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Table of Contents

Edge-to-Core Infrastructure 3

Cloud Acceleration 6

Data Operations for Analytics 9

Data Operations for Governance 12

Internet of Things 14

Data-Driven Solutions 18

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Edge-to-Core Infrastructure

Session Title Session Description Speakers

Improve Performance Databases are the backbone of your organization, but meeting the strict SLOs Eduardo Freitas and Exceed Expectations of demanding and diverse applications, from ERP to CRM to finance, is a Director, Integrated With Database Solutions challenge for IT staff. Data Solutions Engineering, In this session, a panel of industry veterans will provide you with insights into Hitachi Vantara Wednesday, Oct 9 how new and emerging technologies, including storage class memory, can 11:00 - 11:45am improve database performance and lower latency to exceed your customers’ Vivek Khosla expectations. Technical experts will also share real-world results and business Director, Cognizant benefits with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform.

Customer Panel: Hyperconverged (HCI) is the new, hot infrastructure model. Companies are Dinesh Sigh Simplify Operations and exploring new ways to integrate it into their environments to simplify and Senior Solutions Get the Most Out of HCI accelerate business operations. Hear from this customer panel how they use Marketing Manager, HCI in a variety of business-critical use cases and why they choose Hitachi’s Hitachi Vantara Wednesday, Oct 9 hyperconverged solution, powered by vSAN, over other options. Panelists will Chris Gugger 11:00 - 11:45am discuss how to integrate HCI into existing IT operations for a holistic approach, Infrastructure & and will also share best practices so that you can get the most out of new HCI Solutions Product investments. Marketing Manager, Hitachi Vantara

Grow Your Business and To modernize your data center infrastructure, you need solutions built by Marcus Maddox Accelerate Innovation vendors with proven expertise in delivering continuous data availability, Global Alliances With Cisco and Hitachi operational efficiency and superior performance. So that you can grow your Manager, business and create new opportunities, Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions Hitachi Vantara Wednesday, Oct 9 for CI help a data-driven foundation harness the power of data to accelerate 3:15 - 4:00pm innovation. In this session, a panel of partners and representatives from Hitachi and Cisco will give you insights into the future of converged solutions.

Accelerate Innovation: More than ever, data is being generated, processed and stored across a Roadmap for Edge-to- distributed architecture. Hitachi Vantara is significantly updating portfolios Core to simplify and accelerate the collection, processing and management of data so that you can use it to drive value. Join us for this roadmap session Wednesday, Oct 9 where we will cover the edge-to-core components of the enhanced Hitachi 11:00 - 11:45am Vantara portfolio. We will focus on advancements in our Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) storage portfolio, AI operations software, converged and hyperconverged solutions and our enhanced suite of edge offerings.

Harness the Full Poten- To drive business objectives, IT leaders and staff must deploy an increasingly Stanley Stevens tial of IT Investments broad set of software, servers, network devices and storage. This accelerates Director, Software With AI Ops innovation, but it can also complicate IT deployments and increase risks Product Marketing, to business success. The good news is that your infrastructure is designed Hitachi Vantara Wednesday, Oct 9 to help – you just need to unleash its potential. In this session, our panel 2:15 - 3:00pm of customers and Hitachi and industry experts will discuss how Hitachi’s AI operations software can use your IT infrastructure to optimize resource delivery, eliminate bottlenecks and prevent budgetary waste.

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Edge-to-Core Infrastructure (continued)

Session Title Session Description Speakers

Get a Smarter Data Enterprise IT organizations face tremendous pressure to keep up with the Nitan Nandigame Center and Reach changes in processes, technologies, tools and business goals. One of the Senior Services Outcomes Faster biggest challenges IT teams face is being able to pinpoint the small, harmful Portfolio Manager, issues in the large streams of big data being logged in their environments. Hitachi Vantara Wednesday, Oct 9 Even with the right software tools, gaining timely insights can be challenging. 2:15 - 3:00pm With Hitachi Vantara custom solutions, you can transform your data center to be smarter, efficient and self-healing. Learn more from a panel of experts, including valued customers, about how partnering with Hitachi can help you achieve IT operation outcomes faster than ever.

Stay Ready for the To power business operations and drive thoughtful, real-time decision making, Future With Better, applications need access to rapidly growing data sets. The challenge for IT Safer, More Agile leaders is that most new platforms have not been built to support the ever- Storage increasing demands of new workloads, but there is a better choice. In this session, learn how Hitachi Vantara redefines enterprise storage systems to Thursday, Oct 10 ensure superior performance and capacity, better safeguard customer data and 11:00 - 11:45am improve IT agility. Industry experts will cover new strategies for future-proofing IT and demonstrate how to use Hitachi next-generation storage technology.

Deliver Agility at Gartner predicts that by 2025, 75% of enterprise-generated data will be Paul Lewis the Edge created and processed outside a centralized data center or cloud. Where Global Vice President that data is generated heavily depends on the nature of your business. It Industry and Thursday, Oct 10 could be a remote facility where people work, a factory where products Enterprise 2:15 - 3:00pm are manufactured or a multitude of distributed IoT devices that generate Architecture, streams of machine data. Whatever the case, industry experts agree that Hitachi Vantara the future of digital business will be driven by companies’ ability to receive, Sharat Prasad manage, analyze and share information to and from these edge points. Join Connected Products this strategy session to learn about the different ways Hitachi Vantara helps Portfolio Lead at customers integrate and activate various edge locations as part of a Cognizant, comprehensive edge-to-core DataOps strategy. Christian Renaud Research VP, Internet of Things, 451 Research, Dan Wood CEO and Founder at Evolve Media

SAP HANA – What It Moving to S/4HANA and/or BW/4HANA is not simple. You need a trusted Scott LaBouliere Takes To Make Your partner with deep experience in implementing and managing SAP VP Business Move Successful environments. On-premises? Cloud? Managed? You have many decisions Development, to make and the answers are particular to your business needs. oXya/Hitachi Wednesday, Oct 9 Melchior du BOULLAY 4:15 - 5:00pm In this session you will understand the lessons learned and benefits gained by your peers in using the expertise of Hitachi’s offerings for SAP. General Manager, Americas, oXya/Hitachi

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Edge-to-Core Infrastructure (continued)

Session Title Session Description Speakers

Optimize Your IT In this hands-on session, you’ll see how to optimize your IT operations. Operations Identify a performance bottleneck, analyze potential problem resources and their interdependencies, troubleshoot the problem and use an (Training Session) AI-enhanced engine to determine the root cause. This lab will demonstrate how Hitachi Vantara can streamline your infrastructure troubleshooting efforts, lower mean time to repair and reduce costs.

