Great Data Minds

​​Please join Julie Burroughs, Great Data Minds CEO and Elaine Marino, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Crossfit, for a fireside chat about the dark truth of Ageism in Technology. Julie and Elaine will react to a number of trending headlines and soundbites about the state of the tech industry and the issues that affect the most seasoned IT employees. They will explore potential causes of...

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"...

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 th...

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...

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 ta...

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.

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 trai...

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 cha...

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 custo...

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 wor...

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 confidentl...

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 j...

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...

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 thei...

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 t...

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...

We had the pleasure of interviewing another outstanding thought leader woman in the world of data, and a big proponent of women in technology: Kara M. Annanie Thanks Kara for a great interview! Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7oqAr60bcY   Date: Dec 15, 2020 02:09 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Human Resources teams are usually on their own island when it comes to managing their HR analytics program. Due to the sensitive nature of their data, traditional IT and data teams err on the side of caution due to privacy concerns and avoid integrating critical HR data into their enterprise-wide analytic data solutions. Another challenge is the small HR teams typically do not have the analytics b...

Data Governance and MDM are strategic programs that are critical to mature data practices. Traditionally, these programs are heavy, require expensive technology and take years to deploy. With innovative solutions and approaches, this has changed. Please join GDM Advisors Mike Lampa and Anna Navarette along with our strategic partners, Semarchy and Alation as we walk through marketing trends, new b...

Data nightmares? Data drama? Do you have the Monday morning dread? Tired of working so hard? Join our virtual therapy session and bring us your data woes. Our team of DataOps enthusiasts will dig through your problem and prescribe DataOps solutions that can ease your pain. We’ll start the program with an overview of the top 10 problems DataOps can solve. From there it will be an open forum, addres...

Join our special guest, Sharon Allpress from DCP Tech Ventures as we discuss the benefits of standing up a Ventures group to accelerate innovation.

Join us and our special guest, Matt Stava, CEO of Spinnaker Support as we discuss freeing up funding through the use of 3rd party support.

Please join Paul Kautza, Great Data Minds Advisor and one of the top visionaries in the industry in Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot. We talk about industry trends, ThoughtSpot differentiators and what she and others are doing to give back to the community.

Ready to finally learn what graph databases really are and what makes them so powerful? Watch our session with Senior Cloud Architect Dan Galavan as he takes us through the skinny on graph databases.  How does Kevin Bacon fit in here?  You'll have to watch to find out.

Please join us for this great discussion with special guest Dana Bennett, VP of Industry Engagement and Standards at REcolorado. Dana walks us through the critical importance of data to the real estate market. She shares exciting information about new data sets that help buyers and sellers make informed decisions.