CDO Live UK May 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 UK is a hub space for all data-driven leaders, where everyone can gain insights, hear solutions or join as a silent observer!

What to expect

• Hours 3+
• Interactions 1:1
• Attendees 200+
• Presentations

What we will cover

• How To Drive A Data Driven Culture
• Data Governance, Improve Trust, Reliability & Constant Quality In Your Data
• Data Management, On-premises & Cloud Services
• Ensuring Enterprise-Wide Data Integrity Through Proven Methods and a Strong Technology Roadmap

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.
• Maria Shevchenko · Director of Innovation, KPMG Maria, a Director of Innovation at KPMG, specialises in helping Financial Services firms to extract insights from data and assists them in their digital transformation by leveraging the best technologies in the marketplace. She works with advanced analytics, data science, cloud providers, open banking (APIs), FinTech firms and various technologies to create solutions tailored to clients’ current and future needs. Passionate about data she is keen in helping large and small companies derive valuable insights from data or technology irrespective of their data literacy levels; while at the same time educating consumers on how data and technology is used to enable them to reach their personal financial goals.
• Kash Mehdi · Data Governance and Privacy Leader, Informatica Connecting people through data! Kash brings deep international data governance experience working with customers across various industries worldwide. He currently works as the Data Governance and Privacy segment leader for Informatica. He spends a lot of time with customers understanding their business needs around data and enable them to meet business outcomes such as Regulatory Compliance, Insights and Analytics, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, and other data-driven initiatives. Before joining Informatica, Kash worked at Collibra, where he started as the 5th founding employee and led a Global Customer Advisory team to scale enterprise data governance programs for customers. He has helped numerous companies and help Collibra achieve milestones such as double-digit revenue growth, customer acquisition, and market leadership. Kash has a master's degree in Information Quality from UA Little Rock in collaboration with MIT and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He has appeared as a guest speaker at many international forums on (for) Data Governance.

Partners

• Informatica Data is changing the world. Data is powering the world's leading innovations – from autonomous vehicles to AI-powered neural networks. At Informatica, we call this Data 4.0—when next-generation intelligent enterprises leverage data to make possible what never existed before. Informatica is the only proven Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that accelerates data-driven digital transformation. Today’s intelligent enterprise is fueled by data and that data must be properly managed, governed, protected, and utilized – this is where Informatica drives next-generation innovation with its Intelligent Data Platform™. Our Intelligent Data Platform, a complete and modular solution built on a microservices architecture and based on the AI-powered, CLAIRE™ engine, enables companies to fuel innovation, become more agile, and realize new growth opportunities, resulting in intelligent market disruptions. Over the last 25 years, Informatica has helped more than 9,000 customers unleash the power of data, including 85 of the Fortune 100, including every company listed in the top 10.
• MongoDB
• 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.

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