Dr. Joe Perez
Award-winning International Keynote Speaker / Senior Systems Analyst / 2021 Thought Leader of the Year / Fractional CTO / Innovation Specialist (Bringing Data to Life and Life to Data!)
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Having received advanced degrees in secondary education, Joe began a ten-year career as an educator. While in that career, he furthered his graduate education, earning a doctorate in education with a double-minor in computers and theology. His career focus changed to IT in the early 1990’s when he started as a Computer Consultant at NC State University. Three promotions later, Dr. Perez ended his successful 25-year career at NC State as Business Intelligence Specialist when he took another promotion to become Senior Business Analyst at the NC Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) in the fall of 2017 and has since been promoted to Senior Systems Analyst and Team Lead. In addition to his full-time analytics/BI leadership role at DHHS, Joe was named Chief Technology Officer at a North Carolina corporation in October 2020. A published author with more than 14,000 followers on LinkedIn and several professional certifications, Perez has stayed active in the IT, HHS, and higher education communities as a much sought-after resource, highly-recommended international keynote speaker, data analytics & visualization expert, and specialist in efficiency and process improvement. Perez, a recipient of the IOT Industry Insights 2021 Thought Leader of the Year award, speaks at dozens of conferences each year (with a record-breaking 42 in 2021), and continues to be in high demand to this day, expanding his reach into more than twenty countries around the globe, impacting thousands. This has resulted in his being inducted into the prestigious Thought Leader communities at DataManagementU and the Global AI Hub.
Through the years, Dr. Perez has never lost his love for teaching, having been a guest speaker for many organizations and internationally-recognized podcasts. When he takes a break from work and speaking, he enjoys spending time with his wife of more than 30 years and their children, whom he says are the "best things that ever happened to me." He also sings, plays the piano, composes songs, and has performed PSA's and voice-overs for schools and other organizations. He also serves as speaker, interpreter, and music director to his church’s Hispanic ministry. If there is any spare time left, he enjoys publishing a widely-acclaimed monthly military newsletter (as Editor-in-Chief of The Patriot News), working out in the gym, and catching up on Star Trek reruns. "It's a busy life indeed, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. I’m a firm believer that if I’m not innovating, then I’m stagnating," says Joe. If you need an experienced, dynamic keynote speaker for your event, Dr. Joe Perez is the right choice.
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Avoiding Death by PowerPoint: The Four "Essential E's" of Dynamic Speaking
A recent UCLA study found that for the most effective communication, 36% of the message comes from your voice, 57% of the message comes from your nonverbal communication, and only the remaining 7% comes from your content. This suggests more time should be spent on preparing one's delivery than developing great content. To that point, have you ever endured a flat, lifeless presentation from a speaker that droned on & on without saying anything you'd ever remember? Watching paint dry is more interesting! The only thing worse? When you're the one who was behind the podium and is now reading a negative, scathing review from a dissatisfied attendee upon whom you bestowed "Death by PowerPoint."
Do you want to break the mold, capture the attention of your listeners, rise above the mundane, and leave them asking for more? Have you imagined yourself being known as a thought-leader? Are you aware that what you present could impact how well someone does their job, or ease some of their burden, or improve their outlook on life, or bring some new & improved insight? In this session, I intend to show you principles that could revolutionize your speaking style. See the three personalities you want to shy away from as you adopt the four "Essential E's" of dynamic speaking, thereby avoiding Death by PowerPoint.
𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨: The participant/attendee will…
⋆ Explore and define techniques for improving delivery of presentation
⋆ Determine the most efficient way to adapt, adopt, or be adept
⋆ Identify and examine four desired outcomes (the “Essential E’s”) for one’s audience
⋆ Discover three undesirable personalities and resolve not to emulate them
Driving Decisions with Data: Delight or Disaster?
