CDO ANZ Hybrid Series - November Edition 2021

Overview

Data Culture goes far beyond a strategy that simply guides a company’s data. It is a mindset that directs professionals in an organisation to see value in the information built from the data. Don’t think that the data mindset is the result of infrastructure alone. What builds a data-driven business is the ability to identify the right challenges and map the data needed to create solutions in line with customers’ wishes.Join us on our monthly CDO ANZ series where leaders will:

Share insights and best practice

Provide valuable case studies

Tell stories to help guide, and inspire our data & analytics community

What to expect

• Virtual Attendees 100+
• On-site Attendees 70+
• Sessions 8+
• Live Interactions 1:1

What we will cover

• Data-Driven Culture Starts at the Top Insights to help leaders create an agile & adaptable data and analytics environment.
• Trust, Governance and Privacy Re-imagine data governance framework and create a unified approach to trust and risk problems.
• Top Trends in Data and Analytics, 2022 Leverage trends to anticipate, shift and accelerate transformation in the face of disruption and uncertainty.
• Data-Driven Business Transformation Champion data literacy and align your data & digital literacy program to create a data-driven culture.

Agenda

• 9:00 am Thought Leadership: The Key to Unlocking Business Value(Plenary) Data, analytics and AI are opening the door to new possibilities for how organisations can grow and differentiate themselves against competition at an accelerated pace. From Accenture research, 52% of organisations with future-ready operations are already using data and analytics at scale. Now it’s time to truly leverage the power of data to drive hyper-personalisation, create new products and brand new revenue streams for your organisation. Alasdair Gordon from Accenture, will share how our Centre for Data Insights team collaborates with our business teams to combine the power of machine and AI with humans, to deliver insights and differentiated offerings to our clients. Amit Bansal will explore how as data leaders, you can help your organisation create data monetisation opportunities and understand how to tackle some of the practical challenges in execution.
• 9:28 am Spotlight Speaker - Ryan Tuckwood - How to Achieve Your Goals for Long-term Success(Plenary) Join global sales coach and leader Ryan Tuckwood (SWISH Co-Founder and CEO) as he takes us on a dynamic, inter-active session on goals setting for leaders as we head into 2022. Without goals, we have no clear direction, Ryan will help to transform your mindset and help you develop both personally and professionally. This session will focus on: Habits and behaviours Infinite goal setting How to increase your productivity / your teams productivity
• 9:56 am Thought Leadership: Building an Enterprise-wide Data-Driven Culture(Plenary) Many companies today attribute the challenge to becoming data-driven to culture, rather than technology. Attend this session to learn: How to maximise the business benefit of data management through cultural adoption across the organisation How to move from a hierarchical to a more distributed way of working How to measure the overall health of your data across the enterprise
• 10:17 am Keynote: Utilising Data to Drive Evidence Based Decision Making(Plenary) Using data and analytics strategically is crucial to an organisation’s competitiveness and survival. Hear from Head of Research and Data Analytics Jarred Pilgrim from Golf Australia on: Analytics, technology, and high-performance sport Moving from gut feel to data-led decision making Building a data and analytics solution for elite golf: lessons learned, and the path forward
• 10:37 am Thought Leadership: Democratising Analytics(Plenary) Join this session to gain insights on enabling leaders to: Accelerate analytics innovation Drive growth Create a competitive advantage in their organizations
• 11:03 am Keynote: The Convergence of Technology and Engineering to Create Impact(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into: Use of data & technology in Future Transport 2056 Strategy Data & Analytics Roadmap for Active Transport (Walking & Cycling) Using Active Transport data for Benefits tracking and investment decisioning
