CDO Live SEA March Edition

Overview

Once a month, industry leaders in Data will be at the Chief Data Officer Live Series. They are committed to delivering transformation strategies that will build agility, speed, intelligence and innovation. CDO South-East Asia is a hub space for all data-driven leaders in the region, where everyone can gain insights, hear solutions or join as a silent observer!

What we will cover

• Data Integrity, Quality Effective Strategies to Increase Data Integrity, Quality: Improve Trust, Reliability & Consistency of Your Data
• Maximise Insights Through Data Effective Strategies to Maximise Insights Through Data Even with Limited Resources
• Digital Transformation Journey Digital Transformation Journey - How To Choose The Right Scale of Agile For Your Business
• Data-Driven Economy How does data-driven innovation fuel economic growth?

Agenda

• 8:55 am CDO Live SEA March 2021(Plenary) 09:00 - 09:05 Keynote Welcome Address and Introduction Gareth Lewis - Sit-Down 09:05 - 09:25 Keynote How Data Virtualization Enables Data-Backed Decision Making Chris Day - Denodo 09:25 - 09:45 Keynote Workforce Integration Initiatives Amith Rajan - Mashreq Bank 09:45 - 10:05 Keynote Balancing Control and Autonomy for a Successful Data Strategy Jimmy Kwang - Talend 10:05 - 10:25 Panel Panel - Storytelling through data to make informed business decisions 10:25 - 10:45 Keynote Mobilise Your Data with Snowflake Geoff Soon - Snowflake 10:45 - 11:05 Keynote Automating Unstructured Data Security With Technology & Cultural Transformation Mathieu Lahierre - BHP 11:05 - 11:25 Keynote Why the Future of Data Analytics Lies in Simplicity? CK TAN - Qlik 11:25 - 11:45 Keynote Transformational Leadership Carolyn Chin Parry - PwC Singapore 11:45 - 12:05 Keynote A Futurist’s Point Of view On Customer Experience/AI and Human vs Tech Tomer Garzberg - ybot

Speakers

• Sakhee Dheer · Head of Digital Marketing m, Facebook With over 10 years experience using data to drive business strategy, Sakhee specialises in running integrated marketing, analytics, and building agile teams. She currently leads digital marketing for APAC Global Business Marketing at Facebook. In this role, Sakhee's focus is to educate, inform and excite Facebook's page owners and advertisers about using Facebook's family of apps meaningfully and effectively to reach their audience. Prior to this role, Sakhee was the Head of Digital Marketing and Analytics at Microsoft APAC. She was instrumental in building Microsoft's first social media operations center in Singapore. In addition, she led end-to-end marketing measurement, integrated campaign planning and marketing automation. Sakhee’s diverse professional experience has included roles in business operations and customer experience.
• Garret Teoh · Head of Data & Analytics, Ascend Money Garrett Teoh is a data science strategist who partners with CEOs and top management senior executives to improve business outcomes and driving profitable growth by leveraging on data science initiatives and opportunities. Garrett strongly believes that the art of data science is becoming the new art of strategy, with a vision to build a smarter world for all humanity leveraging on Data Science. Garrett is ranked World's top 500 and 1% data scientist on Kaggle, where millions of data scientists compete against each other on data science competitions, using real business problems and data. He has won 7 medals and a Master title on Kaggle. Garrett holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Masters of Science degrees from Singapore Nanyang Technological University. Garrett has co-authored several biomedical publications on top leading journals and he is also the contributing author for Lexis Nexis Practical Guidance on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain.
• 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.
• Tomer Garzberg · Co-Founder, ybot Tomer Garzberg is the Co-Founder and CEO of ybot, an Automated Multilingual Contact Centre as a Service. His background involves designing, building and deploying custom AI and RPA applications for enterprise to achieve realisable operational savings and improved customer experiences.
• Chris Day · Director, APAC Sales Engineering, Denodo A Technical Pre-Sales Specialist with a strong technical background in Data and Content Management. One of my particular interests is in Data Integration and Transformation technologies, and methodologies, particularly in reusing 'legacy' data and systems to solve current problems and questions. Have the ability and experience to explain the relationship between technical abilities and business challenge, making it relevant to the audience.

Partners

• Qlik · Event Partner
• Snowflake · Event Partner
• Denodo · Event Partner 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.
• Talend · Event Partner 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.

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