Watch, Analyze, With exciting new technology from Hitachi Vantara, experience what it is Respond. The New like to seamlessly manage a worldwide network of multiple data centers. Global Data Center Have health, capacity and performance metrics at your fingertips aggregated on a single pane of glass. This shareable dashboard enables (Training Session) quick responses to executives and fast access to troubleshooting to ensure service level objectives are met. With customizable views and reports, this will become the tool of choice for every data center administrator.

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Cloud Acceleration

Session Title Session Description Speakers

A News Publication A digital publishing enterprise, DailyHunt is one of the fastest growing news Drives IT With aggregators in India. Their cloud strategy has been key to enabling their Automated Private expansion. As part of their cloud journey, they created a private cloud using Cloud (Increase Value Hitachi’s Unified Compute Platform. With Automation) Join DailyHunt in this session to learn how they: • Created value when they drove alignment between the business and IT Thursday, Oct 10 11:00 - 11:45am • Benefited by adopting automation and orchestration using Hitachi’s solution and expertise

Get Enterprise-Grade A current trend among developers is the rapid adoption of Kubernetes (K8). Don Kamer Service Levels With Unfortunately, K8 is often deployed in silos across the enterprise. Whether Lead Architect for Kubernetes K8 environments are on-premises or in the cloud, it can be a challenge to Cloud Solutions, ensure compliance, governance, security, service availability and operational Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 efficiency. Kubernetes brings flexibility however, finding comprehensive 3:15 - 4:00pm management for the enterprise can be difficult. Join this session to learn how you can: • Get the enterprise-grade support you need with Kubernetes while avoiding risk to infrastructure and data • Go beyond just the “lift and shift” cloud strategy to instead drive towards your digital transformation goals with better control, higher performance and greater flexibility • Achieve higher levels of security and compliance in K8 environments This session will demonstrate how you can control increasing costs and avoid risks of Kubernetes sprawl by preventing lines-of-business from driving their own new appliance and cloud environments for each project.

Deliver Multicloud Over three-quarters of enterprise IT organizations are using cloud resources Sam Ovando Benefits for Virtualized today and the use of multiple cloud providers is growing rapidly. As these Sr. Manager, Apps (Deliver More multicloud efforts gain traction, many enterprises struggle to realize all the Infrastructure Cloud Benefits For benefits these deployments have to offer. In this session you will learn: Platform, VMware Virtualized • How to implement the new VMware cloud capabilities faster and more Hitachi Vantara Apps) thoroughly in your enterprise Ashok Nirsoe Solutions Architect, Thursday, Oct 10 • How your applications virtualized with VMware can move to multiple cloud Hitachi Vantara 2:15 - 3:00pm environments easily, reliably and securely • How to use Hitachi’s expertise in helping you achieve multicloud capabilities for your VMware virtualized applications

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Cloud Acceleration (continued)

Session Title Session Description Speakers

Expert Tips For Adopting and executing a hybrid and multicloud strategy has become a busi- Trevor Williams Executing Your Multi- ness and IT imperative. However, not all enterprises are ready or have the Global Sales Director: cloud Strategy (How To required knowledge to get there. Without a well-defined multicloud strategy, Cloud Service Build Your Multicloud enterprises risk losing valuable time and resources – making them less com- Providers, Strategy) petitive. To leverage the power of the cloud, Hitachi Vantara and our global Hitachi Vantara Cloud Partner ecosystem have joined forces to provide real-world examples Wednesday, Oct 9 of what works and what doesn’t. Join this panel session, where experts will 2:15 - 3:00pm provide insights based on lessons learned from multicloud strategy execution in various enterprises. You will learn about: • Best practices to protect your existing IT infrastructure investments • Minimizing disruptions to your business as you drive the cloud strategy • Conducting cost- benefit analysis to establish the right metrics and benchmark the services The panel of cloud service provider (CSP) partners will share how they overcame hurdles and helped enterprise IT optimize their environments after moving to multicloud.

Ensure Compliance, How do you maintain continuous cloud security even as your cloud resources Jeremy Fields Security and Governance change frequently? And how do you maintain your regulatory, compliance, Vice President Cloud in the Cloud risk and governance objectives? Discover how Hitachi Vantara’s cloud platform Operations, offers you infrastructure validation, security assessment and remediation Global Services, Wednesday, Oct 9 with actionable intelligence. See how you can support continuous compliance H i t a c h i V a n t a r a 3:15 - 4:00pm in your cloud. Govind Bangarbale • Learn about the platform’s functionality and capability to support continuous Vice President, compliance in your cloud. Global Cloud Migration Services, • Hear about tools and best practices to support a holistic cloud security Hitachi Vantara framework. • See demonstrations of the platform technologies and how they integrate to give you cloud security at scale.

Get A Competitive Edge The next big thing in your cloud journey is not just where applications are run Peter Meister By Automating Your App - but how well they are migrated, modernized and then, securely run. In this Head of Product Modernization session, you’ll learn about: Managent Hitachi Cloud Acceleration Thursday, Oct 10 • How to deploy secure, hyperscale, workload migration and application modernization solutions using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation Platform, 11:00 - 11:45am Hitachi Vantara • How to accelerate your cloud journey and how DevSecOps and fully Larry Bradley automated, low-code development platforms serve as disruptive catalysts Vice President of • How to leverage best practices from real examples that show how our com- Application mitment and expertise in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Modernization and Cloud Platform have fueled our customer’s cloud transformation success Big Data, See how we make it simple for you to deliver an efficient and effective man- Hitachi Vantara aged digital transformation platform which is consistent across on-premises cloud, hybrid environments and multi-cloud and enabled for enterprise-grade security and global scale.

