This Hands-On Workshop is designed to give participants a wholistic view of the ClearScape Analytics Open Analytics Framework. Through the use of the Python language, the attendee will learn how Machine Learning (ML) model training and inference can be accomplished. This workshop will feature a collection of use cases to demonstrate (a) training and inference with a single model (b) Micro-modeling, and (c) using Open Analytics Framework seamlessly in the background to run scikit-learn in Teradata Vantage. Finally, join us for a sneak peek into the future of ClearScape Open Analytics: Large Language Models and GPU compute clusters.

• Speaker
  • Alexander Kolovos, Senior Software Architect, Teradata

Explore booths featuring the latest trends and innovations from Teradata partners and sponsors.

Kick off Possible 2024 with a welcome reception in the expo hub featuring an opening speech by Teradata's Chief Revenue Officer, Richard Petley.

Meet with your peers and industry leaders as you take a fuel break for lunch.

The roundtable sessions will happen over lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday and will feature small group discussions. An expert host at each table will provide thought leadership with an overview of the roundtable topics, followed by open discussion.

Session 1: Data democratization

Join for a focused discussion on data governance and democratization, hosted by central European telco operator, O2 Czech Republic. Explore how to encourage self-service in data analytics and science within companies, discussing frameworks, architecture, and methodologies that enable this shift. Delve into data lakehouse architecture and data mesh concepts, and how they integrate with VantageCloud Enterprise on Azure and Azure ML tools. This session is about sharing challenges and best practices, exploring solutions together for making data more accessible and well-managed. Petr and Richard look forward to your participation in what promises to be an enlightening and engaging exchange of ideas.

• Speakers
  • Petr Hirš, Head of Artificial Intelligence
  • Richard Švec, Head of Business Intelligence, O2 Czech

Session 2: Create winning customer experiences with VantageCloud Lake and Clearscape Analytics

Sports organizations are collecting and analyzing data from multiple touchpoints to ensure repeat customers and increased revenue. Discuss how Teradata VantageCloud Lake on AWS enables the New York Giants to leverage machine learning and other analytics to deliver winning experiences and personalized offerings that improve customer satisfaction and lifetime value.

• Speaker
  • Russell Scibetti, Vice President of Strategy & Business Intelligence, New York Giants

Session 3: Running analytics on a Lake for extreme efficiency

PRIO, formerly Petro Rio, is a Brazil-based holding company that specializes in efficient reservoir management and redevelopment of mature fields. The company focuses on the acquisition of assets, efficient management, cost reduction, project optimization, positioning and other programs. Teradata VantageCloud Lake on Azure enables data analytics in the auditing process, enabling both efficiency and accuracy.

• Speaker
  • Alex Mendonça, Head of Internal Audit
  • Claudio Paiva, Senior Internal Auditor, PRIO

Session 4: Managing a complex cloud ecosystem

American Airlines serves 61 countries with thousands of business users running millions of queries and analytics on a daily basis. This requires a robust VantageCloud ecosystem to manage the resulting complexity with tight controls for demand planning and budgeting. Yashodhan Joshi will discuss leveraging AI/ML across multiple business departments, including revenue management, technical operations, network planning, marketing, cargo, and passenger sales for accelerated decision making and high ROI. Please join the discussion to hear how American is managing complex data in the cloud world with Teradata VantageCloud, Databricks and Azure cloud stack.

• Speaker
  • Yashodhan Joshi, Sr. Manager, Data Engineering Analytics & Automation, American Airlines

Session 5: Preparing data for the reality of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) and data democratization are two major trends that are transforming the database industry. AI enables new ways of querying, analyzing, and optimizing data, while data democratization empowers more users to access and leverage data across the organization. How are these trends affecting the design, development, and deployment of database systems? What are the challenges and opportunities for database professionals and users in this new era of data-driven innovation?
Premier has embarked on a transformative journey to unify and harmonize data from various systems, building one of the most comprehensive and actionable databases in the healthcare industry. This rich repository of clinical best practices and efficiency strategies enables hospitals and health systems to leverage cutting-edge self-service analytics through ClearScape Analytics, using their preferred tools to turn raw data into clean, reliable, and harmonized insights. Learn from Premier's experience on how they are revolutionizing data utilization, enhancing analytics, and accelerating value across the healthcare spectrum. Unlock the potential of harmonized data and trusted AI to drive improved healthcare delivery and outcomes across the United States.

