2ND ANNUAL
Unlocking the power of data linking and relationship detection.
8:00 AM
Networking Breakfast
All Welcome
9:00 AM
Conference Welcome
Will Layton, Senzing
Jeff Jonas, Senzing
9:10 AM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Generative AI and LLMs: Trends and Best Practices
Ben Lorica, Gradient Flow
9:40 AM
Integrated Justice System (IJS) Modernization
William Carson, Ernst & Young, LLP
10:10 AM
Building Blocks for Fighting Financial Crime
Friedrich Lindenberg, OpenSanctions
10:40 AM
Networking Break
All
11:00 AM
The Power of Graph Analytics
Mel Richey, Ph.D.,
Merigold Analytics
11:30 AM
Spatial Analytics Leveraging Graph and Entity Resolution Technology
Tim Murphy, Esri
12:00 PM
Moving Data Out of Senzing to Gain Deeper Insights
Tom H, Data Edge
12:30 PM
Networking Lunch
All
1:15 PM
Entity Resolution in a Graph Data Service
Eric Chasin, Simple Technology Solutions
Patrick Bobbit, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
1:45 PM
Leveraging Entity Resolution to Unlock Efficiencies for Risk Management Teams
Matt Goodman,
Amplified Risk Solutions
2:15 PM
Panel Discussion: Senzing Customer Roundtable
Larry Stark (Cymertek), Gurshish Dang (Verisk), Government Speaker
2:45 PM
Networking Break
All
3:00 PM
Tips & Tricks: How I Use Senzing
Jeff Butcher, Senzing
3:30 PM
Senzing Product Roadmap and Performance Optimization
Brian Macy, Senzing
4:15 PM
Interactive Q&A Session: Ask the Experts
Senzing: Brian Macy, Jeff Butcher, Paul Lohr
4:45 PM
Conversational Entity Resolution and Final Thoughts
Jeff Jonas, Senzing
5:00 PM
Happy Hour
All Welcome
Join us for the 2nd Annual Global User Conference 2023, hosted by Senzing, where experts, innovators, and thought leaders gather to explore the power of Senzing entity resolution. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just beginning your journey in entity resolution, this conference is your gateway to discovering cutting-edge techniques, best practices, and real-world applications that will revolutionize the way you handle data.
Ben Lorica
Founder
Gradient Flow
Ben Lorica is a highly respected data scientist, having served leading roles at O’Reilly Media (Chief Data Scientist, Program Chair of the Strata Data Conference, O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, and TensorFlow World), at Databricks, and as an advisor to startups. He serves as co-chair for several leading industry conferences: the AI Conference, the NLP Summit, the Data+AI Summit, Ray Summit, and K1st World. He is the host of the Data Exchange podcast and edits the Gradient Flow newsletter.
Brian Macy
Dir Product Dev & Operations
Senzing
Brian is a seasoned software development director with two decades of experience in leading product development and operations. Currently, as Chief of Product Development and Operations at Senzing, Inc., he continues to drive innovation in building customer-centric solutions. His career spans across roles at IBM, where he managed key entity technologies that became market differentiators in various products.
Eric Chasin
Principal Architect
Simple Technology Solutions
Eric Chasin is an experienced technologist and entrepreneur with over 25 years of expertise in delivering innovative enterprise solutions. As Principal Architect of Simple Technology Solutions, he helps organizations solve complex data challenges by leveraging cutting-edge software products and incorporating cloud native development, machine learning, and advanced analytics. He is an expert in building scalable data services leveraging entity resolution and graph databases.
Friedrich Lindenberg
Founder
OpenSanctions
Friedrich Lindenberg is the founder of OpenSanctions. His interest in watchlist data is inspired by his work in investigative reporting. At the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), he contributed to numerous investigations into transnational crime, offshore finance, and money laundering; including the Russian and Azerbaijani Laundromat cases.
Gurshish Dang
Head Data & Analytics Platforms
Verisk
Gurshish Dang is a data management expert who is passionate about using data to solve complex business problems. He is currently the Head of Enterprise Data Management at Verisk where he leads the entity resolution program. Previously, he led Verisk’s enterprise data lake and data engineering programs. He has also led BI and data warehousing at the London Stock Exchange Group and held data management roles at Thompson Reuters and Argus.
