CDO ANZ Hybrid Series - May Edition 2022
How to Build and Deliver Winning Data Strategies for Long-term Growth
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 34800 hours
Overview
As a new times brings fresh challenges, we look at the fundamentals and core parts of our journey.
During this edition of the CDO Series we look at how we can create winning data strategies to help our teams solves challenges by getting access to reliable insights in the quickest and most efficient methods.
Whether it is do with technology, innovation and culture capability, CDOs and data leaders must have a wholesome approach when it comes maximising the value of their data assets.
Join this month's edition to understand how to:
Tying analytics strategies to data strategies and business outcomes
Utilising effective and proven strategies to cultivate innovation
Tools and technologies to enhance and bring about agility
How do we measure, and prove out success?
How to partner across your organisation to build support for the years ahead
What we will cover
- Data Innovation Utilising effective and proven strategies to cultivate innovation
- Data Transformation Tools and technologies to enhance and bring about agility
- Culture Over Everything A strong and robust culture will not only attract talent but assist in keeping existing teams happy and motivated
- Data Strategy Tying analytics strategies to data strategies and business outcomes
Agenda
- How to Establish Data Excellence(Plenary) Join this session to explore: The biggest problem that prevents companies from being data-driven How to measure and improve the health of your data Best practices to enable your data to drive key outcomes
- Evolve Spotlight Speaker- Sam Bloom(Plenary) In 2013, Sam’s dream life turned into a nightmare when she unknowingly leant against a rotten balcony railing, falling through it and crashing six metres onto the concrete below. She was lucky to be alive and had suffered immense trauma including damage to her spinal cord that left her paralysed. After a gruelling rehabilitation process, Sam was left bereft as she faced a new and foreign life in a wheelchair. All seemed lost until the day her son found an injured baby magpie that the family took in and named ‘Penguin’. Sam and Penguin’s remarkable bond and extraordinary story of parallel recovery was captured through the lens by Sam’s husband, acclaimed photographer Cameron Bloom. Cameron’s images formed the basis for the international bestselling book Penguin Bloom, a collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive. Their powerful story inspired the Hollywood movie of the same name, starring Naomi Watts and Andrew Lincoln. Released in January 2021, Penguin Bloom became an immediate hit, taking #1 at the Australian box office and trending on Netflix in North America and across Europe
- A Business-First Approach to Building Data Governance Programs(Plenary) Traditional data governance initiatives fail by focusing too heavily on policies, compliance, and enforcement, which quickly lose business interest and support. This leaves data management and governance leaders having to continually make the case for data governance to secure business adoption. In this presentation, we will share a lean, business-first data governance approach that connects key initiatives to governance capabilities and quickly delivers business value for the long-term. He will give examples of organisations worldwide who have successfully implemented a data governance program by engaging with key stakeholders using innovative techniques such as gamification and data catalogue scavenger hunts.
- Morning Tea(Plenary)
- The Total Economic Impact of CDP: Real-Time Personalisation through Right-Time Data Activation(Plenary) Defining the economic value of CDPs has long remained elusive. Yet, building the business case for CDP adoption is essential to future-proof commercial operations in a data economy. Tealium’s 2022 Forrester TEI report quantifies the economic benefits of CDP adoption, whilst highlighting real-world case studies to validate key findings. Notably, a lack of CDP adoption corresponds to substantial opportunity costs. Conversely, effective utilisation of a CDP can produce an economic benefit of up to $6.9 million and a 363% increase in ROI in 3+ years. Importantly, a complete payback is achievable within less than 6 months post-implementation. Learn how to build an effective CDP business case through quantifying the total economic impact of CDPs.
- Keynote: Simplifying and Demystifying Data for the Next Generation(Plenary) In the last 3 years we have been faced with a shortage in leading Data Experts in Australia, especially when we look at the diversity and lack of females in the industry. So how do we tackle this, and make a change? We need to refocus our attention to the up and coming generation. Targeting not only Universities but High Schools, and break down data and analytics so it's something they can understand and become passionate about, not run away from and loose interest in before they have even touched the surface. In this session we are joined by Hema Prasad, from Common Wealth Bank, where she takes us on her personal journey across 3 continents and the challenges she was faced with and overcame to be one of the top Analytic leaders in Australia, and her quest on beating imposter syndrome and helping other too. In this session we will learn: The importance of training early and how to reach out to High School children and explain data to them in an inspiring, logical way. Women in Data - and how to push this How to overcome challenges and finding and nurturing the right team.