• Speaker
  • Tim Riddle, Senior Director, Analytics, Premier, Inc.

Session 6: AI and data democratization are reshaping the database industry

Artificial intelligence (AI) and data democratization are two major trends that are transforming the database industry. AI enables new ways of querying, analyzing, and optimizing data, while data democratization empowers more users to access and leverage data across the organization. How are these trends affecting the design, development, and deployment of database systems? What are the challenges and opportunities for database professionals and users in this new era of data-driven innovation?
Join for a lively and informative roundtable discussion with industry experts and practitioners, who will share their insights and experiences on how AI and data democratization are reshaping the database industry. You will learn about the latest developments and best practices in AI-powered and self-service database solutions, as well as the implications and benefits for data management, governance, and security.

• Speakers
  • Rudy Martin, Independent Consultant (former Wells Fargo)
  • Gary Class, Industry Strategist, Banking and Financial Services, Teradata

Session 7: Gen AI Customer Complaint Analyzer

Customer Experience is top of mind for companies across a multitude of industries, as those that excel in providing a positive customer experience capture more market share than competitors.  No company is perfect, but those who resolve customer complaints positively and efficiently create major competitive advantages in customer retention and growth.  Join Edge Solutions & Consulting and Teradata to learn how we’re leveraging generative AI through ClearScape Analytics and our Solution Accelerator to expedite the resolution of customer complaints and create a differentiated experience for your customers.

• Speaker
  • Jeremy Johnson, VP - Cloud & Data Analytics, Edge Solutions & Consulting

Pick your choice from or our expert-led tracks on AI/ML, data analytics and more!

Session 1: How Data Drives Efficiency in Logistics: G2L Logistica’s Insights, Analysis, and Strategic Applications Optimize Operations

Explore the challenges and benefits of implementing a modern data analytics architecture for logistics. Learn how Brazil-based G2L Logistica uses Teradata VantageCloud Lake to structure its business data strategy for improved efficiency.

• Speakers
  • Fernanda Fang, Data Coordinator,  G2L Logistica
  • Paulo Seiko, Data Engineering Specialist, G2L Logistica

Session 2: How Premier, Inc. Turns Data into AI-Ready Data

Find out how healthcare improvement company Premier, Inc., integrates and harmonizes data from disparate systems to create a comprehensive database of trusted data, clinical best practices, and efficiency improvement strategies. Learn how Premier, Inc. uses ClearScape Analytics™ to deliver Trusted AI that unlocks data, activates analytics, and accelerates value for hospitals around the U.S.

• Speaker
  • Tim Riddle, Senior Director, Analytics, Premier, Inc.

Session 3: ClearScape Analytics Leads to 25x Model Processing Improvement for Predicting Client Income

Find out how Sicredi, one of Brazil's largest financial services providers, leverages Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) capabilities for machine learning (ML) and leading data science best practices. By reformulating its models with ClearScape Analytics™, Sicredi sees a 25x improvement in model processing over Databricks—reducing data transfers, streamlining compute processing, and realizing cost savings of over $650K.

• Speakers
  • Matheus Daniel Pierozan, Sr. Credit Risk Analyst, Sicredi
  • Vinicius Matos Deolindo, Enterprise Architect, Sicredi

Pick your choice from or our expert-led tracks on AI/ML, data analytics and more!

Session 1: Pursuing an Open and Connected Data strategy for analytic workloads in the AI era: a closer look at Teradata’s AI Unlimited Workload on Micorosoft Fabric

The current boom in Artificial Intelligence presents companies with new opportunities to leverage their data, it also challenges Data teams with a wide array of new proprietary and open-source tools. Without a fresh approach to experimentation, this added complexity can prolong the already lengthy AI/ML model development cycle. With a typical cycle time of months, many exploratory efforts end without the opportunity to iterate and learn from failures. This presentation will discuss integrating open and connected capabilities, exemplified by the Teradata AI Unlimited Workload, currently in private preview. By utilizing Teradata’s AI/ML engine against a single copy of data in OneLake, which supports open table formats like Delta Lake and Iceberg, Data teams can streamline the AI/ML development cycle. This approach enables more effective experimentation, faster iteration, and fosters innovation and learning.

