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Toshiaki Higashihara,
Hitachi, Ltd.
Brian Householder,
Hitachi Vantara
Hicham Abdessamad,
Hitachi Consulting;
Bud Denker, Penske
Geoffrey Moore, Author
Map to the Future: Hitachi Technology Roadmap and Vision
Iri Trashanksi Senior Vice President, Product Strategy Hitachi Vantara
Building a smart data center to drive your digital transformation requires the right partner. You need a leader to co-create the right technology to form a solid foundation for your data strategy and help build your organization’s success. Learn about the near-term technology roadmap from Hitachi and how it fits in our longer-term vision to modernize IT and help you to innovate with data. Gain an understanding of how new flash and object storage, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure, automation and analytics and IoT platforms will all play a part in setting the groundwork for next-generation data services.
Join your peers and other experts to see how enterprise IT must transform. Learn how modernizing infrastructures, evolving consumption models, and disruptive technologies create the future data center. They drive the strategic business objectives for the modern organization.
RegTech Adoption in Financial Services: Turn Regulation Into Opportunity
Nirvana Farhadi Global Head, Financial Services RegTech, Risk and Regulatory Compliance Affairs Hitachi Vantara
Financial service organizations face increasing challenges with regulatory obligations and siloed, fragmented manual systems. As a tsunami of regulations hit the industry, ROCA (risk, operations, compliance, audit) lines of business find it hard to cope with cost and resource burdens, and keep efficient systems and controls in place. This year alone approximately, 70% of ROCA budget is being spent on technology. Digitization, automation, business intelligence, artificial intelligence and predictive capabilities all provide potential solutions. However, if they are applied incorrectly, the cure is worse than the disease. Find out how to manage your journey to automation the right way through the intelligent use of RegTech, and how Hitachi can help your organization navigate the complex regulatory landscape.
Deliver compelling, personalized customer experiences, reduce your operational costs and churn, and help drive new revenue streams. Learn more about data integration, ingestion and analytics to help you rapidly perform investigations, prevent fraud, and meet your regulatory and compliance requirements.
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Solve Customer Problems In Industrial IoT
Chetan Gupta, Ph.D., Chief Data Scientist and Architect, Department Manager – Core Analytics Department, Hitachi America Limited
Hitachi’s Global Center for Social Innovation has been using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to solve customer problems in industrial IoT for several years. These problems range from increasing operational efficiencies and reducing costs to creating new AI-enabled products and services. In this session, we will demystify AI and present a systematic taxonomy of industrial analytics problems. We’ll give examples of how companies use AI and ML to address problems in several areas, from operations and maintenance to quality and optimization. We will also discuss how new advances in AI are going to impact enterprises in the future.
Savvy commercial and industrial companies are using the transformative power of the internet of things to capture unconventional growth. Explore new business models, discover intelligent technologies and learn how to use data to transform your business.
How To Build Your Smart Data Center — the Ultimate Goal of Digital Transformation
Robert Booher Product Owner, Smart Data Center Hitachi Vantara
Nitin Nandigama Director, Big Data and IoT Solution Services, Managed Cloud Solution Services, Global Migration Center of Excellence Hitachi Vantara
Christian Pruett Senior Manager, IT Operations (Data Center & and Enterprise Backup) Hitachi Vantara
Naveed Gilani Director, Managed Cloud Solutions Engineering Hitachi Vantara
As efficient and effective data centers continue to be a strategic imperative, it has never been more important to use the latest predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and internet-of-things solutions to proactively manage them. Smart data center capabilities allow your IT staff to have a more complete view of the data center and apply better insights to make well-informed strategic choices.
Learn to optimize and future-proof your data center to support a robust strategy of digital transformation. See demonstrations and simulations of advanced analytics and other effective technologies. We will use common, real-world scenarios to showcase how we achieve higher accuracy and speed in managing data center operations remotely to help organizations like yours operate more efficiently.
Digital transformation is a universal challenge for executives who must stay competitive and grow organically. Gain insights from business leaders and industry experts. Learn to improve your operational efficiency and customer experience with the most vital asset: your data.
Accelerate Your Data Center Transformation With Intelligent IT Analytics and Automation Software
Ed Wisnieski, Wells Fargo Vice President & Technology Manager Enterprise Infrastructure Technology
Vinod Kumar, Cognizant Vice President Global Pre-sales & Solutions IT Infrastructure Services
Bob O’Heir, Hitachi Vantara Vice President Product Management
How can you accelerate your data center transformation and unleash the full potential of your IT infrastructure?
By modeling your success. Learn first-hand from industry peers how they succeeded in digital transformation with Hitachi analytics and automation software. Hear a panel of real-world customers and understand how their journey through the transformation of IT consumption models to a data-driven IT service model led to tangible business benefits and positive results.
Also, Hitachi product and development leaders will discuss the dynamic market needs that make analytics and automation software the new table stakes in providing successful bimodal IT services. Description
Digital transformation works in the real world. It’s no longer a theory by analysts or a strategy by consultants. Here are real people just like you who have already addressed problems and opportunities just like yours. In these sessions, hear how enterprises actually transform.
VMware and Hitachi: Customer Case Studies on Accelerating Their Path to Hybrid Cloud
Sunny Sahajpal, EMEA Strategic Alliances Manager, VMware, Inc.
Robert Campbell, Senior Technical Alliance Manager, VMware, Inc.
