O'Reilly Radar 2018

2 Days.

Unlimited Insights.

Schedule

Join us for a complimentary two-day conversation with insiders, innovators, and experts. We’ll dig into the most pressing topics you’re facing now and prepare you to confidently plan for your company’s future.

Monday, November 5

8:00am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am

A Different Take on “Next”

Roger Magoulas
Roger Magoulas
Roger Magoulas | O’Reilly Media Vice President of Radar

A Different Take on “Next”

Roger analyzes data from various sources, including usage data from the O’Reilly Learning Platform, to study technology trend adoption patterns. Roger will share insights into the trends decision makers should be both aware of and understand as sources of innovation and disruption to their organizations.

9:15am

Rebooting AI

Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus Entrepreneur

Rebooting AI

Why deep learning isn’t enough, by itself, to get us to genuine artificial intelligence, and what it might take to get there.

9:35am

Silicon Valley: What Works & What Doesn’t

Jessica Lessin (with Tim O’Reilly)
Jessica Lessin
Jessica Lessin | The Information Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief

Silicon Valley: What Works & What Doesn’t

Silicon Valley provides important lessons for dealing with disruption. Go beyond the headlines for deep insights gathered from five years of frontline reporting.

9:50am

The New World of Work

Josh Bersin
Josh Bersin
Josh Bersin | Bersin by Deloitte Founder and Principal

The New World of Work

How do the workers of tomorrow differ from today’s teams, and what do they need to help your company succeed? Explore how technology can be used to leverage the power of your most important asset: your people.

10:10am

What More Than 2 Million Machine Learners Do on Kaggle

Anthony Goldbloom
Anthony Goldbloom
Anthony Goldbloom | Kaggle.com Cofounder and CEO

What More Than 2 Million Machine Learners Do on Kaggle

There’s a global shortage of data science and ML talent…but over 2 million are signed up for Kaggle. Anthony will give an introduction into what data scientists and machine learners do on Kaggle as a way to explore what excites and motivates them.

10:30am

Break

11:00am

Applying a New Model…Successfully

John Donahoe
John Donahoe
John Donahoe | ServiceNow President and CEO

Applying a New Model…Successfully

Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and others have reset users’ software expectations. Traditional business applications seem stuck in another century. It doesn’t have to be this way.

11:20am

Where Do Things Actually Come From? Microbiome Data and AI Can Tell Us

Jessica Green
Jessica Green
Jessica Green | Phylagen CEO

Where Do Things Actually Come From? Microbiome Data and AI Can Tell Us

Global supply chains are getting harder to trust. Consumers ask: Was this T-shirt made by slaves? Companies ask: Were my goods made from verified, high-quality sources? Governments ask: Where did this ship actually come from? Despite regulations and policies, it’s hard to trace—but embedded in each and every object are microorganisms. By combining microbiome technology with AI, we can uncover invisible patterns across objects, materials, and places to track how things move around the world. It’s a highly scalable solution that will produce new insights into the true provenance of our products, enhance trust, expose corruption, and make for a fairer, more equitable supply chain.

11:40am

Farsighted: How to Make Decisions in Our Complicated World

Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson Writer

Farsighted: Innovation and Long-Term Thinking in a Complex World

Drawing on the history of innovation explored in his best-selling books Where Good Ideas Come From and How We Got To Now—along with his new book, Farsighted—Johnson will explore the patterns behind breakthrough ideas in history and propose some new strategies for dealing with disruption’s unintended consequences.

12:10pm

Lunch

1:30pm

How Do Legendarily Entrenched Bureaucracies Innovate? Here are Two Perspectives

Matt Cutts and Jen Pahlka

1:30pm

Getting Things Done in Large Organizations

Matt Cutts

1:45pm

No One Is Coming; It Is Up to Us

Jen Pahlka

2:10pm

Breakout Session 1

James Urquhart (Room: Fisher)
Pete Skomoroch (Room: Robertson)

Room: Fisher

Flow and the Future of Software Architecture

James Urquhart

Room: Robertson

Managing Machines: AI for Product Managers

Pete Skomoroch

3:00pm

Breakout Session 2

Alison McCauley (Room: Fisher) James Cham (Room: Robertson)

Room: Fisher

Blockchains: The Six Forces of Change Coming Your Way

Ready for some straight talk about blockchains? Join Alison McCauley, author of Unblocked, How Blockchains Will Change Your Business, to get context on what’s really happening in the space, and how to think about the kind of change blockchains are poised to trigger in our world. You’ll come away with a useful framework and a bird’s eye perspective of risk and opportunity in the space.

Room: Robertson

AI Strategy

James Cham

3:40pm

Break

4:00pm

A Gentle Introduction to Blockchain and Why You Should Care

Hadley Stern
Hadley Stern
Hadley Stern | Bloq COO

A Gentle Introduction to Blockchain and Why You Should Care

Hadley will provide the context you need to think about blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and how they might apply to your business.