- MLOps – A Critical Enabler of Your AI Strategy(Plenary) IDC research shows that while model training is often seen as the core part of model development, it is rather the rest of the steps, especially the deployment and monitoring of models, that are perceived as being more challenging. On average, 77% of AI models remain in pre-production stage. This inability to scale model delivery suggests many organizations struggle to make an impact from their AI investment. (Source: IDC AI Adoption Survey, APEJ 2019). This is where Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) comes in – a proven framework that helps enable large organizations achieve and sustain AI success. This session aims to unpack this complex concept by defining what MLOps is (and what it is not), why it is a critical enabler of your AI success and how you can make it real within your organisations.
- Keynote: The Data Journey – What We Do With Data and How We Do It(Plenary) In this session Alan Shields the co-founder and Chief Data Officer for RFI Global takes us on his journey of the past year, from the time the role of Chief Data Officer was created and all the challenges and rewards he has seen along the way. We learn about why a Data team is so crucial, how to collect the right data and put it into insights that clients can get their hands on, building API’s and creating the team. Key insights from this session are: Building a team and finding the right talent Taking the business on a journey The importance of communication Deriving insights that empower clients
- Lunch and networking break(Plenary)
- How to Leverage Data Virtualization to Simplify Your Data Governance Implementation(Plenary) In an increasingly distributed and complex data landscape, it is becoming increasingly difficult to govern and secure data effectively throughout the enterprise. Whether it be securing data across different repositories or monitoring access across different business units, the proliferation of data technologies and repositories across both on-premises and in the cloud is making the task unattainable. The challenge is only made greater by the ongoing pressure to offer self-service based data access to business users. Data virtualisation allows the creation of a logical data fabric layer that not only increases the agility of data provisioning but offer a simple, fast and cost-effective way to secure and govern all your data. In this presentation Felix Liao, APAC Director of Product Management, will discuss how companies across different industries use Denodo to secure data and simplify their data governance related compliance requirements. He will cover the following topics: How to use a logical data fabric to minimise data movement and data replication How to secure and govern all your data in a single centralized place How to leverage a semantic layer to scale your data governance efforts
- How [24]7.ai Brought their Customers and Partners Closer by Making Real-time Data Available(Plenary) Join this session to hear about how [24]7.ai (the most advanced conversational AI platform) is sharing key data quickly and securely outside their business, strengthening partner collaboration and customer communication.
- Keynote: Data Leadership - Scaling Teams and Driving a Data-centric Culture.(Plenary) Leaders face a growing challenge in scaling data teams to meet changing organisational demands, and continually providing value in challenging data leadership roles. Jeremiah Mannings, Director at PwC, will walk through his experience in scaling data teams and his learnings leading the delivery of enterprise-grade production machine learning platforms. This session will cover: What scaling a data team looks like How to implement and scale a team Measuring success
- How Neo4j Can Be Part of Your Application Modernisation Strategy to Release Additional Future Business Value and Growth(Plenary) Multi-year digital transformations often involve on-premise to cloud migrations as well as an app rationalisation effort to shed legacy technical debt. Building Neo4j into digital transformations adds a strategic component that can support numerous analytical use cases, increase application performance and release additional business value and growth. Neo4j should be included in every enterprise data management strategy.
- Afternoon Tea and Networking Break(Plenary)
- The Essential Role of Chief Data Officers and Analytic Leaders for Digital Transformation(Plenary) There is no doubt that data has become the heartbeat of digital transformation. Over the last 10 years the requirement to make justifiable data-driven decisions has been at the top of every CIO and CDO’s agenda and getting to the right information has only been made more complex through increasing scales and volumes of available data - driven by the rapid adoption of cloud technologies and proliferation of connected devices across homes, stores, offices and supply chains. But for organisations that can effectively leverage both new and existing data to build a resilient business-outcome driven data strategy, the rewards are exceptional. In this informative session, we will unravel the increasingly complex and critical role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) and discuss how CIOs and CDOs can drive a long-lasting information strategies for competitive advantage through the development of an approach to data management which focuses on data agility and reduced complexity to deliver real value to your organisation through: Defining realistic plans for data Establishing a metrics framework’ for communicating business value Creating an agile data and analytics operating model Taking risks and prioritising data projects Building an ecosystem of supporters Leveraging the right approach to new technology adoption We believe that having a data strategy methodology that maps business outcomes to processes (including analytical processes), along with proactive management of critical data which is monitored via established KPI’s is the right approach. Join us to hear how SAP can support your digital transformation goals with a unified data and analytics backbone - driving stronger insights, enhanced intelligence, and greater impact for your organisation.
