CDO ANZ Live Series - February Edition 2022

Overview

As a new year brings fresh challenges, we look at the fundamental and core part of our journey, creating winning data strategies and helping our organisations to solve challenges through access to the best data and analytics insights. Join this months edition to understand how to:

Define and redefine - how do we measure, and prove out success?

Must knows of CX driven and practical decisions for all data leaders

What changes from initial vision to the delivery - learnings from real-world case studies

Tying analytics strategies to data strategies and business outcomes

Key innovations, developments, and advancements across AI/ ML

What to expect

• Live Interactions 1:1
• Virtual Attendees 150+
• Sessions 8+
• Speakers 5+

What we will cover

• Better Decision-making Companies need to create enterprise systems that allow them to make fundamentally better business decisions
• Analytics Agility Increase analytical fitness and develop strong muscle memory for future growth
• Quick Wins and Failing Forward Quick wins drive momentum, allowing room for failing forward create an environment for deeper creativity to flourish
• Key Innovations Stay ahead of the curve by investing the time to explore and discover new development and advancements across AI/ ML

Agenda

• 9:00 am How to Formulate and Implement a Winning AI Strategy(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 virtualisation can be used to abstract that complexity and introduce simplicity. Data Virtualisation 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 virtualisation 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
• 9:23 am Keynote: How to Use Behavioural Economics to Define Improved KPIs(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into understand the landscape of tracking metrics/data and what strategic work is required as an organisation to measure customer ease. Key learnings from this session: How do you measure ease? What metrics will give you visibility on it for your organisation? What KPIs would align stakeholders in actually improving ease over time?
• 9:46 am What's The Big Deal About Data Observability?(Plenary) Due to the ongoing exploding supply of data, enterprises must keep constant watch over their data and the pipelines through which it is ingested, prepared, and otherwise made fit for operational uses. Many enterprises have optimized data ingestion processes but experience issues with data management and data reliability. Data observability enables organizations to continually track, correlate, assess, predict, manage, and optimize the health of their data systems in operation. It is an essential tool for monitoring the metrics—such as data availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance—that businesses apply to ensure data teams meet the increasing demand for real-time data insights, data consumers trust the data they use to make business decisions, and executives ensure data delivery and pipeline performance meet business requirements. This session will cover best practices for using multidimensional data observability to monitor and optimize operational data pipelines and how to: Make the strategic case for data observability Identify the chief business metrics of data observability Use automation to scale data identification, reliability, quality and management Instrument the enterprise data infrastructure for comprehensible observability Use intelligent observability to augment data pipeline professionals’ productivity
• 10:08 am Keynote: Setting up a Data Centre of Excellence(Plenary) Join Tammy Braybrook, Chief Data Officer, IP Australia as we explore how we can optimise our data and analytics value to drive transformation and growth from data matters to information matters. Join this session to learn: How to develop a data centre of excellence, and build internal advocacy Pathways to develop a data-centric organisational culture Advice on how to gain the buy-in necessary to engage in data sharing
• 10:32 am Prioritizing Data as a Strategic Asset(Plenary) Data is a critical business asset, whether that's realized to its full potential is up to the business. How an enterprise prioritizes data as a strategic asset will determine its survival, growth potential, and competitive advantage. Having a true data management strategy to ensure quality, trustworthy data at scale will be key for businesses to drive increased revenue and outperform competitors. Join Rex Ahlstrom; CTO, EVP Innovation & Growth at Syniti, as he discussed on what are the cost and implication of bad data and how with improved data management, business executives can then make more informed decisions. Attendees will walk away with: ● Understanding data’s significance & value - why is it so important for businesses today? ● How data quality and company success are inextricably linked ● Combining quality data with the right choice of emerging tech to improve competitive advantage
• 10:55 am Keynote: How to Shift Your Internal Operating Systems as a Leader(Plenary) High performance is an inside job. What is your current default way of thinking? And does it help or hinder what you’re building as a leader? Ram Castillo will share tools, techniques and frameworks to access empowered, value-aligned behaviour shifts. Join this session to learn: Why our results start with our mind How to identify behaviours that aren’t serving us What to do when our thoughts and beliefs need to change
• 11:19 am Thought Leadership: The “Why”, “What” and “How” of Data Mesh(Plenary) The Data Mesh is a new data management approach centred around a de-centralized data architecture and a domain focused organisational paradigm. It is gaining strong interest and momentum as organisations continue to try to tackle the complexity and challenges around data management. In this session, Felix Liao, APAC Director of Product Management at Denodo, breaks down the key principles behind the data mesh and explains how to leverage data mesh as a key part of a data management modernisation strategy. Join us at this session to learn more about: Why do you need Data Mesh and what problems does it solve What are the key principles of a Data Mesh approach to data management How enabling technologies such as Denodo can support a Data Mesh implementation
