CDO SEA Series - March Edition 2023

Overview

A good transformation program will not succeed without good data. It is incumbent on chief digital officers to convince the executive and the board to invest in improving data quality. If your data is not up to scratch, your employees and customers will have bad experiences when they interact with your applications and services. Bad data will impact your organisation’s ability to compete in the marketplace and drive your customers away.

Join CDO Sit-Down as we explore:

Why ensuring data is of the highest quality and employing good data management practices helps build trust with customers, better manage risk, and improve the services you provide to customers.

A business-first data governance approach that connects key initiatives and governance capabilities and delivers long-term business value.

Why organisations need to rethink the structure of their data teams, their roles and responsibilities and skillsets that are required.

Assessing what a fit for purpose data strategy looks like and designing the roadmap measurement points that are needed to achieve business objectives.

What to expect

• Practitioner:Vendor 20:1
• Full day program
• Speakers 30+
• 30+ Sessions Full day program
• Discovery Conversations 1:1

What we will cover

• Building good data governance Connecting key initiatives and governance capabilities to deliver business value.
• Selling to the board Making sure the executive and board members understand how bad data impacts the business.
• Creating a mature data capability Uplifting data maturity to provide a better customer experience.
• Building trust and confidence in your data Developing a culture across where data specialists trust data they are using to create new products.

