CDO ANZ Hybrid Series - October Edition 2021

Overview

The role of the CDO is vital to the future growth strategy of your business, be a change agent for your organisation, empowering them to become data-driven and digitally transformed. Join us to explore strategy and insights to help CDO's;

Become leaders across our organisations and drive advocacy from top to bottom

Understand how to create a thriving data-driven culture

Help our whole organisations to become data & digital literate

What to expect

• On-site Attendees 70+
• Virtual Attendees 150+
• Speakers 10+
• Partners

What we will cover

• Leadership and skills: be the change maker
• Data and analytics in times of crisis: insights and key learnings
• How data and analytics leaders can provide valuable insights into the future
• What skills and competencies are needed for data and analytics excellence?

Agenda

• 9:00 am New Research – In the Spotlight the Future CDO Role & Data Strategy(Plenary) In collaboration with MIT, Accenture recently surveyed Chief Data Officers and other C-suite executives responsible for driving the data and AI agenda. The research examined the challenges and barriers facing CDO’s in securing enterprise adoption. Join Amit Bansal, Applied Intelligence lead at Accenture Australia, together with Joseph Depa , Accenture’s Global Lead for Data-led Transformation, as they explore the CDO’s position today and reveal insights around the future CDO role and developing the organisation’s data strategy.
• 9:20 am Keynote: Why we Need to Turn the Dial as CDO's(Plenary) Join UTS Chief Data Officer to explore how we turn the dial as data leaders and create winning data strategy to drive long-term organisational growth. A unique perspective on his 18 months in this role including: Data leadership Building strong advocacy Creating data-driven solutions
• 9:38 am The Era of Connected Intelligence(Plenary) Early graph innovators have already pioneered the most popular use cases – fraud detection, personalization, 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. Neo4j Graph Data Platform provides the latest in Connected Data capabilities, scaling to 1.2 trillion relationships with lightning fast processing speeds to enable your enterprise to cater for the needs and demands of today's digitally transformed world.
• 9:58 am Keynote: Enterprise Data Strategy Modernisation: Potential Futures and Pathways(Plenary) Join Alex Taylor, Global Head of Emerging Technology, QBE Ventures at QBE Insurance as we explore: How a data strategy encompassing eventing and streaming is vital to modern enterprise The emergence of hybrid data strategies: traditional approaches alongside leading technical solution providers The landing point: opportunities for successful data transitions to enable AI/ML, real-time customer insights and data activation for product iteration.
• 10:21 am The Era of Connected Intelligence(Plenary) Early graph innovators have already pioneered the most popular use cases – fraud detection, personalization, 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. Neo4j Graph Data Platform provides the latest in Connected Data capabilities, scaling to 1.2 trillion relationships with lightning fast processing speeds to enable your enterprise to cater for the needs and demands of today's digitally transformed world.
• 10:41 am Three Reasons You Won't Have This Job Next Year(Plenary) The role of Chief Data Officer is relatively new, and often poorly defined. However, there are already several key predictors of success - or failure - for CDOs and other data leaders trying to build a data-driven culture inside their organisation. In this talk, we'll discuss three reasons that CDOs fail, how to identify them, and what to do about them, so you still have this job next year.
• 11:02 am Keynote: Leading Innovation and Transformation Initiatives Across Your Organisation(Plenary) Join Transformation Leader Penelope Barr as we discuss Initiatives to help lead Innovation across your organisation.Penelope brings over 20 years of experience leading local & global digital, technology, agile, innovation & transformation programs and is an Award-winning intrapreneur who brings a creative approach to solve complex problems, generate business value & drive excellence. In this session we will discuss: Meeting people where they are as a basis to start making change Don’t change things, run experiments Setting up a global accelerator to run a live global market scan to augment a build; buy; leverage innovation and product development strategy
• 11:23 am Panel Discussion: What do Data, Analytics & Tech Leaders Need to do to Adapt, Survive & Thrive in 2022 and Beyond?(Plenary) Panel Discussion: What do Data, Analytics & Tech Leaders Need to do to Adapt, Survive & Thrive in 2022 and Beyond? Exploring the ambiguity and blurring lines around data, analytics and tech leadership roles: What are the mandates and what makes for effective leadership in the future? How is data and analytics representation evolving at board level? How can you position these roles as crucial for the long term, not just the immediate future? How do you balance developing a strategic approach to data and analytics, with the need to remain flexible to adapt to the changing needs, priorities and goals of the wider organisation? How can you ensure that you are best positioned to successfully tackle future challenges and exploit upcoming opportunities?
• 11:49 am 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.
• 0:10 pm Networking Break(Plenary) Please take the time to network with the attendees and visit the expo booths. We'll see you all in 30 minutes
• 0:40 pm Keynote: Data Leadership to Drive Social Impact(Plenary) Using data and analytics strategically is crucial to an organisation’s competitiveness and survival. Leaders face pressure to prioritise, measure and communicate the value of these initiatives and align them to business priorities. In this session Mark looks forward to sharing his knowledge of how Barnardos is using data to improve outcomes for the children, youth and the families it supports.
• 1:02 pm 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
• 1:23 pm Keynote: The Art of Possible – Creating a Data-Driven Culture to Support Customer Needs(Plenary) Join this session to understand: Why do we need to drive a data culture – why is it so important? How to create data champions What the benefits look like (proof benefits back to the business and individuals) What tactics / strategies to apply to support engagement
• 1:40 pm Building the Modern Analytics Stack(Plenary) Building the Modern Analytics Stack
• 1:58 pm How to Develop Organisational Buy In and Drive ROI.(Plenary) Join Director of Data Science and Business Intelligence, Carnival Australia, Justin Beck as he shares rare insights on global project YODA, a custom built revenue management system that was shortlisted for an Edelman Award. Insights include: Optimisation strategies and implementation Key business intelligence strategies Project management initiatives
• 2:23 pm Data Virtualization: The Smartest Way to Creating a Data Marketplace(Plenary) Today most organisations rely on data-driven insights to make critical operational and strategic decisions. But given the complexity and vastness of the modern enterprise data ecosystem, finding the right data set and extracting actionable insights is an extremely complicated and time-consuming process. That’s where data virtualization can be used to abstract that complexity and introduce simplicity. Data Virtualization is a modern data integration technique that uses a single unified semantic layer to give you visibility into all of your data assets so that they can be better leveraged across the business. Attend this session to understand how data virtualization can be used to; Complete the self-service model by allowing business users to easily discover data for their specific business purpose Promote trust in data and encourage re-use of existing data assets Apply consistent security and governance policies across the enterprise data landscape

