realize the value of their Cloud investments. Five of those years specifically focused on enabling cloud transformation with many large Federal Canadian Government Departments and Crown Corporations.
Joshua Overland
Joshua’s focus is driving and supporting UiPath’s test automation business across the Americas.
Chris Long
Chris Long leads the Global Technology Team (GTT) at Altair Data Analytics division. A team that is responsible for crafting demonstrable specialized data analytics solutions and provides expertise across all Altair data science applications and software. With 25+ years of experience in analytics, and software development he has supported both client facing services teams and product development focused on optimization, segmentation, churn, credit risk, financial crimes, AML, forecasting, and visualization. Chris holds an engineering degree from the University of Toronto specializing in industrial expert systems. Chris has been with Altair for over 7 years.
Breweries
Catering
Live Music
Beer & Analytics is excited to welcome back live music from Peter Voith!
Peter Voith is a professional Canadian musician who has performed on many stages around the world from clubs of all sizes, to weddings + corporate events, and a wide variety of festivals. He has charted over a thousand live performances and studio sessions thus far.
Quiet Events
Quiet Events to ensures that Beer & Analytics attendees experience the utmost sound quality at our events. Each attendee receives a personal headphone set with which they are able to listen to speaker presentations. The headphones help to block out background noise and many common sound system mishaps.
Quiet Events Channel to allow you to socialize, eat and drink, or listen.
Sponsors
Bronson has been providing consulting services in Ottawa for over 30 years. Since 2011 it has been engaging clients with Predictive Analytics and Data Visualization projects. Bronson is the only Ottawa based certified partner of Alteryx and Tableau.
Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the Data Cloud.
UiPath streamlines processes, uncovers efficiencies and provides insights, making the path to digital transformation fast and cost-effective. It leverages existing systems to minimize disruption. By automating tasks, your teams are free to spend time on work with better returns. More than 200 ready-made components in our Marketplace give your employees more time—in less time. UiPath robots improve compliance by following the exact process that meets your standards. Reporting tracks your robots, so documentation is always at your fingertips. With robots handling tasks, teams are free to deliver extra service to your highest-level customers. By standardizing processes, your outcomes are more efficient and effective.