• 11:27 am Thought Leadership: Modern BI for All - A Field Guide for Accelerating the Data Life Cycle to Drive Business Value(Plenary) BI is no longer a “nice-to-have” option; it is a requirement for staying competitive. Yet, a growing number of organisations worldwide are asking whether their existing BI tools and processes can keep pace with the rapidly evolving needs of their business. The real power of Modern BI for All is its ability to shift the way your entire organisation thinks about data—and the value you get from that data, because it lives in a system designed to make integrating, sharing, and acting upon data easy. During this session we will discuss modern approaches to business intelligence for any organisation at any time. Learn how to unlock the value of data throughout your business and ecosystem, relying on three core pillars: data agility, data literacy, and the ability to take action on data insights quickly.
• 11:49 am Keynote: Data Driven Culture – Convert to Reality(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into: Data Maturity in organisations and why this topic is relevant Framework to work towards a data driven culture Immediate steps to get started
• 0:11 pm Thought Leadership: Data Virtualization: For Centralized Data Security and Governed Self-service(Plenary) Abstract : Building self-service capabilities on a trusted foundation is the key to successfully unlocking your data assets and becoming more insights driven. Security, data privacy, and data protection represent concerns for organizations that must comply with policies and regulations that can vary across regions, data assets, and personas. Many organizations are struggling to find the best way to provide self-service to a single source of truth to all business users without having to move and make multiple copies of the data. Attend this session to learn how to employ data virtualization for: Deploying a catalog of trusted, governed & secure data assets without ETL or data consolidation, Centralizing security and customizing security policies when data is spread across multiple systems residing both on-premise and in the cloud, and Controlling and auditing data access across different regions
• 0:31 pm Panel: Building Digital Trust - The Role of Data Ethics in the Digital Age(Plenary) Attend this panel session to gain insights into: Ensuring your data is accurate, unbiased and trustworthy What are some successful practices to tackle bias and improve business outcomes? Mitigating risks
• 0:57 pm Networking Break(Plenary)
• 1:27 pm Thought Leadership: The Era of Connected Intelligence(Plenary) Early graph innovators have already pioneered the most popular use cases – fraud detection, personalisation, customer 360, knowledge graphs, network management, and more. Building upon their efforts, the next generation of graph thinkers are engineering the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
• 1:47 pm Spotlight Speaker - Mark Carter - The Art of Leadership(Plenary) Mark Carter is a globally experienced keynote speaker. Drawing on experience working with blue chip brands in over 40 countries, Mark leverages leadership, culture, sales and behavioural science expertise, along with his natural energy, creativity, and innate ability to relate to any audience. Join this dynamic session as we gain valuable insights into how you can develop your leadership skills, focused on: The evolution of leadership theories and traits The impact of EQ (emotional intelligence) on modern day leadership An overview of the five facets of EQ: what they are and aspects to focus on
• 2:09 pm Keynote: Driving Value in Retail Through Machine Learning(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights on how leading on data science and building core systems is leading to increased consumer understanding and insights to drive experience, examples will be focused on: Automated pricing Product ranging Forecasting opportunities
• 2:34 pm A People-Centric Approach to Data-Driven Transformation(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into: How to establish an adaptive data strategy for setting a strategic foundation for data-driven digital transformations How to focus on actors and their interactions across the digital data ecosystem when designing data architecture How to focus on building human capabilities across 3 areas of steering, enabling, and executing data operations
• 2:55 pm Keynote: Data and Analytics - How to Win in the Next Ten Years(Plenary) Customer needs and behaviours have shifted as a result of COVID-19 and will never be the same again.Agility is key to driving customer experience during this era of disruption and change. Join Ali Behnaz as we explore how to gain deeper insights and cope with customers demand in an accelerated digital era and understand: How can we utilise data & analytics to gain opportunity from this shift in customer behaviour Understanding risks and controls Embracing leading AI & ML initiatives

