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TALEND CONNECT
MAY 7 - 9, 2018
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Hear from top companies like Lenovo and McDonald's.
Demos
See step-by-step demos to help you leverage our cutting-edge technology.
Training
Become a Talend guru with our comprehensive training courses.
Party
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Featured Speakers
Talend
Mike Tuchen
CEO
CEO
Docker
Steve Singh
CEO
CEO
McDonald’s Corporation
Abhi Bhatt
Director, Global Data and Analytics
Director, Global Data and Analytics
Carhartt
Steve Brennan
VP, Data Strategy and Analytic
VP, Data Strategy and Analytic
TD Bank
Joe Dos Santos
VP, Enterprise Information Management
VP, Enterprise Information Management
Royal Caribbean
Sol Rashidi
Chief Data Officer
Chief Data Officer
Agenda
At a
Glance 
Talend
Training Day
Monday, May 7
Big Data Essentials
DI Developer Exam Prep
Partner Summit
Conference
Day 1
Tuesday, May 8
Featured Keynotes
Customer Success
Breakout Sessions
Party Time
Conference
Day 2
Wednesday, May 9
Featured Keynote
Breakout Sessions
Closing
Training Day
Day 1
Day 2
9:00-9:30
Registration and Welcome
9:30-12:00
Morning Sessions
DI Developer Exam Prep | Part 1: Schemas and Databases
Achieve Talend Certified DI Developer status in one day of guided preparation. An experienced Talend developer will lead you through a review of relevant topics, with hands-on practice in a pre-configured environment. What we’ll cover:
- • Working with Schemas
- • Using the tMap component
- •Working with databases
Big Data Essentials | Part 1: Create and Connect
Designed for developers who are getting started with Talend Studio and Big Data, an experienced Talend instructor will lead you through hands-on practices so you’ll be able to:
- • Create simple jobs using Talend Studio
- • Connect to an Amazon Web Services EMR cluster
Partner Training | Data Prep Cloud
In this session, you will see how users with different profiles can collaborate to improve data quality. You will learn how to use Talend Cloud to:
- • Clean up data from different sources, such as files and databases
- • Chain predefined functions in a recipe
- • Reuse this recipe in Talend Studio using dedicated components.
- • Trigger execution of Jobs from Data Prep Cloud to create on-demand datasets
12:00-1:00
Lunch and Networking
1:00-4:30
Afternoon Sessions
DI Developer Exam Prep | Part 2: Jobs, Repositories, and Variables
An experienced Talend developer will lead you through the following topics. You can take the exam afternoon the review or request a voucher for later (a $100 value).
- • Orchestrating components and Jobs
- • Remote repositories
- • Context variables
- • Monitoring and debugging Jobs
- • Wrap up and voucher distribution
Big Data Essentials | Part 2: Read, Write, and Process
An experienced Talend instructor will lead you through hands-on practices so you’ll be able to:
- • Create standard Jobs to read and write data on HDFS
- • Create standard Big Data Jobs to process data saved in HDFS
Partner Summit
Join Talend leaders and partners for an afternoon of interactive learning sessions with Talend sales, product, and marketing teams. We’ll give you market insights and perfect pitches to better position our products and services to your customers.
4:30-5:30
DI Developer Certification Exam
7:30-8:30
Registration Opens | Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45
Welcome and Introduction | Chris Taylor, VP, Corporate Communications
8:45-9:15
Keynote | Talend Vision
The cloud, machine learning, and self-service technologies are all re-inventing the role of IT and the impact it can have on their business. In this session, Mike will discuss how Talend’s customers can take advantage of market disrupting trends and key technology advances to create new business opportunities.
Mike Tuchen, CEO, Talend
Mike Tuchen, CEO, Talend
9:15-10:00
Keynote | Roadmap Overview
The cloud is changing the data landscape with new applications and technology. In this session you will learn about Talend’s 2018 roadmap and how Talend is changing the game for data integration and management to deliver more value to more users across your organization.
Ciaran Dynes, SVP Products, Talend
Ciaran Dynes, SVP Products, Talend
10:30-11:30
Keynote | Microsoft
Data is transformative. But data is also in inconsistent structures, in functional silos, and increasingly inaccessible. Join Microsoft and Talend to find out what’s possible when you build the data platform for all your data: structured, unstructured or streaming. In this session, learn how you can build transformative solutions like Modern Data Warehouse, Advanced Analytics, and Real-Time Analytics.