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Cloud Acceleration (continued)

Session Title Session Description Speakers

Build an Automated Because hybrid cloud is quickly becoming the optimum IT consumption model, Monique Lucey Hybrid Cloud many of your peers are now adopting it. It gives you many advantages, Portfolio Marketing, including the agility and scale of public cloud with the control and compliance Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 of a private data center. Learn how to build a true hybrid cloud with Hitachi 4:15 - 5:00pm and VMware Cloud Foundation. This hybrid cloud is scalable, secure and simple to operate. Join us as we take you through the seamless workload migration to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, as well as automated bring-on, secure tenant partitioning, easy life cycle management and integrated security. NOTE: Microsoft and Azure are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation

Create, Manage and It takes a lot of effort to design blueprints, develop pipelines and deploy an Implement Blueprints, application into the cloud with automation. If your goal is to manage Pipelines and infrastructure as a code (IaC) in the cloud, you need to create consistency and Automation for Cloud repeatability in these processes. In this session, we’ll take you through the pro- Applications cess and best practices for creating blueprints, pipelines and automation with the Hitachi Cloud Accelerator Platform. You’ll also learn how to manage, iterate (Training Session) and catalog them for repeatable implementation in the cloud. See first-hand how to build a blueprint, create a pipeline and deploy an application into the cloud with automation.

Achieve Application Learn how to streamline, simplify and automate the process of managing mi- Modernization with grated applications in the cloud with Hitachi Cloud Accelerator Platform. Free the Cloud up resources for other strategic efforts, achieve your modernization strategy through fast and seamless application transformation and fulfill your DevOps (Training Session) and DevSecOps mission with simplified skill requirements. Join us for a hands- on experience to discover how Hitachi Cloud Services and Hitachi Cloud Accelerator Platform can help you accomplish digital transformation. We will demonstrate how to automate patch management activities while maintaining compliancy.

Deploy Applications with It is challenging and time-consuming to move applications to the cloud. With Velocity, Efficiency and the Hitachi Cloud Services and Hitachi Cloud Accelerator Platform, migration Accuracy to the Cloud and deployment can happen quickly, efficiently and repeatably. In less than 30 minutes, you can increase business agility and reduce resource requirements (Training Session) by migrating and deploying applications to well-known cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. With the right tools, you can design your IT infrastructure visually and intuitively, generate infrastructure as code (IaC) and deploy and configure the infrastructure in the cloud. In this session, get first-hand experience as you securely deploy a migrated application to the cloud.

NOTE: Microsoft and Azure are trademarks or registered trademarks of Micro- soft Corporation.

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Data Operations for Analytics

Session Title Session Description Speakers

Get Your DataOps Find your DataOps advantage with Hitachi’s portfolio of data operations for Matthew Howard Advantage: Roadmap analytics and see our vision for its future and yours. Join us as we go deep Senior Director, and Vision into Pentaho Data Integration, Pentaho Business Analytics and Hitachi Product Management, Content Intelligence to show you recent advances that go beyond building Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 data pipelines. 11:00 - 11:45am 1) Gain immediate cost relief from your expanding data lake footprint with Hadoop, Splunk and other technologies. 2) Organize, curate and liberate your data with modern analytic engines. 3) Empower broad sets of new users with catalogs, self-service data preparation and data governance. 4) Deliver out-of-the-box solutions to data challenges based on contextual metadata knowledge.

Offer Self-Service Data Offer curated data on-demand to ALL your users and lines of business. Adapt Evan Cropper Access for Your Business your information technology to the changing needs of your business, even as Senior Product With DataOps the technology itself changes. How can you keep up? Incorporate advances Marketing Manager, in analytics, data lakes and data warehouses, not to mention open- source Hitachi Vantara Wednesday, Oct 9 technologies for data science and streaming. We’ll show you how to build a 11:00 - 11:45am governed framework for your business users to access the data they need, without all the guesswork and with a smooth customer experience.

Build a Data-Driven Why do two-thirds of large organizations say they’re NOT driven by data even Fred Schults Culture From Data though they invest in data initiatives to unlock strategic insights? Because AI and ML product Analysis to Data their cultures have not adopted it yet, says the Harvard Business Review. In leader, Hitachi Vantara Outcomes this session, we’ll show you how to engage your people to face the threats James Bailey from more agile competitors. We’ll help you reexamine how to integrate analytic CEO Armedia, Ray Thursday, Oct 10 and machine learning capabilities into your daily workflows. Understand how Azarm, Vice President 11:00 - 11:45am to build a data-driven driven culture that delivers analytics-ready data and of Enterprise Practice, insights for different outcome owners. Discuss with us actual use cases of Armedia organizations that use analytics, custom dashboards and search to achieve critical business results.

Don’t Miss Opportunities Over half of machine learning (ML) models never reach production, says Anand Rao To Unlock Huge Value in Gartner. What a waste! How many missed opportunities is that? We know Principal Product Your Data that ML is a powerful tool to address vital business issues, including customer Marketing Manager, churn, fraud, risk management, compliance and predictive maintenance. In Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 this session, you’ll learn how data operators at leading businesses efficiently 4:15 - 5:00pm deploy ML models and manage their accuracy while in production. We’ll also discuss how to unlock the enormous value in your unstructured data such as text, video, audio and images using high-performing deep learning.

Customer Panel: Find your advantage in DataOps. You know that the data landscape has never Arik Pelkey DataOps Advantages been more distributed and complex. Should building data pipelines still consume Sr. Director of Product and Best Practices 80% of analytics project time? Many organizations don’t think so and are Marketing, adopting data operations in their data management. They’ve learned to reduce Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 the friction between the data operators – those responsible for acquiring, Jason Carolan 2:15 - 3:00pm preparing and delivering data – and the data consumers, who are the people CIO, Flexential and applications in the lines of business. Come to our panel discussion of practitioners who will share their challenges and best practices along with how they expect to find more DataOps advantages in the future.

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Data Operations for Analytics (continued)

Session Title Session Description Speakers

Get More Efficient With Join us as we examine how a leading people-search engine transformed to Evan Cropper Sr. Prod- Your Data keep high data quality and speed of insight. Data quality is mission-critical for uct Marketing their business, so they upgraded from hand-coded ETL scripts and ad-hoc Manager, Wednesday, Oct 9 processing to the intuitive drag and drop capabilities of Pentaho. As a result, Hitachi Vantara 4:15 - 5:00pm they focus less on the development of internal tools and more on the data that drives their customer experience, quickly taking ideas from concept to production.