To accelerate innovation and digital transformation, organizations need an agile, service-oriented IT model that leverages hybrid cloud and a modern, software-defined data center (SDCC) platform for enterprise capabilities and to establish a common operational model across any application, device and cloud. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS (UCP RS) is a rack-scale, hyperconverged system powered by VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) that provides cloud agility and rapid deployment of traditional, cloud-native and SaaS apps. We’ll explore customer case studies from SPAR Retail Group, Dischem and Swiss Red Cross to learn how they use VMware and Hitachi’s architecture comprised of VMware vSAN software-defined storage, vRealize, NSX software-defined networking and SDDC management software to control, manage, connect and secure any application running on any cloud and device.
Join your peers and other experts to see how enterprise IT must transform. Learn how modernizing infrastructures, evolving consumption models, and disruptive technologies create the future data center. They drive the strategic business objectives for the modern organization.
Blockchain for the Real World
David Pinski Chief Strategist Financial Services – Center for Social Innovation Hitachi
While the most popular use of blockchain is Bitcoin, it is not limited to cryptocurrencies. It is also an important driver in all sectors for competitive advantage through digital transformation. David Pinski, Hitachi chief strategist for financial services, explains what blockchain is and is not. You will see how Hitachi and the Hyperledger Open Consortium drive innovation with blockchain technology. Explore cases of blockchain as it’s used in the financial sector.
Deliver compelling, personalized customer experiences, reduce your operational costs and churn, and help drive new revenue streams. Learn more about data integration, ingestion and analytics to help you rapidly perform investigations, prevent fraud, and meet your regulatory and compliance requirements.
Start Your DX Journey – Hitachi and Verizon Deliver Industrial IoT Services Engagement
Navaid Khan, Field Chief Technology Officer – Telco/CME, Hitachi Vantara
Faraz Shafiq, Head of Services - IoT and Analytics, Verizon
Nick Chang, Head of Global IoT and Analytics Practice, Hitachi Vantara
David Vasquez Director – International IoT Business Development Verizon
With a rich history of developing operational technology (OT) and IT solutions, Hitachi innovates to provide solutions that achieve better outcomes in industrial IoT. Synonymous with connectivity, Verizon has a renowned history in enabling smart solutions. Hear how Hitachi and Verizon jointly deliver an industrial internet-of-things (IoT) engagement for predictive maintenance. These solutions bring the value of connected IoT which leads to optimized processes, efficient operations and better business outcomes. ln this session, you’ll understand the customer use case, discover the joint IoT engagement and learn about IoT services to solve the challenges of digital transformation (DX).
Savvy commercial and industrial companies are using the transformative power of the internet of things to capture unconventional growth. Explore new business models, discover intelligent technologies and learn how to use data to transform your business.
How Advanced Video Analytics Improve Business, Operational and Security Intelligence
Video is one of the most prolific, yet underutilized sources of data today. But thanks to video analytics, it is now a rich source of business, operational, safety and security intelligence. From theme parks to cities, transportation hubs and retail organizations, video analytics are improving the customer experience, operational efficiency, and safety for consumers, citizens and passengers. From asset management to real-time predictive analytics to storage, the value of this unique unstructured data source ranks with other mission critical IoT and business data. However, this explosion in the quantity and utilization of video is also creating technical challenges. Learn how to manage video intelligently from experts in a range of industries who will discuss how they use video today and their plans for the future.
Digital transformation is a universal challenge for executives who must stay competitive and grow organically. Gain insights from business leaders and industry experts. Learn to improve your operational efficiency and customer experience with the most vital asset: your data.
Tips and Techniques From Real Companies Who Improved Their Private Cloud Experiences
Listen to executives from Turner Broadcasting and discuss their challenges, processes and positive outcomes from using Hitachi Enterprise Cloud. You’ll discover how to achieve your business outcomes and SLAs for your most critical business applications and help with your digital transformation to build your future success. We’ll go over public-cloud features such as pre-engineered service catalogs, self-service, and pay-per-use consumption models. We’ll see the benefits of tying those features to security, transparent and predictable pricing, and control of a private cloud. Join in the panel discussion to explore your issues and answer your questions.
Digital transformation works in the real world. It’s no longer a theory by analysts or a strategy by consultants. Here are real people just like you who have already addressed problems and opportunities just like yours. In these sessions, hear how enterprises actually transform.
Hyperconverged Systems for Digital Transformation
Chris Gugger Director, Infrastructure Product Marketing Hitachi Vantara
Stanley L Stevens Senior Analyst, Data Center Practice Technology Business Research, Inc.
Build an accelerated and simplified on-ramp to a more cost-effective and flexible, high-performing infrastructure with a hyperconverged platform. Support critical business objectives, customer drivers and market research trends. In this panel discussion, you will learn how to modernize your IT infrastructure as a critical element of your digital transformation with hyperconverged solutions. See how your IT department can better support your company’s strategic initiatives with Hitachi’s pretested, prevalidated, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC system. It seamlessly integrates with VMware virtual environments and is easy to deploy and manage for IT generalists. Its automated provisioning, streamlined management and smooth scalability reduce the labor you need to run infrastructure and let you expand as your business needs evolve.
Join your peers and other experts to see how enterprise IT must transform. Learn how modernizing infrastructures, evolving consumption models, and disruptive technologies create the future data center. They drive the strategic business objectives for the modern organization.
Turn Banking APIs Into Your Competitive Edge
Tony Reid, CTO, EMEA Financial Services BU, Hitachi Vantara
Mark Nott, Vice President Global Solutions & Innovation, Hitachi Consulting
As PSD2 D-Day looms, banks in the EU worry about the potential negative business impact of exposing their customer data to a range of third parties through their new APIs. Banks will innovate quickly from simply complying with the PSD2 requirements to building richer API-based services to enhance their customers’ experience and open new revenue streams. Of course, any new major channel will generate additional workload for the banks’ existing, often overstretched, systems. In this session, you’ll see the unpredictability of this new workload and understand how banks can deliver a highly scalable data platform to support not only the basic PSD2 requirements but the innovative services that customers and shareholders are coming to expect.
