CDO ANZ Hybrid Series - June Edition 2022
Data Leadership - And the Pillars of a Bullet Proof Data and Analytics Strategy
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 34500 hours
Overview
There’s nothing easy about carrying out your data strategy in an age where virtually everything we do leaves a data trail. But to curb the potential for harm—and harness data’s power for good, CDOs must step up to the challenge. Join this month's edition to get a deep process-based approach for CDOs to thrive and understand:
What it takes to build a data strategy with the end goal in mind. How do we reverse engineer?
How do we get buy in not from the top management but from every single team member?
What it entails to build the capabilities and storytelling within your data teams to increase speed and collaboration
Exploring Business cases of ethical and transparent models
Creating and defining the sense of ownership & accountability
What to expect
- A day with 150 data leaders 150+Attendees
- Speakers 20+
- In-deep Interactions 1:1
- Building a data driven culture Data Culture
- Leadership and Communication Growth & Development
- Interact with 20 leaders in your field in their most sharing moments Executive Sit-Downs
- Practitioner : Vendor 20:1
- 20+ Sessions 1 Full Day
- Case studies and successful implementations Digital Transformation
What we will cover
- What it takes to build a data strategy with the end goal in mind. How do we reverse engineer?
- How do we get buy in not from the top management but from every single team member
- What it entails to build the capabilities and story telling within your data teams to increase speed and collaboration
- Exploring Business cases of ethical and transparent models
Agenda
- Digital Asset Disruption – Solving the Visibility Problem Amid a Rapidly Evolving IT Landscape(Plenary) What we consider a digital asset has changed dramatically over the last 5 years, and the emergence of new asset classes has made managing them even more challenging. IT Leaders must leverage technology that enables complete visibility of their complex IT environment. Please join Snow to learn three essential ways to support business growth using technology intelligence: Visibility – achieve a holistic view of data, applications, and spend across the on-premises data centre, cloud, and SaaS environments Optimisation – leverage intelligent insights and recommendations about your data to optimise both spend and drive operational efficiencies Governance – manage security risk and compliance without affecting business performance
- ** Special Guest **(Plenary) Sit-Down brings you one of Australia's sporting legends, to share with you all about the challenges and success she has faced all with in the public eyes!
- Keynote: Innovating Innovation(Plenary) Innovation is often misunderstood, taken for granted and much less capitalised on. Gone are the days when it was an advantage. Now we face an era where it’s the necessity to your existence as a business. But of course we all know that….. When we look at the amount of digital transformation projects worldwide, every year businesses spend $1.3 trillion on digital transformation programs to improve efficiency and yet they hit a failure rate by up to 90% resulting in lack of efficacy in operations and ultimately a hard stop to further innovating. This result paints to innovation as a risky undertaking, how do we innovate this perception. How do we drive Innovation strategically, turn it from a risky undertaking to being a catalyst that drives incremental and breakthrough value value that keeps the business relevant and protects the business from disruption. Join us for this session as Finbar takes us through a journey of changing that mindset and understanding how we set out for success within our tech teams as CIOs and CDO and how we communicate the value to the board and other executives.
- Tomato or Tomatoes: Exploring the Importance of Questioning Your Data(Plenary) More than ever board members and business leaders are looking for ways to maintain an even focus on maintaining security and performance of their operations while also innovating to create that new edge. Did you know the data you already own holds the key to doing both those things? It all comes down to what questions you ask it. This session will explore this and why more than ever having the right data strategy is so important. Is it Tomato or Tomatoes, come along and find out
- Morning Tea & Networking Break(Plenary)
- Panel: Putting Data to Work for Everyone(Plenary) Join this panel session to hear how National Tiles, Harcourts and [24.]7.ai are driving great data strategy, and how you too can effectively realise a data led culture.
- Keynote: Unlocking the Power of Responsible Analytics and Storytelling to Influence Business Strategy(Plenary) Have you wondered how to bolster your organisation's analytic capabilities to facilitate those difficult conversations? Or how the messaging can be refined to land on an optimal solution? In this presentation, we will explore some techniques to build trust with stakeholders and the ethical considerations for advisory roles. This will include: Understanding the ethical implications for data stewards; Managing competing interests of stakeholders; and Using storytelling to influence business decisions.
