10 pragmatic data story tellers that have been leading the way will showcase lessons learned, core capability and architecture decisions, tactics for capturing and sustaining executive sponsorship, and offer strategic and prescriptive approaches for resolving the data dilemma. Prior story tellers include Morgan Stanley, UBS, Wolters Kluwer, Roche, AstraZeneca, Siemens, and IKEA. For this year, we’ve received early commits from Bosch and Amazon, with more to come.

Inspiration comes from firms that have chosen the data centric approach.  http://www.datacentricmanifesto.org/principles/

Find out directly from innovative data leaders that are implementing this semantics-first approach. No vendor halls, no software showcases, no technology hype and speculation – rather real business and technology leaders explaining the business value realized.

• How can we get started down a data-centric path?
• How can semantic knowledge graphs and data-centric thinking transform the way business is being conducted?
• What methodologies and delivery approaches are working?
• What talent and skills will it take to achieve?
• Where can we expect resistance and how to overcome it?
• How to demonstrate incremental value while building an extensible and scalable architecture for the enterprise?