Gershon Venkatsamy

Enabling actionable insights through data, analytics and AI

3 - 5 March 2020
Sandton Convention Centre

Data Enthusiast,

Gershon is passionate about data and the benefit that organisations can derive from properly harnessing it. He started his 20+ year career in IT fixing computers and today has successfully led a major transformation project that moved from a traditional relational database to a big data implementation which has resulted in a major benefit to the organisation. Through his career, he has utilised tools such as Microsoft SQL, Hadoop, Cognos, PowerBI and Tableau to build a multitude of solutions across many industries including Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Telecoms, Consulting, Entertainment and Manufacturing. Gershon has a Bachelor of Science (majoring in Computer Science), Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees and a number of industry-related certifications.

Gershon Venkatsamy will be speaking on the following topic:

13:40

Case Study Migrating to a next-generation data warehouse

Examining how to migrate from a relational database to a Hadoop data warehouse: what have the results been? What other value can be derived from the Hadoop ecosystem?
Looking at the benefits of incorporating Apache Kafka into the data warehouse environment
What are the implications of moving forward to the cloud for data warehousing? Can the two systems operate in parallel?
Understanding the potential of data streaming technology – could it eventually replace traditional databases?
Analysing the importance of team culture and what is required from a people perspective for an organisation to make such a transition