- Thought Leadership- Key Ingredients to Secure Your AI Lifecycle and Scale Up At Speed(Plenary) Many companies see the opportunity in AI to radically change the way they do business and speed up their digital transformation. Whether it’s to improve customer experience and reduce customer churn, accelerate innovation or optimize productivity of financial flows, or reduce costs through predictive analytics. After focusing resources on their AI practice, organisations are pushing their models out of the sandbox and serving them at scale so that they can start realising the ROI. However, it is not that simple and companies continue to face many challenges. Numerous government agencies and enterprise customers have deployed their models two to three years ago, but have not retrained the models using the latest data since then. That’s not even counting the many models in sandboxes failing to go live in production. The question is therefore, how to secure your AI lifecycle and scale up at speed? Join this session to learn more about: What are the challenges & limitations with AI industrialization? What are the ingredients to correct the flaws, secure your AI launch and scale the use of AI across the business? How to create resilient AI-driven assets to maximize impact?
- Keynote: Data Leadership: Key Non Technology Components to Success(Plenary) As everyone focuses so much on the technology aspect, in this insightful session we take a bit of a different journey and focus on the NON technology components. Anthony from La Trobe University will take us through: The components for success Expanding on partnerships Delivering on returns
- Lunch & Networking Break(Plenary)
- Data Quality and Data Trust Moving Forward(Plenary) Data quality and trust is one of the most important things for an organisation. To reach the data maturity you need to develop quality and trust within your organisation you'll need to integrate all your data into a central Modern Data Stack. When it comes to developing a Modern Data Stack, the age-old question remains - build vs buy? We believe it's not a question of can you build... The question is should you build?
- Keynote: Defining Data Literacy(Plenary) Data literacy in a data strategy is a hot topic right now – but how do we define data literacy, what does it mean and how do we get the right results? In this session Rebecca is going to explore; How data literacy is different vertically and horizontally across the organisation Literacy on interpreting analysis vs. literacy on how to manage data Simple tricks to implement to move up the literacy curve
- Does Your Data and Analytics Strategy Have a Clear Value Proposition?(Plenary) Being able to navigate through complexity to set short-, medium- and long-term data strategies Intelligent data transformation starts with a strong data-driven strategy How to implement intelligent data transformation strategies aligned with their overall digitalisation strategy, to get the most out of your data and transform your business models.
- Keynote: Clinical Quality Registries: Using Data to Improve Quality of Care(Plenary) In this session we will help you to understand how you can achieve data integrity by ensuring the accuracy, consistency and context of your data. This means you can make better, faster, more confident decisions based on a deeper understanding of data you can trust. Join this session to gain insights into: With unmatched data expertise, we support you through a unique combination of software, data enrichment and strategic services. Data Integrity Suite, with its flexible, modular approach, can meet your needs no matter where you are on your journey to data integrity. What matters most – building new possibilities.
- Afternoon Tea & Networking Break(Plenary)
- Evolve Speaker- Minimising The Four Culture Killers(Plenary) 'Culture' is one component of Mark Carter's 5C MODE. For our session we are focussing on one specific aspect: as much as identifying, honing and implementing tools and strategies that allow a culture to thrive, it's equally important to understand the polarity! What are the common enemies at the gates that sometimes make a culture break! In this punchy development session Mark will share one aspect from ideas frequently weaved into his Culture keynotes and programs. Four common culture killers Initial ideas to minimise (even eliminate) the culture killers impact The biggest dirty little secret in business and why it's imperative you consciously strive to put it into action!
- Keynote: Ethical and Actionable Data Strategy to Deliver Real Business Value(Plenary) With a mission to become truly data driven, companies make significant investment in establishing data analytics capabilities but many fail to realise the full potential due to poorly executed roadmap underpinned by ineffective data strategy. This talk will explore some of the common pitfalls and how to overcome them.
- Evolve Speaker: The Loudest Guest - How to Change and Control Your Relationship With Fear(Plenary) Dr Amy will help you to change and control your relationship with fear. Are you prone to worrying, being hesitant or overly concerned with something Desire to do something new but worry that you couldn't or shouldn't, or that you would fail Talk yourself down either out loud or in your head Feel that there must be more to do or feel, but you seem to get in your own way Are too "in your head" - full of doubt, regret or indecision Spend too much time thinking about what people think of you Want to explore how much fear is controlling your choices in life. Would like to say more about what you are feeling to create deeper trust or connection.
Speakers
Rohan John · Director of Analytics & Strategy, National Disability Insurance Agency Associate Actuary (AIAA) with experience in public sector and private roles. Passionate about bringing my actuarial edge coupled with data science skills to drive innovation in budding teams.Nadia Adelstein · Portfolio Manager, Factor A branding & events expert, with 10+ years experience in exponential marketing, Nadia thrives on bringing stories to life through creativity. Working overseas for 12 years on both agency and brand side, she has a unique approach to business strategy.