• Speakers
  • Rob Lundy, Product Marketing Specialist, Technology and Innovation, Teradata
  • Madhu Bhowal Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

Session 2: How Poly-Anonymization and a Secure PII Vault Protects and Secures PII Data for a North American Retailer

Explore how a North American Fashion Retailer uses anonymous data masking to securely and cost-effectively link data and maintain compliance. Examine how the company secures and governs data with Teradata VantageCloud on Microsoft Azure and solutions from Teradata cloud security partner Anonomatic.

• Speakers
  • Gerardo Ledezma, Solution Architect, Teradata
  • Matthew Fleck, CEO, Anonomatic
  • Jay Irwin, JD , Director, Center for Enterprise Security, Teradata

Session 3: Standard Bank Achieves Omni-Channel Personalization with AI Readiness

Learn how Standard Bank has crafted a mature, omni-channel customer journey solution to fully realize personalization needs in the South African financial services space. Working with Teradata, Standard Bank created customer snapshots with over 300 metrics that incorporate demographics, digital savviness indicators, geolocation hubs, channel responses, and AI classifications.

• Speaker
  • Ziyad Kajee, Manager, Data Analytics and Personalization, Standard Bank S/A

Meet with your peers and industry leaders as you take a fuel break.

Get inspired by what's Possible as Teradata executives and industry leaders share their vision for the AI-driven future. Hosted by Katie Linendoll, Consumer Tech Expert and TV Personality.

Session 1: Evolution of Security

• Speaker
  • Billy Spears, Chief Information Security Officer, Teradata

Session 2: AI Innovation: Product Strategy and Roadmap

• Speakers
  • Hillary Ashton, Chief Product Officer, Teradata
  • Louis Landry, VP Technology and Innovation, Teradata
  • Tim McIntire, SVP, Software Engineering, Teradata
  • Dan Spurling, SVP Product Management, Teradata

Join friends and colleagues for a night to remember at the Possible celebration.

Broaden your knowledge with 10-minute talks on AI, analytics, and data management by specialists from within our customer and partner community.

The roundtable sessions will happen over lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday and will feature small group discussions. An expert host at each table will provide thought leadership with an overview of the roundtable topics, followed by open discussion.

Session 1: Revolutionizing financial predictions with ClearScape Analytics

Sicredi, one of Brazil's largest financial service providers, revolutionized their client income prediction model with Teradata ClearScape Analytics and the Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) approach. The integrating machine learning (ML) and advanced data science methodology resulted in a 25-fold increase in model processing efficiency, outpacing Databricks. This transformative journey led to a surge in customer satisfaction and drove significant operational improvements. Dive deeper with data scientist, Matheus Pierozan, to uncover the strategic moves that resulted in innovation, efficiency, and revenue growth.

• Speaker
  • Matheus Daniel Pierozan, Sr. Credit Risk Analyst, Sicredi

Session 2: Modernizing with Lake for efficiency and innovation

G2L is a logistics company that faces many challenges in moving cargo across a road-dependent network. To overcome the barriers of infrastructure, outdated technology, security and poor data management, G2L implemented a modern data analytics architecture using Vantage Cloud Lake. Join to learn about their journey of migrating data into a single source of truth, now running millions of queries per day at near-real-time speeds. Your hosts will share how tools and services are helping structure their business data strategy, providing faster responses to business stakeholders as well as enabling them to explore new markets and opportunities.

• Speakers
  • Fernanda Fang, Data Coordinator, G2L Logistica
  • Paulo Seiko - Data Engineering Specialist, G2L Logistica

Session 3: Accelerating financial outcomes with a cloud data strategy

Join this roundtable discussion to learn how HCA Healthcare, one of the largest operators of health care facilities in the US and UK, is moving some of its critical data and analytics workloads to the cloud. As a critical IT leader, Srinivas will lead a discussion on plans to leverage Teradata Vantage on Google Cloud to support a range of applications, from guided analysis to ad hoc queries, while balancing enterprise standards and cost control. You will also discover how the power of running complex finance operations, enabling faster and more accurate decision making.