Agenda

• 8:30 am Registration and Welcome Coffee(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30)
• 9:00 am Drifting from Risk to Resilience- Unifying endpoint security strategies to enterprise(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) Essential endpoint security strategies to counter cyberattacks
• 9:25 am Technology Leadership in a Digital-First World - The Future of Innovation(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) Our panel of experienced technology leaders share their insights on IT leadership, data strategy, major trends and challenges. They reflect on lessons learned in the past 2 years and what it takes to be a successful digital leader today. This discussion will address the following key issues: How can CIOs, CDOs and CISOs collaborate to foster innovation? What emerging technologies should be on the radar of technology leaders? How can technology leaders use data to drive digital transformation? What strategies can be used to develop a diverse and inclusive technology workforce? How to ensure data protection and compliance while effectively mitigating risks and cyber threats?
• 9:55 am Achieving Agile Data Delivery Without Copying and Replicating Data(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) Establishing clear and effective data governance, and promoting a data-driven culture are top of mind for most CDOs. Providing an environment where the business can make data and analytics-based decisions to drive growth, reduce costs, improve business processes, and drive efficiencies, is critical. The challenge is how can this be achieved when working with siloed operating models where data is distributed across an organization. In this session, we will explore how a logical data strategy can help to solve these challenges and provide benefits including: Minimize data movement and data replication which is time-consuming and expensive. Remove complexity to better manage, secure and govern enterprise data. Deliver faster, more meaningful, and actionable data insights for improved decision-making.
• 10:20 am Networking Morning Tea(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30)
• 11:00 am Transforming your business with hybrid data cloud(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) Are you struggling to transform complex data anywhere into actionable insights faster and easier? Join us and find out how you can manage and analyse data of all types—machine data, structured data, transactional data, and unstructured data—with data anywhere. In clouds like AWS, Azure, and GCP. In on-premises data centers. And at the edge where machine data originates.
• 11:25 am Defining your Data Strategy with Growth and Customer Experience in Mind(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) The role of the Chief Data Officer has evolved over the years, with CDOs being tasked to develop a data strategy plan to drive innovation but not just for agility or more insights but for the greater good, that is customer experience. What do we need to do as CDOs and data leaders in ensuring we have a data strategy that is aligned with not just growth but also enhanced customer experience? Join us in this session as we look into: What every CDO needs to do when defining the customer across the organisation How CDOs should evolve their role in response to customer expectations The short and mid-term challenges CDOs must be prepared to face
• 11:50 am Innovate During Uncertainty: How the right analytics strategy makes the difference between surviving and thriving(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) Across the world, organizations are bracing for a rough economic ride, as multiple forces conspire to destabilize business models and industries. Come hear from Jeanie Poh, Account Director at Alteryx on how the right analytics strategy can make the difference between surviving and thriving for your business throughout the coming years.
• 0:15 pm Creating Business Value from Data(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) Organisations around the world have started collecting data but are struggling to unlock its potential. How can data help the business most effectively? How do I know where to focus and prioritize? How do I create a more data-driven organisation that can benefit from its data to improve the business? Join us in this session to understand how to unlock the value of data for your business: Potential - Marrying the data potential with the business Use cases – how to achieve success at different points along the journey from data and BI to analytics and AI Data strategy – using a valued-driven approach to developing the data ecosystem
• 0:40 pm Networking Lunch(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30)
• 1:55 pm Top Trends in 2023 for Data, Analytics, & AI(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) In this talk, we will go through the 2023 trends in AI and discuss the challenges faced by organizations in delivering tangible value from AI initiatives. Despite the expected growth of global spending on AI, reaching $301 billion by 2026 (IDC), companies face obstacles including poor data quality, poor operationalization and minimal business impact, lack of visibility and control, scarcity of data experts, and complex infrastructure. During this talk, Judy Nam will explore steps to overcome these challenges and turn them into value drivers: Data access and quality issues Lack of operationalization and tangible business impact Lack of visibility and control Scarce and underused data experts Costly and complex infrastructure
• 2:20 pm Developing Data-Enabled Culture through Data Literacy(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) Data Literacy is imperative in driving business value. According to Gartner, Data literacy is ranked as the second-biggest internal roadblock to the success of the CDO’s office. But to achieve true culture change, data leaders must spark curiosity and clear the hurdle of employee adoption. At KPMG, data literacy is the foundational component of the firm’s data strategy. Join this session as KPMG Singapore’s Data Head shares the progress of their data literacy journey, focusing on: What data literacy is and why it's necessary for survival in your organization What factors to consider while designing a data literacy program How to sustain a data literacy program
• 2:45 pm How Do We Measure Success of Data Analytics Team?(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) If you're relying on data analytics team to help rebuild momentum, make sure to build in time and effort to measure the success of your projects. It's important to know what kind of value you can expect to get, how to measure that value, what tools are needed to do it and how to demonstrate and communicate the value to senior leadership. Many organizations don't take the time to determine the return on investment (ROI) of analytics because the process can be riddled with complexity and uncertainty. In this session Samuel will walk us through his winning approaches on: Talent data acquisition and retention How we can add and measure value Overcoming challenges of defining ROI in analysts function
• 3:10 pm Globalisation of Data and How Regional Differences Impact Progress(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30) Data residency challenges means teams are working in different regions and data cannot be accessed remotely. Business regions and even business units have differing priorities on what should be done in what order. What are some of the interesting uses of data that are being developed? Join us in this panel session to understand data globalisation: Disciplined code control and devops automation has provided significant benefits and continues to do this Small steps. The investment is not insufficient so start with an achievable target and get it live to realise the benefit If you don’t have the expertise, invest in the expertise and train your team continually.
• 3:40 pm Event Wrap Up and Closing Remarks by Sit-Down(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30)
• 3:45 pm Drinks Reception(Plenary 08:30 - 16:30)

