Name: Big Data & AI Toronto 2021
Start: 13/10/2021 12:00 PM +00:00
End: 14/10/2021 11:00 PM +00:00

Dataiku is the platform for Everyday AI, systemizing the use of data for exceptional business results. Organizations that use Dataiku elevate their people (whether technical and working in code or on the business side and low- or no-code) to extraordinary, arming them with the ability to make better day-to-day decisions with data.
 More than 450 companies worldwide use Dataiku to systemize their use of data and AI, driving diverse use cases from fraud detection to customer churn prevention, predictive maintenance to supply chain optimization and everything in between.&nbsp;
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Dataiku

Collibra is the Data Intelligence company. We accelerate trusted business outcomes by connecting the right data, insights and algorithms to all Data Citizens. Our cloud-based platform connects IT and the business to build a data-driven culture for the digital enterprise. Global organizations choose Collibra to unlock the value of their data and turn it into a strategic, competitive asset. We have a diverse global footprint, with offices in the U.S., Belgium, Australia, Czech Republic, France, Poland and the U.K.

Collibra

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IBM Canada has been driving innovation and transformation with our clients with key worldwide missions . IBM Canada is the largest Software Lab in Canada, delivering leading software technology to the global marketplace​

Pachyderm is the data foundation for machine learning. &nbsp;Pachyderm provides industry leading data versioning, pipelines and lineage that allow data science teams to automate the machine learning lifecycle and optimize their machine learning operations (MLOps). With investment from Benchmark, Microsoft M12, and others, Pachyderm, Inc. offers a user-deployed Pachyderm Enterprise Edition, a hosted SaaS Pachyderm Hub Edition and an open source Pachyderm Community Edition. Pachyderm helps customers get their ML and AI projects to market faster, lower data processing and storage costs, and supports strict data governance requirements through data driven automation, petabyte scalability and end-to-end reproducibility.
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Try out Pachyderm for <a href="https://hub.pachyderm.com/landing?redirect=%2F&amp;utm_source=bigdata%26ai&amp;utm_medium=virtual-booth&amp;utm_campaign=events">free</a>.
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Pachyderm

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW&reg;.
The Canadian subsidiary of SAS has been in operation since 1988. Headquartered in Toronto, SAS employs more than 300 people across the country at its Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City and Montr&eacute;al offices. For more information, please visit www.sas.com/canada or find us on Twitter at @SASCanada.

SAS Institute Inc.

Talend, a leader in data integration and data integrity, is changing the way the world makes decisions.
In order to compete and win, IT and business leaders need data that they can trust and understand instantly. Talend Data Fabric is the only platform that seamlessly combines an extensive range of data integration and governance capabilities to actively manage the health of corporate information. This unified approach is unique and essential to delivering complete, clean, and uncompromised data in real-time to all employees. It has made it possible to create innovations like the Talend Trust Score&trade;, an industry-first assessment that instantly quantifies the reliability of any data set.
Over 6,500 customers have chosen Talend to run their businesses on healthy data. Talend is recognized as a leader in its field by leading analyst firms and industry media.
Talend is based in Redwood City, California.

Talend

At Couchbase, we believe data is at the heart of the enterprise. We empower developers and architects to build, deploy, and run their most mission-critical applications. Couchbase delivers a high-performance, flexible and scalable modern database that runs across the data center and any cloud. We power mission critical applications with industry leaders such as LinkedIn, American Express, Wells Fargo, FICO, Cisco, Marriott, Bell Canada, Verizon, Amadeus, Comcast, eBay, United, Verizon, as well as hundreds of other household names. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.couchbase.com">www.couchbase.com</a>.&nbsp;

Couchbase

Dell Technologies helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry&rsquo;s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era.&nbsp;
Visit us at the conference to learn how we help customers with the essential infrastructure to transform people and processes and create new value, IT capabilities and greater efficiencies to win in the digital economy with the industry&rsquo;s broadest and most innovative portfolio from edge to core to cloud.
3D Interactive Experience!
Visit the exciting Dell Technologies Tour (click on Tech Tour Banner) for an immersive interactive digital experience featuring latest products, videos, customers stories, and fun interactive games!