Albert Einstein has been quoted as saying, “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” Whether Einstein actually said this or not, he certainly embodied the sentiment by recognizing the value of using data to drive decisions. In fact, recent Forbes and TechJury studies have estimated that more data was created in a single minute in 2020 than the data created during Einstein’s entire life. How can all that data be put to use? Should it be driving our decision-making? To that point, in a 2018 Forrester survey of more than a thousand US companies, 91% of them said that data-driven decision-making was important to their business, while only 57% said they actually used data to make decisions in their business.
How do we bridge this gap? What do KPIs have to do with ROI? How do you get from being in “data denial” to being data driven? Why should you even care? This session will answer those questions and much more. Come see the relevance of the four V’s of Big Data. Discover three types of cognitive biases and how they are the enemies of opportunity. Are qualitative and quantitative data opposed to each other, or can they be friends? With regards to best practices for driving business decisions with data, find out how you should LOOK, LINK, LISTEN, LEVERAGE, and LEARN -- and how to make it all a delight rather than a disaster.
𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨: The participant/attendee will...
* Recognize how to leverage both qualitative data and quantitative data in driving business decision-making
* Identify the three types of cognitive biases in big data and how they’re the enemy of opportunity
* Define the five best practices for driving business decisions with data along with the key words for each one (look, link, listen, leverage, and learn)
Bringing Data to L.I.F.E. and Life to Data
What does it mean to bring data to life? Does data take on a “LIFE” of its own, or does it have to be nurtured, prodded, refined, pushed, and pulled along the way? Why should we even care? Marketing and customer experience expert Jay Baer once said, “We are surrounded by data, but starved for insight.” Although it has been said that exabytes of new information are generated on a daily basis, how much of that data is actually meaningful? Does volume necessarily translate into value? What vision can we bring to bridge this gap?
A recent study involving more than 500 IT decision makers in the US and the UK found that businesses are missing out on $5.2 million in revenue due to untapped data. Your data are only as powerful as the business decisions they fuel. In this session, discover the four “L.I.F.E.” pillars of relevant data that will bring meaning to these masses of numbers. Catch the right blend of left-brain logic and right-brain ideas. Recognize the value of answering questions you know and exploring questions you don’t know. Find out how to turn obstacles into opportunities as you bring data to L.I.F.E. and life to data.
L.I.F.E. is an acronym for this presentation that stands for the four pillars of relevant data: Legacy, Integrity, Fervency, and Efficiency.
𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨: The attendee/participant will...
• Identify and evaluate the four L.I.F.E. pillars of relevant data
• Determine the importance of blending left-brain logic and right-brain ideas
• Recognize the value of answering known and exploring unknown questions
Facilitating Innovation in a Post-COVID19 World: Cultivating a Climate for Paradigm Shift
Renaissance philosopher and writer Machiavelli has been quoted as saying, “I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.” The importance of respecting personal space and practicing impeccable hygiene aren’t the only lessons learned from COVID-19. If anything, we saw the incalculable value of innovative thinking, because that global pandemic certainly provided enormous motivation to leave the status quo behind. That said, how do you overthrow the status quo without sacrificing quality and security in the process? Learn the three key words needed (Recognize, Resolve, and Respond) to strike this delicate balance in this challenge for you to shift your paradigm, facilitate innovation, and be a catalyst for change rather than an antagonist.
Did COVID-19 make you see the need to adopt a more agile way of thinking? Where is your development strategy now? Where do you want it to be now that this worldwide crisis seems to be behind us? Do you intend to get it there by using the same methods that haven't worked? It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results. Is that how you want your legacy to be remembered? Do you project an image of being part of the problem or part of the solution? Find out how to be a catalyst for change (facilitating innovation) and NOT an antagonist (frustrating innovation). Discover three types of flexibility in leadership and work/life balance needed to make that happen in the aftermath of COVID-19.
𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨: The participant will...