Deliver compelling, personalized customer experiences, reduce your operational costs and churn, and help drive new revenue streams. Learn more about data integration, ingestion and analytics to help you rapidly perform investigations, prevent fraud, and meet your regulatory and compliance requirements.
Intel and Hitachi Team Up To Accelerate Digital Transformation on the Manufacturing Line
Ted Connell Director, Solutions Architect, Manufacturing and Industrial Sector, Intel Influencer Group Intel
As the industrial world evolves and the line between operational technology (OT) and IT blurs, customers are faced with a brand new set of challenges. To address these challenges, industry leaders Hitachi and Intel team up to drive innovation into high-tech manufacturing facilities. In this session, you’ll see a demonstration of Intel’s Wind River Titanium platform powering edge compute with Hitachi’s IoT platform, Lumada. The pair will work in concert on the back end to enable data management, visualization and analytics. A panel of thought leaders from both companies will provide insights and commentary on how they collaborate to save their customers time and money while accelerating their journey to a fully IoT-integrated manufacturing process.
Savvy commercial and industrial companies are using the transformative power of the internet of things to capture unconventional growth. Explore new business models, discover intelligent technologies and learn how to use data to transform your business.
Full Steam Ahead for Railways on the Digital Transformation Express
Panel discussion, moderated by Sara Gardner, CTO, Hitachi Vantara; w/ Sandy Bushue, Director, Hitachi Vantara
Digital transformation is racing its way across the transportation industry, railways included. Increased operational efficiency, cost savings and improved customer experience requires digitalization and new business models. From predictive maintenance and asset management to operational intelligence and public safety, IoT and machine learning are now poised to make a disruptive impact by providing transformative solutions to century-old problems. In this session, learn how rail operators are gaining valuable insight from the “brontobytes” of data that trains generate through parts, speed, fuel, passengers and more with innovative technologies and advanced analytics.
Digital transformation is a universal challenge for executives who must stay competitive and grow organically. Gain insights from business leaders and industry experts. Learn to improve your operational efficiency and customer experience with the most vital asset: your data.
The Future of Healthcare Data, Now: Unifying Information for Improved Patient Care
Elmar Flamme, CIO, Klinikum Wels Grieskirchen GmbH
Digital transformation is taking industries into the future and healthcare is no exception. How can digitalization provide the innovation to connect EMR, prepare healthcare analytics and provide tomorrow’s healthcare today? By using Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) as part of a major Austrian health organization’s ecosystem, CIO Elmar Flamme developed and implemented a clinical metadata repository. With HCP, he built a revision-safe repository that serves as a complete vendor-neutral archive supporting HL7, DICOM and IHE (XDS/XDA). Learn more about how Elmar and Hitachi continue to drive significant clinical and operational value for Klinikum Wels Grieskirchen.
Digital transformation works in the real world. It’s no longer a theory by analysts or a strategy by consultants. Here are real people just like you who have already addressed problems and opportunities just like yours. In these sessions, hear how enterprises actually transform.
How to Keep Up Through Digital Transformation with Next-Generation App Development
Peter Sjoberg Vice President Global Content & Data Intelligence Business Hitachi Vantara
Jon Olby Solutions ConsultantEmerging Solutions, EMEA Hitachi Vantara
Today calls for faster business outcomes, and next-generation applications are what will deliver a timely transformation. DevOps and user development are at the heart of an architecture that supports new initiatives and platform flexibility. Quickly becoming the preferred model, these hybrid apps will have a mix of local, cloud-native and cloud-enabled services that let you accelerate your digital transformation. In this session, we’ll address enterprise concerns, tackle the challenges of next-gen app development and discuss how to go from idea to end-user, including feedback and improvement.
Join your peers and other experts to see how enterprise IT must transform. Learn how modernizing infrastructures, evolving consumption models, and disruptive technologies create the future data center. They drive the strategic business objectives for the modern organization.
Digital Transformation for Financial Services: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Linda Xu (Panel Facilitator) VP, Emerging Solutions and Cloud Services Marketing Hitachi Vantara
Customer Best Practice Panel on Digital Transformation in Financial Services
Deliver compelling customer experiences, automate compliance processes, reduce operational costs, and help drive new revenue streams. Don’t miss this dynamic panel discussion and learn the best practices from your peers who have done it! Walk away with actionable advice on how to address real-world challenges in your digital transformation.
Deliver compelling, personalized customer experiences, reduce your operational costs and churn, and help drive new revenue streams. Learn more about data integration, ingestion and analytics to help you rapidly perform investigations, prevent fraud, and meet your regulatory and compliance requirements.
Industrial IoT Solutions for Smart Assets: The Top 5 Takeaways
Jinesh Varia, Senior Director, Product Management, Industrial IoT, Hitachi Vantara
Garan Myers, Marking and Coding, Hitachi America, Ltd.
Jon Hillberg, Vice President, Solutions, Compressors, Sullair
How do you build assets that get smarter with time instead of age with time? How can we use the power of industrial IoT and analytics so a five year-old product can get features that didn’t exist five years ago? In this session, we’ll discuss real industrial IoT solutions in manufacturing and mining that deliver superior outcomes and enhanced business models and enable new business models for industrial customers. We will aslo cover how Hitachi’s IoT platform, Lumada, can help manufacturers, distributors and customers take advantage of data and algorithms to reduce unplanned downtime, increase efficiency and optimize business operations and sales.
