Dive into a full day of data infrastructure insights at VB Transform 2022

Transform, VentureBeat's flagship event, returns this year in-person and virtually for two full weeks. On July 20, our Virtual Data Week kicks off with an in-depth look at the importance of data infrastructure. Because if AI and machine learning are the engine of business transformation, data infrastructure is the engine.

Your data architecture is the crucible in which business needs are transformed into data and system requirements, and where its flow through the business is managed. A modern data architecture can finally break down those departmental data silos that slow progress and innovation, so that every stakeholder has user-friendly access to data across the enterprise.

Speakers from Cigna, Capital One, Intuit, McDonald's and others will highlight both best practices and strategies for data infrastructure, and the technology that enables it. And you'll walk away with real applied lessons that can be applied in organizations across all industries.

Learn how these companies are using data to bridge the gap between business goals and technology, accelerating speed, flexibility, innovation, and more.

First, at 9:00 a.m. PDT, you'll learn how Intuit and Canva employees are reducing thousands of man-hours while increasing productivity through automation and breaking down data silos. Using Slack's bots and custom workflows, the two companies were able to create a digital headquarters that brings together both system and human events to enable more meaningful work and transform business outcomes.

Intuit used Slack's redesigned platform to create a custom bot that made its service team 36% faster and saved agents over 9,000 man hours, while the team Canva Finance created a workflow within Slack that saves them over 64 hours of work each week.

Steve Wood, SVP of Product Management at Slack, will share best practices for approaching automation to evolve human interaction, how organizations can empower people to transform noise in productivity and how data can be properly connected to the people who do the work.

At 9:20 a.m. PDT, Sachin Joshi SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Engineering Officer of Everorth, a subsidiary of Cigna Corporation, will discuss how data can solve fragmented care problems, reduce healthcare costs, fill gaps in care and changing the way patients interact with the healthcare system. Joshi will embark on its industry-first outcomes-based model of care, which secures clinical goals and connects patient touchpoints across the continuum of care.

They will explain how their automated platform can flag situations requiring clinical attention, implement interventions tailored to clinical conditions and patient engagement preferences, and provide 360-degree visibility into patient activity. patients, resulting in the ultimate care coordination program.

At 9:40 a.m., you'll hear how AI leaders from McDonald's, Databricks, and the AI ​​Framework are delivering smarter, more personalized customer experiences at scale through data. They'll talk about the challenges of scaling AI and ML initiatives, lessons learned in the quest for customer satisfaction, and how companies can reduce complexity and launch their own AI strategies. .

Data is the backbone of any organization's digital transformation, but lack of specialist knowledge can significantly hamper a company's progress. At 10:00 a.m. PST, you'll hear how Orla Daly, CIO of Skillsoft, launched a burgeoning internal training program to improve data literacy and IT's ability to leverage data across the organization. Plus, you'll learn how cross-modal training accelerates data literacy, the positive impacts of building your team's skills, and what it takes to create a culture of data and learning.

This is a panel discussion at 10:30 a.m. PDT, when George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist at

DataStax explains why real-time analytics and ML are at the forefront of the competition for customer loyalty, and how to build a real-time technology stack and data architecture for an analytics and analytics strategy. winning machine learning.

Additionally, you will learn about the capabilities and characteristics of an enterprise real-time data ecosystem, the architecture of data flows across a data supply chain, reducing business friction between centralized and decentralized teams and key areas of a data strategy that drive business innovation, and more.

Finally, at 11:30 a.m. PDT, learn why operationalizing the data mesh is essential to operating in the cloud. Patrick Barch Sr, Director of Product Management at Capital One Software, will walk attendees through the basics of a data mesh framework, as well as the set of principles companies can adopt to help scale a data ecosystem. well-managed cloud. Plus, you'll get the best...