11:00-11:30
Keynote | The Future of the Data-Driven Enterprise (Demo)
The future of the data-driven enterprise will be defined by how well companies can deliver results in a rapidly changing data environment. In this demonstration, a cast of characters will demonstrate how the business and IT can partner together to deliver trusted data for an enterprise.
Ashley Stirrup, CMO, Talend
Ashley Stirrup, CMO, Talend
11:30-12:00
Keynote | Talend and Snowflake: Building a Governed Cloud Data Warehouse for Rapid Analytics
Why is it so hard to collect data for rapid analytics? Conventional data warehouses and big data solutions simply were not built for it. In this session, you will learn how Snowflake’s cloud-native data warehouse and Talend’s next-gen big data cloud integration solution work together to make data available faster and more easily for advanced analytics, without compromising data governance and data quality.
12:00-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:15
Breakout Session 1
BUSINESS TRACK | How McDonald's Moved to the Cloud
McDonald's digital transformation is also transforming their financial fortunes. A huge part of that transformation is the ability to innovate and adopt new technologies that delight their customers and make the company more competitive. Find out how McDonald's leveraged moving to the cloud and modern data integration to radically change the way they do business.
Presenter: Abhi Bhatt, Director, Data and Analytics
Presenter: Abhi Bhatt, Director, Data and Analytics
VISION TRACK | Modernizing Your Data Warehouse
Deploying your data warehouse in the cloud brings numerous benefits including driving innovation and lowering costs. Learn how customers are using Talend Cloud for their data warehouse modernization projects. You'll discover best practices and hear about strategies to create an agile architecture for advanced analytics.
Presenter: Aaron Swanson
Presenter: Aaron Swanson
TECHNICAL TRACK 1 | Intro to Big Data Processing in the Cloud
If you're new to the cloud, the differences between traditional ways of working and new ones can be overwhelming. Learn how Talend can simplify these processes, including ingesting data into Amazon S3/ Google Cloud Storage/Azure Storage, generating and deploying Spark Integration onto EMR/HD Insight/Data Proc, and how to start up, scale and shut down a cloud Hadoop instance.
TECHNICAL TRACK 2 | API Management 101
Looking to build REST web services but don’t know where to start? Have a great dataset or service and need help setting up access to the right people in the right way? Learn how you can use Talend to create, test, and manage REST APIs.
2:15-2:30
Break
2:30-3:15
Breakout Session 2
BUSINESS TRACK | How AstraZeneca Transformed Their Business at Scale
The healthcare industry has undergone dramatic transformation in the last few years, and to keep pace, AstraZeneca needed to shift its product strategy and transform its IT and finance functions. Find out more how AstraZeneca built innovative data platforms to support a globally distributed digital pharmaceutical company.
Presenter: Simon Bradford, Senior Data and Analytics Engineer
Presenter: Simon Bradford, Senior Data and Analytics Engineer
VISION TRACK | Making Real-Time Real
Business happens in real-time, and your analytics need to as well. Streaming data ingestion makes that possible. Come hear more about the next big thing from Talend in real-time.
Presenter: Christophe Toum
Presenter: Christophe Toum
TECHNICAL TRACK 1 | Intro to Microservices with Talend
Everybody's talking about microservices. But how can you actually make this architecture work for your business? Learn how to use Talend to develop and integrate microservices, and find out tips, tricks, and best practices from our Talend expert.
TECHNICAL TRACK 2 | Monetize Your Data and Impress Your Boss
You know you're a rockstar — it's time to highlight your data efforts as a strategic asset and profit center for your organization. This session will uncover what C-levels want out of data — insights into new revenue streams, competitive intelligence, increased profits, sustained customer value — and will help you communicate these outcomes in an understandable way.
3:15-3:30
Break
3:30-4:15
Breakout Session 3
BUSINESS TRACK | Driving Data Collaboration at Royal Caribbean
Royal Caribbean International is an award-winning global cruise brand with a 46-year legacy of innovation. While creating a modern, agile data infrastructure it became clear that legacy ETL tools could not meet key needs. In this session you will learn how Royal Caribbean is using collaborative data management techniques to increase data quality using tools like data preparation to involve more users throughout the business in the data curation and management process.
