This seminar focuses on how we can effectively deal with emerging trends from a cultural, political, and personal perspective.

E. O. Wilson, a two time Pulizer prize winner said, ‘We are Drowning in Data, yet starving for Wisdom’. Data is growing exponentially, in volume, usages, and new technologies. This creates a great need to deal effectively with these changes.

For example, ‘Big Data’ is spreading way beyond just Hadoop into mobile apps, connected cars, wearables like FitBit, Smart Meters, and more. New capabilities are shaking up complete industries such as the ability, on a daily basis, to gather pedabtyes of information via IoT devices that are multiplying exponentially. Data governance and data security issues are rapidly growing with the increasing number of devices and amount of information. Machine learning is far outpacing human learning according to many reports.

Human instinct is often to resist change, even though change is inevitable. What can we do? Be prepared. Be informed - not only from a technology perspective but also from a human factors perspective.

This seminar/tutorial will provide tools, techniques and exercises regarding organizational change management and how we can apply these to emerging trends in data. It will provide an overview of what is happening today, what experts are predicting in the future and critical behavioral tools that we can use to move forward productively and with actionable insight.

You will learn:

• What’s are some emerging trends in data
• What is happening below the tip of the iceberg regarding human behavior
• Many important human behavior tools and techniques to effectively manage change such as understanding why people act as they do, how to realize underlying intentions and come to shared purpose, trust and connection models, conflict management tools, and communication tools to effectively influence outcomes. 
• How to practically apply these tools via Interactive, fun and insightful exercises