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KNIME DataHop Toronto

Where data meets strategy

May 15, 2025 | Toronto, Canada
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DataHop Toronto was another chapter in KNIME's insight-packed roadshow series.

The event covered a range of essential topics in data science, including fundamentals of GenAI and Agentic systems, auditing through reproducible workflows, shining light on shadow IT, how to implement an “Ask me Anything” Agents in KNIME, and more.

You can now re-watch the presentations or download the slides from our expert speakers and panelists below.

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Good Data Makes Good Agents

In this talk Michael demystifies agentic AI, breaking it down and explaining the key building blocks of tools, AI workflows, and agents. Watch the talk to also see how good data makes good tools and better agents and get some examples of agents built with KNIME workflows.

Speaker: Michael Berthold, KNIME

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How KNIME Helps Accountants at BGIS Work Smarter

Accounting teams spend an enormous amount of their time pulling reports from multiple sources, consolidating, manipulating data to generate accounting transactions, analysis, and reporting. Empowering accounting teams with tools that they can leverage, independent of IT support, is invaluable to creating work environments that are engaging and rewarding for accounting professionals.

Speaker: Meera Thiagarajah, BGIS

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Driving Efficiency and Managing Change in Drug Discovery

Speaker: Lee Fader, Congruence Therapeutics

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How IGT Internal Audit Powers Systematic and Reproducible Workflows with KNIME

Atanas will discuss how to design continuous data pipelines and analytics workflows in your internal audit department, emphasizing seamless integration, effective collaboration, and reproducibility. As well as how to make the most of local LLMs to systematically create helpful audit logs of prompts and outputs. Finally, Atanas will discuss how KNIME Analytics Platform and KNIME Business Hub enable rapid development-to-production cycles enhanced collaboration, versioning, and automation. 

Speaker: Atanas Bosakov, IGT

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Putting Shadow IT in the Spotlight: Canadian Tire’s Journey to Data-Driven Excellence

Learn how Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) leverages the low-code power of KNIME to meet data needs in a timely way for the business. We'll take a brief look at the history of KNIME at CTC before diving into real-world examples, such as cross-cloud ETL, store management data transfer, CDP Feeds, and a tactical fix for product rating emails. Learn how our KNIME user community has grown beyond its original scope, driven by increasing demand from across the organization.

Speaker: Leander Quiring, Canadian Tire Corporation

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Panel: How to Democratize Data Without Losing Control

Host: Cynthia Padilla, KNIME; Panelists: Atanas Bosakov, IGT; Meera Thiagarajah, BGIS; Michael Richter, IMA