Presenter: Sol Rashiddi, Chief Data Officer
Presenter: Sol Rashiddi, Chief Data Officer
VISION TRACK | Make Data Better Together
Business can't wait to turn data into insights, pushing past IT restrictions and increasing the risk of bad data creeping in. In this session you will learn how to accelerate data integration, engage a data team to build perfect, trusted and compliant data, and increase data usage and time to insight with smart tools.
Presenters: David Talega with Jean-Michel Franco
Presenters: David Talega with Jean-Michel Franco
TECHNICAL TRACK 1 | Lessons from the Road - Containers and Microservices with Lenovo
Hear what your colleagues are doing with Talend. In this session We’ll dig into Lenovo’s containerization project on AWS for deploying their Talend services. They’ll provide details on what worked, what didn’t and lessons learned around AWS Lambda vs AWS Fargate.
TECHNICAL TRACK 2 | Tips and Tricks for handling complex JSON and EDI
This session will walk developers through how they can transform JSON, EDI, HL7, Avro and Parque files using the Talend Data Mapper. This session will cover consuming a complex JSON document to create a relational output dataset and converting a relational data set into a complex JSON document.
4:15-4:30
BREAK
4:30-5:30
Breakout Session 4
SOLUTION BAR | Sponsored by Knowledgent
Mingle in the expo area to learn about the latest from Knowledgent and get to know our solution providers. You’ll have a chance to ask questions, meet other Talend users, and greet the day’s presenters.
HANDS-ON SESSION | Preventing Cloud Data Swamps with Data Vaults
The data vault methodology is a great way to avoid turning your data lake into a data swamp. In this session, we’ll explain the basics of a data vault, who is using them and the benefits they’ve received. We’ll show you how to decide if data vault is a good fit for you and how you can implement a data vault with Talend.
HANDS-ON SESSION | Lessons from the Road – McDonald's
Hear what your colleagues are doing with Talend. We’ll dig into the architectures, experiences and best practices used by developers at some of Talend’s leading customers, including: what was the problem their business was trying to solve, how did they used Talend to solve it, and what worked, what didn’t and lessons learned.
5:30 - 7:30
EVENING RECEPTION | Sponsored by Microsoft
8:00-9:00
Registration Continues | Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15
Welcome and Recap | Chris Taylor, VP, Corporate Communications
9:15-9:45
Keynote | The Future of Containerization
Learn about the future of containerization and how it can help companies digitally transform their business. As companies leverage the cloud, big data and machine learning, they are realizing that agile software development will need to be a core competency of every organization. Steve will share Docker’s view on the most important industry trends and how they will shape software development.
Steve Singh, CEO, Docker
Steve Singh, CEO, Docker
11:15-12:00
Breakout Session 1
BUSINESS TRACK | Improving the Consumer Experience in an Omni-Channel World at Carhartt
With over 100 years in business as a global premium workwear brand, Carhartt’s competitive advantage is connecting with the customer. In this session you will learn about Carhartt’s technology transformation as they integrated data and systems to build a more complete view of the customer to drive a more intimate customer experience across retail stores, their website, and channels.
Presenter: Steve Brennan, VP Data Strategy and Analytics
Presenter: Steve Brennan, VP Data Strategy and Analytics
VISION TRACK | Cloud Deployment with Talend Containerization
Using containers, Talend partners and customers can take advantage of this new approach to dramatically reduce runtime costs and DevOps cycles to increase business agility. In this session you will learn how Talend customers are using containers today, see how containers can be deployed with cloud providers and learn more about the Talend roadmap for this area.
Presenter: Ed Ost
Presenter: Ed Ost
TECHNICAL TRACK 1 | Intro to Machine Learning with Talend
You may not know, but there is a ton of things you can do with Talend and Machine Learning. Come learn how you can collect data, train a machine learning model, and then validate model. Lastly, you’ll learn how to operationalize trained models to start creating insight.
TECHNICAL TRACK 2 | Getting Started with Streaming Data
Trying to decide between lambda or kappa for your next architecture? Want to understand how Talend fits into the equation? Join us for a deep dive on what Talend is doing with Apache Beam.
