The Data-Driven Enterprise: Driving Business Transformation

Randall Brett has held senior management positions for over 25 years in software development and financial services. Currently, he is Head of Risk Technology at Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, a Quantitative Long/Short Equity hedge fund based in NYC. Previously, he was at Pine River Capital Management in NYC, most recently as Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer. His prior positions include: Senior Vice President, Application Development and Integration at Harvard Management Company, Boston; Director, Risk Technology at SAC Capital Management, and CTO at Askari Risk Management Systems/DSTi. Education: BA, English, Sociology, University of Colorado, 1980 PRM Certification, 2006 (Professional Risk Manager).

Matt Costello leads Booz Allen’s advanced analytics and cyber threat hunting services for commercial clients. His primary areas of expertise include cloud architecture, security analytics, high-volume and high-velocity data pipelines, and data enrichment.

Matt has more than 30 years of experience delivering advanced technological solutions to clients in the finance, energy, communications, and high-tech manufacturing sectors. Prior to joining Booz Allen in 2016, he was chief technology officer of a telecommunications startup and held a number of other senior information technology roles.

Matt holds a B.A. in politics from the Catholic University of America.

This presentation will focus on data governance and security for data-driven enterprises – how do we enable new business models and capabilities while ensuring our data remains secure.

John has extensive experience as a consultant, developer, and designer at the intersection of financial services, technology, and analytics. They joined Dataiku as Global Director of Solutions for Financial Services and Insurance to ensure the firm offers powerful solutions and deep empathy to all our clients, allowing us to operate as thought partners.

Many firms have turned to AI solutions in order to streamline their processes, improve their forecasting abilities, meet ESG goals, and align themselves with increasingly stringent regulatory frameworks. AI’s integration into a company’s toolkit is a means of achieving practical and bounded successes that give firms an edge over their competitors. In this session, we’ll take a look at three trends around AI adoption and discuss the practical foundations needed to achieve results.

Hugh McKee is a developer advocate at Lightbend. Having been at the forefront of application development for decades, Hugh has extensive knowledge of the evolution of application technology in addition to being an expert app developer. He now uses his expertise to help developers and architects harness the power of the Cloud. Hugh is a frequent and sought out speaker at conferences around the world. He is the author of Designing Reactive Systems: The Role of Actors in Distributed Architecture. 

Despite the increasing popularity of microservice systems, the tools and technologies used to develop them do not always simplify the process of doing things correctly and often make it easy to make mistakes. In this session, we will explore how a straightforward and concise set of microservice building blocks based on an event-driven platform can aid in doing things the right way.

• Learn how fleets of small, functional services, independent queryable views, and event-driven functions can enable you to create reliable and performant microservice systems.
• Discover how this approach can make building reliable and efficient systems easier for you and your team.
• See how the event-driven platform, which serves as the foundation of this microservice building approach, more closely mimics the sophisticated processing patterns of neural and synaptic systems, providing an additional level of efficiency and elegance.

Matt Costello leads Booz Allen’s advanced analytics and cyber threat hunting services for commercial clients. His primary areas of expertise include cloud architecture, security analytics, high-volume and high-velocity data pipelines, and data enrichment.

Matt has more than 30 years of experience delivering advanced technological solutions to clients in the finance, energy, communications, and high-tech manufacturing sectors. Prior to joining Booz Allen in 2016, he was chief technology officer of a telecommunications startup and held a number of other senior information technology roles.

Matt holds a B.A. in politics from the Catholic University of America.

Pramod Gadilkar heads the Data Strategy, Architecture and Governance team at EquiLend, where he has worked for the past 17 years supporting the firm’s Securities Lending Products Suite. He has more than 25 years of experience in data and systems management, with a focus on Big data, Real-Time Analytics and AI/ML in the last 10 years. Prior to EquiLend, he was consulting as head of data systems for New York City’s Human Resources Administration. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and an MBA.

Robert Iannone is Chief Data Officer Americas for UBS Financial Services, a multinational investment bank and financial services company. His primary responsibility is to set standards and execute on how high-quality data is defined, measured, and made available for key business processes, ranging from operations and regulatory reporting to data analytics that support our One Client strategy. Robert has over 30 years of leadership experience in Financial Services with a focus on technology and data solutions. In recent years, he specialized in data strategy and governance at UBS, Scotiabank, and JPMorgan Asset Management. In his CDO role, he leverages automated tools and machine learning to scale the data program to meet the growing data landscape. Robert is a graduate of New York Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

John has extensive experience as a consultant, developer, and designer at the intersection of financial services, technology, and analytics. They joined Dataiku as Global Director of Solutions for Financial Services and Insurance to ensure the firm offers powerful solutions and deep empathy to all our clients, allowing us to operate as thought partners.

CTO for S&P Global Market Intelligence division responsible for all data platforms and distribution technology supporting global business units. Focused on data-lifecycle transformation through the modernization of data management, data integration, channel distribution and organizational design.

Frank has over 28 years of industry experience in financial services with a focus on engineering and architecture with management responsibility of numerous complex platforms. Sponsor for cloud transformation driving design, governance, and adoption requirements. He is a staunch supporter of open source and a senior industry foundation member.