Solar generation and energy storage is dramatically dropping in cost and is being deployed on a massive scale across the globe. However, system monitoring and diagnostics, cost reporting, and usage can be difficult. With Splunk Essentials for ICS (Industrial Control Systems) and Splunk IAI (Industrial Asset Intelligence), a smart energy solution easily can be created. Does it seem too hard to onboard data? See how we use the Splunk add-on builder to create technology add-ons for solar panels and batteries. Want better visibility? Using Splunk IAI, we can gain faster insights into the performance of solar panels, inverters, and battery systems. Want to understand the economics? By applying business analytics, we can easily report of revenue, costs, and total return on investment. This solution can be applied to both small and large solar and energy storage installations, and we have a real world use case with some exciting energy data!

Speaker(s)
Dean Jackson, Staff Sales Engineer, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IoT2026.pdf?podcast=1577146230

Site Reliability Engineering: Easy to say, harder to do. It can be especially difficult to make sure that all of tenants of SRE are applied to the services you support in a way that is easy for your engineers to adopt. In this session, we will take a look at how you can use Splunk's ITSI, VictorOps and Phantom platforms to make robust solutions that can help your teams consistently solve complex problems and mature their services.

Speaker(s)
Chris Crocco, Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT1046.pdf?podcast=1577146230

Have you ever wondered how people with disabilities use Splunk ? Ever wondered what it would be like to perform searches in Splunk using a screen reader or a speech recognition application ? Then come to this session to learn about the enhancements made to the Splunk platform that makes it easy to use with assistive technology tools. We will delve into the experience of performing investigation in Splunk using a screen reader and discuss the enhancements made to the platform to make this a superior experience. You will learn about the work we are doing at Splunk to address compliance to the WCAG, Section 508, and EN 301 549 accessibility standards. Finally you will hear how our customers are using Splunk with assistive technology tools to accomplish their day-to-day work.

Speaker(s)
Kumar Varun, Sr. Product Manager, Splunk
Sean Kugler, Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1986.pdf?podcast=1577146230

DevOps adoption requires high performing teams. One of the biggest challenges organizations have when adopting a DevOps framework is how to get early wins, get value early in the process, and overcome plateaus in adoption. These improvements are typically achieved through the use of automation, improved responsiveness, better situational awareness, and increased sharing between teams. As you will see in this session, Splunk easily sits in the middle of all of this.

Speaker(s)
Josh Atwell, Sr Technology Advocate, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT1717.pdf?podcast=1577146230

Business General Aviation (BGA) relies on multiple critical communications services, operating in flawless concert, for a safe and successful flight.  In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) is a critical BGA cabin service driving the industry. Learn how SatCom Direct is using Splunk to capture and cross-correlate live KPI feeds from various sources such as aircraft flight dynamics, satellites and ground stations to provide the ultimate in-air experience from a single aircraft to an entire managed fleet. Armed with Splunk, Satcom Direct can immediately detect and work to restore any service impacting events and from the same data, develop improved insights for ongoing performance enhancements. From the executive suite to the operations battleground, come learn how Splunk leverages data and insights at the speed of flight.

Speaker(s)
Q Damiano, Sr. Engineer, Systems Architecture, Satcom Direct
Bill Babilon, USAF Account Executive and Splunk Solutions Architect, Splunk
Paul Jeffery, Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IOT1937.pdf?podcast=1577146230

This session will cover how to overcome any missing insights in services and processes in Splunk Cloud. You'll learn how to develop alerts and dashboards to show performance and infrastructure health, and an API framework to retrieve data from the cloud infrastructure. We also will show you how to automate retrieval of all entry points to the Splunk on-premises infrastructure, and monitor connections to the intermediate forwarders, deployment servers, HEC and DBX servers, and syslog. In addition, we will address the lack of standardization principles for your on-premises Splunk Infrastructure, how to create gold standard alerts and dashboards, and how to create scripted inputs to gather system information. Finally, we will show you how to address the lack of a centralized view for managing your Splunk deployment server infrastructure, and how to automate the retrieval of deployment clients, server classes, and TA’s from deployment servers and feed the output to Splunk Cloud.

Speaker(s)
Ray Mateo, Solutions Engineer, Liberty Mutual
Michael Anderson, Senior Software Engineer, Liberty IT

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1995.pdf?podcast=1577146230

Wouldn’t you love to be able to give students at your university some hands-on experience with Splunk so they have a tangible skill to add to their resume when they’re looking for jobs? What if we told you that two universities on opposite sides of the United States have partnered with Splunk4Good and Splunk Mobile and done just that. The University of Connecticut and Seattle University are working together on sustainability efforts at aquaponics facilities around the globe and collecting data from them. During this talk you will learn some useful tools, tips, and tricks for how they got there, and how you can get your university enabled with Splunk4Good. Finally, we’ll talk about what you can do to teach students about Splunk and sustainability, and why that’s so important in 2019.

Speaker(s)
Ryan O'Connor, Senior Advisory Engineer, Splunk
Hunter Mason, Electrical Engineering Student, Seattle University

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IOT1401.pdf?podcast=1577146230

As one of the world's largest and most trusted industrial brands, our customers demand the most technologically advanced and reliable systems to operate the most critical assets on the planet. Downtime for our customers is never an option. As we migrate our business delivery backbone to the cloud, we have to enforce the same level of reliability and performance on the architecture that supports our services - .9999 is failure where we live. In this presentation learn how ABB Digital and Splunk have collaborated to create new insights into the performance, security and operations of our Azure-backed ABB Digital IOT Platform to protect our brand and increase the velocity of services that we can bring to our internal customers and to those that invest in our ABB branded services.

Speaker(s)
Ravi Prattipati, Chief Architect, ABB Inc

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IoT2578.pdf?podcast=1577146230

Last year at .conf18 we used Splunk and Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) to analyze and predict the crime in London. This year we are taking a step forward and analyzing the bias in the police actions in the U.K. We will use police, population, religion, and race data to understand how police use their powers in different areas on people from different racial backgrounds. We will use open data sources and index them in Splunk. Using advanced visualizations we will analyze the data and understand more about police actions. Then using MLTK we will create a predictive model for crimes and then analyze the model for any bias due to the data provided. Machine bias is a real issue nowadays when machine learning algorithms are increasingly being used by government agencies to predict crime and even pass sentences on convicts. We need to understand that along with having positive impact of predicting crime, it can have a long-lasting negative impact as well.

Speaker(s)
Shashank Raina, Professional Services Consultant, NCC Group

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1679.pdf?podcast=1577146230

IBM i systems are used by many customers in a number of industries such as banking, retail, transportation and hospitality. Splunk is a perfect tool for consolidating and analyzing event, security, performance, and application data from these critical IBM i systems. Having a single and complete view of infrastructure data allows operations, security, and performance analysts to quickly identify and correlate operational, security, and performance issues. Syncsort Ironstream™ for Splunk can easily capture the needed event, security, and performance data in real time. Detailed performance data from these IBM i systems combined with Splunk’s machine learning algorithms can provide a new degree of confidence in capacity planning.

Speaker(s)
Brian Brake , Senior System Engineer, Cox Automotive
Chip Sutton, Director of Software Development, Syncsort

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT1990.pdf?podcast=1577146230