In addition to broad strategy, we’ll walk through the details of how the company used the Adaptive Execution layer of Pentaho Data Integration to build Spark data pipelines running within Amazon Elastic MapReduce for a 100% cloud-based DataOps solution. With Pentaho, they are able to centralize their metadata and onboard new data faster and more efficiently than ever, improving master data management, data lineage, speed, accuracy and even reliability of the data they give to their customers.

Data Lake 3.0: Let’s fulfill the promise of data lakes for your organization. Rapid access to Madhup Mishra Now Curated, Compliant vast amounts of data satisfies data scientists, data analysts and application Director Technical and Cost-Effective developers alike and can drive dramatically new insights to your business. Product Marketing, Thursday, Oct 10 Learn how to overcome the business adoption issues, compliance concerns Hitachi Vantara 4:15 - 5:00pm and cost overruns that are often triggered by poor business mandates, inade- Geoffrey Marsh quate data governance and technology choices that prevent economic scale. (Moderator) Vice President of We’ll show you a new approach to data lakes that’s based on object store Digital Insights, technology. Originally pioneered by Amazon S3, object store is rapidly becoming Hitachi Vantara the de facto method for building and managing multipetabyte data lakes. Andrew Buffone At just a fraction of traditional Hadoop-only costs, data lakes based on object Director Data stores support data curation through rich metadata and policy-driven data Management, compliance protection. By the end of this session you’ll have the fundamentals CARFAX Canada of object store data lakes, share-based practices and even sample architectures.

Capture Millions in Lost With $30 billion in revenue, BT is the UK’s largest telecom provider. Revenue Divya Shridhar Revenue With DataOps assurance has been a challenge for BT and is a common problem across Head of Business industries. Unable to reconcile monthly invoices with call logs and other re- Analytics, BT Thursday, Oct 10 cords, BT had been losing an estimated 2% of revenue every month, 4:15 - 5:00pm according to BT head of business analytics, Divya Shridhar. Attend this session to learn how Hitachi Vantara helps BT provide the right data, in the right place and at the right time to capture millions of dollars more in revenue per month. You’ll also see how BT applies data science to reduce human labor and predict which action to take when an anomaly arises with over 90% accuracy.

Transform Your Business Can robots replace humans? Commercial physical security and surveillance Fred Oh With AI and Robotics are human-intensive activities with relatively high expense. More importantly, Principal Product these activities are prone to human error and bias. At Singapore’s Jewel Marketing Manager, Thursday, Oct 10 Changi Airport, Certis CISCO combines AI, data analytics and robotics to Hitachi Vantara 2:15 - 3:00pm quickly detect and respond to incidents with real-time situational awareness Fuji Foo and less manpower. VP Digitalization, Certis faced challenges with overseeing security, facilities management and Certis Cisco customer service needs. Learn how they solved them with Pentaho and Hitachi Vantara infrastructure in their Mozart platform. Mozart integrates 12 different systems and takes in data from more than 5,000 sensors, 200 mobile devices and 700 closed-circuit television cameras. At the end of this session, maybe we’ll have an answer to one of today’s biggest questions.

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Data Operations for Analytics (continued)

Session Title Session Description Speakers

Power Business Model Hear MyRepublic’s CIO share the company’s experience on their journey Anand Rao Innovation With Data: with big data. He’ll chart out the challenges that the company faced as it Principal Product a CIO’s Perspective grew exponentially across Asia Pacific, the ETL solution they built around Marketing Manager, Pentaho to support their growth, and the evolution of their strategy to use Hitachi Vantara Wednesday, Oct 9 data as the driver for innovation within the company. 4:15 - 5:00pm Eugene Yeo CIO, MyRepublic

Deliver Analytics-Ready Join this hands-on session to get fresh ideas on delivering analytics-ready data Data to your business. Bringing data-driven insights to the fingertips of business users is not a new goal, but it remains elusive for many businesses. Up to (Training Session) 80% of the effort in these projects is spent getting the data ready for analytics. Smooth and reliable data operations require an automated process. We’ll highlight key aspects of building a streamlined data refinery so you can get your data analytics-ready.

Improve the Quality Find out how to gain visibility of your file landscape, optimize the quality of of Your Data your data, improve productivity, make information easier to find and cut storage costs. Endless amounts of information are readily available at the touch (Training Session) of a finger – user documents, media files, application data – you name it. How should you organize your data and work with data silos? How do you know your storage resources are optimally used? Learn how file-level assessment services from Hitachi can help you answer these questions.

Explore Lumada Data Learn more about data warehouse and Hadoop optimization in the cloud era. Optimizer for Hadoop A powerful analytics platform, Hadoop feeds off of rich data content ingested from across the enterprise. Feeding this analytics engine is the key to produce (Training Session) business value. However, today’s rapid data growth across multiple locations causes operational costs and complexities to soar. We’ll explore how to reduce costs, increase efficiency and optimize your Hadoop environment in this interactive session.

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Data Operations for Governance

Session Title Session Description Speakers

Understand DataOps Do you have the technical foundation you need for all your data creators Scott Nyman for Governance: and consumers? In this session, we’ll show you how to ensure fast data Sr Director of Product Roadmap and Vision ingestion and broad data integration services. Learn how to make your Management - foundation elastic and optimize it for the performance and scale you need Content Product Wednesday, Oct 9 for modern, intelligent data lakes. We’ll take you through Hitachi’s portfolio Portfolio, 2:15 - 3:00pm for data operations for governance, including Hitachi Content Platform Hitachi Vantara (HCP), HCP Anywhere, HCP Anywhere edge, Hitachi Content Intelligence, Hitachi Content Search, Hitachi Content Monitor and partner integrations and solutions. Understand the strategies for these products, their relationships to the broader Hitachi Vantara portfolio and get exclusive insight into our vision and roadmap for them. You won’t want to miss the latest product advances and the value they they provide for your peers already.

