CDO Live SEA July Edition 2021

Overview

Faced with a constantly evolving business landscape and unprecedented levels of uncertainty, it is more vital than ever that data and analytics leaders such as the chief data officer and chief analytics officer (CDO and CAO) forge new paths to enable a data-and-analytics-centric culture within their organisations. Data and analytics leaders must be able to tie data and analytics strategy to business outcomes and promote the adoption of technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), while creating a resilient culture that accelerates change, and where data literacy, digital trust, governance and data-driven critical thinking are pervasive.

What to expect

• Attendees 200+
• Hours
• Sessions
• Live Interactions 1:1
• 1 Executive Roundtable 15 Executives Only

What we will cover

• Driving Cultural Change Changing the culture of workers, from knowledge experts and executives through to operators and administrators is always difficult. But driving the adoption of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Analytics means embracing a new paradigm.
• Data Management & Governance Achieving data that is trusted, easily accessed and available to everyone requires a data governance framework, used to guide a data-driven culture throughout the organisation.
• Ensuring Stakeholder Buy-in Obtaining and maintaining the buy-in of a number of stakeholders from various business units can be challenging but is essential for data leaders to understand. Whose requirements have the greatest priority? Where will the funding come from? How will the roadmap be planned? These and other fundamental questions challenge organisations grappling with major data and analytics programs.
• Focus On The True Value Of Data and Accessibility How to ensure we are connecting to other data sets and make them readily accessible for decision processes or insights generation.