Speakers

• Gareth Lewis · Head of Production, Factor Creatively driven, strategic thinker, with a passion for story-telling & story-doing. Working to helping business leaders connect through meaningful and engaging experiences.
• Sandhya Iyer · Head of Data Governance & Strategy, Latitude Financial Services I am a thought leader passionate about helping businesses leverage data as a strategic asset to solve problems and identify new opportunities. With over 15 years of experience in a number of data disciplines such as Analytics, Insights, Reporting, Data Science, AI/ML, Data Governance & Quality, I take pride in in driving customer and commercial value through effective use of data. Lately my focus has been on building data rich culture in the organisation by uplifting data literacy, improving data trust worthiness and promoting self serve capabilities. One of my biggest professional goal in life is to be able to create a “No data No decision” culture in an organisation. Outside of work, I volunteer as a Girls Liaison director for a not-for profit organisation called “Go-Girl, Go for IT” which is a part of VIC ICT for Women. Go-Girl is mainly focussed on helping young girls from the age of 10 – 17 understand and develop interest for career in STEM. I have 2 beautiful children, a boy aged 7 and girl 4 and work – life balance is an important input into my everyday decision making.
• Asif Gill · Associate Professor / Director DigiSAS Research & Innovation Lab, UTS Asif Gill is a result-oriented academic and practitioner with extensive 20+ years experience in IT in various sectors including banking, consulting, education, finance, government, nonprofit, software and telecommunication. He is A/Professor & Director of the DigiSAS Lab at the UTS School of Computer Science. He is certified as a Data Vault Data Modeler (Mastery Level) for information/ data architecture, Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt) for lean business process architecture, applied business architecture (EA), ITIL (Foundation) for service architecture, TOGAF 9 (Level 1 & 2) for enterprise architecture and CISM for information security. He has also PhD Computing, MSc Computing and Master of Business. He is also ACS Certified Professional and Senior Member.
• Sandeep Mathur · Director - Active Transport Portfolio, Data & Analytics, Transport for NSW Seasoned professional with focus on digital, technology and business transformation investments. Ability to work with Boards and CxOs to build and execute strategy and ensure benefit of investments is realised. Over 16 years of experience working in commercial & not-for-profit Boards in Australia and 31 years of experience in IT Industry with over 20 years in Project/Program/Portfolio Management in organisations such as Transport NSW, First Data, Westpac, HSBC, Commonwealth Bank, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, IBM, CSC, Fujitsu and Tourism Australia. Fellow from Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), certified Program Management Professional (PgMP) & Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute; certified SAFe Agilist (SA) & Agile Project Management (AgilePM) Practitioner; certified Management of Portfolio (MoP) Practitioner and certified Proscii Change Management consultant. Highly analytical and articulate. Focuses on strategy framework, governance structures and strong commitment to teamwork to deliver organisation’s vision.
• Sam Riethmuller · Head of Advanced Analytics, Coles Building and leading high performing data science teams with specialties in Consumer Analytics, Machine Learning, Choice Modelling, AI, Retail Analytics, Marketing Research
• Alasdair Gordon · Managing Director, Centre for Data & Insights Lead, Australia and New Zealand, Accenture Alasdair is a leader in Accenture’s Applied Intelligence practice focussing on using data, analytics, AI and automation to deliver superior customer experiences and optimised business outcomes. He leads the Centre for Data & Insight in Australia that harnesses our curated 3rd party data ecosystem and the AIP+ platform for the generation of rapid enriched insights and data experiences.
• Chris Day · Director, APAC Sales Engineering, Denodo Chris Day, Director, APAC Sales Engineering, Denodo assists organisations to leverage the capabilities of Denodo Data Virtualisation to increase their understanding, agility and collaboration across their disparate information landscapes. With over 16 years of experience in data integration, data governance, data quality and system architecture, Chris leads enterprises through the challenge of transforming their data contained in disconnected disparate silos, into valuable information assets that the whole enterprise can use and understand.
• Peter Philipp · General Manager, ANZ, Neo4j Peter brings more than 20 years of technology and leadership experience, working with business and technology leaders on data-driven projects, from government agencies in Europe and Asia-Pacific, to several of the world's top 10 financial institutions. Prior to joining Neo4j, Peter held regional leadership positions with SAP, HP Autonomy and most recently as GM of Europe for Attivio, a Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for Insight Engines.
• Nikos Acuna · Senior Director Product Marketing, Domo Design-thinking technology executive and entrepreneur, with 20 years of experience in strategy, product development, analytics, enterprise architecture, and operations management for both early stage and large-scale B2B+B2C platform enterprises. Over ten years of experience in deploying data products powered by advanced machine learning and predictive modeling. Expert in building teams and scaling cross-functional global organizations. By night, Researcher at the intersection of AI, quantum mechanics, cognition, and media theory. Broad business acumen and intricate technical depth. Award-winning author of Mindshare.
• Amit Bansal · Growth Markets Lead, AI Growth & Execution, Accenture Artificial Intelligence (AI) Specialist with strong experience in Analytics & Big Data solutions . Amit brings bring 27+ years of experience in defining solutions for clients in AI, Advanced Analytics, Data in the Cloud and Unique Customer Experiences. Amit has managed programs and architected solutions across industries such as Banking, Telecom, Distribution and Natural Resource. Amit has delivered major data transformation programs across the major banks and insurers and driving innovative solutions in the region. Specialties: Artificial Intelligence Business Transformation Strategy Digital Strategy Big Data Analytics Cognitive Computing Customer Experience Design Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse Information Management Strategy Supply Chain Management Outsourcing and Application Managed Services
• Henry Huang · Formerly Senior Manager Technology (Pepper Money), Pepper Money Henry Huang is an established technology veteran with over 20 years’ experience in driving transformation, leading innovation, creating high performing culture, and growing business. Henry has extensive hands-on experience in BI and Data Governance and has designed and built a truck load of Enterprise-Data Warehouses and BI Solutions across different industries. HH had the great honour to get Mr. Ralph Kimball reviewing his architecture data-backbone design of the Yield Curve Pricing Engine when HH worked at Bank of Scotland Treasury. HH built a successful fingerprint recognition system start-up and was a pioneer in the fingerprint system industry. Furthermore, Henry is an environmental advocate.
• Richard Glew · Chief Technology Officer, Aginic I am passionate about building highly capable teams who can deliver solutions to complex business problems.Specialties: Agile mindset and practice, Innovative IT solutions, creating and sustaining high performance teams, enterprise IT org design and architecture, enterprise IT transformation, attention to technical excellence, software testing, cloud native architecture, continuous delivery, devops, microservice architectures, AWS, Azure & Google Cloud. I am a versatile executive experienced with managing stakeholders of all shapes and sizes from board level to team members. More than just technology specialist, I have experience in managing product and creative teams as well as being a core member of senior leadership teams developing business strategy.