Savvy commercial and industrial companies are using the transformative power of the internet of things to capture unconventional growth. Explore new business models, discover intelligent technologies and learn how to use data to transform your business.
Finding the Big Value in Big Data
Scott Baker, Sr. Director, Emerging Business Portfolio, Hitachi Vantara
Despite the overwhelming need to gain insight from big data, it is almost useless when viewed outside a business lens. What really matters is the business value we unlock from those insights that are generated from the adoption of new technologies, devices, networks and IoT. Given its size, rate of growth, complexity and variety, big data is valuable only when seen through the prism of the business problem, objective or process of interest. The ability to automate and aggregate big data, smart technology and domain knowledge is within reach, and it’s necessary for smarter decision making. Join Scott Baker in an engaging discussion on empowering organizations with processes and tools that are smart, simple to design and capable of delivering valuable insights.
Digital transformation is a universal challenge for executives who must stay competitive and grow organically. Gain insights from business leaders and industry experts. Learn to improve your operational efficiency and customer experience with the most vital asset: your data.
How Las Vegas Has Become a Smarter City With IoT
Ravi Chalaka, Vice President of IoT Marketing, Hitachi Vantara
Michael Sherwood, Director of Technology Innovation, City of Las Vegas
People counting, traffic analysis, data integration, driverless cars. These transformative IoT projects are pushing Las Vegas to be a safer, healthier and smarter city. Join a fireside chat led by Michael Sherwood, director of technology innovation for the City of Las Vegas, and Ravi Chalaka, vice president of Insight Group marketing.
Digital transformation works in the real world. It’s no longer a theory by analysts or a strategy by consultants. Here are real people just like you who have already addressed problems and opportunities just like yours. In these sessions, hear how enterprises actually transform.
Telecom 5.0 – Next Generation, Intelligent Data-Center Technologies Transform Customers’ Experiences
Dr. Shane Archiquette, CTO – Global Communications, Media and Entertainment, Hitachi Vantara
Navaid Khan, Field Chief Technology Officer – Telecom and CME, Hitachi Vantara
Faster wireless and mobile broadband offer real-time networking with more enriched services and better user experiences. These services include high quality video, blended social media interactivity, internet-of-everything correlation services, augmented reality, connected cars, smart city services, and seamless internet and data coverage within buildings. IoT and industrial IoT services that provide smart services to public and private domains will become operational. Real-time correlation of data sources and carrier infrastructure are how most Tier 1 telecom operations will enable 5G mobile networks by 2020. This session will cover how Hitachi powers next-generation telecoms with technologies such as 5G, MEC, NFV, VNF, OTT, ML, and AI. Hitachi enables all these solutions for world-class dynamic telecom services.
Join your peers and other experts to see how enterprise IT must transform. Learn how modernizing infrastructures, evolving consumption models, and disruptive technologies create the future data center. They drive the strategic business objectives for the modern organization.
Data Governance in a GDPR World
Katie Dix Elsner, Senior Legal Counsel, Hitachi Vantara
Jonathan Preston, Enterprise Business Architect - Office of the CTO, Hitachi Vantara
The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is less than a year away. It will affect compliance and data privacy practices of all companies that operate globally. In this session, our panel will share practical insights to help you understand the implication of GDPR from data governance, technology and cybersecurity perspectives and how you can prepare for it. You will also learn the importance of knowing what personal data your organization holds, where it’s located, how secure it is and how Hitachi can support you in your journey for GDPR.
Deliver compelling, personalized customer experiences, reduce your operational costs and churn, and help drive new revenue streams. Learn more about data integration, ingestion and analytics to help you rapidly perform investigations, prevent fraud, and meet your regulatory and compliance requirements.
Artificial Intelligence Breakthoughs in Industrial IoT
Ravi Chalaka, Vice President, Global IoT and Lumada Marketing, Hitachi Vantara
Greg Kinsey, Vice President, Industrial IoT Business Development, Hitachi Vantara
After decades of missing the mark, artificial intelligence (AI) consumer applications have made significant advances praised in the media. Underway is a fourth digital revolution fueled by digitization and business-model innovation. Companies around the world are realizing breakthrough results in their manufacturing and supply chain operations using AI. A real game changer, IoT with AI provides superior gains in productivity, quality, operations management and asset maintenance. Hitachi’s manufacturing know-how, deep expertise in AI technologies and its co-creation process deliver substantial benefits to customers and its own factories around the world. In this session, you’ll peek inside the projects that we have delivered and explore key lessons learned.
Savvy commercial and industrial companies are using the transformative power of the internet of things to capture unconventional growth. Explore new business models, discover intelligent technologies and learn how to use data to transform your business.
Digital Transformation Achieved – Hitachi Transformation Award Finalists Share Their Journeys
Márcio Félix Information Security, Telecommunications and Information Technology Manager CPFL Energia
Pravine Balkaran Head of Global IT Spin Master
Paul Lewis, CTO of Americas, Hitachi Vantara
Businesses and organizations around the world are under pressure to adapt to the growing demands of digitalization. Customers expect it. Competitors exploit it. Hitachi is the expert in it. In this interactive session, you’ll hear how Hitachi Transformation Award finalists used Hitachi solutions to accelerate their digital transformation in innovative and successful ways. Learn how business and IT leaders use data as a strategic component to enable business and operational success, transform business models, grow market share and innovate to compete.
Digital transformation is a universal challenge for executives who must stay competitive and grow organically. Gain insights from business leaders and industry experts. Learn to improve your operational efficiency and customer experience with the most vital asset: your data.