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.
• 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.
• 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
• Ian Stephens · Award Winning Keynote Speaker, enRich Training & Development There’s a reason Ian Stephens is invited to speak around the world to teams, sales executives and leaders. That’s because he’s got a passion for equipping people with practical tools they can use immediately to amplify productivity, stay resilient and resourceful, and stay motivated during changing times. A master of integrating his Neuro-linguistic Programming tools into his talks, Ian particularly specialising in helping people amplify their ability to manage themselves and others in terms of team dynamics, collaboration and ‘bouncing back’. High-engagement infused with humour… all custom-tailored to your organisation’s needs, vision and specific challenges. His keynotes or workshop sessions are a mastery intensive for team focus, discipline and achievement. A prolific writer, Ian is the author of 4 books, and the creator of 11 on-line resources and 8 on-line virtual programs all designed to amplify your personal and business results. His new booked ‘SHIFT Yourself’ will be available in July 2021 exploring how to stay focused and effective in the newly evolving environment including working from home, remote working and challenge of maintaining a high performance team culture. In 2020 Ian was the recipient of the ‘Educator of the Year Award’ by the Professional Speakers Association (PSA) and given the highest honour of being also presented ‘The Nevin Award’ inducting into PSA’s Hall of Fame.
• Ujjyaini Mitra · Chief Data Officer, Entertainment Group As Chief Data Officer, she is building Centre of Excellence for ZEE spanning across Broadcast, Digital, Movies and Music – both Domestic & Global businesses. Her works spans across Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, Predictive and Prescriptive Modelling, Artificial Intelligence, Market Research & Digital lab and Large data infrastructure to build Customer 360 with Data governance. Ujjyaini is working to embed science in the field of Art – in taking content decisions, concept generation, production to postproduction, hyper-personalised communication, Contextual Ad serving through Artificial Intelligence and Neuro Science. She is leading the team that collectively serves the single source of truth and answers Who, What, How and Why of the Business strategies. Ujjyaini is a Senior Executive with 14 years of rich Leadership experience in establishing Data as a Culture at large organizations, successfully building and leading Centre of Excellence through creative methods, leading business strategies through data driven actionable Insights. She holds a postgraduate degree Quantitative Econometrics, Statistics and Computer Science from ISI, Kolkata.
• Sean Lam · Head of Data Science, SingHealth Dr Sean Lam is an experienced data scientist, practitioner and academician with a PhD from the NUS. He has spent nearly 20 years in government, research, academic and healthcare organizations. He is currently the Head of Data Science with the SingHealth Health Services Research Centre. He is also an Assistant Professor with the Duke-NUS Medical School and the Singapore Management University.
• Rajendra Sankhlecha · Director, Flipkart Rajendra is a seasoned analytics and risk management professional in banking, financial services and fintech domain. In the current role, he is working as Head of Risk for Consumer Finance and Wholesale Credit at Flipkart Fintech. Prior to Flipkart, he worked for Axis Bank where he set up and scaled analytics teams for fraud, AML, transaction monitoring, compliance, HR and Operations team. Before that, at TransUnion, he developed Credit Bureau Risk Score which is one of most widely used parameters for credit decisioning in India. Rajendra is a post graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in Mathematics & Scientific Computing
• Lu Luc · Chief Data Officer, One Mount Group Analytics, decisioning and technology leader. I help organisations become intelligent businesses. This is possible by rethinking how data and analytics can be combined with decisioning, machine learning and business acumen to create systems that automatically detect, understand and react as customer, external and business events occur. I take holistic accountability for data & analytics, from strategy to operating model, architecture, information management, monetisation, engineering, talent development and data privacy & security. My experience is global, having worked in Australia, Asia and Europe in the Technology, Energy, Banking, Capital Markets, Retail and Public sectors. Experience: - Chief Data Officer - One Mount Group - Executive Manager Data & Decision Engineering - CBA - Data & Decisioning Platform Manager - AGL Energy - Data & Analytics Lead - AGL Energy - Director - Advanced Data & Analytics at EYC3 - Financial Services IT Advisory Senior Manager at EY EMEA - SAP EIM Consulting Manager for UK and Ireland - Principal Consultant for BusinessObjects in the EMEA region - Data warehouse lead at Macquarie Bank
• Ram Kumar · Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Cigna Senior and seasoned strategic thought leader and executive with sound business acumen and skills in developing business, data, technology and organisational cultural transformation strategies of varying sizes and complexities, executing , operationalising and managing them. Have effectively and efficiently integrated people, data, processes and technology coupled with right organisation culture to create pragmatic and sustainable business outcomes. Have successfully operated in different and dynamic market conditions in various industry verticals and government organisations in over 40 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Asia, Pacific, Latin America and North America regions. Have successfully established businesses through international M&As and, JVs and managed its IT and data functions. Over 30 years of extensive IT experience (Programming, Commercial Product Dev, Strategy, Architecture and R&D to execution and operations management) coupled with over 20 years of “DATA” experience covering end to end data lifecycle components including data strategy, data analytics, data quality, data gov, data monetization, meta and master data, data driven culture, data privacy & ethics and data risk mgmt. Have held senior executive roles such as CDAO, CDO, CIO, CTO and CEO. Early adopter of AI since 1980s and experience in fundamental and applied AI research, development and commercialization. Built & deployed first AI (explainable) commercial solution in 1986. First big data (30 year data set) based AI/machine learning driven advanced analytics solution was implemented for a large govt agency in 1992. Recipient of several prestigious international/global awards (vendor independent and selected by jury of international experts) for delivering fit for purpose business solutions that are innovative, best in class, and using world's best practices driving sustainable business outcomes. Have contributed significantly (unpaid voluntary work for 16 years) to global open data standards development that are used globally including by Google. Sought out speaker in industry for thought leadership specifically on Data and IT and have presented and published extensively.

Partners

• Tiger Analytics Tiger Analytics is pioneering what AI and analytics can do to solve some of the toughest problems faced by organizations globally. We develop bespoke solutions powered by data and technology for several Fortune 500 companies. We have offices in multiple cities across the US, UK, India, and Singapore, and a substantial remote global workforce. We have received multiple awards ranging from being recognized as a Leader by Forrester Research to being ranked among the fastest-growing tech companies by Inc. and Financial Times. We consistently feature in prestigious ‘Best Analytics Firms’ lists. If you’re interested to explore career opportunities with Tiger, we’d love to tell you more. You’ll work alongside the best in the industry, learn the structured approach to innovate, and have fun along the way.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Tealium Helping brands make data actionable, in real-time, across every customer experience touch point. Tealium revolutionizes today’s digital businesses with a universal approach to customer data orchestration – spanning web, mobile, offline and Internet of Things devices. With the power to unify customer data into a single source of truth, Tealium offers a turnkey integration ecosystem supporting more than 1,000 client-side and server-side vendors and technologies. The Tealium Customer Data Hub encompasses tag management, API hub, customer data platform and data management solutions that enable organizations to leverage real-time data to create richer, more personalized digital experiences across every team, technology, and customer touchpoint. www.Tealium.com

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