Dell Technologies Canada

TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches, serving approximately 24 million customers in a number of locations in key financial centres around the globe. Our mission is to give our clients the best banking experience possible, every day. To do that, we depend on our team of more than 80,000 talented, ambitious people who share our passion for excellence.
Whether you have years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we&rsquo;ll help you realize your full potential and achieve your career goals. From mentorship and training programs to leadership development, you&rsquo;ll receive everything you need to succeed. We&rsquo;ll help you become the best you can be, because a better you means a better us.

TD Bank

For almost 30 years, Canadians have trusted AIR MILES&reg; and our Partners to reward them for their everyday shopping. Discover how we can help you build, develop and strengthen your relationship with your customers with our industry-leading digital, data and analytics capabilities.

AIR MILES

Alteryx unleashes the power of data analytics to help people everywhere solve business and societal problems.&nbsp;
Modern business is digital business, and digital business means analyzing a growing flood of data. Alteryx helps customers achieve outcomes from their data to create business-changing breakthroughs every day. From designing reliable forecasts in an unpredictable economy to developing fair and equitable compensation packages for employees, the daily business and societal challenges we face demand data-driven answers.
Our human-centered, engaging analytics automation platform unifies analytics, data science, and process automation together in one solution to help you harness that flood of complex data to quickly solve real-world problems.​

Alteryx

Organizations have long used data as a strategic tool to better run their businesses. But accessing business-critical information in a timely fashion is not easy, because relevant data resides in disparate and often siloed systems spread across the enterprise. Business users waste time piecing together the data from these different systems and then correlating them, while IT teams try to automate the process using legacy data integration techniques like extract-transform-load (ETL), which are time-consuming and expensive.
Data virtualization is the more agile data integration style that presents the relevant, interrelated data, in real-time and in a consistent format, irrespective of the underlying database systems, structures, and storage. Since data virtualization doesn&rsquo;t replicate or store data, it delivers the complete, business-critical information at a fraction of the cost and time. Business users benefit from faster access to data, and IT teams continue to deliver data undisrupted without worrying about changes to the underlying systems.
Denodo is the leader in data virtualization providing agile, high performance data integration, data abstraction, and real-time data services across the broadest range of enterprise, cloud, big data, and unstructured data sources at half the cost of traditional approaches. Denodo&rsquo;s customers across every major industry have gained significant business agility and ROI by enabling faster and easier access to unified business information for agile BI, big data analytics, Web and cloud integration, single-view applications, and enterprise data services.
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Denodo

H2O.ai is the leading AI cloud company, on a mission to democratize AI for everyone. Customers use the H2O AI Hybrid Cloud platform to rapidly make, operate and innovate to solve complex business problems and accelerate the discovery of new ideas. H2O.ai is the trusted AI partner to more than 20,000 global organizations, including AT&amp;T, Aegon/ Transamerica, Allergan, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Capital One, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, GlaxoSmithKline, Hitachi, Kaiser Permanente, PayPal, PWC and Walgreens, over half of the Fortune 500 and one million data scientists. Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA and Wells Fargo are not only customers and partners, but strategic investors in the company. H2O.ai&rsquo;s customers have honored the company with a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 78&mdash; the highest in the industry based on breadth of technology and deep employee expertise. The world&rsquo;s top 20 Kaggle Grandmasters (the community of best-in-the-world machine learning practitioners and data scientists) are employees of H2O.ai. A strong AI for Good ethos to make the world a better place and Responsible AI drive the company&rsquo;s purpose. Please join our movement at www.H2O.ai.

