We are so excited to present our second GDM: Women event! We will feature a (slide-free) lively panel discussion with some of the most inspiring and thoughtful women leaders in the world of data. Panelists include: Sharon Allpress: Digital Products @ DCP Tech Ventures Focus: "Active in the Middle of Innovation" Jessica Iriarte: Sr. Manager of Data Science @ Vroom Focus: "Breaking Barriers in Data" Lisa Fritz: Global Head of QA @ Janus Henderson Investors Focus: "Artfully Managing Explosive Departmental Growth" Kalia Garrido (Host): CMO + Co-Founder @ Great Data Minds Get your coffee and settle in for this great virtual event. This is a key event to learn from the women in data that have come before us and established thriving careers. Grow your network and enjoy a lively discussion. About GDM Women: Our GDM Women series is dedicated to honoring great women in the analytics world including our speakers (and attendees) to learn, grow and connect. With that, everyone of all genders and identifications is welcome at all GDM events. Please join us one and all!

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2nd Annual GDM Women Panel Discussion with Top Data Leaders in Denver

Time and again we see organizations make enormous investments to implement data governance programs. Many months, even years later, the program is not established and the leaders are frustrated because they don’t see any value generated. It doesn't need to be like this. With the evolution of new approaches and augmented technologies, data governance programs can now be delivered in one third of the time and for a third of the cost. Value is continuously delivered all along the way, which promotes a thriving data culture. Please join our data governance team as we walk you through the fundamentals of a robust agile data governance program and how it can be applied to your organization.

Stop the Madness: Adopting Modern Governance for Digital Transformation

Please join Mike Lampa, Great Data Minds Chief Analytics Officer and Jack Phillips, CEO & Co-Founder of the International Institute for Analytics (IIA) for the latest in our Executive Insights discussion series. Since its inception in 2010, IIA has worked with more than 200 organizations from around the world, sharing the keys to analytics maturity to gain an edge in an economy increasingly driven by data. Through IIA’s in-depth research library, moderated phone briefings, webinars, and events, clients get the guidance and expertise needed to compete on analytics and win In this session we will review the origin of the IIA and carry through to where things are heading next, not just for Jack and his team, but the data and analytics industry as a whole. Join us for this informative discussion with one of the industry’s greats! Sponsored by: International Institute of Analytics

International Institute for Analytics‘ Impact on the Data Industry

Listen in for a Q+A with GDM founders Julie Burroughs and Kalia Garrido on how self-care is the unselfish key to banishing burnout for busy women.   In this fun interview, Julie Burroughs, CEO of Great Data Minds, interviews Kalia Garrido, CMO of Great Data Minds, on Kalia's passion project Healthy Women Leaders. Healthy Women Leaders is a collective of women in leadership who are committed to taking care of themselves as a priority, so that they are better able to handle all that life throws their way. Kalia has developed the 5 Core Pillars of Whole Life Self-Care that is designed to help busy women move from just existing to thriving. During the talk, Kalia Garrido addresses self-care concepts and practices that can be incorporated into everyone’s daily routine. These practices help busy professionals fight stress, beat burnout, and become not just better, more productive workers, but also happier and healthier people. Tune in for some energetic sound bites around what it means to be in a positive relationship with oneself, and help yourself avoid burnout, prevent fatigue, and improve your overall attitude.

Banish Burnout: Unselfish Self-Care for Busy Women

Join Mike Lampa, Great Data Minds Chief Analytics Officer and Justin Borgman, CEO and Co-Founder of Starburst for an Executive Insights discussion on Starburst technology - the world's fastest SQL-based MPP query engine.

How Starburst Enables Digital Transformation + Immediate Time-to-Insights

Practitioner and author, Gilbert Eijkelenboom, speaks with us about his book, “People Skills for Analytical Thinkers”. As a former professional poker player, you can find Gilbert wherever psychology and data meet. While Gilbert's academic background is in Behavioral Science, he has built a career in Data & Analytics. Combining both worlds, Gilbert founded the company MindSpeaking: soft skills training for data & analytics professionals. He helps data & analytics professionals become confident and effective communicators, so that people more efficiently use their data and analytic products and contribute measurable value to their organization by acting on the insights generated from those products. Join our conversation with Gilbert Eijkelenboom and discover how to bridge the gap between technology & psychology. Find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/People-Skills-Analytical-Thinkers-Communication/dp/9090336982/

Author Series: People Skills for Analytical Thinkers

Gartner states that as much as 60% of all data projects fail. In the Analytics space only 21% of deployed analytic solutions are ever adopted by the targeted stakeholders! We believe that has to do with not taking care of the humans. So, why do some organizations succeed at adopting technology change and others don’t? Turns out there are some head-slapping intuitive conditions needed to enable change and achieve transformation. Please join us and our special guest, Chris Laping as he shares insights on helping leaders and organizations navigate their transformations and realize the benefits of change. If you would like a copy of this book to enjoy before this session a link can be found here.

