CDO UK Live Series - March Edition 2022

Overview

The War on Talent is real and all organisations need to understand how to compete, as well as retaining and up-skilling existing workforce to drive competitive advantage. Join us as we explore how data and analytics leaders can work to create winning data culture environments that foster creativity and continue to drive growth. Key learnings from this months edition will include:

If you are not a Google or Amazon or Apple how do you compete for the best?

What type of data talent do you need to recruit – the “full-stack” data scientist or specialists?

How to retain and up-skill existing workforce

What to expect

• Virtual Attendees 200+
• Sessions 8+
• In-deep Interactions 1:1
• Speakers 5+

What we will cover

• Understanding the Great Re-shuffle What does this mean for your team and organisation and how can we lean into this as a potential opportunity
• Clarity in Your Data Strategy What specific skills and resources do you need across the next five years to drive your organisational transformation
• Culture Over Everything A strong and robust data culture will not only attract talent but assist in keeping existing teams happy and motivated.
• Strategies in Gaining the Competitive Advantage What sets your organisation apart and can offer unique competitive advantages

Agenda

• 8:00 pm What's The Big Deal About Data Observability?(Plenary) Due to the ongoing exploding supply of data, enterprises must keep constant watch over their data and the pipelines through which it is ingested, prepared, and otherwise made fit for operational uses. Many enterprises have optimized data ingestion processes but experience issues with data management and data reliability. Data observability enables organizations to continually track, correlate, assess, predict, manage, and optimize the health of their data systems in operation. It is an essential tool for monitoring the metrics—such as data availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance—that businesses apply to ensure data teams meet the increasing demand for real-time data insights, data consumers trust the data they use to make business decisions, and executives ensure data delivery and pipeline performance meet business requirements. This session will cover best practices for using multidimensional data observability to monitor and optimize operational data pipelines and how to: Make the strategic case for data observability Identify the chief business metrics of data observability Use automation to scale data identification, reliability, quality and management Instrument the enterprise data infrastructure for comprehensible observability Use intelligent observability to augment data pipeline professionals’ productivity
• 8:22 pm Keynote: Enjoy Data Responsibly - Data for People and the Planet(Plenary) As CDOs how can we ensure data is for people and the planet? Join Chief Data Officer at Heineken global Elizabeth Osta, Non-Executive Director start-ups and digital-native companies as we explore the reality behind leading the data transformation across 85 countries globally at Heineken. Join this session to learn: Data is for people and the planet Enjoying data responsibly - what do our consumers expect from us as data leaders? The important role we can collectively play in Data Ecosystems
• 8:43 pm 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.
• 8:59 pm Keynote: Data Talent: Hire for Fit, Flexibility and Culture(Plenary) As data professionals we need to re-assess and re-evaluate our strategy according to our existing talent and workforce, alongside what needs we have to align to our strategic objectives, both as a team and as an organisation. Join this session to explore how to: Realign your talent strategy, are we utilising our existing workforce to their best ability? Modernising attraction and selection processes in data and analytics Creating the right environment for growth
• 9:13 pm 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
• 9:31 pm Keynote: Strategy to Execution - Delivering the Data Foundation pan-Defence(Plenary) Understand and appreciate the size/scale of data transformation taking place in Defence right now – learn the what, the how and most importantly the “why” of what we are delivering first hand. This will focus on the Delivery of Data Foundation in the ‘Strategy to Execution’ series. Join this session to gain insights into: Bimodal transformation mindset- Strategy to articulate clear/compelling vision and the expected strategic outcomes Deliver early value drops – constantly iterate & test @ pace with customers Setup governance to drive delivery & uplift culture Build a culture to co-elevate, co-create by collaborating & holding each other to account
• 9:46 pm Roundtable - How can CDOs Increase Observability, Cost Savings and Optimisation?(Plenary) The past year has been a game-changer for companies worldwide, not because it demonstrated the importance of digitalisation but also because it revealed the crucial need for observability and optimisation in disruptive times.And so, observability is continually proving to be the key driver of future business models to provide the optimum consumer experience, and an optimised approach for data teams. However at the same time the rules and the landscape have accelerated. Data leaders must rethink their strategy as they leverage the power of the technology, data science and advanced analytics. During this edition of the CDO Circle, we get together to discuss how CDO's can increase observability, cost savings and optimisations across the organisation. Key takeaways of the conversation: Leveraging tools to optimise cost and performance at scale Actionable insights on increasing data engineering productivity Harnessing observability to decrease data related incidents Increasing data reliability through automated workflows