H2O.ai

MariaDB frees companies from the costs, constraints and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most &ndash; rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications. MariaDB uses pluggable, purpose-built storage engines to support workloads that previously required a variety of specialized databases. With complexity and constraints eliminated, enterprises can now depend on a single complete database for all their needs, whether on commodity hardware or their cloud of choice. Deployed in minutes for transactional, analytical or hybrid use cases, MariaDB delivers unmatched operational agility without sacrificing key enterprise features including real ACID compliance and full SQL. Trusted by organizations such as Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens &ndash; MariaDB meets the same core requirements as proprietary databases at a fraction of the cost. No wonder it&rsquo;s the fastest growing open source database. Real business relies on MariaDB&trade;.

MariaDB

Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI). Altair enables organizations across broad industry segments to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future. To learn more, please visit <a href="http://www.altair.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.altair.com</a>.

Altair

DataRobot AI Cloud is the next generation of AI. The unified platform is built for all data types, all users, and all environments to deliver critical business insights for every organization. DataRobot is trusted by global customers across industries and verticals, including a third of the Fortune 50.&nbsp;
For more information, visit <a href="http://www.datarobot.com/">http://www.datarobot.com/</a>.

Datarobot

IMSM support organizations in gaining ISO certification and business opportunities. An ISO certification is a recognized mark of quality, improving your business by producing consistent standards of quality to meet customer&rsquo;s requirements. By streamlining processes and adopting a strong customer focus, it improves competitiveness leading to higher profit potential.
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ISOs (or International Standards) are woven into our lives as a trusted symbol of quality. You come into contact with ISO standards on a daily basis without even realizing/realising it. Hundreds of signs and symbols cross language barriers to communicate important messages, from your credit card number to the stop signs in the road.
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By becoming ISO certified, your business gains a similar level of international recognition by meeting the standards that are important to your industry. It shows commitment to those standards. It&rsquo;s a commitment that can be recognized by potential customers, existing customers and your staff.
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IMSM adds value to companies by improving efficiency, competitiveness and consistency through Quality Management (ISO 9001:2015), Environmental (ISO 14001), Laboratory Competence (ISO 17025), Information Security (ISO 27001), Information Technology (ISO 20000-1), Food Safety (ISO 22000), Business Continuity (ISO 22301), Occupational Health &amp; Safety (ISO 45001), Energy Management Systems (ISO 50001), Aerospace (AS 9100) and Automotive Quality Management (IATF 16949).&nbsp;
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The process of gaining ISO certification is in itself a way to improve your business and IMSM can help you every step of the way. Our fixed-fee approach allows you to calculate the cost/benefit of ISO certification to your business. Our experienced IRCA qualified assessors have a flexible approach that will help you to produce a set of procedures that are tailored to your business objectives. Delivering design, documentation, and internal audit training, fitting around your requirements and schedule. IMSM insert your country/area ensures the steps to ISO certification are achievable and hassle-free.&nbsp;
The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) awarded IMSM &lsquo;Recognized for Excellence 5*&rsquo;, as a mark of their excellence and quality. IMSM has also received recognition as a CSR world leader in honor of their appreciation and commitment to the corporate social responsibility program.&nbsp;
For a free Quotation or On-Site presentation by an ISO Specialist, contact us today!

IMSM

Business happens beyond boardrooms, markets, and borders. Cultural shifts, geopolitical changes, technology innovations &mdash; it all impacts business. At Smith we anticipate the rapidly changing business landscape and prepare you for it.
Smith&rsquo;s programs deliver the knowledge, skills and personal development you need to thrive in this ever-changing business world. General management or specialized, professional or research-based, degree or development, full-time or while working, we have a rich portfolio of options.
Creating new knowledge is a central tenet of the Smith School of Business mission. Our research success is the product of the commitment and knowledge of faculty, students, and staff, and our collaborations and partnerships with external organizations.

Smith School of Business at Queen's University

Data is the lifeline of every business, and Redis helps organizations reimagine how fast they can process, analyze, make predictions, and take action on the data they generate. Redis provides a competitive edge to any business by delivering open source and enterprise-grade data platforms to power applications that drive real-time experiences at any scale. Developers rely on Redis to build performance, scalability, reliability, and security into their applications.
Born in the cloud-native era, Redis uniquely enables users to unify data across multi-cloud, hybrid and global applications to maximize business potential. Learn how Redis can give you this edge at redis.com.