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Hitachi Technologists
Dr. Nigel Tomkins,
Meat & Livestock Australia
Dr. Michio Kaku, Futurist
Senior Hitachi R&D Executives
and Dr. Michio Kaku
Map to the Future: Hitachi Technology Roadmap and Vision
Iri Trashanksi Senior Vice President, Product Strategy Hitachi Vantara
Building a smart data center to drive your digital transformation requires the right partner. You need a leader to co-create the right technology to form a solid foundation for your data strategy and help build your organization’s success. Learn about the near-term technology roadmap from Hitachi and how it fits in our longer-term vision to modernize IT and help you to innovate with data. Gain an understanding of how new flash and object storage, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure, automation and analytics and IoT platforms will all play a part in setting the groundwork for next-generation data services.
Join your peers and other experts to see how enterprise IT must transform. Learn how modernizing infrastructures, evolving consumption models, and disruptive technologies create the future data center. They drive the strategic business objectives for the modern organization.
How to Design Your Platform for Compliance Monitoring and Surveillance
Peter Sjoberg Vice President, Global Content & Data Intelligence Business Hitachi Vantara
Colin Chatelier Head of Data Center (UK) and Global Storage Rabobank
Ensuring compliance with internal auditors and external regulators is a daunting task for any industry. For financial services clients, it can mean the difference between profit and loss. How can you be sure your communication data meets both internal and external regulations? In this presentation, you’ll hear firsthand from Colin Chatelier of Rabobank on how they manage their data to meet complete compliance, including capturing, securing, indexing and presenting data during their digital transformation.
Deliver compelling, personalized customer experiences, reduce your operational costs and churn, and help drive new revenue streams. Learn more about data integration, ingestion and analytics to help you rapidly perform investigations, prevent fraud, and meet your regulatory and compliance requirements.
Unlock a Greater Business Value With Fog Computing
Sudhanshu Gaur Director, Digital Solution Platform Lab Hitachi America Limited
The industrial internet of things promises to usher in the next industrial revolution. In order to unlock the true potential of industrial IoT, you must address a few fundamental challenges. One is a growing number of connected assets that generate large-volume, high-speed data. Because of infrastructure and connectivity limitations, existing cloud-centric industrial IoT systems aren’t suitable for such deployments.
Unlike cloud-centric systems, fog computing distributes various functionalities and applications anywhere along the continuum from cloud to things. The result? Faster decision-making, reduced costs, enhanced security and privacy. Discover how this fast-emerging trend gives you higher scalability, agility, programmability and trustworthiness in industrial IoT systems.
Savvy commercial and industrial companies are using the transformative power of the internet of things to capture unconventional growth. Explore new business models, discover intelligent technologies and learn how to use data to transform your business.
How To Succeed in a Cloud of Data Chaos
Jeff Lundberg Senior Product Marketing Analyst Hitachi Vantara
Rajiv Garg Worldwide Product Manager, Content Portfolio Hitachi Vantara
User mobility and cloud applications are everywhere and your data scatters across many applications, devices and cloud services. As a result, your data has varying levels of security, protection, quality of service and visibility to the organization, offsetting whatever productivity gains an individual user might experience. But with the right tools, IT can regain visibility and control over the company’s data to help employees be more productive and make your business more competitive. Join this session to learn how you can easily transform the way you store, manage and use data to build the right foundation for the next generation digital workplace.
Digital transformation is a universal challenge for executives who must stay competitive and grow organically. Gain insights from business leaders and industry experts. Learn to improve your operational efficiency and customer experience with the most vital asset: your data.
Driving with AI: The Future of Mobility and Transportation
Harsha Badarinarayan, Director, Global Center for Social Innovation – North America, Hitachi America, Ltd.
The Automotive Research Lab at Hitachi’s Global Center for Social Innovation has developed cutting-edge technologies for next-generation mobility. This not only includes the innovation of operational technology (OT) such as high-performance products like hardware, but also the development of software aided with the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI). In this session, we will talk about three specific use cases that highlight the synergy between IT and OT – connected powertrain, predictive maintenance and intelligence-based ride comfort. Discover how these technologies allow us to create differentiating value through ongoing co-creation with customers.
Digital transformation works in the real world. It’s no longer a theory by analysts or a strategy by consultants. Here are real people just like you who have already addressed problems and opportunities just like yours. In these sessions, hear how enterprises actually transform.
The Future of Object Storage? Here’s What’s NEXT
Scott Nyman Senior Director, Content Portfolio Product Management Hitachi Vantara
The use case for first generation object storage products was all about scale. Enterprises faced an avalanche of unstructured data with no practical way to store and protect it. Object storage systems have largely solved that problem. Now, as enterprises make their digital transformations, they are starting to ask how they can use these massive stores of data to gain advantage. Next-generation object storage systems will offer exciting new intelligent data services and management capabilities. Learn how these new capabilities will change how you store and manage data to address cloud-age data governance and regulatory issues, tap into an ocean of unstructured data for analytics, and efficiently provide seamless access wherever and whenever it’s needed.
Join your peers and other experts to see how enterprise IT must transform. Learn how modernizing infrastructures, evolving consumption models, and disruptive technologies create the future data center. They drive the strategic business objectives for the modern organization.
The Journey to Build the Next Robo-Advisory Service for Banking
Dan Knight, Chief Technology Officer, Financial Services, Americas SPG, Hitachi Vantara
Robo-advisory services do more than just advise. These A.I. services offer automated, low-cost investment advice and transform data into new opportunities. Robo-advisors use big data along with trading algorithms, life-event insights and risk-based portfolio development to provide new data. With in-house robo-advisory rather than third-party solutions, you’ll control all that data and have a 360-degree customer view, which will open new revenue stream opportunities. It also creates unique cross-sell and upsell opportunities and attracts a whole new generation of banking customers. In this session, you’ll discover the importance for banks themselves to implement robo-advisor workflows and effective approaches to win over new and existing customers.
