CDO Live UK September Edition
Creating a Data and Analytics Rich Culture to Support Critical Thinking and Creativity
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 16500 hours
Overview
Organisations are looking to their CDOs and data and analytics leaders as central players in helping them to shift, accelerate and thrive amid unprecedented change and uncertainty – often in a cost constrained environment. Developing the right data and analytics strategy aligned to business value that enables new and agile approaches and business models has become a top priority. Executing on the strategy by combining the right talent, processes and technology to operationalise analytics including AI at scale across the enterprise and beyond have become essential.
What to expect
- Sessions 8+
- Hours 2+
- Virtual Attendees 200+
What we will cover
- Accelerate your data-driven transformation
- Create a business case to support data and analytics monetisation and innovation
- How do we use our capabilities to make our organisations successful
- Develop a data and analytics-driven culture, literacy and employee behaviour
Agenda
- A Tale of Two Patterns(Plenary) "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." for the UK grocery supply chain, the rules have changed completely over the past 18 months. The impact of the pandemic, Brexit and many other factors have thrown 30+ years of relative stability into constant change. Customer demand has changed beyond recognition and traditional forecasting models and approaches are failing... but large scale data sharing and new machine learning approaches offer new solutions to these new problems. Learn how two very different approaches to demand forecasting provide a unique perspective on UK grocery shopper demand, and how the Snowflake Data Cloud enables their use across an entire sector.
- Data as a Force for Good(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into: Insights across transformational leadership Building a data culture, how to find and empower your data champions Remember your basics and utilise technology as an enabler
- Predictive Maintenance with Application Workflow Orchestration, Big Data and IoT(Plenary) Big Data projects and Data Pipelines have merged into the technology fabric of every organisation. The tools for building and running application workflows must be not only easily versionable and testable but they must also provide access to business and non-technical users. They must deliver the operational richness required to operate complex applications and deliver business services in accordance with service level commitments. In this talk, Alon Lebenthal, Senior Manager Solutions Marketing in BMC Software, explains the need of production-ready application workflow orchestration for data-intensive applications and how automation, Big Data and IoT helped a leading vehicle manufacturer to cut fleet downtime.
- Data is the Key to Becoming Safer, Faster, Better(Plenary) The impact of COVID-19 on oil and gas demand, and the resulting fall and general volatility in commodity prices, upped the ante on an unparalleled scale, presenting the global energy industry with even tougher challenges, and less time to address them.For many, the pace at which they were required to respond to these challenges was simply too great. The burden of the pandemic weighed especially heavily on less resilient organisations who found themselves scrambling to preserve cashflows in the short term, struggling to reduce costs in the medium terms and puzzling over how to avoid destroying value in the long run. The Coronavirus has served as an example – albeit an extreme one – of how vulnerable organisations are if they lack resilience, agility, and the capacity to adapt quickly to complex change. This inflexibility will ultimately hamper their ability to evaluate options without delay and take fast, decisive action.This session will explore: Leadership agility, the need for fast decision-making and business intelligence. Harnessing your organisations data assets and being able to scale across your enterprise to drive results.
- Data Culture and Why You Need One, Now(Plenary) Andy ’s primary responsibility is in developing the business value strategy as well as delivering business value assessments for the region’s largest customers. Andy has worked in the industry for over 30 years and brings a wealth of value expertise, from across different sectors, to all parts of the region. Andy is here’s with us today and will talk about Data Culture and Why You Need One, Now
- The Practical Application of Data Management - a Survival Guide for all Data Leaders.(Plenary) This reflective talk will give the listener some practicable insights and examples of how to manage the challenging terrain that data & analytics leaders face day to day.
- Behavioural Data: One of Your Most Valuable Data Assets and Why Driving Value From That Data Can Be So Hard(Plenary) Behavioural data is something that companies have had for years, but the way that organisations are now using that data has changed radically. In fact, many companies are using it to drive sustained competitive advantage by executing multiple use cases on top of it using sophisticated analytical techniques, especially AI. However many organisations struggle to keep up because their behavioural data is not fit for purpose. In this session, we'll explore · How organizations can harness behavioural data to drive decisions across the organisation · How to overcome organizational, compliance and technical challenges · Real-life examples of the organizations leading the way
- Panel - Storytelling Through Data to Make Informed Business Decisions(Plenary) Panel - Storytelling through data to make informed business decisions – optimising our data & analytics value Today the business landscape has changed due to COVID-19. In order to stay relevant and remain competitive, organisations must embed a data-driven culture to support operational resilience and revenue generation. This panel will hear insights from data leaders on how data can drive business outcomes and meaningful insights through successful storytelling. We will explore how we can drive our strategic organisational needs to create successful engagement across all units. This panel will hear insights from data leaders on how data can drive business outcomes and meaningful insights through successful storytelling and strategic understanding of our customers’ needs: 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 literacy skills required in a data-driven era? How we can drive our strategic organisational needs to create successful engagement across all units.
- Roundtable 1 : Exploit the Full Potential of Your Data Assets Exploit The Full Potential of Your Data Assets Your data is worth nothing, unless you use it. Although provocative, it’s true. Increasingly, companies leverage their data internally. Yet often they fail to exploit opportunities to enable value externally. Data and insights from it can be monetised for new revenue streams. Roundtable topics include: opportunities to generate new revenue streams from data and insights; new business models for incremental, data-enabled services; go-to-market strategies and modern data architectures. Discussion focus Data Strategy in 2022 – Drivers & Communities Case Studies – What “Good” Looks Like Data Strategy Business Challenges Effective Ways to Develop Your Roadmap for Success Common Mistakes & What to Watch Out For
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.
