Banking and Financial Services executives need to convert the embarrassingly rich amount of data at their disposal into real time insights, for improving the customer experience and maximizing operational efficacy. Yet many business analysts and data scientists in financial services struggle with data silos, outdated infrastructure, and operationalizing artificial intelligence and machine learning. Join Jerry Silva, Vice President for IDC Financial Insights, for a discussion around the industry drivers of transformation, the acceleration of innovation, and some of the structural, organizational, and technical challenges facing financial services firms on their journey towards becoming data-driven and analytically focused. Jerry will provide essential guidance for how organizations can modernize their analytics infrastructure, unify disparate data sources, reduce time to insight, and deploy AI & ML models in production.