Redis

Vertica is the unified analytics platform, based on a massively scalable architecture with the broadest set of analytical functions spanning event and time series, pattern matching, geospatial, and end-to-end in-database machine learning. Vertica enables you to easily apply these powerful functions to the largest and most demanding analytical workloads, arming you and your customers with predictive business insights faster than any analytics data warehouse in the market. Vertica provides a unified analytics platform across major public clouds and on-premises data centers and integrates data in cloud object storage and HDFS without forcing you to move any of your data.

Vertica

Today&rsquo;s businesses won&rsquo;t see tomorrow without embracing tech-enabled disruption and adapting and evolving to meet the demands of the digital future. The path to an Autonomous Digital Enterprise&mdash;a state in which intelligent, integrated, value-creating functions operate across every facet of the organization and its ecosystem&mdash;begins with solutions that maximize the efficiency of your existing operations so you can deliver the innovative services and capabilities that attract and retain customers. Our industry-leading solutions help IT with artificial intelligence, automation, optimization, performance, security, and service management, covering everything from mainframe to multi-cloud.

Big Data & AI Toronto 2021

We are in the middle of the next big shift in the advertising industry. One that has emerged due to a series of monumental changes. Throughout it all, the power of the consumer has become increasingly evident and has acted as an additional catalyst in driving massive change. The result is a call to action for advertisers: to meet consumer expectations of personalized, authentic, and frictionless experiences without sacrificing their equal, if not heightened, emphasis on data and privacy.
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Join Leanne Gibson, Leanne Gibson, Director &amp; Head of Industry of Facebook Canada as she delivers an invitation to the advertising industry to rise together and embrace the opportunities that now exist, and she and Sonia Carreno, President of Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada discuss creative ways to re-imagine the ads ecosystem.&nbsp;

Sonia Carreno

Leanne Gibson

Fireside chat: Innovation in a new era of advertising

Significant historic events appear to be occurring more frequently as time goes on. Interestingly, it seems like subsequent intervals between these events are shrinking exponentially by a factor of four. This process looks like it should converge around the year 2040. The last of these major events can be said to have occurred around 1990 when the cold war ended, the WWW was born, mobile phones became mainstream, the first self-driving cars appeared, and modern AI with very deep neural networks came into being. In this talk, I'll focus on the latter, with emphasis on Metalearning since 1987 and what I call "the miraculous year of deep learning" which saw the birth of—among other things— very deep learning through unsupervised pre-training, the vanishing gradient analysis that led to the LSTMs running on your smartphones and to the really deep Highway Nets/ResNets, neural fast weight programmers that are formally equivalent to what’s now called linear Transformers, artificial curiosity for agents that invent their own problems (familiar to many nowadays in the form of GANs), the learning of sequential neural attention, the distilling of teacher nets into student nets, and reinforcement learning and planning with recurrent world models. I’ll discuss how in the 2000s much of this has begun to impact billions of human lives, how the timeline predicts the next big event to be around 2030, what the final decade until convergence might hold, and what will happen in the subsequent 40 billion years. Take all of this with a grain of salt though.

Juergen Schmidhuber

Modern artificial intelligence 1980-2021 and beyond

To achieve the desired business outcomes, data-centric applications depend on enterprise-grade workflow orchestration to solve the challenge of running in production. See how organizations operate data pipelines that combine multi-cloud data services alongside traditional systems of record, at scale. This session will show how Control-M provides end-to-end visualization, predictive service level management, support for diverse users, robust security and governance with full integration into modern application build and release processes.