⋆ Effectively RECOGNIZE characteristics and effects of change
⋆ Efficiently RESOLVE to take ownership of change (using 3 types of flexibility)
⋆ Enthusiastically demonstrate appropriate RESPONSES to embracing change
Leveraging Art and Science for Effective Data Storytelling: From Concept to Reality
Anyone can make a pretty bar graph, but can you make sound decisions based on that graph? Is it actionable, or is it only a concept? How do you turn flashy concepts into actionable visualizations? Can you see the end result of those concepts; will they ever become reality? Do you have the vision and drive to figure out how to get from today to tomorrow before it becomes yesterday?
American mathematician John Tukey once said, "The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see." What value do you see in your data? And what ideas do you have when you see it? Learn how you can capitalize on your ideas and turn them into reality by blending internal with external, leveraging them into a cohesive strategy for both the short term AND the long term. See the five "Stages of the Spectrum" in action while discovering the difference between impact and influence, and how that difference plays into making data actionable.
𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨: The participant/attendee will…
⋆ identify and recognize the five stages of the visualization spectrum in data storytelling
⋆ determine how to leverage these stages into a cohesive data visualization strategy
⋆ discover the difference between impact/influence and how that plays into making data actionable
⋆ ascertain how the four-step iterative implementation cycle works: Deploy, Discover, Discern, Develop
The Madness Behind the Method (Teaching, Coaching, or Mentoring?)
Henry Ford once said, "The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is NOT training them and having them STAY!" This quote should make you take a closer look at the relational mindset in your company by asking yourself, "How can I improve my approach to educating and retaining my staff?" That's a good question. Have you considered whether you should be pulling them or pushing them? Are you depending more on adhesion or cohesion? Is your focus on attention (teaching), adjustment (coaching), or accomplishment (mentoring)? Find out how each of those three approaches can help you get to where you want to be from where you are right now. Discover the relevance of the six nodes of the "Mad Structural Matrix" (emphasis, focus, goal, approach, summary, and relationship) when it comes to rethinking and enhancing your professional development strategy. Learn how to tell whether you have a method behind the madness, or if it's more of a madness behind the method!
𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨: The participant will...
⋆ Determine how to improve one's approach to the education and retention of staff by understanding the differences among teaching, coaching, and mentoring.
⋆ Define the five components comprising the “Structural Matrix” of these three approaches (Emphasis, Focus, Goal, Approach, and Relationship) and how to leverage them for maximum effectiveness.
⋆ Differentiate between adhesion and cohesion when attempting to enhance knowledge sharing and closing skill gaps.
Strengthening the Reach of your Business Intelligence Landscape
Do you simply talk about your Business Intelligence strategy or do you act upon it? Have you turned a one-time hit into a real initiative? Are you so focused on the front end of your applications that you've lost sight of the foundation needed in the back-end infrastructure? How does your "spectrum" measure up as a whole; how far does it reach? Where does your focus lie; on breadth or on depth? Should it be on both? Is the sky really the limit?
HCCA Compliance Institute 2022
The Madness Behind the Method
Government Innovation Texas
KEYNOTE: Topic TBD
Continuing Education Training Institute 2022
The Art of Innovation
ProcureCon Indirect East
Facilitating Innovation in a Post-COVID19 World
Developer Week 2022
KEYNOTE: Bringing Data to L.I.F.E.
20th International New Directions in the Humanities Conference
The Madness Behind the Method : Teaching, Coaching, or Mentoring?
IsraelClouds Summit
Leveraging Art & Science for Effective Data Storytelling
Transform Your Audit Summit
Data Analytics Audit Principles
DevOps Days Geneva
KEYNOTE: Driving Decisions with Data
PRSA Western District Conference
Facilitating Innovation for PR in a Post-COVID19 World
Triangle Business Analysis Development Day
Data Visualization Fundamentals for the BA: Blending Art and Science
CodeStock 2022
KEYNOTE: Facilitating Innovation in a Post-COVID19 World
Master Data Marathon 4.0
KEYNOTE: Bringing Data to L.I.F.E. and Life to Data
Ethical and Responsible AI
Keynote Panel on AI and Data Analytics
ProcureCon Contingent Staffing
KEYNOTE: Facilitating Innovation in HR
Other: Leveraging Beauty & Brains for Effective Data Storytelling
2022 Festival of Business Analysis
Driving Decisions with Data: Delight or Disaster?