Create Agility and Hear the data quality outcomes of four organizations like yours and the four Scott Baker Lead the Market best practices they use to place the right data in the right place for the data Sr. Director Content intelligence services they provide for their stakeholders. Join us in this inter- and Data Intelligence Thursday, Oct 10 active session to understand how data governance, guided by a comprehen- Strategy, 2:15 - 3:00pm sive data strategy, helps you deal with data from so many sources. This topic Hitachi Vantara has never been more important than now, with the internet of things and Colin Chatelier rampant interconnectivity of data feeds, data sources, channels and data Manager of Storage consumers. Through clear use cases, we’ll show you how to balance control & Compute, Europe, with agility despite the chaotic nature of data. Learn to create the data agility Rabobank you need to sustain innovative, competitive leadership in your markets.

Turn Data Strategy Strategic management of your data works works best when you have a single Tanya Loughlin Into Actions executive to balance the business and technical needs of all your data Director of Cloud management. We’ll show you how to define this “data sponsor” role and Object Storage, Wednesday, Oct 9 overcome six common obstacles to success. For example, your business Collaboration and 4:15 - 5:00pm users may underestimate the effort and time needed to build a data-centric Data Intelligence or analytics-driven solution and expect the data sponsor to fix timelines Product right away. But the data sponsor’s first efforts should be to set the business Marketing, direction to focus everyone’s commitment and participation. Once that is Hitachi Vantara in place, your team is ready to integrate the core elements that are critical to Scott Baker turning your company’s data strategy into data action. Sr. Director Content Join us to learn all about the six common obstacles, how to integrate the and Data Intelligence necessary data management elements and how one of your peers integrated Strategy, their data strategy into a co-created solution to support their compliance and Hitachi Vantara regulatory reporting.

Improve Your Data growth might not be your biggest problem in aligning your data strategies Michael Pacheco Compliance and Data with your business requirements. For many, it’s data fragmentation and Senior Solutions Quality With Automation disconnected technology silos where data is trapped and often goes dark. Marketing Manager, Data fragmentation can encumber your organization with many common Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 challenges. But you can overcome these challenges with an intelligent and Deepak Nagpal 4:15 - 5:00pm flexible single source of truth, which is easier to build than you might think. CEO, Audax Labs Join us for an interactive session that demonstrates and highlights solutions that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to assess data, check quality and migrate and tier data. They also use data analytics to automate data quality checks and centralize organizational data to promote data consistency, standards adherence and improved compliance.

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Data Operations for Governance (continued)

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Customer Panel: See how sustainable innovation grows from a strong foundation of data Todd Sawler Create Sustainable governance. Not solely for regulatory compliance, expert use of data Sr. Director Digital Growth With Innovation governance supports the supply of information and insights to your data Sales, Hitachi Vantara consumers. Listen to our panel of accomplished practitioners share their Wednesday, Oct 9 Jeff Lundberg best practices and the challenges they’ve successfully managed. Hear how Senior Product 4:15 - 5:00pm they combine data governance and innovation to create sustainable business Marketing Manager, growth in circumstances similar to yours. Hitachi Vantara Keith Dumbleton Senior Data Manager, Rabobank Mehmet Efe Uluyurt System Engineer, Garanti BBVA Turkey Guy Sereff BHFS

Scale Analytics and Scale the analytics of your organization by finding, equipping and protecting Arik Pelkey Innovation With Your your citizen data scientists. They are the analytically minded people who love to Sr. Director of Citizen Data Scientists experiment with data but are not in data engineering or data analytics. Finding Product Marketing, them in your organization is not hard and we’ll show you how to build a program Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 that supports and encourages them. First of all, you’ll want to democratize your Horia Selegean 11:00 - 11:45am analytics to give them access to data and the tools to work with it to transform Head of Governance, their discovery process. BT In this session, we’ll take you through all the proven program elements. You’ll find that with more people actively looking for new answers, discovery becomes more widespread in your organization and innovation flourishes. In this session, see how to scale your analytics by developing and integrating the experiments, prototypes and creative spirits of people who are not traditional data scientists.

Test Drive HCP for This interactive and hands-on session will introduce you to Hitachi Content Cloud Scale Platform (HCP) for cloud-scale user interface and its powerful features and capabilities. The newly released HCP for cloud scale is a software-defined object (Training Session) storage solution. It’s based on a massively parallel microservice architecture and is compatible with the Amazon S3 API. HCP for cloud scale is uniquely suited to service applications that require high bandwidth, performance at scale and integration based on Amazon S3 APIs.

Protect Critical Data and Learn how to protect critical data and simplify copy data management in this Simplify Copy Data hands-on session. Your critical data must be always available, but if something Management catastrophic happens, it needs to be recovered as quickly as possible. You’ll see how easy it is to protect your critical data and restore it instantly. See how our (Training Session) enterprise copy data management platform automates and orchestrates the creation of application-consistent data copies, automatically refreshes them and expires them according to your business policies.

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Internet of Things

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Make Smarter Decisions Increase efficiencies, reduce waste, keep people safe and improve experiences, Justin Bean With Smart Spaces all by getting smarter. Like many cities, businesses and other organizations Global Director of have already done, you can use video intelligence, IoT, AI and analytics to Smart Spaces Wednesday, Oct 9 create smart spaces. You’ll gain rich insights and real-time information to help Marketing, 11:00 - 11:45am you make smarter decisions, take proactive actions and enhance experiences Hitachi Vantara for customers, residents, visitors, passengers and many others. Join this session to hear how smart spaces deliver benefits across different industries to help businesses like yours thrive while improving society.

