Our 4th annual KNIME Fall Summit is taking place from November 5-8, 2019 in Austin, Texas. Join us, along with top data scientists and industry thought leaders, for four days of learning more about KNIME Software and how it's being used to solve complex data problems in areas such as life sciences, manufacturing, marketing, retail sales, and more. Meet the people behind KNIME and hear about new and upcoming features, as well as discuss all things data science and data analytics with other KNIME users and enthusiasts.
Overview – Courses – Agenda – Venue – Register
Overview – Courses – Agenda – Venue – Register
On November 5 and 6 we are offering several one-day KNIME courses that cover a variety of topics. Your summit registration allows you to select either one or two of these full day courses. More courses will be added over time.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019:
- KNIME Course for Data Wranglers: Access, merge, transform, and inspect your data. Room 202
- KNIME Analytics Platform for Beginners: From installation to utilization and everything in between. Room 203
- Advanced Users in KNIME Analytics Platform: Beyond the basics. Room 107
- Text Mining with KNIME Analytics Platform: Using the Textprocessing Extension. Room 101
- KNIME Big Data Extensions: Data Mining with Apache Hive and Apache Spark. Room 105
- KNIME Server Course. Room 108
- Machine Learning in KNIME: More than an Introduction. Room 106
Wednesday, November 6, 2019:
- Advanced Users in KNIME Analytics Platform: Beyond the basics (now sold out). Room 203
- Text Mining with KNIME Analytics Platform: Using the Textprocessing Extension. Room 101
- KNIME Big Data Extensions: Data Mining with Apache Hive and Apache Spark. Room 202
- KNIME Server Course. Room 106
- KNIME Refresher Course: Master the Latest KNIME Features. Room 107
- The Power of Random: Using Perturbation Experiments to Improve Model Accuracy and Interpretation. Presented by Dean Abbott, SmarterHQ. . Room 105
- KNIME Time Series Analysis Course: Looking at the Internet of Things. Room 103
Overview – Courses – Agenda – Venue – Register
Thursday, November 7
9:00 AM - Registration and Coffee
10:00 AM - Opening Session
- Opening Comments
Michael Berthold (KNIME) - Education and Evangelism - Courses, Meetups, Books, Academia, and more
- Partners at KNIME
- Online Community News
The KNIME Team
11:30 AM - Coffee Break
12:00 PM - Session 1: Data Science in Action
- Running a 24x7 Mission Critical Data Platform for the World’s #1 Media Agency
Robert Burkhardt (Horizon Media) - Operating at Scale: Building a Self-Service Community
Robert Fritts (AT&T)
1:00 PM - Lunch in Teja's Dining Room
2:00 PM - Session 2: KNIME in the Enterprise
- What’s New and Cooking in KNIME Server
Jim Falgout (KNIME) - Moving Decisions to the Edge with Guided Analytics at Seagate
Allan Luk, Brendan Doherty, Debin Wang (Seagate Technology) - KNIME and Mathematics Keeps the Optician Away
Hakan Genc and Sharon Boczkiewicz (Siemens Digital Industries Software)
3:30 PM - Coffee Break
4:00 PM - Session 3: Components are for Sharing
- What’s New and Cooking in KNIME Analytics Platform
Bernd Wiswedel (KNIME) - Auditing Human Decisions in the Background Check Industry
SJ Porter (HireRight) - Visualizing with Guided Analytics: For End Users AND Experts
Phil Winters and Team (KNIME)
5:45 PM - End of Day One
6:30 PM - Dinner at Banger's Sausage House & Beer Garden
Friday, November 8
8:30 AM - Registration and Coffee
9:00 AM - Session 4: Life and Other Data Science
- What's New and Cooking in KNIME WebPortal
Jeany Prinz and Paolo Tamagnini (KNIME) - Building a Clinically Significant Rare Disease Data Master: Approach and Workflows
Sebastian Lefebvre (Alexion Pharmaceuticals) - Using KNIME to Build a Data-Driven Culture (and Workflows!) in a Biopharma Setting
Kenneth Longo (Wave Life Sciences)
10:30 AM - Coffee Break
11:00 AM - Session 5: KNIME in Government and Finance
- Virtual Anticipation Network: Applying Tensor Completion to the Study of Inter-State Competition and Irregular Conflict
Curtis Fox (Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office) and Brian Frutchey (NuWave Solutions) - Financial Applications of Self-Service ETL and Geospatial Analysis
Paras Gupta (BGIS)
12:00 PM - Keynote Presentation
- Focus on the Task: Enabling your Models to Speak the Language of the Business
Dean Abbott (SmarterHQ)
1:00 PM - Lunch in Teja's Dining Room
2:00 PM - End of KNIME Fall Summit
KNIME Certification
Our certification program measures your expertise with different concepts of KNIME as well as current data science skills. Take either L1 (ETL, Data Analytics, and Visualization), or L2 (Basic Machine Learning). Find out more and register here.
Partner Happy Hour
Meet our KNIME partners! Join us from 5-7 PM on Wednesday in the AT&T courtyard to meet the companies who can help you implement and scale with KNIME. Whether you're an existing partner, prospective partner, a prospective customer looking for consulting support or capability to scale your efforts on KNIME, or are a KNIME wizard in search of a new opportunity, come join us for drinks and light hors d'oeuvres!
Overview – Courses – Agenda – Venue – Register
The summit will be held at AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. Our contingency of rooms has sold out but here are some hotels located near AT&T, which have rooms available.