Deliver compelling, personalized customer experiences, reduce your operational costs and churn, and help drive new revenue streams. Learn more about data integration, ingestion and analytics to help you rapidly perform investigations, prevent fraud, and meet your regulatory and compliance requirements.
Disrupt Your Industry and Create Business Value with Hitachi’s Lumada IoT Platform
Ravi Chalaka, Vice President, Global IoT and Lumada Marketing, Hitachi Vantara
The internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to be game changers as they provide the opportunity to make operations more competitive. Hitachi’s Lumada accelerates digital transformation with a unique framework that includes an advanced IoT platform, solution cores and a customer co-creation approach to simplify IoT-solution creation for industrial and commercial applications and increase time to value.
In this session, you’ll discover how Lumada can help you quickly and easily connect to business and industrial assets, collect data and deploy solutions to help you improve decision-making and deliver tangible business outcomes. You’ll learn how other customers are succeeding today with Hitachi’s co-creation approach for solutions such as asset maintenance, predictive quality and production scheduling.
Savvy commercial and industrial companies are using the transformative power of the internet of things to capture unconventional growth. Explore new business models, discover intelligent technologies and learn how to use data to transform your business.
Delivering Toys at the Speed of Fun
Pravine Balkaran, Head of Global IT, Spin Master
Paul Lewis, CTO of Americas, Hitachi Vantara
Digital transformation can turn a small company into a global leader, but there will be challenges along the way. Legacy businesses face the need to standardize, automate and modernize in order to keep up with today’s market. In this session, Pravine Balkaran, head of global IT for Spin Master, shares how a partnership with Hitachi enabled the business to grow and achieve digital transformation. Hear first-hand how a small, single-product toy company evolved into a leading global, multi-platform children’s entertainment powerhouse. Gain insights and lessons learned from Spin Master’s journey, including how to increase customer satisfaction in a highly competitive, fast-moving industry.
Digital transformation is a universal challenge for executives who must stay competitive and grow organically. Gain insights from business leaders and industry experts. Learn to improve your operational efficiency and customer experience with the most vital asset: your data.
How Hybrid Cloud Helped Transform the University of Utah Healthcare
Jim Livingston, CTO, University of Utah Hospitals
Shawn Halladay, Associate Director, University of Utah Hospitals
As the only academic healthcare system in the Mountain West, the University of Utah Hospitals combine excellent patient care and the latest medical research to provide care for their community. Because they provide emergency services to Utah and surrounding areas, they needed a reliable infrastructure that ensured data security. Learn how CTO Jim Livingston used Hitachi solutions to transform the hospitals’ IT environment into one that creates new revenue streams and reduces capex spending. This technology refresh and the use of hybrid cloud has increased performance, capacity and protection of hospital data. With integrator ASG, Hitachi developed a solution that addressed all of the University of Utah Hospitals’ needs and is working with them to create similar solutions for other environments across the entire campus.
Digital transformation works in the real world. It’s no longer a theory by analysts or a strategy by consultants. Here are real people just like you who have already addressed problems and opportunities just like yours. In these sessions, hear how enterprises actually transform.
Is Enterprise Storage Dead?
Márcio Félix Information Security, Telecommunications and Information Technology Manager CPFL Energia
Bob Madaio VP, Infrastructure Solutions Marketing Hitachi Vantara
Bob O’Heir Vice President Product Management Hitachi Vantara
As IT leaders drive digital transformation efforts, they need to re-evaluate their approach to enterprise storage. New technologies, including software-defined storage (SDS), hyperconverged infrastructure solutions (HCIS) and non-volatile memory express (NVMe), are being considered as replacements to traditional enterprise storage because of their potential to dramatically improve performance, agility and efficiency. The challenge, however, is that they also change the way IT resources are acquired and how infrastructures are designed. Join our panel of experts to learn what happens next with enterprise storage and if traditional approaches will be phased out.
Join your peers and other experts to see how enterprise IT must transform. Learn how modernizing infrastructures, evolving consumption models, and disruptive technologies create the future data center. They drive the strategic business objectives for the modern organization.
Customer 360: Know Tomorrow’s Customers With Data Services
Dan Knight, Chief Technology Officer, Financial Services, Americas SPG, Hitachi Vantara
On average, modern banking customers have a life event every 13 months. They use Kabbage to get business loans, LendingTree for personal loans and pay with PayPal and Apple Pay. These are the financial customers of the future and they have high expectations for service and experience. In addition to mobility and accessible information, next-gen customers want you to know what they want and deliver the level of service they expect. This session will expose the organizational, data and life-event changes you need to know and stay ahead of to provide a complete 360-degree customer view.
Deliver compelling, personalized customer experiences, reduce your operational costs and churn, and help drive new revenue streams. Learn more about data integration, ingestion and analytics to help you rapidly perform investigations, prevent fraud, and meet your regulatory and compliance requirements.
Choose the Right IoT Platform for Your Business
Rob Tiffany, Chief Technology Officer and Global Product Manager, Lumada IoT, HItachi
With literally hundreds of IoT platforms on the market, how do you choose the one that’s right for your business? Are they only designed for a new generation of smart, connected products? Join Lumada CTO Rob Tiffany as he walks you through the elements of both general-purpose and industry-specific IoT platforms. You’ll discover important things to look for from end-to-end such as performance and scalability needs of global operations and security everywhere. We’ll cover how to connect old and new machines, analyze data at the edge, bring value to your business with the right analytics and deliver meaningful outcomes. You’ll leave this session equipped to make smart decisions in IoT and digital transformation that will make a positive impact on your business.