• Speaker
  • Srinivas Subbarao, Director Enterprise Data Warehouse, HCA Healthcare

Session 4: Omni-channel personalization with AI readiness

Join a discussion on how Standard Bank leverages Teradata solutions to deliver personalized and omni-channel customer journeys in the South African financial banking space. You will explore how Standard Bank uses data warehousing, campaign orchestration, API distribution, real-time data feeds, machine learning models, geospatial analytics, and natural language processing to create a holistic view of customer needs, preferences, and behaviors. You will also discuss how Standard Bank applies intelligent multi-step actions to enhance customer engagement and satisfaction across various digital channels, such as WhatsApp and the SBSA app.

• Speaker
  • Ziyad Kajee, Manager, Data Analytics and Personalization, Standard Bank S/A

Session 5: GenAI: how, when and why

GenAI is all the rage today. Combining experienced technology platforms like AWS and Teradata to develop GenAI solutions is about more than building complex architectures. The idea is to build something that will materially and incrementally address challenging business outcomes that could not be tackled effectively without applying GenAI technology. In this roundtable, we will discuss the challenges of identifying problems that are indeed GenAI worthy, creating GenAI applications that are as sustainable as they are cost effective, and how to address unwanted artifacts such as hallucinations. Don't miss this opportunity to compare experiences with proven practitioners and thought leaders.

• Speaker
  • Sri Raghavan, Principal, Data Science and Analytics, Amazon Marketplace

Meet with your peers and industry leaders as you take a fuel break for lunch.

Pick your choice from or our expert-led tracks on AI/ML, data analytics and more!

Session 1: How Colombian telco leader, ETB, is evolving and modernizing with Teradata VantageCloud on Azure

• Speaker
  • Efraín Martínez Monroy, Vice President, Technology, ETB

Session 2: Using Teradata VantageCloud Lake to Enhance Efficiency and Accuracy in Internal Audits

In today's dynamic landscape, internal audit departments face mounting pressures to deliver rigorous oversight while optimizing resource utilization. Explore how Teradata VantageCloud Lake on Microsoft Azure enhances efficiency and accuracy in the audit process.

• Speakers
  • Alex Mendonça, Head of Internal Audit, PRIO
  • Claudio Paiva, Senior Internal Auditor, PRIO

Session 3: The Next Shift: How AI and Data Democratization are Changing the Cloud Analytics and Data Platforms Industry

Explore the transition from isolated data systems to interconnected ecosystems, emphasizing the role of AI in transforming various sectors, including finance, healthcare, and education. The presentation highlights the challenges and opportunities that come with AI and data democratization, particularly for regulated entities like banks, with a focus on security, data governance, and maintaining data quality. Rudy also examines the potential of decentralized computing to disrupt traditional AI infrastructure and discusses how companies must adapt to these shifts to remain competitive.

• Speaker
  • Rudy Martin, Data Science Consultant, Independent Consultant (formerly Wells Fargo)

Pick your choice from or our expert-led tracks on AI/ML, data analytics and more!

Session 1: The Transformative Role of Open Table Formats

In today’s data-driven world, businesses face the challenge of managing ever-growing volumes of data across increasingly complex environments. This breakout session will explore the transformative role of Open Table Formats, such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi, in modern data management strategies. We will discuss how these formats offer unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and interoperability, enabling organizations to optimize their data architectures for both performance and cost-efficiency. Attendees will gain insights into the wide range of Teradata's Open Table Format offerings and how they support critical features such as ACID compliance, schema evolution & real-time analytics capabilities Join us to discover why Open Table Formats are essential for navigating the complexities of modern data management and achieving your business goals.

• Speaker
  • Subhadip Bandyopadhyay, Vice President Software Engineering, Teradata

Session 2: Modern data architecture trends and how Teradata VantageCloud will support customer modernization plans

There’s a lot happening in the market related to modern data architecture trends and the strategies businesses will employ to take advantage of these emerging trends and capabilities. In this discussion we will look at the trends around Open Data Formats and how a more Open Compute approach will enable effective consumption of open data. We will also discuss how VantageCloud’s flexible storage and distributed compute capabilities can be leveraged to facilitate efficient data processing and improved price/performance of advanced workloads running through the platform and across the emerging AI-driven ecosystem. The overall objective is to better understand major data architecture and open computing trends and how VantageCloud can enable more trusted AI-driven analytics within these much more dynamic, and open data environments.