Jeff Butcher
Co-Founder & Chief Architect
Senzing
Jeff Butcher is the Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Senzing and has over 25 years of experience applying entity resolution technology to business problems across many industries. He is passionate about helping customers achieve their vision and has won several awards for his work. Jeff is also a devoted family man and loves spending time with his grandkids building projects and racing go carts.
Jeff Jonas
Founder and CEO
Senzing
Jeff Jonas is an acclaimed data scientist. He is at the forefront of solving some of the world’s most complex business and big data problems for government and companies. A former IBM fellow, Jonas is the leading creator of entity resolution systems. National Geographic recognized him as the Wizard of Big Data, and today numerous organizations rely on his systems to extract useful intelligence from tsunamis of data.
Larry Stark
Vice President, Principal Engineer
Cymertek
Larry Stark has spent 20+ years advancing state-of-the-art in big data analytics by developing novel approaches to processing pipelines, developing custom algorithms, and architecting cloud-native systems. As Vice President & Principal Engineer, he consults with partners, teammates, and customers to redefine what is achievable. Entity Resolution and Natural Language Processing are at the heart of his advanced software solutions.
Matt Goodman
Founder & CEO
Amplified Risk Solutions
Matt Goodman has more than 30 years of extensive experience in financial services. He has been involved in nearly every aspect of banking, providing an invaluable combination of operational and technical skills to banks. Matt's passion lies in helping banks stay ahead of any regulatory changes while also delivering the best solutions and tools to help them identify, remediate, and prevent risk.
Mel Richey, Ph.D.
Principal Tech Exec Consultant
Merigold Analytics
Dr. Melonie Richey has spent 10 years at the intersection of national security mission sets and advanced technology. With a Ph.D. in Computational Modeling and Simulation and an MS degree in analytics, Ms. Richey is versed and practiced in various applications of analytic methods, including graph analytics, machine learning, reinforcement learning and simulation, and geospatial modeling.
Patrick Bobbit
Data Scientist
USCIS
Patrick Bobbitt is the lead data scientist for Network Analytics at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). He and his team support Network Analytics to explore graph technologies and applications to solve previously unsolvable problems at USCIS. Prior to joining USCIS, Patrick spent a decade developing techniques to evaluate and integrate NLP classifiers into large government surveys.
Paul Lohr
Executive Solutions Architect
Senzing
Paul Lohr has over two decades of experience delivering mission-critical support throughout the software development life cycle. In his role as Solutions Architect, he specializes in entity and relationship resolution technologies, crafting analytics-driven solutions across diverse mission areas. His core expertise lies in large-scale threat prediction and prevention solutions, including name vetting, watch list identity vetting, continuous evaluation, and insider threat solutions.
Tim Murphy
Director of Contextual Intelligence
Esri
Tim Murphy has over 25 years of building innovative technology to solve intelligence, military, humanitarian and commercial data problems. As the Director of Contextual Intelligence, he is the practice lead for solving connected data problems, and a product owner for Esri products focused on fusing disparate stores of data for better analysis and understanding. He holds multiple patents in knowledge management and his work as been featured in Wired Magazine and on the Discovery channel.
Tom H
Data Analyst
Data Edge
Tom is an expert in graph analytics and big data problems and has been actively exploring how to combine entity resolution with graph databases to achieve actionable results. Throughout his professional career, he has focused on large-scale data problems, and on developing techniques to help improve how organizations use data to identify risks and opportunities to their specific business problems.
William Carson
Senior Manager
Ernst & Young, LLP
William Carson is a leader in EY Technology Consulting’s AI and Data practice, with over 15 years of experience as a program manager, product owner, data architect, and highly technical data science practitioner. At EY, he drives large-scale initiatives involving generative AI architecture design and activation, sector-specific data interoperability platforms, digital twins, domain knowledge models, and graph database use cases.
Will Layton
SVP Global Sales & Public Sector
Senzing
Will Layton is a 25+ year technology veteran. In addition to Senzing, he has held numerous sales, business development, engineering, and IT executive positions at a range of companies including Dell EMC, XO Communications, Bank of America, and Ticketmaster. He has also advised many start-up companies on their sales and growth strategies. Layton graduated from the University of Louisville with a B.S. in Computer Engineering.
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