CDO SEA Series - November Edition 2021

Overview

Faced with a constantly evolving business landscape and unprecedented levels of uncertainty, it’s more vital than ever that data and analytics leaders such as the chief data officer and chief analytics officer (CDO and CAO) forge new paths to enable a data-and-analytics-centric culture within their organisations. Data and analytics leaders must be able to tie data and analytics strategy to business outcomes and promote the adoption of technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), while creating a resilient culture that accelerates change, and where data literacy, digital trust, governance and data-driven critical thinking are pervasive.

This edition will focus on:

How to truly derive your organisations data

Data-sharing and democratisation

How to build top to bottom advocacy

What to expect

• Sessions 8+
• Live Interactions 1:1
• Virtual Attendees 200+
• Speakers 7+

What we will cover

• Driving Cultural Change How to derive true value of your data assets and help the whole organisation understand that everyone works in data.
• Innovative Data Management & Governance Achieve data that is trusted, easily accessed and available to everyone requires a robust data governance framework.
• Ensuring Stakeholder Buy-in Obtain and maintain the buy-in of a number of stakeholders from various business units.
• The True Value Of Data and Accessibility Ensure how to connect to other data sets and make them readily accessible.

Agenda

• 0:00 pm Thought Leadership: Customers Are Evolving... Are You?(Plenary) Maintaining market share is harder than ever and brand loyalty is a thing of the past. While consumers will sing a company’s praises when they are happy with services, pricing, and customer service – there is a huge risk of losing that customer to a competitor, in an instant, over the slightest issue. Customers today are better-informed and more connected to the world than ever before. They want access and accuracy at lightning-quick speed. And let’s face it, customers don’t tolerate perceived poor service, inflated pricing, or inferior products. Businesses have become entirely customer-focused because the customers are in charge and if a business doesn’t meet the consumer’s needs, someone else will… your nearest competitor is only one click away. Customer expectations are evolving and businesses must accelerate with them. In this session, Joe Rodriguez and Anthony Behan answer important questions like: How do we keep up with the expectations of a new generation of customers? How do new trends, like crypto, play a role in the future of customer transactions? How can data play a role? Plus, they will share insights and experience on how Cloudera can help your business make good decisions in today’s highly volatile environment, to be ready for tomorrow
• 0:27 pm Keynote: How to Stay Relevant as a Data Leader(Plenary) The Relationship between humans and software has to fundamentally change, and Luis Gonzalez is committed to help lead the building and implementation of the next generation of industrial software that learns from and adapts to humans. His keynote is focused on: How artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning will help create next generation enterprises Insights to keep ahead of the curve and what we need to be doing as leaders to stay relevant.
• 0:43 pm Thought Leadership: Enabling AI-powered Experiences Through Data Transformation(Plenary) After almost 2 years of fluctuating customer behaviour across all sectors on a global level, organisations are now more than ever focused on grasping the value of every customer interaction. This is a task easier said than done; an organisational objective that is not possible without a strategic look at the CDOs role, combined with a strong data culture and understanding of AI enabled opportunities. Join us as we discuss: Data transformation AI enablement – Drivers & Communities Effective Ways to Develop Your Roadmap for Success
• 1:02 pm Keynote: What do Data, Analytics & Tech Leaders Need to do to Adapt, Survive & Thrive in 2022 and Beyond?(Plenary) Join Dr Adrienne Heinrich as we discuss what do data leaders need to do to adapt, survive & thrive in 2022 and beyond: Focused on: Exploring the ambiguity and blurring lines around data, analytics and tech leadership roles What are the mandates and what makes for effective leadership in the future? How is data and analytics representation evolving at board level?How can you position these roles as crucial for the long term, not just the immediate future? How do you balance developing a strategic approach to data and analytics, with the need to remain flexible to adapt to the changing needs, priorities and goals of the wider organisation? How can you ensure that you are best positioned to successfully tackle future challenges and exploit upcoming opportunities?
• 1:26 pm Thought Leadership: Modern BI for All: A Field Guide for Accelerating the Data Life Cycle to Drive Business Value(Plenary) BI is no longer a “nice-to-have” option; it is a requirement for staying competitive. Yet, a growing number of organisations worldwide are asking whether their existing BI tools and processes can keep pace with the rapidly evolving needs of their business. The real power of Modern BI for All is its ability to shift the way your entire organisation thinks about data—and the value you get from that data, because it lives in a system designed to make integrating, sharing, and acting upon data easy. During this session we will discuss modern approaches to business intelligence for any organisation at any time. Learn how to unlock the value of data throughout your business and ecosystem, relying on three core pillars: data agility, data literacy, and the ability to take action on data insights quickly.
• 1:47 pm Spotlight Speaker - Mark Carter - The Art of Leadership(Plenary) Mark Carter is a globally experienced keynote speaker. Drawing on experience working with blue chip brands in over 40 countries, Mark leverages leadership, culture, sales and behavioural science expertise, along with his natural energy, creativity, and innate ability to relate to any audience. Join this dynamic session as we gain valuable insights into how you can develop your leadership skills, focused on: The evolution of leadership theories and traits The impact of EQ (emotional intelligence) on modern day leadership An overview of the five facets of EQ: what they are and aspects to focus on
• 2:09 pm Thought Leadership: Data Virtualization for Centralised Data Security and Governed Self-service(Plenary) Building self-service capabilities on a trusted foundation are the key to successfully unlocking your data assets and becoming more insights-driven. Security, data privacy, and data protection represent concerns for organizations that must comply with policies and regulations that can vary across regions, data assets, and personas. Many organizations are struggling to find the best way to provide self-service to a single source of truth to all business users without having to move and make multiple copies of the data. Attend this session to learn how to employ data virtualization for: Deploying a catalogue of trusted, governed & secure data assets without ETL or data consolidation, Centralizing security and customizing security policies when data is spread across multiple systems residing both on-premise and in the cloud, and Controlling and auditing data access across different regions
• 2:29 pm Networking break(Plenary)
• 2:49 pm Keynote: Create Deeper Business Impact Through Your insights(Plenary) Join this session to explore: How to champion data literacy awareness and make a clear business case for change. How to conduct data literacy pilots test the value proposition. How to partner with other executive stakeholders to align the data literacy program and collectively create a data-driven culture.
• 3:11 pm Panel - Storytelling Through Data to Make Informed Business Decisions(Plenary) 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.
• 3:35 pm Keynote: Ryan Tuckwood - How to Achieve Your Goals for Long-term Success(Plenary) Join global sales coach and leader Ryan Tuckwood (SWISH Co-Founder and CEO) as he takes us on a dynamic, inter-active session on goals setting for leaders as we head into 2022. Without goals, we have no clear direction, Ryan will help to transform your mindset and help you develop both personally and professionally. This session will focus on: Habits and behaviours Infinite goal setting How to increase your productivity / your teams productivity