The Studio Summit - Spring
Capitalizing on the Data Imperative
European Compliance & Ethics Conference
Driving Decisions with Data: Delight or Disaster?
Middle East CIO Summit
Facilitating Innovation: Cultivating a Climate for Paradigm Shift
Government Innovation California
Best Practices to Extract the Greatest Value from Public Sector Data
DevOpStars 2021 Global Summit
KEYNOTE: The Art and Science of Data Visualizations
IIBA Bluegrass Regional Symposium
KEYNOTE: Bringing Data to L.I.F.E. and Life to Data (Private Event)
AITP Regional Summit
KEYNOTE: Cultivating a Climate for Innovation (private event)
DDC .NET Developer Conference
KEYNOTE
Internet Summit Raleigh
Driving Decisions with Data: Delight or Disaster?
Field Service Connect Europe
KEYNOTE: Effective Change Management To Facilitate Innovation in the Aftermath of COVID19
KM World Connect 2021
Driving Decisions with Data: Delight or Disaster?
HoneyCon 2021
Driving Decisions with Data (virtual)
Ethics & Enterprise Assurance Leaders Conference
KEYNOTE (Private Event)
Frontier RTP Lunch & Learn Summit
KEYNOTE: Leveraging Brains and Beauty for Effective Data Storytelling
Expanding Education and EdTech Symposium
Strategic Educational Innovation in Practice
Scenic City Summit
The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data
Digital Transformation Connect Virtual
Facilitating Innovation in a Post-COVID19 World
HCCA Compliance Institute
From Concept to Reality in Data Storytelling
ACMP Texas Conference
Facilitating Innovation in a Post-COVID19 World
AFCEA TechNet Symposium
Actionable Data for Military
IASA Midwest Conference
KEYNOTE: The Brains & Beauty of Data Storytelling
IASA National Xchange
KEYNOTE: Facilitating Innovation in a Post-COVID19 World
Code PaLOUsa 2021
Facilitating Innovation Strategically
ISACA Muscat Regional Symposium
Actionable Brains and Beauty of Data Storytelling
Product Management Today Web Conference
KEYNOTE: Leveraging Brains and Beauty for Effective Data Storytelling
IIBA Bluegrass Symposium
The Beauty & Brains of Effective Data Storytelling
19th International New Directions in the Humanities Conference
Cultivating a Climate for Paradigm Shift: Facilitating Innovation in a Post-COVID19 World
BluVector Cyber Symposium
KEYNOTE: The Beauty & Brains of Actionable Data (PRIVATE EVENT)
Small Business Expo Nashville
The Madness Behind the Method: Teaching, Coaching, or Mentoring? (ONLINE)
Predictive Analytics World Healthcare
(VIRTUAL) The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: From Concept to Reality
Healthcare Innovation Forum
KEYNOTE: Cultivating a Climate for Paradigm Shift and Innovation (ONLINE)
SAS Virtual Global Forum 2021
The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data
International Conference on Information Management and Industrial Engineering
The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: From Concept to Reality
DevOps Pro Europe
KEYNOTE: Facilitating Innovation in a Post COVID-19 World
Data Summit Connect
OPENING KEYNOTE: The Beauty & Brains of Actionable Data
Enterprise Virtual Data World 2021
KEYNOTE: Facilitating Innovation in a Post-COVID19 World
Big Data / Actionable Insights Forum
ONLINE: Data-Driven Decision Making: From Concept to Reality with Beauty & Brains
DataScience GO Virtual 2021
KEYNOTE: The Beauty & Brains of Data Storytelling
UNC MBA Healthcare Analytics Forum 2021
KEYNOTE: Practical and Actionable Data Storytelling for MBA's
Master Data Marathon II
ONLINE - Driving Decisions with Data: Delight or Disaster?