Savvy commercial and industrial companies are using the transformative power of the internet of things to capture unconventional growth. Explore new business models, discover intelligent technologies and learn how to use data to transform your business.
Accelerate Your Digital Transformation With Strategic Co-Creation
Nick Chang Head of IoT Customer Success Hitachi Vantara
Plan and execute your digital transformation with partners for better results. Co-creation gives you competitive advantage as you reinvent your organization’s relationships with customers and technology. Choose strategic technology partners to iteratively plan, architect, deploy, test and measure the outcomes of your transformation projects. By enhancing customer targeting and user experiences, you’ll have clearer and more measurable outcomes and operational efficiencies that improve your bottom-line numbers and let you grow your top-line revenue.
In this session, you’ll learn about proven approaches to co-creation, based on recent industry research. We’ll study real-world customer co-creation projects and initiatives to show you the value drivers, engagement best practices, and benefits that can help your organization fast-track its IoT innovations and accelerate its digital transformation journey.
Digital transformation is a universal challenge for executives who must stay competitive and grow organically. Gain insights from business leaders and industry experts. Learn to improve your operational efficiency and customer experience with the most vital asset: your data.
How To Share Data and Insights Across Organizations for Better Operations and Security
Mark Jules, Vice President of Video Intelligence and Smart City Solutions, Hitachi Vantara
What’s the best way to approach digital transformation and use shared cross-organizational technology to improve operations and security?
Digital transformation works in the real world. It’s no longer a theory by analysts or a strategy by consultants. Here are real people just like you who have already addressed problems and opportunities just like yours. In these sessions, hear how enterprises actually transform.
Digitize Your Enterprise With Cloud Solutions
Dr. Rajesh Srinivasan, Global Head, Cloud Business, Tata Consultancy Services
Today’s enterprises are on the path to cloud adoption – public, private or hybrid – and data no longer resides in isolation. The application and infrastructure are interwoven in a private cloud environment to provide a seamless and agile integrated cloud solution, helping enterprises digitally transform. In this session, you’ll learn how to be digitally ready to transform your enterprise.
Join your peers and other experts to see how enterprise IT must transform. Learn how modernizing infrastructures, evolving consumption models, and disruptive technologies create the future data center. They drive the strategic business objectives for the modern organization.
Put Identity at the Heart of Security: Strong Authentication via Hitachi Biometric Technology
Ben Edgington Head of Engineering, Information Systems Group Hitachi Europe Ltd.
Tadeusz Woszczyński Country Manager, Poland Hitachi Europe Ltd.
In a distributed digital world, to have 100% identity assurance and authentication is vital to financial and transactional security. Discover the key identity assurance technology that is at the heart of digital security portfolio: Hitachi’s unique and innovative finger vein biometric technology.
Financial institutions around the globe have begun to experiment with biometrics. See how we weigh the pros and cons of biometrics, and present a varied range of case studies across corporate banking, privilege escalation and consumer payments, all reliant on finger vein technology. We’ll tell you about the established technology and give you the first look at our latest innovations. We’ll conclude with a special focus on implementations in Poland's retail banking sector.
Deliver compelling, personalized customer experiences, reduce your operational costs and churn, and help drive new revenue streams. Learn more about data integration, ingestion and analytics to help you rapidly perform investigations, prevent fraud, and meet your regulatory and compliance requirements.
Protect Your Hitachi IoT Solutions With Cisco’s Threat Defense
Albert Salazar Director, Cyber Security, Enterprise Solutions Cisco Speaker info
There’s no doubt that IoT will change our societies in areas such as medical care and manufacturing. To deliver such promises, IoT devices must be secured, but there are two challenges: pervasive vulnerabilities and scale. These insecurities threaten IoT devices with security immaturity, insufficient system resources and competitive pressures that force cybersecurity to be removed. This results in equipment damage and infrastructure and operational disruption.
To shield from IoT vulnerabilities, Cisco developed IoT Threat Defense. This solution focuses on three key aspects: software-based segmentation to allow flexibility, visibility and analysis which detects and remediates threats before impact, and secure remote access to reduce costs and improve efficiency. In this session, learn more about Threat Defense and how you can secure your IoT ecosystem.
Savvy commercial and industrial companies are using the transformative power of the internet of things to capture unconventional growth. Explore new business models, discover intelligent technologies and learn how to use data to transform your business.
Find the Value in Your Data, the Foundation of Your Digital Transformation
Shawn Rosemarin Vice-President, Americas Solutions and Products Hitachi Vantara
Paul Lewis Chief Technology Officer, Americas Hitachi
Data is the foundation of digital transformation, and modern IT lets you make your data a key enabler for your successful digital transformation. But it takes a strategic approach to properly use your enterprise data. We’ve found that most companies have multiple data silos that prevent strategic use of data. For effective digital transformation, we start by bringing those disparate data sets – whether structured, unstructured or machine-generated – into a single data strategy. In this session, you’ll see how we securely manage, govern, mobilize, analyze, and ultimately turn an enterprise’s data into insights that create new opportunities for the business and for society.
Digital transformation is a universal challenge for executives who must stay competitive and grow organically. Gain insights from business leaders and industry experts. Learn to improve your operational efficiency and customer experience with the most vital asset: your data.
