CDO UK Live Series - June Edition 2022
Keeping up With Emerging Technology Trends
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 12600 hours
Overview
How can we stay current with technology trends, let alone check the pulse of future innovations, when we’re busy running our businesses? Our entire organisations benefit from new technologies, but keeping up with trends can be more challenging than ever before. Join us this months for a deep dive into all things trending across technology:
Key innovations, developments, and advancements across AI/ ML
What data leaders need to know to stay ahead and competitive
Learnings from real-world case studies
What to expect
- In-deep Interactions 8+
- Virtual Attendees 150+
- Speakers 5+
- Virtual Attendees 1:1
What we will cover
- Key Innovation Strategies e.g. Key innovations, developments, and advancements across AI/ ML
- Emerging Trends e.g. What data leaders need to know to stay ahead and competitive
- Advancements Across AI / ML e.g. Learnings from real-world case studies
- Investment Strategies
Agenda
- Data Democratisation and Measuring the Value of Data and Analytics Programs(Plenary) During this webinar, Levent Ergin & Antoshiny Pushparaj, Data Governance & Privacy Domain Experts for UK & Ireland at Informatica will share their insights on how companies democratise data and measure the value of their Data and Analytics Programs. Data Leaders need to be able to measure the value of their data and analytics program to successfully build advocacy and secure future funding opportunities, as well as meet customer expectations. Join this session to understand how to: Rollout enterprise Data Governance Foundations to enable Data Democratisation Make clean, trusted data available to the business to focus on revenue generating activities Enable data insights to enhance the value propositions for your customers Adhere to Data Ethics, minimise data bias and increase reliability of your AI model for data analytics
- Keynote: Digital, Data and Data Mesh(Plenary) Join this session to learn about: Digital is critical to the future of the organisation and data is critical is that transformation. Principals of data mesh not only help improve the value of data but are also key to digital transformation How to identify if data is working for you and your organisation.
- Powering AI with the Right Data(Plenary) AI is becoming increasingly important, but is only effective with good quality data. Companies often dismiss the importance this, but what does good data for AI look like? In this session we will discuss how AI powered by the right data is highly effective, and what tools you can use to confidently collect the best quality data from your platforms.
- Keynote: Identifying the emerging technologies relevant to your business(Plenary) Technology is alway evolving and constantly changing. But how can you look past the smoke mirrors and sales pitch to choose the right piece of technology that is right for you and your business goals. Join this session to learn: Your team’s mission and working practices should define which technologies are relevant to your business A systematic approach to vendor evaluation enables you to stay up to date with emerging trends and make unbiased strategic decisions efficiently Understand your ecosystem, and use technology to connect with your customer base in ways that your competitors can’t.
- Data Strategy Leadership Initiatives - Keeping our Data Healthy at Scottish Water(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into: Data always has a history, but listen to your people and & you’ll get closer, quicker to the themes of where to focus your efforts Set out your Data Destinations to guide your every step Keep people at the heart, strategy is only as good as the data culture you build around it
- Panel: Keeping up With Emerging Technology Trends(Plenary) Join our panel session to hear our data leaders share how they keeping up with emerging technology trends: A deep dive into all things trending across technology Key innovations, developments, and advancements across AI/ ML What data leaders need to know to stay ahead and competitive
- Keynote: 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
Speakers
Pete Williams · Director of Data and Online, Penguin Random House Passionate and inspirational on analytics strategy to drive commercial performance. Experienced in empowering decision makers with data driven solutions for faster, better decisions. Innovative and strategic thinker, motivated to disrupt and ‘make a difference’. Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills, particularly translation between technical and business understanding
Oisin Lyons · Head of Data Science, Aon Centre for Innovation and Analytics (ACIA) Oisin leads the Data Science group at the Aon Centre for Innovation and Analytics. His focus is on using novel data and modelling techniques to drive innovation within the insurance industry. Oisín leads a talented team of AI, NLP, Deep Learning and Actuarial specialists who deliver complex insurance analytics, and deploy production grade novel data science techniques to insurance problems. He is a graduate from Trinity College in Mechanical Engineering, publishing research in the area of Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics. Oisín joined Aon in 2014, previously working in academia and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Purdue University using Data Science in Fluid Dynamics research
Nora Cooke O'Dowd · Programmes and Data Acquisition Director, Research Data Scotland Nora has extensive experience across the UK public sector data landscape – working to understand population health needs across public health teams and a national health think tank before leading the Research and Intelligence team at the fertility regulator (HFEA). At the HFEA, Nora worked to improve access to data for research and delivered a data driven approach to understanding inequalities in access to and outcomes of fertility treatment. In April 2022, Nora took on the role of Programmes and Data Acquisition Director at Research Data Scotland (RDS). RDS is working to improve the economic, social and environmental wellbeing in Scotland by enabling access to data about people, places and businesses for research in the public good
Ingrid Severn · Head of Corporate Data & Compliance, Scottish Water Over 30 years public sector data, information and corporate systems experience. Functional leadership for corporate and asset data, information, policy, access rights, data protection and compliance within Scottish Water. Passionate about data & information to drive consistent high quality business outcomes. Enabling insight, increasing data value and driving consistent business practice and productivity. Protecting the data in our care through lean non-invasive governance. Highly collaborative with a deep understanding of our business to extract optimal value from our data, information & system products, bringing best benefit for our internal & external customers, operating at both an enterprise & local Specialties: GDPR data protection Identity & access rights management Information and Data Governance Quality and Value Lifecycle management Enterprise data & information management Stakeholder collaboration - understanding core business aims & outcomes to ensure optimal value from their processes, their data & our systems.
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.
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.
Mike Holmes · Head of Data Science, MarketFinance Mike Holmes is Head of Data Science at MarketFinance, a Series B Fintech offering frictionless payment and credit solutions for small businesses. He believes that data is the primary driver of IP in any tech business. Systematic processes are at the heart of his philosophy to build impactful teams that can unlock this value. Outside of work, Mike is interested in sustainable living, further powered by recently becoming a father.
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.
- 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.
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