Advanced Scale Forum

15 - 17 April, 2019

Ponte Vedra Inn & Club

Ponte Vedra, FL

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What is Advanced Scale Forum?

Brought to you by Tabor Communications and nGage Events, The Advanced Scale Forum is the convergence of two conferences – Leverage Big Data and Enterprise HPC – to bring together a power forum created to solve challenges in the build-out of scalable advanced enterprise computing solutions. This convergence reflects the current state of the enterprise as they increasingly leverage High Performance Computing (HPC) to solve modern scaling challenges with in this the big data era.

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Our Unique Forum Format

The Advanced Scale Forum is not a typical trade show. It is a “power summit” focused on bridging the challenges that CTOs, CIOs, database, systems & solutions architects, and other decision-makers involved in building systems and applications that require increasing amounts of performance and throughput. Focus areas will include Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, Cloud, Deep Learning, HPC, Hybrid IT, IoT – Edge to Core Analytics, Machine Learning and more. By establishing relevant themes and providing opportunities such as boardroom sessions, 1:1 meetings, and networking & entertainment sessions, this summit accelerates the search for solutions, getting everyone closer to their goals. Our VIPs leave the summit well versed and up to speed on the state-of-the-art technology solutions available to them.

The Advanced Scale Forum Experience…

Attending the Forum

Conference expenses are fully paid for qualified attendees, including flight, hotel, meals, and summit badge.

Are you a senior technology or business executive seeking larger-scale accelerated computing solutions? Do you deal with data intensive computing, and need better answers now?

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The Advanced Scale Forum Experience

Plenary Sessions

During the plenary sessions, summit delegates across the spectrum of industries will hear technical insights from subject matter experts solving advanced scale computing challenges. Presentations are tailored by conference co-chairs, Datanami Managing Editor, Alex Woodie and Doug Black, EnterpriseTech’s Managing Editor, and informed by an advisory board engaged with the challenges and opportunities at the advanced scale level of computing. The content is designed to provide the audience with in-depth information addressing the trends and opportunities facing today’s organizations moving into new paradigms in computing.

Board Room Solution Sessions

This second phase of the summit offers summit delegates with BOF boardroom sessions that put similar profiled attendees into board rooms that examine case studies in advanced scale computing solutions by leading solutions providers followed by open discussion. These engaging sessions encourage dialogue and create real engagement that helps with information sharing and networking.

1:1 Meetings

The most powerful part of the summit — the 1:1 meetings — put users in across a table with leading solutions providers to discuss challenges and solutions. Executives will sit down for private round-robin discussions with pre-selected solutions providers who are able to help with their current challenges. These meetings are designed to create the opportunity to explore new possibilities and discover new solutions for solving Advanced Scale challenges.

Networking and Entertainment

Hard work deserves a reward, and our summit offers multiple opportunities to unwind and build rapport with peers through exquisite dining, entertainment, and networking events. The event kicks off with an optional round of golf and each day consists of breakfast, lunch, and breaks for continued networking opportunities. Each day will conclude with a night full of networking and entertainment designed for delegate and sponsors to break bread, relax and get to know one another on a social level – creating a networking environment that is second to none.

2018 Forum Themes:

Big Data: Data Science to Data Management

The exponential growth of data presents both challenges and opportunities to today’s business.

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Cloud Computing

In the past few years, cloud computing has become a reliable platform upon which companies can bet their businesses.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI – machine learning, deep learning, business intelligence, and robotics process automation – is fundamentally changing the way information is gathered, stored and leveraged, allowing greater insight to be derived from greater volumes of corporate data.

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Edge to Core

Data from sensors on distributed equipment and devices are pouring in from all over, exponentially increasing data volumes along with the need for edge processing.

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Containers

Since its invention in 2013, container technology has proliferated across Linux environments – both among enterprises with advanced scale compute requirements and in the HPC world.

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HPC

Modern enterprises continue to face the challenge of implementing new technologies to manage the ever-diversifying landscape of HPC workloads.

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Technology Trends – Past, Present, and Future

We are excited to be taking a more in-depth look into some exciting technology trends encompassing past, present, and future.