12:15-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:15
Breakout Session 2
BUSINESS TRACK | A Big Data Analytics Journey at TD Bank
TD Bank is a top 10 North American Bank delivering a full range of financial services including personal banking, credit cards, commercial banking, and insurance. TD Bank is famous for customer experience. In this session, you will learn about the multi-year journey that the big data analytics team took to deliver customer analytics that the business needs to drive an amazing experience for customers across all of TD Bank’s channels.
Presenter: Joe Dos Santos, VP, Enterprise Information Management
Presenter: Joe Dos Santos, VP, Enterprise Information Management
VISION TRACK | Turbocharging Data Quality with Machine Learning
Traditional DQ approaches simply can’t keep up with massive data volumes and so many data types. In this session you will learn how to leverage the cloud to deliver data quality across your data pipelines, turn anyone into a data steward with smart software, and cut the costs of cleansing efforts and extract deeper insights with machine learning.
Presenters: Christophe Toum and Jean-Michel Franco
Presenters: Christophe Toum and Jean-Michel Franco
TECHNICAL TRACK 1 | Intro to Data Quality and Stewardship with Talend Cloud
This session will demonstrate the ability to improve data quality using Data Prep and Data Stewardship alongside Talend Studio.
- • Build a recipe in Talend Data Prep and embed it in an integration job to format and cleanse your data.
- • Define intervention routes that can be used by Talend Data Stewardship
TECHNICAL TRACK 2 | Lessons from the Road – AstraZeneca
Hear what your colleagues are doing with Talend. In this session, AstraZeneca shares how they built a reusable test harness for Talend. They’ll go into details on how they solved it, what worked, what didn’t and lessons learned.
2:15-2:30
Break
2:30-3:15
Breakout Session 3
BUSINESS TRACK | Stericycle and Clarity
Through acquisitions, Stericycle, the largest medical waste recycling company, had 400+ applications on 3000+ servers across 50+ data centers worldwide. Stericycle’s goal is to rationalize to less than 40 applications by leveraging a Modern Data Architecture to consolidate disparate sources into a single scalable Cloud Data Lake platform. Clarity Insights is supporting this transformation process with our data ingestion and transformation frameworks, built in Talend, to accelerate the data consolidation process from 50+ disparate source systems.
VISION TRACK | Delivering Data Lake Success with Catalog and Metadata Management
With the rise of data privacy regulations, such as GDPR, governance and compliance are must-have capabilities for data lakes. In this session you will learn how to curate the meaningful data in your data lake, accelerate governance and compliance, and to enable everyone with searchable, trusted datasets.
TECHNICAL TRACK 1 | Tips and Tricks for REST Web Services, oAuth2 and Pagination
Talend customers are increasingly using REST API’s from companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. To do so they need to handle oAuth2 and Pagination. Come learn how this can be accomplished with Talend’s REST components.
TECHNICAL TRACK 2 | Best Practices for Using Containers with Talend
Containers are the fulcrum for leveraging Cloud resources in an agile manner through DevOps. Attend this session to see how to apply DevOps provisioning for Talend integration infrastructure with AWS Cloud Formation. Then use that infrastructure to deploy Talend Jobs to Containers running in AWS.
- • How to deploy Talend with Cloud Formation on AWS
- • How to deploy Talend Jobs in Docker
- • How to run containerized Jobs in AWS EC2 Container Services (ECS)
- • Going Serverless with Talend in AWS Fargate
- • Policy-centric management of Containers with AWS Batch
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Promotion in email, web, and social channels to 100,000+
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Deliver your message before, during, and after the event
Opportunity
Engage with customers, prospects, and partners
Diamond Sponsor
Microsoft is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Platinum Sponsors
Snowflake is changing how people use data. Our mission: To safely and efficiently store, transform and analyze business data so anyone can easily and quickly gain data-driven insight. Founded with a vision to efficiently store and access all your data from one location, we designed a completely new SQL data warehouse built for the cloud for enterprises large and small.
Bitwise is your ‘Go-To Partner’ for moving legacy ETL tools to Talend. Our ROI Assessment provides a detailed migration roadmap and TCO estimate, and we deliver up to 70% automation in the conversion and validation process. With our Talend COE, we can provide expert services for all your strategy, implementation, testing, upgrade and support needs.
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