CDO Live SEA August Edition

Overview

COVID-19 has been a game-changer for companies worldwide, not because it demonstrated the importance of digitalisation but also because it revealed the crucial need for agility and resilience in disruptive times.

Data will still be the key driver of future business models to provide the optimum consumer experience, but the rules and the landscape have accelerated. Data leaders must rethink their data strategy as they leverage the power of the cloud, data science and advanced analytics.

During this edition we will discuss:

-Strategies currently in place in leading organisations

-Where to start and what to aim for

-Outcomes and common mistakes

-Peer examples and solutions

What to expect

• On-site Attendees 60
• Speakers 10+
• Virtual Attendees 150+
• Partners

What we will cover

• Transform your enterprise by prioritising cultural change and fostering a data-driven orientation
• How Best To Work With C-Suite
• End-to-end digital transformation process
• Clarity for the CDO’s role and purpose by defining and advocating the role’s vision, priorities and scope

Agenda

• 9:00 am How to Swiftly Operationalize the Data Lake for Advanced Analytics Using a Logical Data Fabric(Plenary) While big data initiatives have become necessary for any business to generate actionable insights, big data fabric has become a necessity for any successful big data initiative. The best-of-breed big data fabrics should deliver actionable insights to the business users with minimal effort, provide end-to-end security to the entire enterprise data platform, and provide real-time data integration while delivering a self-service data platform to business users. Attend this session to learn how big data fabric enabled by Data Virtualization: · Provides lightning fast self-service data access to business users · Centralizes data security, governance, and data privacy · Fulfills the promise of data lakes to provide actionable insights
• 9:25 am Data Transformation from the Ground Up(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into CIMB's transformational journey and understand how to: Focus on business led initiatives versus technology driven transformations Build incrementally and iteratively. Ensure data governance is business led
• 9:51 am How You Can Access Live, Granular Data Across Your Organisation And Your Business Ecosystem(Plenary) Data has become more than something to collect and analyse. It’s an asset you can easily and securely make available inside and outside your organisation to streamline operations, swiftly deliver more personalised customer experiences, and open up new market opportunities. In fact, the use case for sharing data within an organisation has always been clear, but the next phase is really revolutionising how we share data with those on the outside. Join Snowflake on this webinar to learn how you can access live, granular data across your organisation and your business ecosystem, so you can acquire deeper insights not available with traditional data analytics.
• 10:17 am Panel: Storytelling Through Data to Make Informed Business Decisions(Plenary) Data storytelling offers a more engaging means of communicating findings than BI reporting or data visualization alone. This trend is an extension of the now dominant self-service model of BI, combining data visualization with narrative techniques. What is a data story? When and how should data storytelling be used? What new skills and techniques are needed to create compelling data stories?This panel will hear insights from leading data leaders across the region on how data can drive business outcomes and meaningful insights through successful storytelling: 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 & digital literacy skills required in a hyper digitalised and data-driven era?
• 10:41 am Business Agility: Driving Action from Data(Plenary) Having a culture of innovation allows an organization to respond quickly to challenges, and data presents an invaluable opportunity for companies to innovate. Only by bringing data and analytics processes into business processes, to drive collaboration and informed action, can this compel actions to drive innovation. In this session, we will discuss how you drive business agility and create a culture of innovation by arming your people and systems with up-to-date, real-time information and analysis, and triggering of action through Qlik Active Intelligence approach.
• 11:02 am Utilizing Talent Data to drive Business Impact Through the Lens of HR(Plenary) Attend this session to hear from Tech Data Data & Analytics HR leader Cyl Lin, and gain insights into talent analytics to support your business outcomes and drive impact: Challenges of making talent analytics as part of our HR routine Transform HR Reporting into actionable talent analytics for better business outcomes Illustration of 2 case studies that inspire actions to drive Business Impact
• 11:27 am Understand the Known, Uncover the Unknown... With Neo4j Graph Data Platform(Plenary) This presentation sets the stage to understand Graph Data Platform and how it can support enterprises from progressing from Collected Data to Connected Data. We will share use cases of real-life examples of how global companies have leveraged this through Knowledge Graphs with technologies like Graph Data Science, Graph Database etc to uncover the gems of insights and knowledge hidden within their data. Relationships between data points are what is key to this discovery.
• 11:44 am Lost in Translation: Understanding and Closing the Gaps between Technical and Business Experts(Plenary) What are leading organisations in Data and Analytics doing that others can learn from? How do they organise? Attend this session and learn from John Funtanila, dubbed Philippines’ Strongest Data Scientist as we explore: Managing expectations with real world constraints For business experts: Seeing new solutions as enhancements, not as replacements For technical experts: Creating value for advanced solutions by making it intuitive and actionable
• 0:08 pm Business Value of an Enterprise Data Cloud(Plenary) With the Asia/Pacific public cloud spend to reach $48.4B, companies are responding with increased speed to leverage cloud as an easy solution to help drive digital transformation and collaboration across the business. However, a cloud-first one-size-fits-all technology strategy doesn’t work for all businesses. A business strategy, not technology, should drive digital transformation initiatives. JOIN CINDY MAIKE, VP OF INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS & VALUE MANAGEMENT AT CLOUDERA TO DISCUSS: Considerations for driving a data and digital transformation strategy Examples of how organizations from financial services and telecommunications have succeeded in their digital transformation journeys Insights into business impacts from data strategy and the data landscape Plus you’ll hear real-world use cases to illustrate how businesses across industries are driving real business value with the enterprise data cloud
• 0:31 pm Architecture Line of Sight – How to Embed Data Management Into Your BAU(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into: Strategy assumptions Business and technology strategy vis performance Line of Sight for Data Management including useful case studies
• 0:56 pm The Role of Confidential Computing in a Data-driven Future(Plenary) Confidential computing is a technology being used for data security that targets a previously unsolvable problem facing organizations today: how to protect sensitive customer data when you send it outside of your institution. By using confidential computing, it is now possible to protect sensitive data throughout all stages of its lifecycle, as well as provide technical assurances that it can’t be misused.