• 11:39 am Keynote: The Convergence of Technology and Engineering to Create Impact(Plenary) Attend this session to on how to derive better insights to create and drive impact across your organisation. Key learnings include: 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
• 11:57 am Unleash Data Democracy: Drive knowledge Sharing and Collaboration(Plenary) Learn how a data system of engagement helps combat inefficiencies and ensures trusted data is accessed and used in a compliant way. Eliminate the bottleneck of having IT as the gatekeeper of all data, thus enabling the entire organisation to become data and insight driven.
• 0:22 pm Roundtable Sessions(Plenary) Roundtable 1 - How can CDOs Increase Observability, Cost Savings and Optimisation? The past year has been a game-changer for companies worldwide, not only because it demonstrated the importance of digital transformation but it also revealed the crucial need for data observability and data optimisation in disruptive times. Data observability is continually proving to be the key driver of future business models to provide both the optimal consumer experience, and an effective and efficient approach for data teams to manage volumes of enterprise data. Data leaders must rethink their strategy as they leverage the power of modern day technology, data pipelines and advanced analytics. During this edition of the CDO Circle, we will discuss how CDO's can use data observability to uncover data optimisations and cost savings across the organisation. We will unwrap: Case studies Discuss recent strategies implemented Outcomes and success and failure stories Key takeaways of the conversation: Leveraging tools to optimise cost and performance at scale Actionable insights on increasing data engineering productivity Harnessing observability to decrease data related incidents Increasing data reliability through automated workflows Roundtable 2 - Digital Transformation Journey - Data as a Strategic Asset Join Frankie Steel, as she discusses the customer’s digital transformation journey. She will also discuss how one can realise the full potential of data and the difference that data transformation can make in the lives of employees and the health of the business. How an enterprise prioritises data as a strategic company asset will determine its survival, growth potential, and competitive advantage. We will unwrap: Case studies Discuss recent strategies implemented Outcomes and success and failure stories Key takeaways of the conversation: Leveraging tools to speed up processes in one cloud-based platform Actionable insights and best practices that improve and maintain the quality of data How are CDOs eliminating the cost, complexity, and sprawl of multiple data tools"
• 1:17 pm Powering organisations with ESG data(Plenary) Organisations face growing pressure to accelerate their ESG progress. There are rising expectations to regularly disclose ESG developments, reporting gaps and future priorities. Companies harnessing the combination of cloud, data and artificial intelligence (AI) to power their ESG priorities will pave the way for future growth. With more companies undertaking compressed transformation underpinned by cloud as the enabler, data the driver and artificial intelligence (AI) as the differentiator, there are tremendous opportunities to truly harness the value of ESG data. Join Accenture experts, Amit Bansal Managing Director, AI Execution & Data-led Transformation Lead - Growth Markets, and Jean-Claude El-Sabbagh, Managing Director, Applied Intelligence Financial Services Lead – Growth Markets who will share examples of how some industry leaders are using ESG data to fast-track growth and value.
• 1:35 pm Panel: Storytelling Through Data To Make Informed Business Decisions(Plenary) Today the business landscape has changed due to COVID-19. In order to stay relevant and remain competitive, organisations must embed a data-driven culture to support operational resilience and revenue generation. This panel will hear insights from data leaders on how data can drive business outcomes and meaningful insights through successful storytelling. We will explore how we can drive our strategic organisational needs to create successful engagement across all units. This panel will hear insights from data leaders on how data can drive business outcomes and meaningful insights through successful storytelling and strategic understanding of our customers’ needs: Using data and analytics to influence stakeholders at all levels How to shape data into a narrative to help reveal findings and emerging trends How to use data storytelling, data visualisation and dashboards to think differently about its impacts on the wider enterprise? What are the data literacy skills required in a data-driven era? How we can drive our strategic organisational needs to create successful engagement across all units.
• 2:03 pm Connected Intelligence: Data Science in Operations(Plenary) Having an analytical insight is one thing, but actually doing something about it is something else entirely. Today’s fast-changing business climate demands real-time visibility and up-to-the-minute recommendations from data and analytics. This in turn depends on (a) clearly defined projects, (b) data acquisition, blending, exploration, (c) feature engineering, model training, evaluation, (d) model deployment, monitoring and rebasing. In this presentation, I provide a tour of this end-end data science lifecycle and key components, including an agile data fabric and catalog, a data science modeling environment, model operations and interactive visual analytics on streaming and accumulating data. I will illustrate this flow with case studies in manufacturing and financial services, and describe the emerging world of human-centered AI in context.
• 2:24 pm Keynote: Spotlight Speaker - The Growth Series Presents 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

