Thursday 5 March
Pre-Programme Agenda - Wednesday 4 March
Matt is Splunk's Head of Marketing for EMEA (and part time Chief Colouring-In Officer). He's responsible for developing and executing marketing strategy for all of Splunk's core platforms in EMEA, working closely with Splunk customers to help them understand the value that new insights from machine data can deliver to their business. Matt is also one of Splunk's technical evangelists and communicates Splunk's go to market strategy in the region. Previously Matt has worked at Cordys, Oracle/BEA, Elata, Broadquay Consulting, iPlanet/Sun, Netscape and IBM. With nearly 20 years in the software industry, Matt has extensive knowledge of enterprise IT systems. Matt can be found on LinkedIn.
James Hodge is the Chief Technologist for EMEA at Splunk with a specific focus on driving business outcomes on Splunk’s data platform. Prior to moving to the Customer Success organisation James worked in the product management team leading Splunk’s Big Data and Analytics product strategy with a specific focus on the Hadoop and open source analytics ecosystem. Before Splunk James carried out a variety of service delivery and sales engineering roles at HP Autonomy and i2 IBM with a focus on large data analytics projects within the public sector. Focusing on data ethics and digital transformation is one of James’ passions and he chairs TechUK’s Data Analytics and AI Council. James is committed to driving a diverse workforce and devotes time to Splunk’s values by engaging with European Women in Tech events; promoting social inclusion and making Splunk an inclusive place to work. In addition to working at Splunk James spends time advising startups on how to leverage data as a competitive edge whilst keeping focus on simplifying technology architectures. James can be found on LinkedIn.
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Our optional pre-programme agenda will include:
Date: Wednesday 4th March
Time: 16:30-21:30
Location: Intercontinental London – The O2
Join us for a pre-SplunkLive! Boss of the SOC (BOTS), a blue-team capture the flag-esque competition hosted by Splunk. As a contestant, you will explore and investigate realistic event data in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security.
During the competition, you'll practice your security skills and compete against peers for prizes and bragging rights. Players will be given a series of questions of varying type and difficulty and points are awarded for both accuracy and speed. Competitors will gain a stronger and more realistic understanding of their strengths regarding incident investigations. In addition, the results will highlight areas for training and education.
Compete with other Splunk Security Ninjas team for the ultimate crown of UK BOTS Champions for 2020.
Note: Contestants are encouraged to sign up in teams of up to four for the best chance to become the Boss of the SOC! Once registered, you will be sent another email to input your team details. Unable to make a full team? Don’t worry, we’ll add you to a team with other fellow Splunk Security enthusiasts.
Not sure if BOTS is right for you? Check out this blog to learn
everything you need to know about BOTS.
Date: Wednesday 4th March
Time: 16:30-21:30
Location: Intercontinental London – The O2
Join us for a Boss of the NOC (BOTN) competition hosted by Splunk where teams of four compete against one another to solve five simulated scenarios they would normally face in their everyday IT life. We encourage contestants to sign up in teams of (up to) four for the best chance to become the Boss of the NOC! You will be competing for prizes and bragging rights. The five scenarios the teams can tackle in any order are:
➜ My homepage won’t load..?
➜ I can’t get to the CMS!
➜ The network seems slow....
➜ All my files are lost, HELP!
➜ Nobody can place any orders on our site!
So, bring your out-of-the-box thought process and your can-do attitude for a fun for all event brought to you by the Splunk ITOA Specialist team.
Note: Contestants are encouraged to sign up in teams of up to four for the best chance to become the Boss of the NOC! Once registered, you will be sent another email to input your team details. Unable to make a full team? Don’t worry, we’ll add you to a team with other fellow ITOA.
Date: Wednesday 4th March
Time: 13:30-16:00
Location: Intercontinental London – The O2
Your wish has come true! Hosted by our SE team, #Splunk4Rookies sessions are a great opportunity for you to discover the value of Splunk hands-on in a matter of hours.
What's Involved:
➜ Create your own Splunk distributed environment
➜ Collect & index data
➜ Search & statistics
➜ Creation of interactive dashboards
Who should attend? Sessions are designed for Splunk beginners, whether your organisation is just starting to consider using Splunk or you have just joined a team of Splunk Ninjas and need to understand the basics, Splunk4Rookies is for you.
What you bring: Your laptop with a browser that can access external websites.
