Explore the Agenda
7:30 am Check-In, Coffee, & Networking
8:15 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Demonstrating the ROI of Analytics
8:30 am Bridging the Technical-to-Business Gap to Build the Business Case for Analytics
- Exploring how data and analytics leaders can translate technical concepts into business value, aligning with leadership’s priorities
- Uncovering how small, targeted pilots can build incremental trust and confidence, demonstrating measurable value that enables larger investments
- Defining baselines and success metrics for how analytics implementation has created value
CASE STUDY
9:00 am Panel Discussion: Transforming Analytics as a Strategic Asset in Construction
- Examining how to scale and evolve from simple reporting tools towards analytics that drive more effective decision making
- Addressing the challenge of funding analytics in an industry in tight margins and limited overhead, and how creative cost models can drive sustainable innovation
- Revealing how defining clear responsibilities across data, technical, and innovation teams, integrates analytics into your firm’s DNA
- Ensuring your analytics practices are aligned with the overall strategic objectives of your firm
9:45 am Morning Networking Break
Track 1 - Data Engineering & Governance
Track 2 - Analytics Insights & Visualization
Track 3 Modernizing Your Analytics Practice
Track 1 - Data Engineering & Governance
Achieving Future-Ready Data Architecture
11:00 am Restructuring Your Legacy Systems to Be Fit for Modern Analytics
Senior IT Data, AI, & ML Manager, JE Dunn Construction
- Discussing how decades-old architectures are being restructured through warehouses and lakes
- Revealing how flexible architecture frameworks enable firms to evolve as emerging technologies mature
- Selecting foundational models and hyperscalers to build your future-ready architecture
CASE STUDY
11:30 am Creating a Streamlined Data Tech Stack to Reduce Disruptions
Data Management & Analytics Manager, Skanska
- Ensuring the correct information is being pulled into systems
- Explaining approaches to managing hundreds of constantly changing API endpoints, leveraging prebuilt connectors, and establishing change management practices with software vendors to avoid dashboard failures and data inconsistencies
- Highlighting how to, in the absence of prebuilt connectors, you can build custom API adaptors when connecting disparate systems
CASE STUDY
12:00 pm Technology Spotlight to Be Revealed
Track 2 - Analytics Insights & Visualization
Track 3 Modernizing Your Analytics Practice
12:30 pm Networking Lunch Break
Track 1 - Data Engineering & Governance
Track 2 - Analytics Insights & Visualization
Track 3 Modernizing Your Analytics Practice
Track 1 - Data Engineering & Governance
Ensuring Seamless Data Migration & Testing
1:30 pm Sandboxing to Reduce Disruptions of Data Transformations or Pilots
- Creating isolated testing environments within platforms to enable experimentation and enrichment of data
- Demonstrating how sandboxing enables teams to explore data manipulations, build groups, and test reporting scenarios before scaling across the organization
- Reducing user resistance by building confidence in the reliability of sandboxing
2:00 pm Achieving Data Migration at Scale to Enable Growth & Evolution
Data Product Lead, Burns & McDonnell
- Showcasing how firms are rebuilding data foundations at scale, including moving on-premises warehouses to cloud locations or adopting new platforms
- Revealing best practices for phased migration, maintaining old systems until users are acclimated, and creating plans to minimize disruption
- Exploring innovative ways to shorten migration timelines
CASE STUDY
Track 2 - Analytics Insights & Visualization
Track 3 Modernizing Your Analytics Practice
2:30 pm Afternoon Networking Break
Optimizing Your Technology Stack
3:30 pm Bridging the Past & Future of Data: How Maturity Models & Medallion Architecture Shape Modern Analytics
- Exploring 4 maturity level models for data architectures starting with collecting data manually for visualization all the way to enterprise architecture that is built for analytics, self-service, and AI
- Discussing the historical approaches to data warehousing and analytics and how these used to be “conflicting” viewpoints have merged into widely accepted medallion architecture.
- Outlining the layers of a medallion architecture (bronze, silver, and gold layers) and how it could be implemented irrespective of vendor platforms to support all the data needs for an organization
4:00 pm Session Reserved for Procore
4:30 pm Panel Discussion: Accelerating the Technology Evaluation Process to Maximize ROI
- Sharing frameworks for evaluating new technologies, piloting platforms, and determining compatibility with your existing tech stack, including financial considerations, spend analysis, and ROI tracking
- Examining challenges in aligning naming conventions, project codes, and workflows across departments and regionalized operations to create consistency
- Evaluating methods to ensure new tools are adopted successfully across departments through accessible knowledge bases and training