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.
• Mark Metcalf · Head of Technology, Barnardos Mark is a highly experienced, business focused, IT executive leader and adviser on information technology and security with over 20 years practical experience working with large scale commercial enterprise (including fortune 100) NFP and government agencies delivering business aligned enterprise technology solutions that exceed ROI expectations. Marks core focus is on the development of strategies that deliver real client value and business capability, supported by data led intelligence and the practical application of technology, development of staff and improvement in business process. Mark had led the implementation of on-prem, hybrid and full cloud architectures in complex networks and organisations of varying technical maturity and has learnt a thing or two about harnessing data to drive value for the organisation and its major stakeholders and clients.
• Penelope Barr · Head of LegalTech Product Lab & Innovation, Allens With 20+ years’ experience leading local & global digital, technology, agile, innovation & transformation programs, I’m motivated by challenge & making things happen As an Award-winning intrapreneur I use a genuinely creative approach to solve complex problems, generate business value & drive excellence. I bring a full kitbag of design thinking, scaling agile & lean startup to design products, generate revenue, improve return on assets or cost savings I apply analytical insight, thorough planning, rapid implementation & deliver in highly ambiguous situations A connector of people, ideas, opportunity & things, I turn good ideas into great business EXPERTISE • P&L management of $100M business unit; Project portfolio $100M • Innovation awards in 5 countries • Commercially savvy, entrepreneurial, energetic, outcome-focussed • Future focused leadership • Growing big, happy teams to outperform • Advanced Stakeholder management & strategic comms • Invited local & global speaker • Product, Agile leadership, executive & team coaching, Agile program director • Start-ups, lean startup, digital product, distribution, channels HIGHLIGHTS • Led transformational technology change program addressing longstanding issues with different problem solving & delivery methods impacting 10K staff & customers (ANZ 2017) • Recovered failing app project. Successfully delivered this complex product in all Australian schools in 3 months, winning ANZIA Innovation Award (AMF 2015) • Developed IPTV network. Leveraged dormant TV network in 900+ branches, created dynamic content to produce integrated internal & customer communications powerhouse, saving $40M, AIM Award (NAB 2008)
• Revital Rosenberg · Head of Data and Insights, Officeworks Revital is an experienced leader in the Data and Analytics field, with more 20 years of experience in drawing insights and value of data. Passionate about her position and power to use data to make informed decisions, Revital has played a strong role in promoting data culture throughout her career, including her current role where she is Head of Data and Insights at Officeworks. A role she has held for the last three years. Prior to this, Revital worked in various industries using different types of data to inform business decisions and transformations from clinical and pharmaceutical data to finance and retail. She brings all facets of data management and experience under the one umbrella focusing on data governance, accuracy, best practices and driving value. Revital holds a science degree from Tel-Aviv University as well as Master in Bioinformatics from Weizmann institute of Science.
• Enrico Steiger · Senior Manager Analytics, McGrathNicol I am motivated to grow and build digital solutions with and for clients, understanding the businesses needs along with the technical challenges. As a highly driven and dependable individual, my strengths include: • 10+ years of experience in IT technology, IT strategy and business consulting in various sectors including consumer, automotive, engineering, retail, transportation, finance, insurance and the public sector • Advisory around business and technology transformation • 10+ years of business experience in location intelligence and geospatial technologies • Extensive experience in data analytics & AI, data lakes and BI platforms
• Huazhuo Lin · Chief Data Analytics Officer, Wel Networks Ltd Experienced Principal Advisor with a demonstrated history of working in the utilities industry. Skilled in Analytical Skills, Operations Management, Financial Operations, Asset Management, and Management. Strong consulting professional with a Postgraduate Certificate focused in Organisational Leadership from University of Waikato.