- 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.
- Thought Leadership- Snow software(Plenary)
- Evolve Speaker- The Secret Tools of Modern Leaders(Plenary) KG exposes the impact of some of the most well-researched and effective tools of great leaders. His talk tackles specific leadership skills and techniques that leaders of all levels can use.
Speakers
Kate Carruthers · Chief Data and Insights Officer, UNSW Kate Carruthers is Chief Data & Insights Officer for UNSW Sydney, is the Head of Business Intelligence for the UNSW AI Institute and is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science & Engineering. She is currently undertaking postgraduate studies in terrorism and security. Kate has extensive experience in senior roles in ICT across the finance sector, marketing, data and digital. She was appointed to the Microsoft Regional Director* program for her work in cybersecurity in 2020. She is currently working at the intersection of data analytics, AI, ML, privacy, data protection, cyber and information security. Kate has extensive experience in senior roles in ICT across the finance sector, marketing, data and digital; and is a member of the NSW Government’s Data Analytics Centre Advisory Board. Kate was appointed to the Microsoft Regional Director program for her work in cybersecurity in 2020 (this is an external advisory role that provides Microsoft leaders with the customer insights, real-world voices and insights). She is currently working at the intersection of data analytics, AI, ML, privacy, data protection, cyber and information security.
Hema Prasad · Data & Analytics Executive, Sydney, Commonwealth Bank Data is her calling!!! A Data & Analytics Executive leader currently working at CBA as the Head of data architecture. With over two decades of global experience across the US, India and Australia, Hema has enabled business transformations via data, analytics & business intelligence in multiple industry sectors. She has delivered large-scale data and analytics programs helping businesses in building, transforming and enhancing their data & digital landscapes. She draws on vast experience leading large cross-functional teams across multiple shores for Fortune-100 and ASX clients. Specialising in data and analytics strategy, transformations, data platform modernization, data engineering, data architecture, data science/AI/ML and data governance, Hema holds degrees in Electronics and Computer Applications majoring in Data and Digital Architecture. Hema is a Stanford Women in Data Science ambassador as well as an executive board member of Women in Big Data. Also a public speaker and a mentor, Hema is passionate about community engagement to spread awareness about STEM and data career pathways amongst high school and university students as well as aspiring professionals. Follow her on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/hema-prasad-98a3502Nadia 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.
Jeremiah Mannings · Director of Data Science & Analytics, PwC Jeremiah is a Director within PwC's Insight Analytics Team, providing clients with clarity to inform better strategic decision making. Jeremiah is passionate about creating projects that deliver long-term outcomes, utilising global best practices. He has recently awarded one of the Top 25 Australia Analytics Leaders for 2021 by a premier industry body and ICT Professional of the year by the Australian Computer Society. One of his projects also won the 2020 ISG Paragon Award for Imagination in future-proofing business. Jeremiah has led data science teams across a variety of complex enterprise-scale analytics transformations, delivering data science at scale to service the requirements of both technical and business stakeholders. He has helped his clients across APAC and global in the entire project lifecycle of data science, bringing value at each step and focusing on reusable enterprise platforms. Jeremiah has a deep understanding of data technologies and is at the forefront of taking advanced research into scalable and productionised solutions.Felix Liao · Director of Product Management APAC, Denodo : Felix Liao is the Director of Product Management for Denodo in Asia Pacific and has 15+ years of experience in the analytics market. He has worked with global organisations such as HP, IBM, and SAS across multiple roles including customer advisory, marketing, and alliance. Felix leverages his unique blend of technology and business background to help clients solve some of their most complex problems. In his current role, he is responsible for product evangelising and innovations that serve the needs of Denodo customers in the APAC region. Felix holds an undergraduate degree in computer engineering, an MBA from MGSM, and is also a certified data scientist and a published author.
Cameron Ogden · Vice President of Product Management, Precisely Cameron is VP of Product Management at Precisely where he is responsible contributing to the growth, innovation, and go-to-market strategy for Precisely’s product portfolio. With over 20 years of experience, Cameron has a proven track record of building enterprise data products and communicating complex topics in ways that both business and technical teams understand. Cameron is a requested speaker and author on product management, information strategy, artificial intelligence, and data governance.