NC HIMSS Springing into Informatics Symposium
KEYNOTE: The "STEP"s of Informatics (ONLINE)
IASA Exchange Lite 2021
ONLINE - From Conceptualization to Visualization
TEXAAN Virtual Conference 2021
ONLINE - The Madness Behind the Method: Teaching, Coaching, or Mentoring?
AFCEA Virtual Lunch Symposium
KEYNOTE: The Beauty and Brains of Big Data Storytelling
ConTEST NYC2020
ONLINE - Facilitating Innovation with a Paradigm Shift
DataCATED Confernce
ONLINE - Ten Minutes on Concept to Reality!
DevFest Siberia 2020
From Concept to Reality with Actionable Data
HIMSS NC Annual Conference
Data Storytelling in the Healthcare Industry
KM World Connect Virtual
Do you Facilitate Innovation or Frustrate It?
HoneyCon 2020
The Beauty and Brains of Data Visualization
Retail CIO Summit
Closing Keynote: The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data in the Retail Industry
IIBA Business Analysis Professional Week
Strategizing with Data from Concept to Reality
Enterprise Data World
Online: How Data Visualization Makes Data Actionable
Building Business Capability (BBC 2020)
From Concept to Reality with Actionable Data
HCCA Hawaii Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference
Cultivating a Climate for Paradigm Shift
NCHICA Annual Conference
Online: Practical Applications of Actionable Data
2020 Tri-State SHRM Conference
The Madness Behind the Method (Teaching, Coaching, or Mentoring?)
8.8 Computer Security Conference
Opening Keynote: Facilitating Innovation in a Post-COVID19 World
18th International New Directions in the Humanities Conference
Cultivating a Climate for Paradigm Shift: Catalyst or Antagonist?
QUT Business Analytics Virtual Symposium
KEYNOTE: From Concept to Reality for Business Analytics
Continuing Education Training Institute 2020
Strategize with Data from Concept to Implementation
IEEE Digital Libraries Webinar
KEYNOTE: Practical Application for Actionable Data: From Concept to Reality
Applied Analytics Webinar (New Zealand / Online)
KEYNOTE: Visualizing and Reporting Data: From Concept to Reality
HCCA Compliance Institute Webinar
KEYNOTE: A Practical Application of Actionable Data
UNC MBA Healthcare Analytics Forum
KEYNOTE: Practical and Actionable Analytics for MBA's
SAS Global Forum 2020
Making Data Actionable: From Concept to Reality
BI+Analytics Conference
From Concept to Reality with Actionable Data
Convey UX 2020
From Concept to Reality with Actionable Data
Applied Data Visualization Healthcare Conference
A Visualization is Worth a Thousand Words - Data Storytelling in the Healthcare Industry (Opening Keynote)
FAME Conference (FL Association of Media Educators)
Making Data Actionable: From Concept to Reality
Cloud Data Summit 2019
Immerse yourself with the platforms which make modern Data Science and Machine Learning possible. Join your peers to see how their data platforms knocked down the old barriers and transformed how they work.
Association of Information Technology Professionals
Practical Application of Actionable Data (Keynote)
Global Innovation Summit
Embracing Change and Facilitating Innovation
MDM Data Governance Summit
Making Data Actionable: From Concept to Visualization
CDO Executive Summit
Cultivating a Climate for Paradigm Shift: Catalyst or Antagonist?
Premier CIO Forum
Cultivating a Climate for Paradigm Shift: Catalyst or Antagonist?
2016 AIR Forum
Best Practices for Institutional Data Responses to NSF Surveys
Dr. Joe Perez
Award-winning International Keynote Speaker / Senior Systems Analyst / 2021 Thought Leader of the Year / Fractional CTO / Innovation Specialist (Bringing Data to Life and Life to Data!)
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States