• Craig Napier · Chief Data Officer, UTS A passion for developing and pursuing innovative ideas, concepts and advanced analytics to uncover insights and opportunities for improved performance Director with substantial experience in Business intelligence, Data Warehousing deployments and analytics in a range of industries and lecturer of Business Analytics at the University of Wollongong. Experienced in strategy development, strategy execution, stakeholder engagement and leading teams to successful outcomes FCPA professional with broad experience in all aspects of management accounting, auditing, financial management and divisional monthly reporting. A keen interest in improving the way data is communicated and visualized to improve absorption of information in reporting Project Manager for the establishment of a National Data Centre at the SMART Infrastructure facility integrating policy and guidelines, people and process and technology to capture, store and discover Infrastructure research data for reuse Specialties: Business Intelligence, Analytics, Cognos, Financial Accounting, Systems Accounting, Project Management, Change management, Visualizations, Data and Metadata Management, Higher Education Sector
• Alex Taylor · Global Head of Emerging Technology, QBE Ventures Alex is the Global Head of Emerging Technology of QBE Ventures, the venture investment and development arm of QBE Insurance. Alex and the team invest in, build alongside and partner with early-stage technology companies that have the potential to reshape the insurance industry. Alex is an innovation and disruption specialist and futurist, helping established companies to see where the threats lie, and how they can play in the same field and with the same tools as the disrupters – and has spoken before a wide range of audiences on the Horizon 1 to Horizon 3 innovation and disruption journey, and how to navigate the bridge between. As the technology lead on a number of AI/ML investments in VC and CVC environments, Alex has lived the challenge of applying machine learning and related technologies in highly regulated environments - from visual and voice analytics, customer sentiment platforms and IoT to the challenges of vehicular automation. Before joining QBE, Alex was the Director of Emerging and Innovation Technology and also Entrepreneur in Residence at IAG.
• Justin Beck · Director of Data Science and Business Intelligence, Carnival Australia Before "Data Science" existed as the sexiest job of the 21st century Justin worked in operations research for the Australian Department of Defence. A surprising similar field with origins dating back at least as far as WWII. In this capacity he supported major acquisition projects, deployed to the Middle East and spent time at the RAND Corporation. He joined Carnival Australia (which operates Carnival Cruises, Princess Cruises and P&O Australia in the Australian Region) in 2015. Among other tasks, he played a key role in the development of the "YODA" revenue management system which was recognized as a finalist in the 2020 Edelman Awards for excellence in analytics. Justin has a PhD in Mathematics (Game Theory) from the University of South Australia.
• Nic Crouch · Account Executive, Snowflake
• Mark Fazackerley · Regional Vice President, Australia and New Zealand, Talend
• Grant Case · Director of Sales Engineering, Dataiku Highly motivated professional with advanced finance expertise, marketing analytics experience, and leadership ability who has consistently received top performance ratings and influenced decision-making both horizontally and vertically across organizations.
• 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
• 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.
• Katrina Briedis · Sr. Product Marketing Manager Asia Pacific, Denodo Katrina has 20+ years Information Technology experience covering software development, project delivery, software sales and marketing. Her expertise lies in application development, data integration, business intelligence, and analytics. She has worked for leading software vendors such as IBM, Informatica, MicroStrategy, OpenText, Domo and more recently Denodo. Katrina has a passion for data and has worked in a variety of roles primarily helping organizations drive business insights and value through their data assets. She has held leadership positions managing software development teams as well as managing and building technical and marketing teams for startup organizations across the Asia-Pacific region
• Peter Philipp · General Manager, ANZ, Neo4j

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Snowflake Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the Data Cloud.
• 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 537,000 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.
• 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.

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