Programpost

Lars Holm, Management Consultant at Inventum Serverpark & Inventum Analytics
“Data democratization - puts crucial business information into the hands of those who need it the most”

Cloud computing is making massive computing power available to everyone. That means access to data is finally being democratized within organizations: virtually anyone in a business today can get the insight they need to make data-d...riven decisions at any time and in any place by moving data to the cloud. The flexibility of the cloud makes it a good fit for data analytics. Since the process involves analyzing huge volumes of unstructured data to detect patterns and gain insights for improving strategies, businesses using the cloud can scale their usage on demand and pay accordingly.

Truls Berg, founding partner of Digital Insight and the leader of Open Innovation Lab of Norway confirmed for Oslo Big Data & Analytics Day 2016. He will key note on trends shaping the next generation BI, Big Data and Analytics Markets.

He has cofounded more than 10 IT companies, among them Component Software Group (now Affecto), Comperio, bwise, Integrate, INNOVATE, Inspirator and Movation. He also served as the chairman of the Norwegian Computer Association before founding Innovation Forum Norway,  Norways leading forum for Innovation Professionals with more than 500 members in 2009. 

Microsoft’s Thale Mjavatn , Data Platform Lead – Microsoft Western Europe HQ confirmed for Oslo Big Data & Analytics Day 2016. She will key note on – “How to get Value from Big Data”.

Thale provides an overview of how customers gain maximum value from Big Data, especially data sets that may not be anticipated in the initial planning of the system. Public datasets may provide actionable business insight and combining internal data with those external datasets provides new opportunities.  

Auke Hunneman, Associate Professor at the Marketing Department of BI Norwegian Business School will be holding a keynote session on "Big Data in Retail Marketing". He is Chair of the Marketing Analytics Group, Norges Markedsanalyse Forening (NMF)

He obtained his Master’s degree in (business) economics at University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and earned his PhD in 2011 at the same university.

Laurie Maclachlan, Regional Sales Director for Northern Europe at Hortonworks in London, is now confirmed for "Oslo Big Data & Analytics Day" 2016.

Laurie Maclachlan is the Regional Sales Director for Northern Europe and has an extensive 18 year career in IT, gained initially at Big 5 Management Consultancies and more recently within disruptive high-tech companies. Laurie leads a team of Enterprise Account Managers in the UK, Nordics and Benelux countries.

Casper Tejg Jespersen, Partner and Founder of Peanuts one of Norway's leading Microsoft focused consulting houses. Casper will keynote on "Big Data meets intuitive design" and how Bodø Kommune used Peanuts solution for BI and visualizations in Power BI.

Microsoft Power BI transforms your company's data into rich visuals for you to collect and organize so you can focus on what matters to you. Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools to visualize data and share insights. Monitor your business and get answers quickly with rich dashboards available on every device with data sources from Dynamics and other ERP sources

Jan Verdier CTO & founder of Nornir Insight in Denmark.

Today’s customers are more empowered and connected than ever before in history. Understanding your customers is must to reduce churn and improve.

Analytics is the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data. Especially valuable in areas rich with recorded information, analytics relies on the simultaneous application of statistics and data research to quantify performance. Analytics often favors data visualization to communicate insight.  

Anne-Sophie Roesssler, Deployment Strategist at Data Iku in Paris ready for Oslo Big Data Day 2016. Raised between Austria, France and London, Anne-Sophie has a European background. Today, as a deployment strategist at Dataiku, she's in charge of helping companies across Europe to address, implement and deploy data driven projects. In this context, she has often worked with data labs, witnessing the many challenges faced by companies in the early stage of such a project.

Her keynote "From aggregation to orchestration: how to become a large-scale data innovator" will focus on these difficulties and the possibility to avoid at least some of them.

Christian Nytvedt, Creative leader and CTO at One Communication
Big Data & Gamification in Human Resources Development.

Christian will show examples on how talent-driven companies onboard, motivate and retain their talent. Experience.live is a customizable, scalable, gamified suite of HR tools for company training, communications, interaction and social networking. Experience.live is the future of HR management - making employees work easier, Experience.live onboarding build value in #HR 

Pål Børseth-Hansen, Physicist, company founder, and today Business Development Manager in Inmeta to keynote on "Applied Machinelearning".

After 20 years working with software solutions he has now dedicated his time and energy with  Machine Learning, building a ML team at Inmeta and delivering ML projects to innovative customers.

Pål will talk about Machine Learning, what it is, and show an example of how to apply modern ML technics in customer solutions. 

Livar Bergheim, Advisor Opendata and Information Management at DIFI Agency for Public Management and eGovernment.

He will keynote on “Opendata, free machine-readable information from the public sector - what and why? and will share some examples of useful open data resources and APIs geared for Big Data Analytics.

Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone, mostly to the requirement to... attribute and share alike. Public sector data is funded by society and governed on behalf of society. 

Simen Pedersen, Principal Business Consultant-Big Data Analytics Solutions at Tieto Norway. He will keynote on "High Value Usecaser for Big Data utilizing Digital Twins"

He is currently helping Enterprise customers across a range of Industries to monetize their existing and new data sources to cope with the Big Data challenge and create lasting competetive edge . Working with IOT /Big Data usecases,Digital Twins, Big Data PaaS and Customer Insight/Customer Analytics as a business architect. Simens has a wide background from Oracle, SAP and SAS.

Rutger van der Stap, Senior BI Consultant/Big Data Architect together with Mats Frantzen, Project Manager at Profitbase confirmed for Oslo Big Data Day 2016. Keynote: "How Sony music used Big Data for Competitive Advantage.

Profitbase delivers powerful, scalable and cost effective Business Intelligence solutions and provides solutions to your challenges, enabling better business performance with low cost of ownership. Profitbase empower business users with actionable information that provides deeper insight into enterprise performance. You will see trends, resolve issues, identify and capitalize on opportunities.