Increase Throughput “Extract ore at any cost” was traditionally the miner’s mantra. History has Shanif Merchant and Reduce Costs in proven however, that the mining industry experiences dramatic swings in Director of product Mining up-and-down economic cycles. management, Now miners are transforming their business processes from pit to port to industrial IoT Wednesday, Oct 9 applications & 4:15 - 5:00pm fit their new mantra: “extract ore at the right cost.” Join us to discover how to increase throughput from existing capital expenditure, lower the cost of advanced analytics, operations, optimize the use of consumables and manual labor and lower H i t a c h i V a n t a r a the cost of maintenance with reduced ad-hoc downtimes – all key to ensuring Andrew Mudford a future for the mining industry. Account Director Digital Transformation IoT Social Innovation, Hitachi Vantara Chetan Gupta Head Industrial AI Lab and Chief Data Scientist, Hitachi Labs

How Converging When you travel by air, you go through several challenges: getting to the Justin Bean Technologies Make airport, finding parking, checking luggage, dealing with delays… the list can Global Director of Airports Smart and go on. But today’s airports are getting smarter about improving your total Smart Spaces Travel Easier travel experience, from faster check-in to superior lounge services and beyond. Marketing, Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 Thanks to converging technologies like video and lidar intelligence, IoT, machine 11:00 - 11:45am learning and analytics, airports can get insights on how to make your journey a great one. Hear from experts on how airports and airlines use new solutions to keep operations running smoothly, while keeping you safe and on time.

Get Your Competitive Digital transformation is about preparing for the transformative future. But Anand Rao Edge With New how are technologies like IoT, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, machine Principal Product Innovations in learning and 5G helping the industry prepare for the opportunities ahead? Marketing Manager, AI, ML, 5G and More From smart manufacturing to oil and gas, industry leaders are taking bold Hitachi Vantara Vijay Kamineni Wednesday, Oct 9 ideas and operationalizing them to deliver business value to their organizations. Business 11:00 - 11:45am Join us in this session with experts who will uncover lessons and ideas and explore revolutionary approaches to innovating and creating a competitive Transformation edge with data from edge to cloud. Leader, Logan Aluminum Inc.

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Get the Most From Your Digital transformation in manufacturing is not just a one-time shot. It includes Anand Rao Data With DataOps for applications, data integration, data flows, data storage, governance, Principal Product Manufacturing infrastructure management and analytics. The journey has milestones but is Marketing Manager, also a continuous pathway to operational excellence. That, of course, means H i t a c h i V a n t a r a Wednesday, Oct 9 there are challenges along the way. Steve Garbrecht 2:15 - 3:00pm Data silos, for example, arise where information tends to stay in the operating Technical Product unit and can’t be consistently shared. Data hubs are ideal go-to places for Marketing Director IoT, data within an enterprise so that many point-to-point connections are avoided. Hitachi Vantara But the real promise of IIoT is in outcome-based intelligent applications that help realize business value. To help you improve quality and efficiency, reduce cost and risk, Hitachi Group companies are working to implement a highly scalable digital manufacturing framework and operational technology-based manufacturing solutions. More than technology, these innovations incorporate data operations so that you can maximize your return on data.

Get High Performance When you work with edge data, you can encounter several problems. It Steve Garbrecht and Scale Better With can be noisy, locked in proprietary systems and restricted from other Technical Product Edge Computing departments. To help you address many of those challenges, Lumada Edge Marketing Director IoT, allows you to move more applications and storage to the edge, saving Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 cloud and wide-area network bandwidth costs so that you can better scale Dylan Hantula 2:15 - 3:00pm from edge devices to powerful multinode cloud deployments. It can also Senior Software accommodate the many protocols prevalent in the IoT space and handle Engineer, the large amounts of data produced by industrial assets. Hitachi Vantara Join us for a deep dive into how you can achieve exceptional performance Gleb Geguine and reliability with Lumada Edge. Along with use-case examples, you’ll Senior IoT System hear how Lumada Edge can bring you: Architect, Canadian - Real-time insights and faster local action. National Railway - Ensured governance, protection and compliance. - Tiering and configurations for lower costs.

Understand and Build As an IT professional, you understand the divide between IT and operations Steve Garbrecht Trust With Your technology (OT). You’ve heard terms like PLC, MES and historian, but what Technical Product Operations Team do they mean? Marketing Director IoT, Operations teams are responsible for automation systems, system security, Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 operations management and safety. The group in charge of this data is the Vijay Ujjain 3:15 - 4:00pm plant engineering organization. As part of overall data operations, you need Partner, PwC to understand OT. Come to this session to help strengthen your understanding of industrial systems and become a more trusted advisor with your operations teams. Among the many things you’ll learn about operations teams, you’ll discover: - Their language and information systems. - How they architect and secure operations systems. - The biggest integration issue: people.

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Quickly Improve Your Competitive pressures and market demands are forcing discreet and process Anand Rao Competitive Edge With manufacturers like you to accelerate adoption of industrial IoT (IIoT). The main Principal Product IoT Insights promise of IIoT is in intelligent applications that can help you realize business Marketing Manager, value. Explore with us how Japanese manufacturing techniques (Ishikawa’s H i t a c h i V a n t a r a Wednesday, Oct 9 4M) become even more relevant with Manufacturing 4.0. Your focus has to John Brinegar 2:15 - 3:00pm be on your return on data. You need to gain insights from your data to Director IoT Solution optimize your operations’ equipment, process and quality. As a trusted Development, partner, Hitachi has the tools and know-how to make them successful for Hitachi Vantara you. Explore ideas, approaches and answers to questions that will help David Moon your organization thrive. How can an integrated portfolio of manufacturing, Solutions maintenance and video insights help transform your business? How are Consultant, customers from around the world using intelligent applications to develop Hit achi Vant ara transformative insights? Join the discussion to find out. Shinichi Kawamoto Industry IoT and Smart Manufacuring, Hitachi Vantara

Find Multi-Industry Hitachi Rail is introducing a fleet of high-speed trains on the UK railways. Philip Hewlett Insights in Rail’s These trains, modeled on the Japanese bullet train, cut journey times and Digital Transformation Predictive Maintenance improve comfort. But what if a train breaks while in service? Each train has & IT Delivery, thousands of sensors generating trillions of data points every year. Hitachi Rail Hitachi Rail Wednesday, Oct 9 uses advanced analytics and machine learning to predict equipment failures, 2:15 - 3:00pm reduce downtime and optimize operating schedules. These insights help Hitachi Rail achieve multimillion savings and revolutionize rail transportation. You’ll gain insights that are relevant to many industries. Join us for a deep dive into: - How Hitachi uses advanced analytics and AI technology. - How these techniques can improve management of fleet operations and improve operational environments with applications based on Hitachi solutions including Lumada and Pentaho. - The practical lessons and key takeaways from three years of real-world experience.