Speakers

• Gareth Lewis · Content Creator, Factor Creatively driven, strategic thinker, with a passion for story-telling & story-doing. Working to helping business leaders connect through meaningful and engaging experiences.
• Juan Kanggrawan · Head of Data Analytics, Jakarta Smart City Analytics, product management, technocrat & business strategy professional with comprehensive 12++ years of exposure in business, government and technology. Exposed to entrepreneurship in tech (data management, risk intelligence, agri-tech and e-commerce) & angel investment domain. Lead team members consist of senior manager/lead, researcher from top 10 global universities, economist, policy advisor, product manager, data scientist, business analyst, data analyst, data engineer, analytics consultant. Drive organizations to make better decisions, faster, across levels and functions. Plan, build and commercialise digital and data product portfolio. Actively volunteer in numerous domains to drive concrete impacts in city, society, nation and region. Pure thirst in learning new knowledge/domain and connecting it to existing expertise & capacity. Passionate in talent building, teaching, academic research (including journal editorial board) and philosophical discussion.
• John Funtanilla · Advanced Analytics Lead, Nestle –dubbed Philippines’ Strongest Data Scientist, is a competitive strength athlete and analytics professional. He is passionate about democratising data, demystifying analytics, and enabling non-technical stakeholders in leveraging data to make informed business decisions. Prior to joining Nestle, he was a Senior Data Scientist for AXA where he developed a model that predicted non-payment of policies with 94% accuracy. The enabled the loyalty team to recover 4.5 times as much in premium collections versus the control group. John is currently supporting Nestle Philippines’ Digital transformation initiatives and is in the forefront of developing tools and models that are used for sales forecasting, pricing optimisation, and marketing mix modelling. He most recently won Nestle’s Global Consumer Market Insights award for his team’s work in predicting sales volume amidst the volatility brought by the COV-19 pandemic.
• Brian Chan · Information Technology Director, jebsen As part of the Jebsen Group since 2018, I strive to bring Group Information Technology (GIT) more into the forefront – rather than just be a technical team that works in the background. Our team – a good mix of the young and the young at heart – is more than just the people you call when technical issues arise. We are here as a business partner that drive value and help our colleagues find or create new business models or opportunities. We do this by coming together with others – learning how they work; familiarizing with their operations so that we know how we can best help them. Externally, we have tracked all customer behavior so that we could help our partners to engage closely with their client base. Internally, our team makes work smarter for everyone by digitizing process whenever it matters, using technologies like RPA, eForm, eWorkflow and API. We are always on the lookout for trends that is 'right' for our businesses, and through this we would like to create a data-driven mindset within the Group. One measurement of our success is our internal users actively seeking us for advice, rather than approaching us only when issues arise. Work Secure, Work Smart, Work Anywhere.
• Cyl Lin · APAC HR Business Partner, Modern Data Centre & Analytics, Tech Data A forward-thinking and commercially-savvy HR Business Partner with more than 15 years of HRM experience in regional roles across Asia-Pacific, she had acquired experiences across various industries that include Life Sciences, Technology, Oil & Gas. Cyl provided strategic HR leadership in matrix organizations across cultures and regions to unlock potential through nurturing high feedback and high-performance culture. Cyl undertook roles to drive transformational changes such as Organizational & Leadership Development, Continuous improvements in Talent Management Processes for organizations in the Asia Pacific region in view to focus on compliance, accelerate business growth & sustenance and