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.
• Tammy Braybrook · CDO, IP Australia Tammy is currently the Chief Data Officer at IP Australia. At IP Australia we celebrate and support the bright ideas and inventive spirit of Australians. We are the government agency responsible for administering IP rights in Australia. These are patents, trade marks, designs and plant breeder's rights. We are committed to providing a strong and competitive IP system that encourages more innovation, investment and trade, and helps to position Australia as a world leader. By contributing to the improvement of Australian and international IP systems, we are supporting Australia's economic development. For further information about what we do, visit www.ipaustralia.gov.au
• Julien Le Nestour · Customer Experience & Analytics Director, Havas Media Group I’m a behavioural scientist applying the insights and tools of several disciplines to deliver impactful results across digital conversions and products. Behavioural Economics has exploded in popularity recently and there have been an accumulation of useful case studies to inform our work. I’ve specialised in digital as the process of data collection and analysis, testing hypotheses and then iterating on the results is incredibly fast and exciting, enabling outsized impact from small behavioral changes. I’ve been lucky to train in excellent schools in France that exposed me to cutting-edge research and industry practices in a wide range of disciplines. I Initially started a PhD but quit to apply academic insights to the industry. I still benefit from that initial and rigorous academic training though and I’m still involved in research through the UNSW Business School. My other passion is the health and fitness sphere, more specifically how to make health and fitness accessible to the widest audience. I firmly believe behavioural science can have a large impact there and I am developing projects in that space, specifically around behavioural change and creating better habits for the long term.
• Felix Liao · Director of Product Management, 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.
• Benedict Benoit · Area Vice President, APAC, Collibra I have +10 years of customer-facing experience across four continents (North America, Asia, Oceania and Europe) with a track record of consistently delivering high-value client solutions, providing personalized service and overachieving targets. With roots in Belgium, I have a passion for opening and growing new (international) markets and growing business from the ground up via direct and channel sales in a high-growth environment. Currently, I'm working on expanding Collibra in the APAC region.
• Michael O’Connell · Chief Analytics Officer, TIBCO Michael O’Connell - Chief Analytics Officer @TIBCO Michael O'Connell is the Chief Analytics Officer at TIBCO Software. Michael manages the TIBCO Data Science team, a group of ~30 data science experts and practitioners. He works closely with his team to deliver an evolving set of AI-apps and Tech Tools across a number of industries. These solutions span the worlds of science and engineering through customer and marketing analytics. Michael has a broad set of current interests including asset heath and optimization; modeling & simulation including digital twins and anomaly detection; and API-led, AI app dev. Recent projects include digital twin apps with the Mercedes F1 racing team, and a real-time visual data science app on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
• Rex Ahlstrom · CTO, EVP Innovation & Growth, Syniti Rex Ahlstrom, Chief Technology Officer, EVP Growth & Strategy at Syniti, has 30+ years of technology industry leadership experience. He specializes in enterprise software within the data integration and information management space. Responsible for Syniti’s strategy, product evolution, thought leadership and executive customer engagement, he previously served as CEO of two software start-ups and held major leadership roles at multiple Fortune 500 organizations, including SAP. Ahlstrom earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Drexel University. He is an experienced global lecturer, regularly addressing investors, business professionals and large customer communities.
• 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.
• Jean-Claude El-Sabbagh · Managing Director, Applied Intelligence Financial Services Lead – Growth Markets, Accenture Jean-Claude El-Sabbagh (JC) has over 20 years of data and analytics experience spanning a variety of industries including telecommunication, banking, insurance and consulting where he has held a variety of senior roles in analytics, finance, risk and technology. JC currently leads the Applied Intelligence Financial Services Industry across Accenture’s growth markets and has been appointed as the Chief AI and Data Officer for FS. Prior to joining Accenture, JC has held several leadership roles in big data & analytics covering Asia Pacific, China, Middle East and Africa at global organisations (Singtel, IBM, Westpac, St.George Bank, Insurance Australia Group ..etc). He is regarded as a subject-matter expert and had consulted to organisations across the globe to help them identify opportunities where they can more effectively use data and information technology to generate new intelligence which will improve their business performance and create a competitive advantage for their business. He holds an executive MBA from AGSM, a Master of Commerce from University of Western Sydney and is a member of CPA Australia.
• 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.
• Fayad Tohme · Chief Digital Officer, Nova Entertainment A highly versatile senior executive with extensive leadership experience in digital product delivery, strategy, innovation, operation, and portfolio governance. Built & led teams of up to 400 people, managed annual portfolio budgets of $80M+, and held senior leadership roles across a diverse range of industries within the public and private sectors varying in size and complexity. Trusted board advisor with proven experience in developing & executing strategies that enable organisational growth by best leveraging the power of people & technology. Thought leader, an expert in managing the complexities of innovation, leading operational effectiveness, and driving & implementing customer-centric products & platforms.