Make Fleet Operations Operating a fleet of vehicles at maximum efficiency is a complex problem with Greg Hrebek More Efficient With thousands of assets to manage in real-time. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by Strategic Technology Advanced Analytics the number of possibilities and impossibilities. Fleets have unique challenges Executive - IoT, with their volumes of data, human factors and ability to track assets across Analytics, AI & ML, Thursday, Oct 10 borders and geographies. Not only that, but data is often siloed and locked Block Chain, Vehicle 4:15 - 5:00pm inside disparate, customized systems. Autonomy, Hitachi has collaborated with customers like you to identify common pain Transportation Expert, points for fleet managers and create algorithms to solve them. Learn how Hitachi Global these challenges directly affect your P&L and how our AI-driven solutions Digital Holdings manage service availability and efficiency with algorithms that help optimize your maintenance and allocation of resources. Join us in this session to see how we help our customers manage their data and drive insights to improve their fleet operations – and maybe yours, too.

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Ingest Streaming Data In this workshop, get a practical understanding of some of the Smart Spaces Sources With Pentaho technologies showcased at NEXT 2019. You’ll see how we’ll be drinking our own Smart Spaces champagne with a range of technologies that will augment (Training Session) your experience. Through advanced video analytics and 3D lidar, we will show how queues can be detected and alarms generated. We can even calculate wait times and provide advice on the best queues to join and when.

Smart Spaces – Video In this workshop, get a practical understanding of some of the Smart Analytics and 3D Lidar Spaces technologies showcased at NEXT 2019. You’ll see how we’ll be drinking our own Smart Spaces champagne with a range of technologies (Training Session) that will augment your experience. Through advanced video analytics and 3D lidar, we will show how queues can be detected and alarms generated. We can even calculate wait times and provide advice on the best queues to join and when.

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Financial Services: To improve their customers’ experiences, financial institutions must generate Dan Knight Get Competitive insights and innovation from their data, using advanced analytics. But new Chief Technology Advantage With privacy and sovereignty regulations risk dramatically reducing the value of their Officer, Global Data Privacy customer data. What’s more, common privacy techniques, such as encryption Financial Services, and anonymization, do not support compliant analytics, AI and data sharing. Hitachi Vantara Thursday, Oct 10 Learn more about Hitachi Digital Privacy using our partner Anonos and our 4:15 - 5:00pm Hitachi Vantara Pentaho PDI and machine-learning technologies. It gives you unique, end-to-end capabilities to help you to achieve your business objectives and turn regulation into a competitive advantage. You’ll come away with important insights: - Legally use, share and analyze your data for competitive advantage. - Structure a compliant self-service environment. - Transform non-compliant data into legally usable data.

Financial Services: Let’s face it, financial services institutions’ main business objectives are to Nirvana Farhadi Improve Compliance generate revenue, grow the business and be competitive. Most firms, though, Global Head and Outcomes with Data are caught up in ever-increasing cost and resource burdens from dramatic in- Financial Services, creases in regulatory obligations. Data is changing the world as we know it and Hitachi Vantara pulling us from our comfort zones into change, transformation and, in some Wednesday, Oct 9 Dan Knight cases, uncertainty. Let’s delve into how financial services firms can use their 4:15 - 5:00pm Chief Technology data to navigate these complex changes in regulatory and legal obligations. Officer, Global Learn how to monetize data for better business revenue and outcomes. Financial Services, Hitachi Vantara In this session, we’ll examine two solutions that allow you to apply your data to simplify compliance and risk obligations and improve your bottom line. We’ll take a look at regulatory challenges around liquidity risk with Intraday Insights and learn how to optimize intraday liquidity to generate immediate savings while simplifying compliance reporting. And Datacom will share observations and insights on the development of Open Banking Standards and APIs and how major banks are complying with the updated policies.

Financial Services: Blockchain technology is already maturing and is now ready for many enterprise David Pinski How You Can Benefit use cases. Maybe even yours. We will look at promising uses of blockchain in Chief Strategist - From Blockchain governance, business process management, and asset tokenization. Learn Financial Innovation where Hitachi is taking blockchain technology today from David Pinski, the chief Laboratory, Thursday, Oct 10 strategist for Hitachi’s Financial Innovation Lab. Hitachi 2:15 - 3:00pm You’ll have several useful takeaways: Hu Yoshida - Learn about Hitachi initiatives in blockchain. VP and Global CTO, - See where Hitachi sees the most benefit in blockchain technology. Hitachi Vantara - Engage with the Financial Innovation Lab.

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Telecom: Create the new future of real-time experiences through intelligent connectivity Shane Archiquette Bring AI-Driven QoE aligned with data. The world’s telecom operators are rapidly becoming digital CTO Global From Core to Edge service providers through investments in 5G, AI, ML and data-driven platforms Communications, that enable a new generation of digital platforms. These platforms promise real- Media & Thursday, Oct 10 time improvements to the quality of user experiences, ranging from business Entertainment, 4:15 - 5:00pm IoT services to consumer multifactor entertainment. By infusing machine and Hitachi Vantara artificial intelligence with digital services, digital telecoms can dramatically improve the quality of consumer interactions with seamless and secure digital enablement of the services we rely on in our daily lives. Expect these significant takeaways: - See how data and telecom digital services power quality of experience. - Understand intelligent connectivity, network, AI, and data platforms. - See digital telecoms’ all-in-one services for digital experiences.