provide employees with developmental and career growth opportunities. Cyl has been a seasoned HR, Talent and Learning Practitioner and has conceptualized, designed and implemented regional projects such as a consistent & standardized Recruitment & On-Boarding processes across Asia with the help of her Asia HR team and the introduction of Predictive Index as a talent selection and developmental tool to assess the suitability of potential incumbents. She designed and created the first Lego Experiential Learning that enables employees to increase their self-awareness through action learning with Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Coding. She led in-country Digital HR Transformation projects leveraging on technology and partnering closely with her country HR teams, internal communications and the local IT community, etc. She also led the Global People Experience Project alongside with 7 regional HR leaders to identify the moments that matter to employees that positively impact the employees' experiences in the arena of Talent Acquisition & On-Boarding, Performance Management, Rewards & Recognition, Work-Life Balance, etc.
• Chris Day · Director, APAC Sales Engineering, Denodo Chris Day 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.
• Yinghan HU · CEO, Tetmon Data virtualisation and integration, Data virtualisation/ fabric/ mesh/ integration for governments, BFSI, Funds, property in Southeast Asia Speaker at Chinese deeptech summit, Global Fintech Institute blockchain, SUSS fintech workshops
• Andrew Swindell · National Analytics Solution Lead, GHD Andrew Swindell is a Director of "On a Page" a company that provides Reference Architectures and Architecture support for a range of clients and has over 25 years' experience in the field of Information Technology, Enterprise, Business and Information Architecture. He is also the National Analytics Solutions Lead for GHD Digital and is based in Brisbane, Australia. Andrew has successfully delivered Information and Data Management programs and published numerous eBooks on Enterprise and Information Architecture and has successfully delivered a number of country and company-wide Architecture and Data Management initiatives in Australia and New Zealand. Andrew has extensive experience in the Mining, Financial Services, Utilities, Health Insurance and Tourism industries and has twice presented at the European EA conference in London, UK and the World Architecture Summit in Sydney, Australia

Partners

• 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.
• R3 R3 is an enterprise software firm that is pioneering digital industry transformation. With our foundation in enterprise blockchain technology, we power solutions that deliver trust across the financial services industry and beyond. Our enterprise blockchain platform Corda is digitalizing the processes and systems that firms rely on to connect and transact with each other and has more than 350 institutions deploying, servicing and building on it. And our confidential computing platform, Conclave, empowers businesses to develop applications that analyze and process sensitive data from multiple parties—all without compromising on confidentiality.
• Cloudera At Cloudera, we believe data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We deliver an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI. We enable people to transform vast amounts of complex data into clear and actionable insights to enhance their businesses and exceed their expectations. Cloudera is leading hospitals to better cancer cures, securing financial institutions against fraud and cyber-crime, and helping humans arrive on Mars — and beyond. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open-source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
• 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.
• Qlik Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. Qlik provides an end-to-end, real-time data integration and analytics cloud platform to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik does business in more than 100 countries and serves over 50,000 customers around the world.
• 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.

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