Author Series: People Before Things with Chris Laping

Microsoft has been making significant waves in the analytics and data governance space recently with its release of Azure Synapse and Purview. Join Matt Smith, Microsoft’s CDO for the West Enterprise shares Microsoft’s Go To Market strategy to enable digital and data transformation in the enterprise. Matt will share his career and customer experiences and how they have influenced Microsoft’s customer and partner ecosystem to achieve more.    What you will learn during this session: Enabling change without changing How platform convergence is enabling acceleration Democratizing AI for all workers Adoption of groundbreaking innovation on the front lines Enabling enterprises to get their arms around their data corpus. 

Microsoft’s Data Strategy and How it Accelerates a Data Culture

While the vast majority of companies are waking to the possible benefits of integrating AI applications to their products and internal business processes, few are succeeding to do this at scale and see returns on investment. Those that are, stand to achieve a severe competitive advantage.   What you will learn during this session: What is the impact of successfully scaling AI/ML and what it is worth to the organization. A clear understanding of what a POC cycle is. What is key in your approach for escaping this cycle Why is it that so many models that seemingly perform well in development then fail to perform in production? A strategy to maximize success in moving from lab to production   Please join us and our special guest Eric Topham, CEO and Founder of The Data Analysis Bureau, one of a leading AI/ML organizations as we discuss efficiencies in AI/ML programs and provide insights on how to stay out of the dreaded POC cycle.

Getting Out of the Machine Learning POC Cycle Funk

Brought to you by GDM Women Be Curious, Be Creative. Be Confident. About this Event Getting your good ideas across to management and other team members requires confidence, even being confident enough to fail. Our human operating system is wired for survival and designed for creativity. Together, we will explore how to access our curiosity and creativity to express our unique brilliance confidently. . Please join Great Data Minds Women and our special guests Manju Bazzell and Patricia Klauer as they share their expertise on how to access these innate capacities. You will also learn: How judgment and curiosity are related. How your thinking actually works. Where confidence comes from. 

Confidence Is Not What You Think

Most of the high profile cases of real or perceived unethical activity in data science aren’t matters of bad intent. Rather, they occur because ethics simply aren’t thought through well enough.! Bill Franks compiles contributions from top companies in technology, finance and other industries to share experiences and lessons learned from collecting, managing and analyzing data ethically. . Please join us as Great Data Minds Advisor, Mike Lampa discusses the insights and collective wisdom of the Experts around all things data ethics in analytics.     Get a copy of the book here.   

Author Series: 97 Things About Ethics Everyone In Data Science Should Know

With innovative organizations like Apple and Spotify moving their cloud workloads to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you can dispute the advantages that Google brings to all of their cloud services. But at the heart of the platform resides well engineered data services including BigQuery, Dataflow and others that are known as being the most cost effective and fastest in the industry. Please join us as Great Data Minds Advisor, Jesus Diaz a certified GCP Data Engineer, and Cloud Architect walks us through GCP’s data services and their benefits.

Deep Dive Google Data Services

Machine Learning is quickly becoming a household term and everyone wants to build and use novel ML systems, but getting started harder looks different than you'd expect.  We have invited some of the best of the best data science professionals to share their experiences with deploying machine learning solutions.  Join us as we learn from them what to do and not to do along with hearing about their projects and the impact they had.   

War Wounds and Wins: Machine Learning Stories from the Frontline

With all the automation and augmented intelligence available today, one would think that the effectiveness of an enterprise analytics program is all about the right technology. Think again. It’s much more about the humans!!John K. Thompson dips into his 30+ years of experience and expertise to provide the fundamentals for building and managing highly effective, efficient and performant analytic teams. He includes what to do, who to hire, which projects to undertake and what to avoid while on the journey of building an analytically sound team..Please join us as Great Data Minds Advisor, Mike Lampa and author John Thompson discuss the advice and guidance offered by John in his most recently published book, Building Analytic Teams.If you would like a copy of the book to enjoy before this session, it can be found on Amazon at:https://www.amazon.com/Building-Analytics-Teams-intelligence-improvement/dp/1800203160 

Author Series: Building Analytics Teams

Connect for Health Colorado is Colorado’s official healthcare marketplace. With more and more people moving to Colorado, thus utilizing their site to obtain insurance, they realized that their traditional analytics environments could not provide them with the information they needed to support their population. The decision was made to move their Oracle based solutions to a more agile, lower cost solution.Please join Carlos Bossy, CEO of Datalere and the lead on this project as he walks you through Connect for Health Colorado’s journey to the cloud. Carlos will explain the decision to move to and the work that had to be done to lift and shift the environment to AWS supported by Matillion for the ETL workloads. He will also explain the work that had to be done to successfully bring up the new environment overnight.

An Overnight Success: Connect for Health Colorado’s Move to the Cloud

We strive to change the conversation – literally – about data, information, and technology. Join the Great Data Minds team, advisors and special guests as we discuss topics that are at the forefront of the data world.