Craig Civil · Director of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, bsi An experienced Senior Manager within the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Innovation, Data Strategy, Data Science, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and Data Operations. A Senior Management Team member in a commercial environment driving teams forward by demonstrating leadership and innovation. An experienced data professional with over 25 years working with data across multiple industry sectors both in the public and private sectors and different geographic locations including the UK, Europe, USA and Australia Specialties: Identifying new areas of business value through the innovative use of AI, data and smart analytics. Building and using AI and ML techniques and products. Using data to underpin digital transformation and drive business insight. Improving Data Literacy and Data Science skills across a corporation. Using Data visualisation techniques to tell a data story.
Guy Cuthbert · Founder, CEO and CTO, Atheon Analytics A Data Animator: on a mission to humanise data, making it interesting, usable, fun and valuable.Jennifer Belissent · Principal Data Strategist, Snowflake Jennifer Belissent recently joined Snowflake as Principal Data Strategist. Jennifer spent the past 12 years at Forrester Research as an internationally recognized expert in data leadership and literacy; best practices in building CoEs; data sharing and the data economy; and data-for-good. Jennifer is widely published and a frequent speaker at business, academic and government events. At Snowflake, Jennifer helps customers develop Data Cloud strategies that facilitate data access and deliver business value.
Jeffrey Gheen · Sr. Director Business Intelligence, BMC Software In this digital information age there are vast amounts of data being created, moved, ingested, and transformed to support the Autonomous Digital Enterprise. Without DevOps and DataOps the value of this key data asset is diminished, and you will struggle to get high value business from the data. It is critical that you have automation in the DataOps space ensuring the needed data is ingested, transformed monitored and delivered to your business. BMC leverages orchestration, DevOps and DataOps principles across the entire data echo system. These principals have reduced cost, enabled data democratization end to ensure quality data is accessible to all business users.
Yali Sassoon · Co-founder and CPO, Snowplow At Snowplow, Yali gets to combine his love of building things with his fascination of the ways in which people use data to reason; something he cultivated when studying his BA in Natural Sciences and MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science, and further developed as a Strategy & Operations Consultant (at PwC, Bestshore and Keplar LLP) and a Data Analyst at OpenX.
Melanie Leis · Director, Big Data and Analytical Unit (BDAU) at the Centre for Health Policy, Imperial College London Melanie leads the Big Data and Analytical Unit (BDAU) at the Centre for Health Policy, part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation. Before joining Imperial in 2018 Melanie worked for McKinsey & Company, where she helped healthcare clients in the US and the UK use analytics to improve cost and quality of care for patients. Melanie holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) and a Master of Arts in International Relations (MAIR), both from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Universidad de Costa Rica.
Trevor Gordon · Director - Global Omnichannel Retail, NHS Test & Trace Program A strategic digital, commercial, and customer leader who consistently delivers results through innovative use of customer insight, data, and technology to drive growth and improvement in highly challenging conditions. Extensive global experience across a wide range of sectors and high-profile brands on both client and agency side. I have helped multiple consumer brands reshape & scale their digital, omnichannel and ecommerce divisions. And worked to transform each business to make it better able to respond to the new consumer and digital landscape. Proven success & deep expertise with open innovation and startups; combining a passion for disruptive technologies with a great understanding of how new digital business models, ecosystems, IoT, platforms, AI, Big Data, & SaaS converge to drive transformation. Recent focus has been on delivering top and bottom-line growth by developing new experiences, strategies, propositions, products, solutions, services and business models for the digital age.Alon Lebenthal · Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, BMC Software
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.
- 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.
- BMC Software From core to cloud to edge, BMC continues to build on a 40-year heritage of shaping digital transformation for organizations around the world. We deliver the software and services innovations that help over 10,000 global customers, including 84% of the Forbes Global 100, thrive in their ongoing evolution to an Autonomous Digital Enterprise—a state in which intelligent, integrated, value-creating functions operate with minimal human involvement across every facet of the organization and its ecosystem. We are proud to have earned recognition as an ITSM Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for seven years running, as well as being named overall leader in the EMA Radar Report for Workload Automation for five years in a row and top of the charts in EMA’s recent AIOps Radar report. Our future-focused portfolio helps drive business success with AI-enabled solutions for automation, optimization, performance, security, and service management, covering everything from mainframe to multi-cloud. BMC’s open, scalable, modular technologies help ensure that our customers can run and reinvent their businesses for growth and competitive edge while optimizing cost, performance, and security. For more information about BMC, please visit www.bmc.com.
- Snowplow Snowplow is a behavioural data platform that collects and operationalizes behavioural data, at scale. We empower you and your team to rise above the difficulties of data delivery and organization, enabling you to focus on your data journey.
- MongoDB · Associate MongoDB is the next-generation data platform helping businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data. The world’s most sophisticated organizations use MongoDB to create applications never before possible at a fraction of the cost. MongoDB Atlas, the database as a service, delivers the world’s leading database for modern applications as a fully-automated cloud service with operational and security best practices built-in. Easily deploy, operate, and scale your databases across the leading cloud platforms.
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