CDO Live SEA May Edition

Overview

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

What to expect

• Live Interactions 1:1
• Hours
• Speakers 13
• Attendees 200+

What we will cover

• How to Creatively Connect The Data Dots to Help Maximise Business Benefits Challenges organisations face when it comes to data management
• The role of the CDO in 2021 and effective strategies currently in place to realise the potential of data Solutions to make an end-to-end strategy possible
• Effective methods and strategies for data management An Organisation's journey through transformation and change management
• Effective Strategies to Increase Data Integrity, Quality: Improve Trust, Reliability & Consistency of Your Data Global trends in data management and data governance

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.
• Bobby Thomas · Head of Governance and Analytics, Strategic Partnerships, Regional Technology,, Prudential Singapore Bobby Thomas is a seasoned Risk Management Professional with nearly 2 decades of extensive experience primarily in the insurance industry specialising in Risk Management, Internal Process Controls and Analytics. He has primarily been with the Prudential Group in India (ICICI Prudential) where he was Vice President – Operational Risk before moving to Prudential Assurance Company Singapore as the Head of Risk Analytics and then moving as an Innovation Lead. In his current role, he is the Head of Governance and Analytics, Strategic Partnerships, Regional Technology with Prudential Corporation Asia. His passion lies in Risk mitigation and control using Technology and Analytics. In his last role in Innovation, he worked on solutions with various Fintech partners across the globe to identify best in class solutions. By way of education, Bobby is an : - MBA - PG in Enterprise Management - PG in Cyber Laws - PG in Intellectual Property Rights Bobby is also a Group Leadership Award winner and a subject matter expert in areas of Risk Management where he shares his knowledge on the subject with various external bodies as well. He also won the Innovation Award in 2018 At Prudential Assurance Company Singapore for designing and implementing the Analytics model for Business Health monitoring and represented the company at the Silicon Valley, California.
• Ujjyaini Mitra · Chief Data Officer, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited 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.
• 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. I have the ability and experience to explain the relationship between technical abilities and business challenge, making it relevant to the audience.
• Kirill Odintsov · Head of Data Science, Home Credit Kirill is the Head of Data Science of Home Credit Indonesia with more than 8 years of proven experience in building and leading a team of data enthusiasts. He is skilled in Statistical Modeling, Predictive Analytics, Predictive Modeling, Text Mining, and Risk Management. He is a strong professional with a master's degree in Probability Mathematical Statistics and Econometrics from Charles University in Prague.

Partners

• 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.
• Qlik · Event Partner 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.
• Cloudera · Event Partner

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