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Event Type: GTIS Branch Event

Presenter: Jerrard B. Gaertner

Title: Identifying and Overcoming Project Management Challenges in Big Data and Analytics Initiatives

Synopsis:
This workshop will present and educate the participants on how to successfully navigate ambiguity, ego and organization to deliver Functional Big Data and Analytics Capabilities.

This presentation is a follow up the PMI SOC presentation held in early 2015 entitled “Jump Starting the PM in the World of Big Data”. The current presentation is suitable for those who attended that previous presentation, as well as for those who did not.

Big Data and predictive analytics have become important parts of the business strategy and operational capabilities of a growing number of organizations.  However, actually deploying the technologies, using them effectively and securing the hoped for (transformational) benefits have proven elusive.

In part, this is because big data and analytics are often treated as an IT project, rather than the on-going process, which it is.  Furthermore, senior management often sees analytics as the solution, rather than as a tool which (when correctly used) enables the organization to identify and implement a variety of new, insightful and creative strategies.  Lastly, the “cultural” components of big data, in particular the shift from intuitive to data-driven decision making, are often minimized or ignored. This almost certainly limits project outcomes to incremental benefit or marginal success at best.

For the PM, these areas represent both a ground floor opportunity and a significant challenge!

Our presentation will provide learners with a very brief introduction to Big Data and predictive analytics from the perspective of the PM; review of basic analytic skills; overview of methodologies, standards and practices; insight into analytic team building and supervision; factors affecting the big data business case; and a summary of the latest in technology and tools. In addition, a short exercise will be distributed to learners for discussion, and then taken up in class.

Speaker Bio:
Jerry Gaertner is President at Managed Analytic Services Inc. (MAS), a company which he co-founded in 2012. Through MAS, Jerry provides big data solutions, consulting and implementation services in the area predictive analytics. He also provides consulting services in the areas of risk & compliance, continuous audit, IT governance & strategy. Jerry regularly advises start-up companies and is an Angel investor himself. 

In the realm of higher education and not-for profit, Jerry is Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Ryerson University (pending re-appointment) where he teaches computer security and law (graduate level) and digital forensics. He is lead instructor and co-developer of U. of T.’s highly successful Big Data certificate programme. Jerry is Executive Director of the Digital Legacy Institute and immediate past President of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS). He is a former Board member of the Association of Certified Forensics Investigators and of the Ontario Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Practitioners. 

Jerry is author of three books and a graduate of MIT. Prior to founding his current company, he held senior positions for over 25 years in “Big 4” and “Big 10” international accounting firms. 

Jerry is accredited as a chartered professional accountant (CPA), and is certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), as an Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Privacy Professional (CIPT), Internal Auditor (CIA), Forensic Investigator (CFI) and Information Systems Professional (I.S.P.).

Agenda:

8:00 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast
8:30 a.m. - Event Starts
10:00 a.m. - Break
12:30 p.m. - Event ends​

Fees: (subject to HST)
PMI-SOC Members (login prior to registering) - $50.00
Non-Members and Guests - $70.00

Webstream - $40.00 - Registration is closed

PDUs: 4.0 (2 Technical / 1 Leadership / 1 Strategic and Business Management)

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