Amazon QuickSight & Q User Group - Chicago Area
About this in-person Meetup
The Chicago Amazon QuickSight and Q User Group meets:
Tues, Aug 12, 1:30-4 PM CT
Amazon ORD10 Building, Rooms 14.102-14.103 (14th floor)
227 West Monroe Street
Suite 1400
Chicago, IL 60606
What to Bring
**QR code** (will be emailed to you via no-reply@sigateway.com)
-Government-issued ID
Please arrive 15-20 minutes early, with your QR code, for the check-in process.
Scroll down to bottom of email for key Building Access and Transit info.
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As Amazon QuickSight and Generative AI/BI innovators, we’ll connect each other, exchange ideas and get inspired. We want to hear your voice!
Join us at 1:30 PM CT to mingle, with the meetup activities kicking off at 1:50 PM CT.
Note: When filling out the registration form, please be sure to include your first and last name. This helps us streamline the check-in process at the venue so you can jump right into the fun without delay!
Agenda
Welcome — Alida D'costa, Sr. Business Intelligence Architect, Wavicle Data Solutions
What's New — Generative AI / BI in QuickSight — Arun Santhosh, Principal QuickSight Solution Architect, Amazon QuickSight, AWS
QuickFix: Arena Case Study — Brett Hafstad, Cloud Engineer, West Loop Strategy
Reimagining Analytics: Migration Journey to QuickSight - Divya Konduri, Technical Program Manager II and Saloni Jain, Sr. BIE, AWS Marketing
BREAK
Open Forum — 15 minutes of sharing — moderator: Brett Hafstad, Cloud Engineer, West Loop Strategy
What would make a successful Chicago User Group? What would you love to see?
Empowering Insight: Personalize Your Dashboards in Real Time with QuickSight — John Hill Escobar, Assistant Director - Data Scientist, Moody's Analytics
Q Evolution — Kevin Carlson, Sr Mgr, Q Business/QuickSight Incubation, AWS
Learning Resources via the QuickSight Community — Kristin Mandia, Sr. Online Community Manager, AWS
Next Steps, survey, staying connected — Hrishikesh Puzhankara, Sr. Data Engineering Architect, Wavicle Data Solutions
Join our LinkedIn Group to stay up to date!
Also, we are looking for additional Chicago User Group Leaders. If you are interested, let us know!
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Building Access
Guests enter via W Monroe Street. Visit building reception desk (closest to Monroe Street)on 1st floor with the QR code emailed to you from no-reply@sigateway.com. Then, take the escalators (DO NOT take the elevators) to the 2nd floor and scan the QR code at the turnstiles. Take the elevator to the Amazon reception on the 14th floor and head past the reception to rooms 14.102-14.103 (follow the hallway behind and to the right of the reception desk). Check in at the room.
Transit
Driving / Parking:
Enter the garage, which is under the building, from 227 West Monroe Street. Pull a parking ticket at the entrance, which you will can validate (available only to first-come first-served, while validations last) at the Amazon reception desk.
For more economical parking options (once validations are no longer available), reserve through the SpotHero app for:
-227 W Monroe St. - The Franklin Garage
-10 S Wells St. - Poetry Garage
Once parked, take the elevator to the 1st floor to check in at the building reception desk. Follow the "Building Access" instructions above.
After the event, from the 227 West Monroe parking garage, drive to the exit gate and scan the original parking ticket followed by the chaser sticker validation (opposite side of the ticket) to exit. Validation only available first-come first-served while supplies last.
Buses:
· 37 - Stop at Wells & Monroe (174 ft walk)
· 22 - Stop at Clark & Adams (0.3 mi walk)
· 156 - Stop at LaSalle & Madison (0.2 mi walk)
· 20 - Stop at Washington & Franklin (0.2 mi walk)
· 56 - Stop at Washington & Franklin (0.2 mi walk)
· 126 - Stop at Jackson & Franklin (0.2 mi walk)
· J14 - Stop at Madison & LaSalle (0.2 mi walk)
· 130 - Stop at Adams & Wells (0.1 mi walk)
Trains:
· Blue Line - Stop at Monroe (0.3 mi walk)
· Red Line - Stop at Monroe (0.4 mi)
· Loop - Stop at Washington/Wells (0.2 mi walk)
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Questions? / Lost
Contact Amazon Reception at (312) 256-0600 or Amazon local contact at (847) 652-2357. You can also email awsgirib@amazon.com if you have any questions.