4:20pm

Balancing the Ecosystem

Laura Baldwin
4:40pm

Progressive Delivery: The Evolution of SDLC

Adam Zimman
Adam Zimman
Adam Zimman | LaunchDarkly VP of Platform and Product

Progressive Delivery: The Evolution of SDLC

From waterfall, to agile/scrum, to continuous delivery there has been a progression in the software development lifecycle. The goal: increasing release velocity of product while at the same time reducing risk. This session will provide a brief recap of the history of SDLC models and then dive into what we see as the next phase of evolution: progressive delivery. The bulk of the session will describe the benefits of a progressive delivery model, with a focus on business value of rapid delivery as a method to reduce risk

5:00pm

Closing Comments

Tim O’Reilly and Roger Magoulas
5:10pm

Evening Reception

6:30pm

Executive Dinners (offsite)

Click here to RSVP for the dinner of your choice

Tuesday, November 6

8:00am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am

Preparing for the Next Economy

Tim O’Reilly
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O’Reilly | O’Reilly Media Founder and CEO

Preparing for the Next Economy

AI, blockchain, on-demand marketplaces, drone delivery, the changing nature of work, hypercompetition from digital platforms, cybersecurity, and new business risks—it’s enough to make a CEO’s head spin. But there is one master rule for success in the Next Economy: don’t use technology to replace people; use it to augment them so they can do things that were previously impossible.

9:20am

Embracing Disruption with Blockchain

Marie Wieck
9:40am

A Human-Centered Approach to AI & Machine Learning

Cat Posey
Cat Posey
Cat Posey | Capital One Senior Director, Emerging Technology

A Human-Centered Approach to AI & Machine Learning

Find out how the only bank fully committed to a cloud-based infrastructure is approaching machine learning with a responsible, human-centered focus, including examples of how Capital One is leveraging the technology and ways in which it can be used for good.

10:00am

Tacking Technical Debt at Scale: A Four-Step Strategy

Zhamak Dehghani
Zhamak Dehghani
Zhamak Dehghani | ThoughtWorks Principal Consultant

Tacking Technical Debt at Scale: A Four-Step Strategy

Technical debt is a misunderstood and paradoxical metaphor of the tech industry. It can give life to new, innovating companies and let them validate their ideas rapidly and gain market share, while it can build up to an irrecoverable point to slow down innovation and ultimately take the life of enduring companies. Technical debt starts from a few lines code and grows quickly to the company’s infrastructure, backbone legacy systems, and architecture at large. As a technology consultant I find more than 80% of my clients dealing with large-scale technical debt in their organization. I come across technical debt in different shapes: balls of mud of large monolithic systems, snowflake infrastructure with no automation, fragile applications with high code toxicity, and duplicated capabilities and data throughout the enterprise architecture.

If you find your organization in that 80%, I have some learnings to share with you. I will cover four strategic moves that can help you recover from the technical debt, while being able to innovate and turn the debt to assets over time. I will talk about:

  • Metrics: What to measure to detect and control technical debt.
  • Process: What product development process to put in place to both address technical debt and new innovations.
  • Technology: A few technical approaches to legacy modernisation and turning debt to assets.
  • People: The shift in organizational design and leadership culture to start the recovery process and prevent it from sneaking up on you again.
10:20am

Digital Transformation Writ Large

Jeff Wong (with Roger Magoulas)
Jeff Wong
Jeff Wong | EY Global Chief Innovation Officer

Digital Transformation Writ Large

Learn how an old-world firm leveraged technology to transform everything and thrive in our new world of continuous change—anticipating, scaling, and adapting to meet internal needs and client expectations.

10:40am

Break

11:10am

AI-Oriented Architecture

Joseph Sirosh
Joseph Sirosh
Joseph Sirosh | Microsoft VP and CTO, AI

AI-Oriented Architecture

Building AI solutions at scale means enterprises have an AI-oriented architecture capable of constantly running AI experiments reliably, with continuous integration and deployment, and then learning from those experiments and continuing to improve its operations. In this session, Joseph will discuss an overview of AI-oriented architecture and key principles, providing enterprises with a blueprint for enabling and building AI-first applications, and practical guidance on how to do it “right.”

11:30am

Lightning Talks

12:20pm

Lunch

1:40pm

What Grit and Kindness Mean for Digital Transformation

Katherine I. Verducci
Katherine I. Verducci
Katherine I. Verducci | Bitwise Industries PR Lead

What Grit and Kindness Mean for Digital Transformation

What do the seemingly unrelated traits of grit and kindness have in common? They’re both characteristics possessed by many members of traditionally marginalized communities—as well as major drivers of successful digital transformation. Learn how you can use your personal and professional values, informed and inspired by the talents of a diverse workforce, to grow and thrive.

2:00pm

The Dark Web: What You Need to Know and What to Be Afraid Of

Danny Rogers
Danny Rogers
Danny Rogers | Terbium Labs Founder

The Dark Web: What You Need to Know and What to Be Afraid Of

You’ve probably heard of the term “dark web,” but what does it actually mean? Danny Rogers, CEO of Terbium Labs, will discuss the internet black market that traffics in stolen data and illicit goods, covering everything from marketplace size and structure and the evolution of data breaches to proactive monitoring practices that can help protect your organization from evildoers on the web.

2:20pm

In Data We Trust

Kim Nevala
Kimberly Nevala
Kimberly Nevala | SAS Director Business Strategies

In Data We Trust

From basic BI to using AI to automate and augment human endeavor, data-driven systems are increasingly powerful and pervasive. With great potential comes great risk—and resistance to change. Technology has a role to play in creating trust, but technology alone isn’t enough. Join us to explore the intersection of trust (including privacy and ethics) and technology. Learn how a focus on people and the willingness to embrace ambiguity and acknowledge risk is vital to establishing trust and adoption of data-driven solutions.

2:40pm

Closing Comments

Tim O’Reilly and Roger Magoulas
3:00pm

End