Esther Lim · Sales Engineering Manager, Precisely Esther Lim has been helping clients clean and govern their data for the last 8 years – oh the things she has seen! Before that she worked as a consultant implementing large enterprise projects for the Oil & Gas and Financial Services industry. During this time she has come to realise that when it comes to data quality, there is no such thing as a finished product.
David Normandeau · Sr. Director Sales Financial Services, Precisely David Normandeau is a Director of Sales for Precisely. Dave is in his fourteenth year with Precisely having held various roles in software sales, business development, and technology alliances. In January he relocated from Boston to Brisbane to lead sales of the Precisely Data Integrity Suite to Banking & Financial Services accounts in Australia & New Zealand.
Stu Garrow · SVP & General Manager, APAC, Talend Stu Garrow, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Talend Asia Pacific, brings more than 25 years of experience in developing high performing teams, business, channel and alliances strategy in Asia Pacific on leading cloud data integration and software companies. Prior to joining Talend, Stu served as Director of Channels and Alliances Asia Pacific at MuleSoft and on the strength of its success he became Global Director, Channel and Alliances Programs for MuleSoft. Stu is also a Business Mentor providing his expertise to social entrepreneurs to help them develop their business and innovation.
Partners
- Precisely Precisely is the global leader in data integrity, providing accuracy, consistency, and context in data for 12,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including 97 of the Fortune 100. Precisely’s data integration, data quality, data governance, location intelligence, and data enrichment products power better business decisions to create better outcomes.
- Talend About Talend Talend, a leader in data integration and data integrity, is changing the way the world makes decisions. Talend Data Fabric is the only platform that seamlessly combines an extensive range of data integration and governance capabilities to actively manage the health of corporate information. This unified approach is unique and essential to delivering complete, clean, and uncompromised data in real-time to all employees. It has made it possible to create innovations like the Talend Trust Score™, an industry-first assessment that instantly quantifies the reliability of any data set. Over 6,500 customers across the globe have chosen Talend to run their businesses on healthy data. Talend is recognised as a leader in its field by leading analyst firms and industry media. For more information, please visit www.talend.comand follow us on Twitter: @Talend.
- 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.
- Tealium Helping brands make data actionable, in realtime, across every customer experience touch point. Tealium revolutionizes today’s digital businesses with a universal approach to customer data orchestration – spanning web, mobile, offline and Internet of Things devices. With the power to unify customer data into a single source of truth, Tealium offers a turnkey integration ecosystem supporting more than 1,000 client-side and server-side vendors and technologies. The Tealium Customer Data Hub encompasses tag management, API hub, customer data platform and data management solutions that enable organizations to leverage real-time data to create richer, more personalized digital experiences across every team, technology, and customer touchpoint. www.Tealium.com
- Neo4j Neo4j is the leading graph database platform that drives innovation and competitive advantage at Airbus, Comcast, eBay, NASA, UBS, Walmart and more. Thousands of community deployments and more than 300 customers harness connected data with Neo4j to reveal how people, processes, locations and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built using Neo4j tackle connected data challenges including artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and master data. Find out more at Neo4j.com.
- Denodo Denodo is the leader in data virtualization – providing unmatched performance, unified access to the broadest range of enterprise, big data, cloud and unstructured sources, and the most agile data services provisioning and governance – at less than half the cost of traditional data integration. Denodo’s customers have gained significant business agility and ROI by creating a unified virtual data layer that serves strategic enterprise-wide information needs for agile BI, big data analytics, web and cloud integration, single-view applications, and SOA data services across every major industry. Denodo Platform offers the broadest access to structured and unstructured data residing in enterprise, big data, and cloud sources, in both batch and real-time, exceeding the performance needs of data-intensive organizations for both analytical and operational use cases, delivered in a much shorter timeframe than traditional data integration tools. The Denodo Platform drives agility, faster time to market, increased customer engagement from single view of customer and operational efficiencies from real-time business intelligence and self-serviceability. Founded in 1999, Denodo is privately held, with main offices in Palo Alto (CA), Madrid (Spain), Munich (Germany) and London (UK). For more information visit www.denodo.com, follow Denodo via twitter: @denodo or contact us to request an evaluation copy at info@denodo.com.
- 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.
- SAP Australia SAP is one of the world’s leading producers of software for the management of business processes, developing solutions that facilitate effective data processing and information flow across organisations. At SAP, our purpose is to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. Our promise is to innovate to help our customers run at their best. SAP is committed to helping every customer become a best-run business. We engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality, and spread opportunity across borders and cultures. Together, with our customers and partners, we can transform industries, grow economies, lift up societies, and sustain our environment.
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