Rasa Ruseckaite · Deputy Head, Clinical Outcomes Data Reporting and Research Program (CORRP), Qualitative Research, Monash Univeresity Dr Rasa Ruseckaite is a Deputy Head (Qualitative Research) with the Clinical Outcomes Data Reporting and Research Program, at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. With an undergraduate degree in Science, Rasa has a Master of Science and two PhDs; one in Applied Computer Science and the other in Neuroscience. Rasa has always maintained a strong interest in human health, patient outcomes and clinical registries. Rasa also has strong interest in quality of life research and patient reported outcome measures (PROMs). She is currently leading the world-first initiative aiming to develop guidelines for PROMs inclusion in clinical quality registries.- Rebecca Kennedy · Head of Finance - Insights & Analytics, KPMG Rebecca is currently the Head of Finance at KPMG, she has a strong background in leading the way with strategy on Business Intelligence and transforming Finance for the future. Prior to KPMG, Rebecca spent 10 years at ANZ Bank with a wide range of experience leading and overseeing multiple functions across Global Financial Markets, Institutional Transaction and Retail Banking. Prior to ANZ, Rebecca has a grounding in Treasury in FMCG and consulting at Ernst & Young. Rebecca is well versed in guiding business leaders towards the right decisions in achieving their strategic and operational outcomes. She has a strong presence in the data community, currently a director of an international community group for data leaders – The Data Debaters. She has also chaired and featured as a keynote speaker at Data & Analytics conferences for 5 years running and featured in news articles such as the London Financial Times and IT News.com. Rebecca is passionate about being agile in leading through change, using a human centered design approach and embracing a growth mindset.
Vicent Osabel · Senior Solutions Engineer, Dataiku Vicent Osabel is a senior solutions engineer from Dataiku based in Melbourne. She has 20+ years experience in Data and Analytics by supporting large organisations realise their data science vision and roadmap through defining AI solution roadmaps, implementing data science projects and conducting training and enablement for customers and prospects. Having worked predominantly in the Financial Services sector both in A/NZ and SE Asia, she has accumulated expertise in the areas of regulatory compliance, credit risk management and customer analytics during her careers at SAS (PH and AU), Businessminds (now merged with Bain & co) and Deloitte Australia. She is also an advocate of women pursuing careers in Data Science and has been a trainer and judge for a datathon sponsored by TechWomenNZ late last year."
Zak Khan · Director - Data & AI, Deloitte Australia Zak Khan is a Director in the Data & AI consulting practice at Deloitte with a strong focus on using analytics to unlock the value of data and drive better commercial outcome. He has over 18 years of experiences including diverse leadership roles across many facets of the Information Management domain including formulating data strategies, establishing data governance and data quality capabilities, implementing enterprise data platforms, data visualisation and advanced analytics capabilities. With a combination of industry and consulting experiences, Zak has led data and analytics transformations across diverse sectors including Telecommunications, Utilities and Financial services.Tamara Pannett · Sr Enterprise Account Executive, Domo Tamara Pannett is a Senior Account Executive with Domo – focused on supporting customers on their data journey into tangible business outcomes. Prior to Domo, Tamara worked in leadership roles across the media and marketing industry within enterprise, corporate and digital start-ups. Many of those roles involved high levels of change management, where data integration and insight led decision making were critical requirements of success. She has firsthand experience in leading through, and driving value from, business transformation.
Nathan Stevens · Director Solution Consulting - APAC, Snow Software
Partners
- Dataiku Dataiku is the centralized data platform that moves businesses along their data journey from analytics at scale to enterprise AI. By providing a common ground for data experts and explorers, a repository of best practices, shortcuts to machine learning and AI deployment/management, and a centralized, controlled environment, Dataiku is the catalyst for data-powered companies. Customers like Unilever, GE, and Comcast use Dataiku to ensure they are moving quickly and growing exponentially along with the amount of data they’re collecting. By removing roadblocks, Dataiku ensures more opportunity for business-impacting models and creative solutions, allowing teams to work faster and smarter.
- Cloudera At Cloudera, we believe data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We deliver an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI. We enable people to transform vast amounts of complex data into clear and actionable insights to enhance their businesses and exceed their expectations. Cloudera is leading hospitals to better cancer cures, securing financial institutions against fraud and cyber-crime, and helping humans arrive on Mars — and beyond. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open-source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
- Fivetran Shaped by the real-world needs of data analysts, Fivetran technology is the smartest, fastest way to replicate your applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance cloud warehouse. Fivetran connectors deploy in minutes, require zero maintenance, and automatically adjust to source changes — so your data team can stop worrying about engineering and focus on driving insights.
- Domo Domo’s mission is to help all employees – from the CEO to the front-line worker – optimise business performance by connecting them in real time to the right data and people they need to improve business results. The company works with many of the world’s leading and most progressive brands across multiple industries including retail, media and entertainment, manufacturing, finance and more. For more information, visit www.domo.com. You can also follow Domo on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and Instagram.
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