Date: Wednesday 4th March
Time: 08:30-17:00
Location: Intercontinental London – The O2
Splunk University is a pre-SplunkLive! educational training program (fees apply). We will be running three in-person courses on Wednesday 4th March. These courses are:
➜ Creating Dashboards with Splunk 8.0
➜ Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise 8.0
➜ Working with Metrics in Splunk 8.0
For further information on these courses, please click here
This session will cover our vision for 2020 and beyond with customer case study presentations from Airbus, Bank of England and Lloyds Banking Group.
It is not the strongest of the IT species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” This sentence could have been ascribed to Darwin. Monitoring is evolving into Observability. This new approach is about finding the “unknown unknowns” that impact your business, your SLAs and your critical applications. Join us to discuss about:
Attend this session to learn what Splunk offers for detecting cyber threats - on premise and in the cloud. Join us as we:
Machine learning has the potential to be a force for good by delivering unique insights into some of the worlds most complex data sets. As reported in our “State of Dark Data” study many of our customers believe that they have a skills and understanding gap when it comes to AI. In this talk we will examine some examples of where machine learning in Splunk has been applied to deliver a positive impact and also discuss some of the guidance we are drafting with our partners on how these types of techniques can be used an assessed.
Aimed at business and technology leaders to show how they can make better better business decisions, faster using the power of data.
In a world of increasing complexity, it’s more important than ever to understand the wider context whilst moving at speed.
Make better decisions, faster with Splunk.
According to PWC’s 22nd Annual Global CEO Survey, 85% of CEOs agree that Artificial Intelligence will significantly change the way they do business in the next five years. In fact, almost two-thirds of global CEOs see it as being “bigger than the internet”, but what lies behind the promises (and fears) of AI and how can it be deployed alongside machine learning for IT operations and improved business process strategy?
Join this session to learn about ways to prioritize your security alerts and anomalies that your threat detection program delivers. We will;
Splunk is like an iceberg, on the surface we see the major components: indexers, search heads, license master, cluster master but under the water line we have a huge number of forwarders collecting and aggregating data streams. These forwarders are the foundations of any installation and configuration issues translate into problems with alerts, search performance, cluster stability and scaling out. This talk shows you to various ways to measure the efficiency of data collection and how to improve it. Prepare for lots of complex searches to identify common problems and charts that show good and bad. The talk aims to revolutionise how you think about forwarders and data collection in Splunk and turbo charge your platform performance and improve stability.
Hear from other customers about their challenges, how they successfully overcame them, and how Splunk helped individuals achieve greatness within their organisation.
Operational teams in lines of business, like finance, manufacturing, marketing, or customer service are looking for the same benefits of Splunk that IT and Security team have enjoyed for years. With the rapid digitization of nearly every business process, Splunk can identify millions of dollars in operational efficiencies by helping detect customer fallout and process bottlenecks. Built-in reports from applications don’t provide the broad visibility needed to understand end-to-end processes. Meanwhile, basic process mining approaches don’t provide deeper root cause diagnosis. Splunk Business Flow has the unique ability to provide continuous insights on and diagnosis of end-to-end customer journeys and business processes. In this session, learn how Splunk’s innovations in automated process mining can empower your operational business users with in-depth visibility into customer funnels and business processes to dramatically reduce fallout and bottlenecks.
Dashboards and glasstables enable faster and more accurate decision making. It’s about communication and selecting the right visualization for the right information. We will share the top 10 principles and best practices from UX and Data Visualization designers, see how to structure information, select the right visualization/chart, add context and more. You are already delivering meaningful insights using Splunk, we will help you show it to the world using only PowerPoint, Google, and Splunk ITSI. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove.“– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We’re undergoing constant transformation. At Splunk, 2019 was certainly a big year, with some major new products releases and significant acquisitions. Looking into 2020 and beyond, we are certainly going to continue this trend of strategic technology investment and architecture evolution. This session’s aim is to highlight Splunk platform evolutionary approach to address key technology trends. Additionally, many customers are adopting Serverless cloud services to deliver their cloud solutions. This session will include a live demo of a new library of functions which provides Google Cloud Platform (GCP) serverless “push” capability to send data into Splunk, via HTTP Event Collector (HEC).
Join this session to learn how you can scale your incident investigation and response efforts by automating repeatable tasks. We will;
Hear from a panel of experts talk about data ethics and transformation, the security landscape in 2025 and a customer-centric approach to everything.
SOC investment strategies require not only significant funding but also the right combination or people, process and technology. Forward thinking organisations not only want to build leading edge monitoring, detection and response capabilities but next generation platforms to support wider business need and heightened connectivity to the business. Splunk will share considerations to leverage existing and emergent technologies to scale the reach of security operations past traditional security goals and help leaders demonstrate organisational value and ROI