Partners

• Alteryx Alteryx unleashes the power of data analytics to help people everywhere solve business and societal problems. As a global leader in analytic process automation (APA), Alteryx unifies analytics, data science and business process automation in one, end-to-end platform to accelerate digital transformation. Organizations of all sizes, all over the world, rely on the Alteryx Analytic Process Automation Platform to deliver high-impact business outcomes and the rapid upskilling of their modern workforce. For more information visit www.alteryx.com. More than 150,000 global Alteryx users gather every day on the Alteryx Community to solve together. Check it out at www.community.alteryx.com. Join our team of passionate and hard-working associates, and help make a difference in people’s lives by creating software that enables business users to solve problems using data that were previously thought to be unsolvable, save them days, weeks and months of mundane data prep and blending, and help them truly love their jobs again. Alteryx is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. and has 18 additional global offices: Redwood City, Calif.; Broomfield, Colo.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dallas; Chicago; New York; Boston; Toronto; London; São Paulo; Paris; Munich; Prague; Kyiv, Ukraine; Dubai; Tokyo; Singapore and Sydney.
• Accenture Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 569,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.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.
• Talend Talend, the leading data integration and data integrity company, enables every business to find clarity amidst the data chaos. Talend is the only company to bring together in a single platform all the necessary capabilities that ensure enterprise data is complete, clean, compliant, and readily available to everyone who needs it throughout the organization. Businesses rely on Talend to deliver exceptional customer experiences, make smarter decisions in the moment, drive innovation, improve operations, and thrive in a future they can’t yet see.
• 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.
• Factor Sit-Down helps senior thought leaders and executives, stakeholders, advisors and suppliers, interested and passionate about what they do. With years of track record in the business matching services industry we specialise in helping creative business build, change and maintain their profile. With years of enthusiastic and passionate experience of working with fortune 500 companies and over 125000 CXOs, we now are one of the leading providers, enabling government agencies and enterprises advance their operational initiatives through engagements with those facing the same challenges.

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