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Advisory Committee

Arden Anderson

Design Analysis Group Manager, Mercury Marine

Arno Kolster

Principal, Providentia Worldwide (formerly with PayPal)

Barbara Eckman

Principal Data Architect, Comcast

Don Burr

Director, Solution Delivery, AIG

Jason Tokayer, Ph.D.

Principal Data Engineer, Capital One

Jem Pagan

CTO, Flatiron Stratagies and Director of Technology Strategy, JNK Securities

Larry Patterson

Director of Advanced Computing Technologies, Gulfstream

Peter Bakas

Director of Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering, Netflix

Ryan Quick

Principal, Providentia Worldwide (formerly with PayPal)

Shane Brauner

VP, IT & Operations, Schrödinger

2018 Forum Program:

Day 1

06 May 2018

Day 2

07 May 2018

Day 3

08 May 2018

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Registration

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Sponsor Set up in Meeting Zone

4:30 pm - 4:35 pm

Tom Tabor

Philip McKay

Welcome

Tom Tabor

Philip McKay

4:35 pm - 4:50 pm

Alex Woodie

Tiffany Trader

Doug Black

Opening Advanced Scale Forum & State of the Union

Alex Woodie, Datanami Managing Editor, Tiffany Trader, Managing Editor, HPCWire and Doug Black, EnterpriseTech Managing Editor give a brief overview of the conference, its goals, and resources that attendees have for gaining additional insight into the complex and evolving world where enterprises increasingly leverage High Performance Computing (HPC) to solve modern scaling challenges of the big data era.

Alex Woodie

Tiffany Trader

Doug Black

4:55 pm - 5:35 pm

Panel: Cloud Panel: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

Over the years, Cloud computing has transitioned into a fundamental technology strategy designed to improve IT efficiency and effectiveness. While the continued movement towards Cloud computing seems inevitable in nearly every industry, the initial transition is often clouded with many unknowns such as security, privacy, reliability and performance. This panel assembles several industry-leading Cloud computing professionals as they discuss “The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly” of their respective Cloud journey. Attendees will leave with an abundance of ideas, examples, tips, and lessons leaned that they can immediately apply to leverage the Cloud, helping them to improve performance, reduce costs, and increase the agility and scalability of their Enterprise IT capacities.

Merle Giles

Dan Powers

Ari Berman, Ph.D.

Barbara Eckman

Jason Stowe

Steve Hebert

5:35 pm - 6:10 pm

Jay Boisseau, Ph.D.

Keynote: Data, Devices, Decisions: Why Scale & Speed Are More Important Than Ever

In the relatively short history of computing technologies, we have undergone a complete transformation in how we do business, conduct research, educate, communicate, share—in virtually every way that we work, play, live and learn. The pace of change is accelerating, not only in technology capabilities but in how they are being used. The early decades of mainframes and supercomputers, of PCs and peripherals, have accelerated into smartphones and social media, devices and data centers, clouds and containers, and have spawned the Big Data era and now the rise of AI. Scale is increasing across the board, and the speed of data-enabled decisions is increasingly important for productivity and efficiency, for innovation and insight, and likely, soon, for business survival and security. Embracing scale will enable decisions that are faster, better, or both, and will empower us with new insights and ideas that create the creativity and/or competitive advantages we seek. In this presentation, we’ll quickly review how we got to this amazing point in time, take stock of where we are, and discuss some technology directions in which we are probably, and possibly, headed.

Jay Boisseau, Ph.D.