Speakers

• Ahmed Mansour · Director - Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa Data Operations and Governance, Procter & Gamble Ahmed is a Supply chain and Data management practitioner with 17 years of experience in different multinational firms in different industries, and currently responsible for driving the Data Management and Governance Strategy for P&G. He holds a Bachelor and master’s degree in Industrial engineering Alexandria University, followed by MBA degree for Georgia State university and a Supply Chain Micro Masters from MIT University.
• Wouter F. van Groenestijn · Head of Data and Analytics, EY-Parthenon Wouter has been a data, analytics and modelling practitioner for 25 years. He started his career in a Big Four specialist modelling practice in Europe, and moved to Asia in 2005. After spending 6 years in China, Wouter has been with EY Singapore since 2011 championing all things modelling, data and analytics. Wouter is currently an Associate Partner with Ernst & Young’s strategy practice EY-Parthenon, where he heads up Data & Analytics as part of the Digital Practice. He holds a Master’s degree with Distinction in Management Science & Operational Research from Warwick Business School, and is a CFA charterholder. He is always on the lookout for opportunities to make better use of data through analytics to inform strategic decision-making and create value. In his free time he enjoys playing football, running and playing piano. He has also been volunteering as a youth football coach for the past five years.
• Samuel Chu · Head of Data Science and Analytics, Singlife with Aviva Starting his career as an actuary in Australia, Samuel Chu has sought to improve and challenge existing process through technology and data analytics. After spending 8 years in Australia, Samuel has moved to Singapore to head up various data & analytics roles and is currently Head of Data Science and Analytics at Singlife with Aviva. Samuel’s mission is to bridge the gap between business and IT, by lowering the barrier of entry to the understanding of data by leveraging technology and re-engineering business processes with data-driven decision making. In his spare time Samuel is a full-time dad on the weekends to his 8-month-old son and running the occasional marathon.
• Jeanie Poh · Account Director, Alteryx Jeanie has a distinguished track record in the technology industry covering markets across Asia Pacific. With a background in technology sales, her customers span over several industries including Financial Services, FMCG and Logistics. Jeanie is a trusted advisor to large enterprises in navigating their digital transformation and analytics ambitions with best-in-class technologies in the market.
• Chaitanya Gorrepati · Head of Reliability Engineering and Delivery, Credit Suisse
• Bhagyesh Chaubey · APAC & EMEA Head Data Quality & Stewardship | CDO, Personal Banking & Wealth Management, CitiBank
• Gerard Koh · Account Director, Cloudera Bringing with him more than 20 years of industry experience, Gerard Koh is currently the Account Director in Cloudera covering both the Singapore and Malaysia markets. Gerard majored in Information Systems and has an Honours degree from the National University of Singapore. He was also a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer. Awarded the IT Scholarship from PSA Corporation, Gerard served his bond there in both customer-facing and backend IT roles.
• Abhinav Gupta · Head of Partnerships | BytePlus, ByteDance

Partners

• ManageEngine As the IT management division of Zoho Corporation, ManageEngine prioritizes flexible solutions that work for all businesses, regardless of size or budget. ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 120+ award-winning products and free tools cover everything your IT needs. From network and device management to security and service desk software, we're bringing IT together for an integrated, overarching approach to optimize your IT.
• Denodo Denodo is a leader in data management. The award-winning Denodo Platform is the leading data integration, management, and delivery platform using a logical approach to enable self-service BI, data science, hybrid/multi-cloud data integration, and enterprise data services. Realizing more than 400% ROI and millions of dollars in benefits, Denodo’s customers across large enterprises and mid-market companies in 30+ industries have received payback in less than 6 months.
• Cloudera At Cloudera, we believe data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We deliver an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI. We enable people to transform vast amounts of complex data into clear and actionable insights to enhance their businesses and exceed their expectations. Cloudera is leading hospitals to better cancer cures, securing financial institutions against fraud and cyber-crime, and helping humans arrive on Mars — and beyond. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open-source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
• Alteryx Alteryx, the Analytics Automation company, is focused on enabling every person to transform data into a breakthrough. Alteryx unifies analytics, data science and business process automation in one, end-to-end platform to accelerate digital transformation and shape the future of analytic process automation (APA™). Bringing data, processes and people together in a converged approach, the Alteryx APA Platform™ enables high-impact business outcomes and rapid upskilling of people across the organization. The human-centered platform transforms how businesses leverage their data assets and automate processes to generate workforce efficiencies, top-line growth and optimize costs.
• Dataiku Dataiku is the centralized data platform that moves businesses along their data journey from analytics at scale to enterprise AI. By providing a common ground for data experts and explorers, a repository of best practices, shortcuts to machine learning and AI deployment/management, and a centralized, controlled environment, Dataiku is the catalyst for data-powered companies. Customers like Unilever, GE, and Comcast use Dataiku to ensure they are moving quickly and growing exponentially along with the amount of data they’re collecting. By removing roadblocks, Dataiku ensures more opportunity for business-impacting models and creative solutions, allowing teams to work faster and smarter.

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