Posts by Michael Ortega

Over the last decade, security incident and event management tools (SIEMs) have become a standard in enterprise security operations. SIEMs have always had their detractors. But the explosion of cloud footprints is prompting the question, are SIEMs the right strategy in the cloud-scale world? Security leaders from HSBC don’t think so. In a recent talk,...

A single patient produces approximately 80 megabytes of medical data every year. Multiply that across thousands of patients over their lifetime, and you’re looking at petabytes of patient data that contains valuable insights. Unlocking these insights can help streamline clinical operations, accelerate drug R&D and improve patient health outcomes. But first, the data needs to...

This is a co-authored post written in collaboration with Moritz Steller, AI Evangelist, at John Snow Labs. Don't miss our virtual workshop, Extract Real-World Data with NLP, on July 15 to learn about our new NLP solutions. In 2015, HIMSS estimated that the healthcare industry in the U.S. produced 1.2 billion clinical documents. That’s a...

Download our guide to Public Sector at Data + AI Summit to help plan your Summit experience.   The world is being transformed by data and today’s federal government realizes that they have fallen far behind the private sector. As a result, the President’s Management Office (PMO) has recognized the need to modernize their existing...

Download our guide to Healthcare and Life Sciences at Data + AI Summit to help plan your Summit experience.   Every year, data leaders, practitioners and visionaries from across the globe and industries join Data + AI Summit to discuss the latest trends in big data. For data teams in the Healthcare and Life Sciences...

Don’t miss our Global Sustainability Leadership Forum to hear how leaders from Goldman Sachs, Grab, Gro Intelligence and Microsoft are using data and AI to build a more sustainable, inclusive and greener future.   Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is a form of sustainable responsible investing (SRI) that considers both the financial returns and...

By now, most professionals know that the future of business goes hand in hand with social responsibility, environmental stewardship and corporate ethics. It should come as no surprise, then, that Sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) have become top priorities for consumers, investors and regulators alike. But creating a better future for all stakeholders...

For years, the Spark + AI Summit has been the premier meeting place for organizations looking to build data analytics and AI applications at scale with leading open-source technologies such as Apache SparkTM, Delta Lake and MLflow. In 2020, we’re continuing the tradition by taking the summit entirely virtual. Data scientists and engineers from anywhere...

The healthcare industry is in a rapid state of change. The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a light on how critical it is for healthcare payers, providers, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies to have clean, aggregated patient data at population scale along with technologies that allow them to use AI to interrogate this data. Answering questions...

Radical transformation is the theme of 2020, with customers demanding personalized products, improved protection against fraud, and digital experiences that match every small shift in behavior. Banks, insurance companies, and institutional investors are even more reliant on big data and AI to meet these demands and to outmaneuver the competition. For years, the Data +...