CDO UK Live Series - May Edition 2022
Developing a Roadmap for Success for Your Data Strategy Framework
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 11100 hours
Overview
As a new times brings fresh challenges, we look at the fundamentals and core parts of our journey.
During this edition of the CDO Series we look at how we can create winning data strategies to help our teams solves challenges by getting access to reliable insights in quickest and most efficient methods.
Whether it is do with technology, innovation and culture capability, CDOs and data leaders must have a wholesome approach when it comes maximising the value of their data assets.
Join this months edition to understand how to:
Tying analytics strategies to data strategies and business outcomes
Utilising effective and proven strategies to cultivate innovation
Tools and technologies to enhance and bring about agility
How do we measure, and prove out success?
How to partner across your organisation to build support for the years ahead
What to expect
- Leading case studies 8+ Sessions
- 10+ Speakers Half day program
- In-deep Interactions 1:1 Engagement
- Attendees 150+
What we will cover
- Data Innovation Utilising effective and proven strategies to cultivate innovation
- Data Transformation Tools and technologies to enhance and bring about agility
- Culture Over Everything A strong and robust culture will not only attract talent but assist in keeping existing teams happy and motivated
- Data Integration With Your Systems Tying analytics strategies to data strategies and business outcomes
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: Why Understanding Data Supply Chains is key to Transforming Data Operations(Plenary) The Circular Data Economy and how we can use this to understand the data supply chain. Join this session to learn about: Data Vision: Shift from 'data as a by-product' to 'data as the product' Linear Data Economy: What does it mean to change from disposable to a sustainable data culture The different stages of data in its supply chain
- Thought Leadership: 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: How do we Leverage the Trust in our Data(Plenary) Join Robin Miller, Group Data Manager at Lowell as he shares his insights on: Data governance is fundamentally about culture Data foundations are a pre-requisite for any business process, application, reporting or analytics jump or even the next hype cycle in data use Little and often, pragmatism and be honest with your stakeholders
- Keynote: Defining a New Data Strategy to Support the NSPCC’s 2031 Vision and Goals(Plenary) Join this session to gain insights into how we can improve our: Data strategy roadmap, minimising data as a liability while exploiting data as an asset Bringing stakeholders together from across the organisation to identify common goals and data strategy components Identify year 1 projects by looking for quick wins to build trust and building blocks to support future implementation of more complex, high value initiatives
- Panel: Evolution of the CDO(Plenary) As enterprises accelerate digitalisation and strengthen enterprise resilience and agility post pandemic, CDOs must expand and evolve their responsibilities to increase contributions as business executives and leaders of insights. Emerging trends, expected challenges and what’s ahead for CDOs in 2022 Leading the team to digital transformation CDOs role in contributing to overall success of the organisation
Speakers
Steve Woodward · Head of Platform Transformation, Astra Zeneca Steven Woodward is the Head of Platform Transformation for AstraZeneca IT, working specifically with an Enterprise focus. He has been in the IT industry for over 20 years, starting work developing systems for IT analyst firms and specialist software houses, gaining certifications in Solution Development and Database Administration. For the next ten years, he worked with Big Data via the evolution of Enterprise Search ending with global cloud-based systems, 200 million documents, millions of requests per day and sub-second response times. Lately, the roles have been senior leadership positions with growing complexity and size. Recently Steven has taken his decades of healthcare experience and delivered projects focused on data across the enterprise, specifically on deriving value from introducing Data Mesh and defining a Data Supply Chain using DataOps techniques realising value back into the organisation by scaling Privacy, Cataloguing, Unification and Insight capabilities. These have supported diverse value-adding initiatives such as digitising the supply chain with blockchain, ethical penetration testing of medical hardware, dark web detection of counterfeit and illegal products, and real-time tracking of high-value assets in transit while focusing on the Patient and their experiences with the pharmaceutical industry. A keen passion for technical innovation, Steven sponsors 10x opportunities, and he regularly works with emerging technology across the business, with the focus on Nanosatellites, Synthetic Sensors, Skin as a Platform, Ingestible and Embeddable technology, and new computing paradigms such as IoT, Blockchain, Commoditized Supercomputing and Quantum Computing. A firm believer in young talent, he mentors the Apprentice and Graduate programmes on solution development, DevOps/DataOps, and the benefits of a cloud-native architecture. He ensures that lifelong learning is embedded in his teams and is a champion for inclusion and diversity. Steven is on Twitter at @woodward_steve and LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/steve-woodward/
Nadia Adelstein · Portfolio Manager, Factor A branding & events expert, with 10+ years experience in exponential marketing, Nadia thrives on bringing stories to life through creativity. Working overseas for 12 years on both agency and brand side, she has a unique approach to business strategy.
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.
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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