6:10 pm - 6:40 pm

Larry Patterson

General Session: Gulfstream Simulator

Flight Deck VR Experience Experience a state-of-the-art Gulfstream G500 through the wonderful world of VR. Live at the Advanced Scale Forum, Gulfstream will demonstrate the all-new G500 flight deck, with you behind the controls. Through virtual reality, you will be whisked away to Nice, France, where you will fly over the French countryside. Donning a VR headset, you will be introduced to a virtual G500 flight featuring animated flight controls that are mapped to the sidestick and throttle you will use to fly the aircraft. Gulfstream has become the world standard in business aviation by consistently creating award-winning aircraft, and now you can get behind the controls and fly one yourself! Cabin VR Experience Design and Customize the interior of your very own G500. Every aspect of the all-new Gulfstream G500 is designed to provide a uniquely personalized and productive interior. With Gulfstream’s Cabin VR Experience, you can customize your very own G500. The cabin simulation features an array of seat styles and their respective color schemes, augmenting the physical material samples that are normally shown by the Gulfstream Design Team. Using a VR headset and a simple two-button controller, users can interact with a variety of details inside this amazing aircraft, including drawers, console tables, and cabin or lavatory doors. With the click of a button, you can customize every detail, from seating elements to cabin materials, and interreact with waypoints throughout the interior that will guide you throughout the cabin. Don’t miss out on this awesome opportunity to experience the all-new G500 in VR.

Larry Patterson

6:45 pm - 9:00 pm

Welcome Reception & Dinner

A networking reception and dinner for all attendees designed to foster interaction and build relationships.

7:00 am - 8:00 am

Network Breakfast

Morning Welcome

Philip McKay

8:00 am - 8:10 am

Alex Woodie

Tiffany Trader

Doug Black

Day 2 Kick Off

Alex Woodie

Tiffany Trader

Doug Black

8:10 am - 8:40 am

Larry Patterson

General Session: Merging IT and HPC

Larry Patterson

8:40 am - 9:25 am

Dan Powers

Keynote: Hybrid Cloud for HPC

Hybrid Cloud for HPC The new Digital Enterprise is applying High Performance Compute (HPC) technologies to a wide array of IT services to enable companies to gain operational agility, increased flexibility, and speed-to-value for an increasing number of computational intensive functions. Enterprise IT organizations are being asked to accelerate adoption of HPC solutions to enable product design and testing, electronic design automation, graphical simulations and AR/VR applications. Many of these use cases include Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Machine Learning (ML) in combination with traditional data science capabilities to deliver an ever-growing set of analytics derived outcomes. The Accenture Hybrid-Cloud (AHC) Platform for HPC approach provides an open, scalable and highly versatile toolset for enterprises to deploy and manage physical, virtual or containerized enterprise HPC workloads on-premise and across cloud environments on demand and at speed. AHC for HPC helps clients optimize HPC operating costs, increase agility, strengthen data governance and policy management by centralizing HPC operations control and applying advanced analytics to control workload distribution and elastic resource management.

Dan Powers

9:25 am - 10:10 am

Jason Stowe

Keynote: Microsoft

HPC workloads traditionally run on a fixed-size in-house cluster. For users, this means waiting in queue and constraining their jobs to fit within the bounds of the cluster. But what could happen if the end user got the resources they needed at the scale required? Azure has the capabilities and ease-of-access to accelerate innovation by giving HPC and AI jobs the right resources on demand. This talk covers seven lessons from a decade of HPC in the cloud and how the scale, flexibility, and elasticity offered by Azure can transform how HPC is done.

Jason Stowe

10:20 am - 12:30 pm

Case Study Presentations

Brought to you by Tabor Communications and nGage Events, The Advanced Scale Forum is the convergence of two conferences – Leverage Big Data and Enterprise HPC – to bring together a power forum created to solve challenges in the build-out of scalable advanced enterprise computing solutions. This convergence reflects the current state of the enterprise as they increasingly leverage High Performance Computing (HPC) to solve modern scaling challenges with in this the big data era.

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Networking Lunch

1:40 pm - 2:35 pm

Case Study Presentations

Brought to you by Tabor Communications and nGage Events, The Advanced Scale Forum is the convergence of two conferences – Leverage Big Data and Enterprise HPC – to bring together a power forum created to solve challenges in the build-out of scalable advanced enterprise computing solutions. This convergence reflects the current state of the enterprise as they increasingly leverage High Performance Computing (HPC) to solve modern scaling challenges with in this the big data era.