Speakers

• JP Bhamu · CDO - Data Management, Governance & Capability Development, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE I am a board level Data Leader with over 28 years of IT industry experience in leadership and executive positions for large multi-national commercial and public sector organisations. Successful track record of delivering data strategies & change programs into global enterprises (£multi Bn budget/revenue, 200K+ users) with teams c.100+ by using leading-edge technologies A flair for harnessing the power inherent in Data to drive innovation, transformation, business growth and battlespace advantage. Although adept at leading enterprise Data & Analytics strategies, I love to deliver hard outcomes, as any strategy without execution is plain hallucination. A data thought leader and regular speaker at events to inspire and change the data culture and enhance the data literacy at all levels in organizations. Sector experience in Central Government, Oil & Gas, Consulting, Insurance and Telecoms clients across UK & I, USA, Singapore & India.
• Giovanni Romero · CIAO, Mindshare Giovanni is the global lead for Mindshare’s Business Intelligence and Analytics practice. He has a Masters in Economics and Business and is candidate to PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto. Giovanni’s career has covered many aspects of strategy, marketing and analytics, includes on-the-ground projects on over 30 markets tackling issues such as market, consumer and competitive strategy, proposition and pricing, data measurement and optimisation of marketing investment and more recently applied data science, cloud implementation and digital transformation. He has lived in 4 countries, and before joining Mindshare, he worked with Kantar, a strategic research company, and with McKinsey & Co, a leading management consultancy.
• Dana Lunberry · Director of Data Insights, Grameen America Inc Dana is a pioneering innovator and thought leader in technology management with over a decade of experience spanning 5 continents. She has worked with a broad range of financial institutions– microfinance organizations, fintechs, and mainstream banks– helping them navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape and future-proof their infrastructures. She currently leads data initiatives for Grameen America and serves as strategy advisor to ESG Base. Dana has a PhD in Information Systems and Innovation from the London School of Economics and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Elodie DE FONTENAY · Partner, Chaucer Elodie is a partner at Chaucer, a digital boutique consultancy, owned by BiP consulting group, with ~4,000 staff globally and 350 in the UK-US. She shaped and now leads the xTech Data & AI Centre of Excellence (COE) for the UK-US, a group bringing together experts dedicated to data, AI and Cloud clients’ propositions and delivery. She is also the global Data Consulting lead. Elodie previously spent 22 years at Accenture where she gained extensive experience in technology and data related innovation at executive level, change and transformation as a consulting practitioner and large-scale business operations as Operations director. She is passionate about everything data. Her interests are in data strategy, data culture, data literacy and data & AI ethics, and how data can help improve people's lives. She has proven track records in setting up Data & AI practices to help organisations embrace the power of data, AI and Cloud. Outside work, she a keen but slow runner, enjoy being outdoors, visiting art galleries, good food, good wine and good company.
• Yali Sassoon · Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, 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.

Partners

• Acceldata Acceldata has created the world's first Data Observability Cloud, helping data-driven enterprises achieve operational excellence, innovation agility, and higher returns on data investment. Modern enterprises increasingly rely on embedded analytics and AI systems to power their business operations and decisions. Building, operating, and optimizing these systems, however, can be overwhelming. Traditional monitoring tools, while effective for web applications and microservices, don’t provide sufficient insight into distributed data, processing, and pipelines.
• 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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