• Speaker
  • Bob Fintel, VP, Technology, Americas, Teradata

Session 3: Paving a path to production for prediction.

BNSF Railway, one of North America’s leading freight transportation companies, operates hundreds of trains and navigates complex series of tasks. Discover how the company forged a path to production for a predictive statistic aimed at simplifying a particularly impactful dimension of this complexity.

• Speaker
  • Joshua Woodward, IT Business Consultant, Technology Service Operations, BNSF Railway

Pick your choice from or our expert-led tracks on AI/ML, data analytics and more!

Session 1: Keeping Data in Sync for Regulatory and Clinical Decision-Making

In today’s data-driven world, businesses face the challenge of managing ever-growing volumes of data across increasingly complex environments. This breakout session will explore the transformative role of Open Table Formats, such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi, in modern data management strategies. We will discuss how these formats offer unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and interoperability, enabling organizations to optimize their data architectures for both performance and cost-efficiency. Attendees will gain insights into the wide range of Teradata's Open Table Format offerings and how they support critical features such as ACID compliance, schema evolution & real-time analytics capabilities Join us to discover why Open Table Formats are essential for navigating the complexities of modern data management and achieving your business goals.

• Speaker
  • Dennis Chapman, Sr. Teradata DBA, Highmark

Session 2: AWS and Teradata- Better together with GenAI

GenAI is all the rage today. Combining experienced technology platforms like AWS and Teradata to develop GenAI solutions is about more than building complex architectures. The idea is to build something that will materially and incrementally address challenging business outcomes that could not be tackled effectively without applying GenAI technology. In this roundtable, we will discuss the challenges of identifying problems that are indeed GenAI worthy, creating GenAI applications that are as sustainable as they are cost effective, and how to address unwanted artifacts such as hallucinations. Don't miss this opportunity to compare experiences with proven practitioners and thought leaders.

• Speakers
  • Sri Raghavan, Principal, Data Science and Analytics, Amazon Marketplace
  • Pranay Dave, Product Marketing Director, Teradata

Session 3: Teradata as a Vector Embeddings Store

In the evolving landscape of data management and artificial intelligence, Teradata is positioning itself as a robust platform for storing and querying vector embeddings. This session will explore the capabilities of Teradata in handling vector embeddings and delve into the promising future of temporal embeddings.

• Speaker
  • Artur Borycki, Teradata Engineering Fellow

This Hands-On Workshop is designed to give participants a wholistic view of the ClearScape Analytics Open Analytics Framework. Through the use of the Python language, the attendee will learn how Machine Learning (ML) model training and inference can be accomplished. This workshop will feature a collection of use cases to demonstrate (a) training and inference with a single model (b) Micro-modeling, and (c) using Open Analytics Framework seamlessly in the background to run scikit-learn in Teradata Vantage. Finally, join us for a sneak peek into the future of ClearScape Open Analytics: Large Language Models and GPU compute clusters.

• Speaker
  • Alexander Kolovos, Senior Software Architect, Teradata

Enrich your understanding of the Associate VantageCloud Lake 2.0 exam content with our comprehensive exam preparation session. Gain the latest insights into vital topics, including fundamental relational and dimensional concepts, data architectures, VantageCloud Lake Architecture and Components, Data Distribution and Access, Security and Privacy, and Teradata Tools and Access. Whether you're gearing up for the certification exam or simply seeking to expand your knowledge, this session is tailored to your needs. Content common to both the Associate VantageCloud Lake 2.0 and the Associate 2.4 with Clearscape exam (session offered earlier in the day) will be presented LAST at the Associate VantageCloud Lake 2.0 session to enable those that attend both sessions to get the core VantageCloud Lake 2.0 unique content first.

As a bonus, all participants who attend the entire session will receive a complimentary testing voucher for the VantageCloud Lake exam, redeemable within three months.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to ask your questions and elevate your VantageCloud Lake knowledge.

• Speaker
  • Russell Mayes, Platform Engineer, Teradata