South West Water Optimizes Operations With IoT, Analytics and Cloud
Brian Erickson, Senior Vice President, Global Solutions and Innovation Portfolio, Hitachi Consulting Corporation
David Wechsler, Senior Vice President, Hitachi Water Solutions, Hitachi Consulting Corporation
David Brindle, Senior Vice President, Technology Solutions, Hitachi Consulting Corporation
South West Water is working with Hitachi to co-create new water management solutions with the use of existing data, advanced analytics and business intelligence. These solutions help improve operational performance, increase customer service levels and enable regulatory compliance. With an automated data collection and integration process, South West Water reduced the cost of managing and monitoring key assets such as wastewater treatment plants and pumping stations. The water utility was also able to more efficiently highlight exceptions and take action, such as detect and manage water leakages, with greater situational awareness of its network to service 1.7 million customers in 715,000 households and 75,000 businesses.
Digital transformation works in the real world. It’s no longer a theory by analysts or a strategy by consultants. Here are real people just like you who have already addressed problems and opportunities just like yours. In these sessions, hear how enterprises actually transform.
Digital Transformation With Holistic Hybrid Cloud
Venugopal Lambu, Senior Vice President of Cognizant Infrastructure Services, Cognizant
For most enterprise businesses, data and compute live in separate domains while applications run in different environments with multiple vendors. But how can successful digital transformation happen in a disconnected ecosystem? With game-changing hybrid cloud, you’ll integrate platforms and applications across cloud, take part in entirely new industries created by the digital revolution and build better customer experiences with technologies like artificial intelligence. In this session, learn how holistic hybrid cloud drives transformation and develops new lines of business.
Join your peers and other experts to see how enterprise IT must transform. Learn how modernizing infrastructures, evolving consumption models, and disruptive technologies create the future data center. They drive the strategic business objectives for the modern organization.
RegTech Adoption in Financial Services: Turn Regulation Into Opportunity
Nirvana Farhadi, Global Head, Financial Services RegTech, Risk and Regulatory Compliance Affairs, Hitachi Vantara
Financial service organizations face increasing challenges with regulatory obligations and siloed, fragmented manual systems. As a tsunami of regulations hit the industry, ROCA (risk, operations, compliance, audit) lines of business find it hard to cope with cost and resource burdens, and keep efficient systems and controls in place. This year alone approximately, 70% of ROCA budget is being spent on technology. Digitization, automation, business intelligence, artificial intelligence and predictive capabilities all provide potential solutions. However, if they are applied incorrectly, the cure is worse than the disease. Find out how to manage your journey to automation the right way through the intelligent use of RegTech, and how Hitachi can help your organization navigate the complex regulatory landscape.
Deliver compelling, personalized customer experiences, reduce your operational costs and churn, and help drive new revenue streams. Learn more about data integration, ingestion and analytics to help you rapidly perform investigations, prevent fraud, and meet your regulatory and compliance requirements.
Factories of the Future: Symbiotic Production System for Intelligent and Agile Factories
Youichi Nonaka, Ph.D. Senior Chief Researcher, Center for Technology Innovation-Production Engineering Hitachi, Ltd.
Sudhanshu Gaur, Ph.D. Manager, Digital Solution Platform Laboratory Hitachi America, Ltd.
As a savvy manufacturing company, you embrace digital technologies to enhance your customer experience. Your digital transformation relies on a seamlessly integrated production system teamed with manufacturing know-how. Symbiotic Production System provides flexibility for manufacturing systems and communication networks to link business (ERP), manufacturing (MES), automation and physical production to allow efficient scaling based on customer demand. Join Hitachi’s chief researcher as he discusses system architecture and industrial IoT infrastructure. You’ll also understand key features such as the prediction and control of “domino effect,” a non-linear manufacturing disruption, and secure connectivity across the entire enterprise to deliver efficient operation and maximum production uptime.
Savvy commercial and industrial companies are using the transformative power of the internet of things to capture unconventional growth. Explore new business models, discover intelligent technologies and learn how to use data to transform your business.
Drive Transformation and Value With Modern Platform, Next Generation Hyperconverged
Chris Swan Chief Technology Officer, Global Delivery Organization DXC Technology
Michael Walker Global Systems Integrator Executive & Solutions Director Hitachi Vantara
Design for operations lies at the heart of digital transformation. As your company transforms, you will need carefully designed, agile technologies that are able to grow with you. Modern Platform, Next Generation is a software-optimized solution that contains compute, storage and network to support a software-defined data center (SDDC). This provides a turnkey private cloud infrastructure and service solution for a quick-start to any digital enterprise environment and is scalable for growth. In this session, you’ll learn more about this co-created solution and how it can help you achieve better business outcomes as you undergo digital transformation.
Digital transformation is a universal challenge for executives who must stay competitive and grow organically. Gain insights from business leaders and industry experts. Learn to improve your operational efficiency and customer experience with the most vital asset: your data.
Delivering High-Throughput Science with Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel and Hitachi Flash Storage
Corin O’Connell, General Manager, Hitachi Business Unit, Global OEM SAN Sales, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Hu Yoshida, VP and Global CTO, Hitachi Vantara
Compute-intensive, high-throughput brain research places new and unpredictable demands on a storage switching infrastructure for customers like The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI). Advances in imaging and microscopy instruments continue to increase the resolutions and sampling rates of the data they generate. QBI chose Brocade and Hitachi to deliver a “no-compromise” research network and flash infrastructure, one which delivers a 32 Gbps Fibre Channel network for high performance, reliability, and scalability requirements for hyper-scale virtualization, and also features built-in NVMe over Fibre Channel flash-ready functionality to deliver the highest results for future applications.
Digital transformation works in the real world. It’s no longer a theory by analysts or a strategy by consultants. Here are real people just like you who have already addressed problems and opportunities just like yours. In these sessions, hear how enterprises actually transform.
You’ve had busy days and evenings, filled with facts, futures and fun. Now you can go back to work and transform your organization. No problem. You’ve got this! But first, let’s get through Thursday.
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