Unleashing Data Insights through Analytics

The speed, size, variety, and complexity of today’s datasets are all increasing exponentially, creating major challenges for organizations and agencies that want to siphon out actionable intelligence and insight from the noise.

Fortunately, new technologies now allow even enormous and unstructured datasets to be analyzed more quickly and effectively to benefit the mission, delivering better information for decision-making and fraud detection.

Analytic tools can help your organization or agency to unlock insights from emerging datasets or from information previously tied up in data silos. In this event, we’ll discuss how analytics are changing the way government agencies utilize their growing data, and how these technologies can be combined with other emerging technologies like cloud computing to improve mission effectiveness.

Takeaways:

Examine the possibilities and potential of analytics
Hear about existing use cases in government
Learn where analytics can be best applied to mission

Speaker and Presenter Information

Carter Hewgley, Director of the Enterprise Analytics Division, FEMA in the Department of Homeland Security

Carter has been leading the development of public sector data-driven performance reviews at the local, state, and federal level since 2007. He began as a contributor to the District of Columbia’s CAPSTAT program, then established SPEDSTAT at the District of Columbia Public Schools, and now directs the FEMAStat program at the Department of Homeland Security.

Bryan Jones, Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Analytics, U.S. Postal Service

Bryan Jones began his career with the US Postal Service in 1984 and for 17 years worked in numerous operational areas before becoming the Accounting Manager for the Northern Virginia District. In 2001 Bryan joined the USPS OIG as an auditor and during the past 13 years has worked across five functional areas in leadership positions. Bryan has led the analytics group at the USPS OIG for the past 4 years. Bryan’s wide range of experience gives him a unique perspective on the business and culture in the USPS and the USPS OIG

Kevin Shelly, Vice President, Public Sector, MarkLogic

Kevin Shelly has over 25 years of leading Sales / Business Development organizations providing Consulting Services, Systems Integration, Enterprise Software and Cloud solutions to Federal Government and State & Local Government clients.

He currently serves as Vice President of Sales for MarkLogic Public Sector, activities. MarkLogic is the only Enterprise NoSQL Database that meets the highest mission requirements of Public Sector clients. MarkLogic leads the advancement of Big Data with the first operational database technology optimized for mission-critical Big Data applications. MarkLogic enables Government customers in Civilian, Healthcare, DOD, Intel and State & Local, to arrive at better decisions faster.

Prior to joining the MarkLogic Public Sector team, Shelly has served in a variety of sales and leadership roles for companies dedicated to growing their Government business. Shelly brings a wealth of knowledge to MarkLogic as he has experience in the Enterprise software and services market with Oracle and Sybase, as well as bringing knowledge of Management Consulting and Systems integration from his tenure at KPMG / BearingPoint, where his team grew the business from $75m to over $300m. Subsequent to BearingPoint, he was SVP of Public Sector Sales at ACS, Affiliated Computer Services where he was responsible for an organization of 175 people and more than one billion dollars in Sales. Mr. Shelly resides in Oakton, Virginia, with his wife Pam. They are both active in relief and missionary work in Haiti. Shelly serves on the Board of Directors for StreetHeartsHaiti.org.

Relevant Government Agencies

Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, Intelligence Agencies, DOD & Military, Office of the President (includes OMB), Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Dept of Health & Human Services, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of Housing & Urban Development, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Justice, Dept of Labor, Dept of State, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Treasury, Dept of Veterans Affairs, EPA, GSA, USPS, SSA, NASA, Other Federal Agencies, Legislative Agencies (GAO, GPO, LOC, etc.), Judicial Branch Agencies, State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, CIA, FEMA, Office of Personnel Management, Coast Guard, National Institutes of Health, FAA, Census Bureau, USAID, National Guard Association, EEOC