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Automation is when a process that was historically executed manually is now executed using technology to process steps with minimal to no manual intervention. At Discover, we use a number of automation tools to automate processes, which reduces risk and removes tedious, low-value work to free up employee capacity for higher value work.
TECH | AUTOMATION
Banking Automation Summit Recap: 4 Key Takeaways to Enhance Organizational Efficiency
PEOPLE
Meet Sathishkumar Palanisamy | Expert Enterprise Architect
TECH | CLOUD
How Prioritizing Training and Mentorship Retains Talent
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ChiWitCon 2025
April 17, 2025 | Past Event | Chicago, Illinois
Join Discover at ChiWitCon, a gathering of women professionals, technologists and innovators from Chicago and beyond.
  • Cloud
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TECH | AUTOMATION
3 Keys to Unlocking Operational Efficiency: Automation, AI & Modernization
Sathishkumar Palanisamy | April 29, 2025
Learn how automation, AI, and technology modernization efforts will increase operational efficiency in your organization.
  • Automation
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Cloud Nirvana Chicago: Transformation Unplugged
March 27, 2025 | Past Event | Chicago, Illinois
Join leaders from across industries to learn about how they are transforming their technology stacks and modernizing to the cloud.
  • Cloud
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Women Impact Tech: 2025 Chicago Accelerate Conference
April 17, 2025 | Past Event | Chicago, Illinois
Join women technologists, engineers, and leaders for a day of learning, community, and career advancement.
  • Cloud
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Grace Hopper Celebration 2024
October 08, 2024 | Past Event | Philadelphia + Virtual
Join us for the world’s largest tech conference for women and nonbinary people. Discover engineers will be leading a workshop on open source accessibility technology.
  • Open Source
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Event Replay: Windy City Tech Connect 2024
October 23, 2024 | Past Event | Chicago, Illinois
Join Discover and Google Cloud for an intimate engagement with the diverse Chicago tech community, talking about AI and generative AI, a DE&I panel discussion and more.
  • Cloud
  • Video
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PEOPLE
Meet Discover Technology Apprentice Chaka Smith
By Discover Technology Staff | July 15, 2024
Meet Chaka Smith, an automation apprentice at Discover Chatham Technology Hub.
  • Application Development
  • Video
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Jax London 2024
September 30, 2024 | Past Event | London, England
Join us for Jax London, the conference for Java and software innovation. Discover is a sponsor of the event.
  • Open Source
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Afrotech Conference 2024
November 13, 2024 | Past Event | Houston, TX
Get ready for the global gathering of inclusive tech companies and innovators November 2024 in the heart of Houston, TX.
  • Open Source
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2024 Society of Women Engineers
October 24, 2024 | Past Event | Chicago, Illinois
Join us at the world's largest conference for women in engineering and technology.
  • Open Source
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SHPE 2024
October 30, 2024 | Past Event | Anaheim, CA
Join us for the 50th Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers conference. Discover is a sponsor of the event.
  • Open Source
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TECH | CLOUD
Discover Taps Keith Nielsen as Its Next Distinguished Engineer
By Discover Technology Staff | November 13, 2023
Keith Nielsen was recently recognized as a Discover Distinguished Engineer. Hear how his storied career earned him this distinction.
  • Cloud
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TECH | AUTOMATION
How to Make Your Developer Organization More Efficient
Emily Mitchell | November 09, 2023
Learn how developer-focused initiatives has helped Discover automate or eliminate more than 100,000 hours of developer toil.
  • Automation
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Event Replay: Windy City Tech Connect
November 06, 2023 | Past Event | Chicago, Illinois
Join Discover and industry partners Red Hat, Pluralsight, Avanade, and 1871 for an intimate engagement with the diverse Chicago tech community.
  • Cloud
  • Video
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PEOPLE
Meet Maureen Osborne | Associate Automation Engineer
By Discover Technology Staff | October 15, 2023
Meet Maureen Osborne, Call center agent turned budding technologist.
  • Automation
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TECH | AUTOMATION
Recap: 3Q 2023 Automation Roundtable Conversation Hosted by Discover
David Lyons | October 09, 2023
In our most recent automation roundtable, people across industries came together to talk about recent automation headlines, AI at Discover, implementing large language models, analysis of alternatives, and more.
  • Automation
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TECH | CLOUD
Angel Diaz Named to HITEC 100 List
By Discover Technology Staff | August 18, 2023
Angel Diaz was named a winner in the esteemed 2024 HITEC 100 list honoring the most influential and distinguished Hispanic professionals in technology.
  • Cloud
  • Video
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TECH | AUTOMATION
Recap: Discovers 2Q 2023 Automation Round Table Conversation
Jessica Crecelius | July 27, 2023
In our most recent automation roundtable, people across industries came together to talk about recent automation headlines, generative AI use cases, automation governance, and more.
  • Automation
TECH | CLOUD
Trident 2.0 Is Winning Awards and Making Waves
Multiple Authors | July 27, 2023
Trident 2.0 is a highly integrated, autonomous pipeline for building, testing, deploying and releasing software to production that was created in-house.
  • Cloud
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TECH | AUTOMATION
How Discover Scales Automation Using a Hub-and-Spoke Model
David Lyons | July 07, 2023
Learn about the Hub-and-Spoke model that Discover uses to scale automation practices across the company.
  • Automation
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PEOPLE
Meet David Lyons | Senior Principal Business Strategy
By Discover Technology Staff | June 15, 2023
Meet David Lyons, a business strategy leader focused on innovation through automation.
  • Automation
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PEOPLE
Meet Joe Mills | Director, Transformation Strategy and Automation
By Discover Technology Staff | June 14, 2023
Meet Joe Mills, a people leader and director of Transformation Strategy and Automation.
  • Automation
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TECH | AUTOMATION
Roundtable Conversations Enable Companies to Share Automation Best Practices
Daniel Ireland | May 17, 2023
Get all the answers you need about our Automation Roundtable Conversations.
  • Automation
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TECH | AUTOMATION
Bank Automation Summit Recap
By Discover Technology Staff | May 09, 2023
Discover automation engineers attended the Bank Automation Summit. Watch the video of their panel: Automation Operations: Use Cases for Transformation.
  • Automation
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TECH | APP DEV
Creating Capacity through Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Process Automation
Multiple Authors | April 12, 2023
Learn how Discover uses human-in-the-loop robotic process automation to alleviate manual tasks and free team members to work on innovation that matters.
  • Application Development
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PEOPLE
Developer Profile: Daniel Ireland | Senior Manager, Automation
By Discover Technology Staff | February 22, 2023
Meet Daniel Ireland, hyperautomation leader and dedicated improver of other people's lives.
  • Devops
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PEOPLE
Developer Profile: Elle Miller | Senior Manager, Automation
By Discover Technology Staff | February 20, 2023
Get to know Elle Miller who is transforming what we do through award-winning automation.
  • Devops
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TECH | AUTOMATION
Recap: 4Q 2023 Automation Roundtable Conversation Hosted by Discover
David Lyons | January 09, 2023
In our most recent automation roundtable, people across industries came together to talk about recent automation headlines, AI at Discover, implementing large language models, analysis of alternatives, and more.
  • Automation
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TECH | AUTOMATION
The Impact of Automating Nearly 300 Processes in Financial Services
Multiple Authors | November 29, 2022
Learn how we achieved millions in annual hours returned in addition to tens of millions in annual financial benefits realized, both in cost avoidance and direct financial impact/hard savings.
  • Automation