Partners

• Syniti Syniti enables agile enterprises with silo-free enterprise data management that helps turn complex data challenges into competitive advantages. With a unified, learning platform and one of the world’s largest teams of data-focused experts, enterprises and global alliance partners choose Syniti when they require trusted data to ignite business growth and reduce risks. Syniti is a portfolio company of BridgeGrowth Partners LLC. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in 25 countries around the world, Syniti operates in all global regions and industry verticals, and maintains a 99.7% client success rate across thousands of complex data projects and initiatives.
• 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.
• 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.
• Acceldata Acceldata has created the world's first Data Observability Cloud, helping data-driven enterprises achieve operational excellence, innovation agility, and higher returns on data investment. Modern enterprises increasingly rely on embedded analytics and AI systems to power their business operations and decisions. Building, operating, and optimizing these systems, however, can be overwhelming. Traditional monitoring tools, while effective for web applications and microservices, don’t provide sufficient insight into distributed data, processing, and pipelines.
• 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.
• Collibra Collibra is the Data Intelligence company. We accelerate trusted business outcomes by connecting the right data, insights and algorithms to all Data Citizens. Our cloud-based platform connects IT and the business to build a data-driven culture for the digital enterprise. Global organizations choose Collibra to unlock the value of their data and turn it into a strategic, competitive asset. We have a diverse global footprint, with offices in the U.S., Belgium, Australia, Czech Republic, France, Poland and the U.K. Visit our website at Collibra.com
• TIBCO TIBCO Software unlocks the potential of real-time data for making faster, smarter decisions. Our Connected Intelligence Platform seamlessly connects any application or data source; intelligently unifies data for greater access, trust, and control; and confidently predicts outcomes in real-time and at scale. Learn how solutions to our customers’ most critical business challenges are made possible by TIBCO at www.tibco.com

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