Speakers

• Dr Chao Wang · CTO, 6ESTATES Chao Wang is currently the CTO of 6Estates. Previously, he was a senior data scientist at Baidu. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, where he was advised by Dr. Shaoping Ma and Dr. Yiqun liu. His work has primarily focused on nature language processing, information retrieval, search engine user behavior analysis. He has rich experience in designing and applying probabilistic graphical models & deep neural networks in industry. His work has appeared in major journals and conferences such as SIGIR, CIKM, TOIS, and IRJ. His main achievements include 2015 SIGIR Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, 2015 Scientific Technology Advance Award of Beijing City (First Prize), 2016 CIPS Excellent PHD thesis Award, 3rd Position in 2018 Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension competition and 3rd Position in 2019 Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension competition.
• Gareth Lewis · Head of Production, Factor Creatively driven, strategic thinker, with a passion for story-telling & story-doing. Working to helping business leaders connect through meaningful and engaging experiences.
• Cyl Lin · HR DIRECTOR, Tech Data A forward-thinking and commercially-savvy HR Business Partner with more than 15 years of HRM experience in regional roles across Asia-Pacific, she had acquired experiences across various industries that include Life Sciences, Technology, Oil & Gas. Cyl provided strategic HR leadership in matrix organizations across cultures and regions to unlock potential through nurturing high feedback and high-performance culture. Cyl undertook roles to drive transformational changes such as Organizational & Leadership Development, Continuous improvements in Talent Management Processes for organizations in the Asia Pacific region in view to focus on compliance, accelerate business growth & sustenance and provide employees with developmental and career growth opportunities. Cyl has been a seasoned HR, Talent and Learning Practitioner and has conceptualized, designed and implemented regional projects such as a consistent & standardized Recruitment & On-Boarding processes across Asia with the help of her Asia HR team and the introduction of Predictive Index as a talent selection and developmental tool to assess the suitability of potential incumbents. She designed and created the first Lego Experiential Learning that enables employees to increase their self-awareness through action learning with Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Coding. She led in-country Digital HR Transformation projects leveraging on technology and partnering closely with her country HR teams, internal communications and the local IT community, etc. She also led the Global People Experience Project alongside with 7 regional HR leaders to identify the moments that matter to employees that positively impact the employees' experiences in the arena of Talent Acquisition & On-Boarding, Performance Management, Rewards & Recognition, Work-Life Balance, etc.
• Nikos Acuna · Senior Director Product Marketing, Domo Design-thinking technology executive and entrepreneur, with 20 years of experience in strategy, product development, analytics, enterprise architecture, and operations management for both early stage and large-scale B2B+B2C platform enterprises. Over ten years of experience in deploying data products powered by advanced machine learning and predictive modeling. Expert in building teams and scaling cross-functional global organizations. By night, Researcher at the intersection of AI, quantum mechanics, cognition, and media theory. Broad business acumen and intricate technical depth. Award-winning author of Mindshare.
• Chris Day · Director, APAC Sales Engineering, Denodo 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. Specialties: Data Integration, Quality and Transformation Data Management Tools and Platforms Enterprise Content Management Environments Data Warehouse Platforms and Reporting Architecture Partner Channel Enablement
• Dr Adrienne Heinrich · Head, AI Center of Excellence, Union Bank of the Philippines Dr. Adrienne Heinrich heads the AI Center of Excellence at UnionBank of the Philippines and at Aboitiz Data Innovation. She also has an expanded role as the Innovation Management lead for Aboitiz Equity Ventures. Before that, Adrienne has been shaping and leading AI and Machine Learning use cases for personal health and connected care products at Royal Philips.

Partners

• 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.
• Domo Domo’s mission is to help all employees – from the CEO to the front-line worker – optimise business performance by connecting them in real time to the right data and people they need to improve business results. The company works with many of the world’s leading and most progressive brands across multiple industries including retail, media and entertainment, manufacturing, finance and more. For more information, visit www.domo.com. You can also follow Domo on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and Instagram.
• InterSystems Established in 1978, InterSystems is the leading provider of technology for critical data initiatives in the healthcare, finance, manufacturing and supply chain sectors, including production applications at most of the top global banks. Its cloud-first data platforms solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for large organizations around the globe. InterSystems is committed to excellence through its award-winning, 24×7 support for customers and partners in more than 80 countries. Privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, InterSystems has 25 offices worldwide. For more information, please visit InterSystems.com/Financial
• Denodo 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.

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