BMC: Data pipeline orchestration in the enterprise with Control-M: a demonstration

David Wilmer

Sharing is caring: Building a modern microservice architecture helps everyone get ahead

Domhnaill Hernon

Banu Raghuraman

Conor Jensen

Panel: Building responsible, human-centric AI models

Maria Dimitrova

IMSM: Upskilling quality management in the age of converged security

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<li>Learn what columnar storage is and why it's so useful.</li>
<li>Attendees will be introduced to MariaDB's columnar storage engine, ColumnStore, and how easy it is to get started using it.</li>
<li>We will explore how you can use MariaDB's Python connector with the popular data science tool, Jupyter.</li>
<li>Using MariaDB Connector/Python with Jupyter during a live coding session, you'll learn how you can analyze and visualize massive amounts of data with MariaDB ColumnStore.</li>
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Robert Hedgpeth

MariaDB: Columnar storage + Python: Powering modern data science and analytics

Noel Geer

Fireside chat: Solving media and advertising challenges

Transfer Learning (TL) is knowledge engineering to transfer learning between task domains. The machine learning model can learn from one domain and transfer knowledge to another task. However, Transfer Learning techniques are mainly used for Natural Language Processing or Image Classification and rarely being considered for structured dataset.&nbsp;
This demo session will focus on possible techniques of Transfer Learning for tabular data, and how we can use different data science models and solutions and transform them into a Data Product which is production grade, robust, and scalable to multiple clients at the same time.&nbsp;

Somayyeh Aghababaei

Prateek Jain

AIR MILES: Building a transfer learning data product

This presentation will describe an ongoing project at the National Research Council of Canada that develops software to assist Indigenous communities in their efforts to preserve their languages and extend their use. The project aims to work within the empowerment paradigm, where the linguistic goals of communities have at least equal weight with those of the researchers. We work closely with communities, and follow ethical guidelines provided by an all-Indigenous advisory committee made up of language revitalization experts.&nbsp;
Because many of the technological directions we took were in response to community needs, the project has ended up as a collection of diverse subprojects. These include:
&middot; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the creation of a framework for building verb conjugators for polysynthetic languages, including Kanyen&rsquo;k&eacute;ha (Mohawk), Michif, and Algonquin
&middot; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; release of the largest available corpus of sentences in an Indigenous language of the Americas (Inuktut) aligned with English sentences, suitable for training machine translation systems (which we and several research groups around the world have now done)
&middot; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; development of free online services based on automatic speech recognition (ASR) for easing the transcription bottleneck for recordings of speech in Indigenous languages
&middot; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; software for developing &ldquo;ReadAlong&rdquo; audio books for Indigenous languages
&middot; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and several other subprojects.
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In 2021, the project team has been devoting many person-hours to making our open-source software easier for people in Indigenous communities to use. We are also exploring the application of text-to-speech (TTS) technology to some Indigenous languages, with preliminary but very encouraging results.&nbsp;

Roland Kuhn

The indigenous languages technology (ILT) project at NRC in 2021

Brett Olmstead

End to end demo with DataRobot

William Brendel

AI for human and the planet: AI in nutrition

The recent wave of sophisticated cyber-attacks targeting both public and private sectors, with strong emphasis placed on critical infrastructure, has led to nationwide efforts to address the gaps. Aggravating this challenge is the acute shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals in the industry.
While AI is great at automating simple repetitive tasks, much of Cybersecurity is dynamic and prone to adversarial attacks, which are slipping through the cracks. This talk addresses how Human-Machine intelligence will redefine the way we defend against cybersecurity attacks. This new field in Cybersecurity can tip the odds that are stacked against us, while simultaneously elevating human potential to address sophisticated attacks.

Tahseen Shabab

Human-machine intelligence in cybersecurity

Jamie Fiorda

Data health for customer 360

Machines have become an inherent part of the Earth's ecosystem. From conception to death, we use them in various ways and forms. Specifically, today, machines have become "smart" which makes us think the days of Terminator is not very far. While they still evolve under our efforts to push the envelope, there is a lot that we can learn and grow from them.

What machines can teach us about ourselves?