Driving Scientific In collaboration with the American Heart Association (AHA), Hitachi Vantara Wesley Wiggins Discovery Using Big Data has built a ready-to-run cloud-based high-powered analytics and data hosting Sr. Technical Project In The Cloud To platform for researchers to accelerate discovery of scientific insights in Manager REAN Cloud, Accelerate Social cardiovascular precision medicine and beyond. The Precision Medicine Hit achi Vant ara Innovation Platform (PMP) connects researchers to data, highly scalable and flexible Larry Bradley compute infrastructure, and to each other. See how your organization can Vice President of Wednesday, Oct 9 leverage a similar approach to rapidly deploy and retract IT resources, be Application 11:00 - 11:45am more agile in serving business interests, and maximizing cost and operational Modernization and efficiency. Big Data, Hitachi Vantara Join this session to learn more about how Hitachi Vantara: Julie Sizelove - Solution and expertise aligns with AHA vision to provide researchers access to Director of Client & more data quickly in a Cloud-enabled, always evolving, secure analysis platform Product Operations, - Vastly improves patient outcomes by providing faster access to data, state-of- Institute for Precision the-art tools, advanced technologies, and latest innovations enabling discovery Cardiovascular and sharing Medicine at American PMP solution delivers large arrays of curated, rich, and distributed datasets, Heart Association which are centrally accessed, searched, analyzed, shared, and securely managed in the Cloud

Healthcare: How will you deal with the immense data challenges of the healthcare industry? Mike J Williams Improve Healthcare Data drives healthcare decisions, provider operations and disease research. Solutions Consultant, Outcomes With Smart Data can come from observation, imaging, trials, machine IoT, wearable IoT, Hitachi Vantara Data Operations laboratory results and genomics. The opportunities for big data to influence operational efficiencies, population health, disease treatment and innumerable Wednesday, Oct 9 other outcomes are nearly beyond quantification. 2:15 - 3:00pm You can improve your ability to manage the challenges in precision healthcare by applying smart data operations. Learn how the Hitachi Vantara digital platform (Hitachi Content Platform, Hitachi Content Intelligence, Pentaho and Lumada) gives you a smart data operations framework that optimizes data delivery for practitioners and patients. At the same time, it enables extensive reuse of data for machine learning and disease research. You will learn these important insights: - Apply a data-centric approach to understand market challenges. - Increase the effectiveness of information workers in healthcare. - Enable DICOM, non-DICOM, genomic, labs, and HL7 message data.

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Optimize Your Business Explore with us the transformation of a meat processing facility into an efficient, Dave McKnigh With Digital digital showcase. We’ll feature a Canadian-based consumer-packaged meats Smart Manufacturing Transformation company that produces food for food service and retail outlets in Asia, Europe Solutions and and North America. See how Hitachi worked with them to co-create an optimized Innovations, Wednesday, Oct 9 factory solution at their meat processing facility. Learn how we tuned it to improve Hi t achi Consul ting 11:00 - 11:45am yields, assure animal welfare and protect food safety. Kristine Welch The IoT solution took advantage of the strengths across Hitachi and consists of Regional Sales Director several smart manufacturing use-cases. It includes Hitachi 3D Lidar sensors to a t H i t a c h i C o n s u l t i n g estimate product bin volumes, wireless temperature and conveyor counters, Mark Albers smart cameras grading meat quality, barcodes for error-proofing, and new Vice President, mobile devices for production supervisors and operators. Using 200+ new sen- Insights&Analytics Open sors and a Microsoft Azure-based IoT platform, the solution includes predictive and Source Big Data, IoT, leading- indicator warnings that supervisors use to address quality issues, material Hitachi Consulting flow disruptions and yield variances in real-time. NOTE: Microsoft and Azure are trademarks or registered trademarks of Micro- soft Corporation

Step Ahead of Your Join us for a deep dive into digital transformation at a large Japanese chem- Competition With ical manufacturer. With complex operations to produce over 28,000 different Full Cloud-Based Solutions chemical products, the process to manufacture those products is compli- cated and a prime opportunity for digital improvements. The manufacturer Thursday, Oct 10 sought a partner that had a background in manufacturing and IT, selecting 11:00 - 11:45am Hitachi to help them transform their operations and embrace cloud technology to achieve competitive advantage. In this session, we’ll show how Hitachi helped deploy cloud-based solutions, apply data analytics to improve operations and deliver innovative solutions. In addition, we’ll show how Hitachi transformed organizational effectiveness at the same time.

Digitize Customer Financial institutions understand the convenience of digital communications. Piotr Wyrzykowski Experience with Durable But going truly paperless means meeting stringent regulatory requirements. Senior Consultant, Medium (Meet Durable Customers must be informed of everything from interest-rate notices to pay- Hitachi Vantara Medium Requirements ment schedules on paper or some other durable medium. Otherwise, financial Piotr Nenkin and a Strong Digital institutions risk increasing sanctions from regulators. Director of IT Customer Experience) To help financial institutions fully digitize their customers’ experiences, Hitachi Infrastructure has worked with major banks to develop a simple and secure solution. Department w Wednesday, Oct 9 This solution satisfies the durable medium requirement, easily integrates into Santander Bank Polska 4:15 - 5:00pm customer infrastructures and external portals, and allows clients’ information to be accessible 24/7. Come to this session to hear Santander Bank Polska discuss how the solution helps them meet compliance requirements for providing client information on a durable medium and integrate seamlessly with their e-banking portal. You’ll also learn how digitizing the workflow reduces operational costs, saves resources and improves customer satisfaction.

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Applying AI to Improve Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is already an integral part of our lives, whether we’re Dan Knight Your Bottom Line in asking Apple Siri for information or taking advantage of Netflix’s predictive Chief Technology Financial Services analytics to decide what we’ll binge-watch next. But complex compliance re- Officer, Global (Improve Loyalty and quirements and siloed datasets have led to more sluggish adoption of AI in the Financial Services, Your Bottom Line With financial sector. Now, with the right tools and secure access to the right data, Hitachi Vantara financial institutions can apply AI and advanced analytics to transform their AI in Financial Services) Genady Chybranov business. Their improvements range from internal operations to customer CTO Financial Thursday, Oct 10 experience, from improved compliance to enhanced trading accuracy. Services APCA, 2:15 - 3:00pm Join this session to review two use cases in insurance and bank fraud to learn Hitachi Vantara how AI can help financial institutions improve your efficiency, customer loyalty and bottom line.

Streamline the Splunk In this hands-on session, learn how to streamline the entire Splunk data lifecy- Data Life Cycle cle. Find out how to optimize hot data and seamlessly tier warm and cold data to Hitachi Content Platform. See how to preserve and search frozen data with Hitachi Content Intelligence. With explosive data growth, organizations need a (Training Session) more efficient and cost-effective solution to address their storage and analytics challenges. Splunk is designed to help organizations quickly gain the insights that they seek from massive datasets. Lower your overall Splunk costs and improve scale with the latest solutions from Hitachi Vantara.

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