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Joseph George

Editorial Discussion: Cray

3 Trends that will change your perspective of HPC Today’s ever-changing world of HPC requires that our technology and skill sets be powerful, fast and agile. This session will look at three key trends that are influencing HPC today and how you can be prepared for a ride on the carousel. Trend 1: Convergence of HPC and AI (or Supercomputing in the cloud) Trend 2: Processor Flexibility Trend 3: HPC-optimized Software

Joseph George

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm

Alex Woodie

Doug Black

General Session: Wrap-Up Session from Day #2 with Audience Q&A

Alex Woodie

Doug Black

3:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Meeting Zone: 1:1 Meetings

7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Reception & Dinner

Networking Breakfast

7:55 am - 8:00 am

Philip McKay

Morning Welcome

Philip McKay

8:00 am - 8:10 am

Alex Woodie

Tiffany Trader

Doug Black

Day 3 Kick Off

Alex Woodie

Tiffany Trader

Doug Black

8:10 am - 8:55 am

Shahin Khan

Ryan Quick

Keynote: Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts – Technologies You Can’t Ignore

Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts – Technologies You Can’t Ignore Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts have emerged as unignorable technologies, with potentially far-reaching implications. But it is not clear exactly what they do, why you should use them, and for what applications. This session covers the essence of these technologies, focusing on what is real, what is a promise, impact on other key trends such as IoT, AI, and Quantum Computing, and why they might or might not deliver on their promises. It describes how they work for an executive audience, and provides a recipe for when to use them, along with some examples.

Shahin Khan

Ryan Quick

8:55 am - 9:40 am

AI Fireside Chat

Data-driven insights. Immersive customer experiences. Unlimited digital transformation. We’ve all heard the news: AI is going to change the entire world. But how much is realistic for your organization, right now, and over the course of your planning horizon? What steps do you need to take today in order to participate in the revolution? In this Fireside Chat, Addison Snell, industry analyst with Intersect360 Research, talks with a panel of experts from HPE, NVIDIA, and Intel about right-sizing expectations for today, while still participating in the dream for the future, addressing practical considerations such as risk, budget, personnel, and support of existing workloads.

Addison Snell

Dr. Eng Lim Goh

Nash Palaniswamy

Bob Crovella

9:50 am - 10:20 am

Anthony Dina

Jay Boisseau, Ph.D.

Fireside Chat: Embracing Data Analytics & Machine Learning

Embracing Data Analytics & Machine Learning Companies are increasingly aware that their current productivity and profits, and future success and survival, depend on data-driven decisions and data-enabled insights. In this fireside chat, Anthony Dina, Dell EMC North America Sales Director for Data Analytics, will interview two customers to will discuss how companies are embracing data analytics and machine learning throughout their enterprises, and how they can accelerate adoption to drive impact and innovation.

Anthony Dina

Jay Boisseau, Ph.D.

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Case Study Presentations

Brought to you by Tabor Communications and nGage Events, The Advanced Scale Forum is the convergence of two conferences – Leverage Big Data and Enterprise HPC – to bring together a power forum created to solve challenges in the build-out of scalable advanced enterprise computing solutions. This convergence reflects the current state of the enterprise as they increasingly leverage High Performance Computing (HPC) to solve modern scaling challenges with in this the big data era.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Networking Lunch

1:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Ian Colle

Keynote: AWS

Ian Colle

1:45 pm - 2:15 pm

Barbara Eckman

Closing Session: Data Governance in Big Data: Boon or Encumbrance?

Data Governance in Big Data: Boon or Encumbrance? On the Bastille Day of the Big Data Revolution, data governance was overthrown along with Enterprise Data Warehouses and their tightly controlled data representation (“schema-on-write”). Data was democratized. Anyone could store their data in the data lake, in any structure (or no consistent structure). Since then, data representation and self-service access have blossomed. But data discovery and semantics-driven data integration have suffered. Today, data scientists seeking to integrate data from multiple silos are unable to identify where the data resides in the lake. Once found, diverse datasets are very hard to integrate, since the data typically contains no documentation on the semantics of its attributes. Did we throw the baby out with the proverbial bathwater? Can we reinstate a Post-Revolutionary form of Data Governance? Come to this session and see.

Barbara Eckman

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm

Alex Woodie

Doug Black