Ahmad Al-Qinneh

Paul Ewasuik

Collibra: Managing and governing PII across the enterprise with Collibra

Andy Main

Dataiku: The world's leading platform for everyday AI

The pharmaceutical industry is increasingly exploring the potential of AI-driven solutions. Clinical trials are the longest, most expensive part of the pharmaceutical industry operations. Yet many pain points that clinical trials face may be solved by digital technology and AI-powered solutions, with the potential to reduce costs of clinical trials and increase speed, ultimately impacting the process of bringing novel therapies to market to meet patient needs.
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This session will cover:
<ul>
<li>Market trends around AI-powered solutions in the pharmaceutical sector</li>
<li>Four main areas of operations where Pharma is set to see benefits from the use of artificial intelligence</li>
<li>Three challenges traditionally seen in clinical trials which make it an area for possible disruption</li>
<li>Big data and AI-powered solutions being developed and/or explored to address traditional clinical trial challenges</li>
</ul>

Oksana Andreiuk

The future of AI in powering clinical trial innovation

Today's Fashion Problematic: Human beings are all built differently, and our body measurements are a spectrum, rather than a pre-set size grid. AI is one of the tools that could help us break the sizing cage and manufacture clothes for every body type.
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AI use cases in fashion:
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Body size &amp; measurements. Through feeding the Machine Learning algorithm a critical amount of quality data, essentially body pictures and respective measurements, we could predict perfect garment measurements in seconds for any new customer.
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All we need are, well, Big Data and AI!
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Virtual fitting room. With correct sizing and 3D, the customers online fitting experience becomes very close to life-like.
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Challenges: Data Protection and Sensitivity.
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How AI will impact fashion in the future.
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Image Processing, Sizes &amp; New trends prediction will become an integral part of fashion.
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AI opens the doors, wide open, for Supply Chain disruptions and manufacturing clothes On-Demand.

Stephane Courtioux

Marc Cortes

Fireside chat: How AI is moving fashion forward

Mitchell Ogilvie

Solve the data problems that kill 360 initiatives

TELUS is a world-leading telecommunications company, recognized in 2020 as having the fastest wireless network in the world. Join this session for their lessons learned in building and scaling a metadata management program with Collibra that supports their mission: to provide Canadians with access to superior technology that connects them to the people, resources and information that makes their lives better.

Carine Botturi

Yolande Dykstra

Tanja Glisin

Manan Joshi

Building and scaling a metadata management program

Richard Thurston

Non fungible tokens and IP issues

To achieve true, transformational progress in how we approach and ultimately solve problems as a society, we must get AI into the hands of many. This requires making this technology accessible to a broad user base and ensuring its applicability to real world needs. Join Sri Ambati, Founder and CEO of H2O.ai along with to hear how H2O Hybrid Cloud Platform is empowering organizations with the agility and confidence needed to solve complex business problems and accelerate the discovery of new ideas.

Sri Ambati

Accelerating the democratization of AI

The year 2020 has witnessed a significant drop in breaches caused by cyber-attacks despite the original expectations in 2019. Many experts explain that this was because of the high alert of companies of all sizes and the gigantic investment in the of cloud security. Yet, the human factor still the most important in both protecting and failing. According to Cybnet, 95% cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error mostly through social engineering. So, is hacking the human brain going to be the biggest next cybersecurity challenge? This is what this session is trying to answer and discuss.

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Dataiku

Collibra

IBM

Pachyderm

SAS Institute Inc.

Talend

Couchbase

Dell Technologies Canada

TD Bank

AIR MILES

Alteryx

Denodo

H2O.ai

MariaDB

Altair

Datarobot

IMSM

Smith School of Business at Queen's University

Redis

Vertica

BMC

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Dataiku

Collibra

IBM

Pachyderm

SAS Institute Inc.

Talend

Couchbase

Dell Technologies Canada

TD Bank

AIR MILES

Alteryx

Denodo

H2O.ai

MariaDB

Altair

Datarobot

IMSM

Smith School of Business at Queen's University

Redis

Vertica

BMC

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