With around a million people interacting with the public transport in and around the city of Amsterdam daily, supplying accurate travel information is critical for an efficient and well-informed public transportation experience. With four different transport types (boat, bus, tram, and metro) and a host of custom systems creating around 4.5 million update events per day, analyzing this travel information depends on everything working seamlessly together. To provide accurate and trustworthy real-time passenger information services, monitoring of not only information availability but quality is needed. This use case shows how Splunk was implemented to monitor the data streams at all points in the information chain, and how real-time insights and alerting allows for proactive problem resolution and provides high-quality real-time information services for the end-user.

Speaker(s)
Simon Ric - Hansen, Data Analyst, DITP

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IOT1442.pdf?podcast=1577146263

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=1577146263

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=1577146263

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=1577146263

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=1577146263

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=1577146263

Splunk is increasingly at the forefront of new approaches to IT Operations, especially in disruptive ‘cloud-native’ businesses. This session will help you understand how ‘New Ops’ techniques like Observability, Site Reliability Engineering, SLOs/SLIs, Error Budgets, ChatOps, and Blameless Post-Mortems can help your IT Ops team; and how you can adopt ‘New Ops’ technologies like Containers, Microservice Architectures, Machine Learning, Orchestration, Predictive Analytics, and AI for IT Ops.

Speaker(s)
Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate, Splunk
Endre Peterfi, Staff Sales Engineer, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT1448.pdf?podcast=1577146263

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=1577146263

Many of the talks at .conf will be around how to solve business problems, how to configure clusters, and how to improve your KPIs. This talk focuses instead on how to monitor and detect problems in the physical realm: IoT. What do you do when an agency's or business's security posture is a matter of life and death? What are they doing to equip themselves against cyberattacks? This talk will discuss previous security breaches and industrial IoT device failures that result in death, and how they could have been detected or prevented with Splunk. It also will give you actionable takeaway's for you to implement. After all, security isn't always saving dollars; sometimes it is actually about saving lives.

Speaker(s)
Katie Brown, Senior Solutions Engineer, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IOT1935.pdf?podcast=1577146263

If you’re not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind! One of the key challenges within any state government agency is ensuring system and application performance, SLA enforcement, secure operations, and adhering to strict federal and state compliance mandates, all while operating with limited budgets and staff. With help from Splunk, Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies manage systems that issue public benefits to citizens, maintain child welfare, enforce child support, and monitor public health. Come to this session to learn how to leverage Splunk to help you understand the "complete picture" of your systems and business processes to help your team move toward proactive management and increase customer satisfaction within your governmental applications. Create something useful from millions and billons of lines of log data to improve your application!

Speaker(s)
Josh Scheurer, System Architect, State of Michigan
Amy Hundley, Deputy Director for Field Operations Administration, State of Michigan - DHHS’, State of Michigan
Sanjay Srivastava, Division Director (Eligibility) , Department of Technology Management and Budget, State of Michigan

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT2202.pdf?podcast=1577146263