CDO UK NOVEMBER DRAFT
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 11946 hours
Agenda
- Thought Leadership: Plotting a Story of Data Maturity(Plenary) Hear from Pete Williams, Director of Data and Online, as he takes you through the story of how Penguin Random House reached data maturity. Pete will explain how he took his team on a journey to unleash the force of data inside the business to increase competitive advantage and commercial performance. Discover how they overcame the problems of legacy solutions and siloed data to create a single source of truth. Senior decision makers are now able to drive strategic objectives based on this single source of truth to deliver business value - saving on time, costs whilst driving sales and ESG.
- Keynote: The Rise of a Global Data Risk Centre(Plenary) Join Chief Data Officer Shane Keating and hear the story behind the Ardonagh Global Data & Risk Management Centre based in Mullingar. Gain insights on how this unique centre came to be as well as understanding: Clarity and alignment across your data vision & purpose The problem with your opportunity Navigating the data journey
- Thought Leadership: Balancing the Data Governance ‘See-Saw’ to Accelerate Data-driven Businesses(Plenary) In today’s evolving business environment, trust is the lynchpin for successfully navigating unchartered paths. For CDO's and their teams, trust in the data they rely on is ultimately the true test of all. A strong data governance strategy is essential yet striking the right balance is vital to ensuring trust in the data drives and supports the commercial and business objectives. In this session, we discuss: Explore the data governance challenges / why is DG so hard? Why striking the right balance between control and autonomy can mitigate data chaos How to deliver a collaborative data governance model
- Spotlight Speaker - 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
- Thought Leadership: The Five Stages of Data Maturity: How to Accelerate Your Journey From Those Who Have Already Done It(Plenary) Today’s most successful organisations are utilising data to drive rapid growth, transformation and innovation. They are each on a journey towards greater data maturity, increasing the value of their data and deepening their insights as they go. In this session, data expert Aidan Radford will explore how you can shape the future of data at your organisation, harness the power of data to drive competitive advantage, increase productivity and enhance customer experience.
- Keynote: Making Digital the Driver Post COVID-19(Plenary) Attend this session delivered by (Interim) Director, Digital Health and Care at The Scottish Government, on how data is the ultimate driver across our transformation, this keynote will focus on: How Covid has changed our thinking on digital Future strategy and direction for health and care in Scotland Opportunities for engagement and support
- Thought Leadership: Automation in a Data-Driven Environment(Plenary) In this digital information age there are vast amounts of data being created, moved, ingested, and transformed to support the Autonomous Digital Enterprise. DevOps and DataOps principles play a key role in assuring the business gets value from its data. Join this session to hear a real life story of leveraging orchestration, DevOps, and DataOps in a data-driven environment and how the effort helped to reduce cost, enabling data democratization and ensuring quality data is accessible to all business users.
- Keynote: Building up our Data Muscles Through Education and Storytelling(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into the: CDO role and challenges and opportunities within the organisation What kind of CDO are you? How do you embed and build your data-culture – the big HOW Thoughts and current approaches; wins and losses on a daily basis and how to manage them
- 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
Speakers
Jeffrey Gheen · Sr. Director Business Intelligence, BMC Software In this digital information age there are vast amounts of data being created, moved, ingested, and transformed to support the Autonomous Digital Enterprise. Without DevOps and DataOps the value of this key data asset is diminished, and you will struggle to get high value business from the data. It is critical that you have automation in the DataOps space ensuring the needed data is ingested, transformed monitored and delivered to your business. BMC leverages orchestration, DevOps and DataOps principles across the entire data echo system. These principals have reduced cost, enabled data democratization end to ensure quality data is accessible to all business users.
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.
Jonathan Cameron · Director for Digital Health & Care, The Scottish Government Jonathan started as interim director of Digital Health and Care in May 2021, having previously been Deputy Director since November 2019. Prior to joining the Scottish Government, Jonathan held a number of data, IT and eHealth roles in NHS National Services Scotland and NHS Connecting for Health with a focus on project and programme management. Responsibilities: The Director of the Digital Health and Care Directorate has overall responsibility for digital health and care strategy and the delivery of major digital systems that underpin the running of health and care services in Scotland.
Aidan Radford · Snowplow Analytics, Snowplow I am a solutions architect working at Snowplow Analytics helping our customers to get the best value possible out of their behavioural data. Before this I worked in analytics at Gousto where I built out a number of data products. Feel free to get in touch to discuss data.
Partners
- Talend Talend, the leading data integration and data integrity company, enables every business to find clarity amidst the data chaos. Talend is the only company to bring together in a single platform all the necessary capabilities that ensure enterprise data is complete, clean, compliant, and readily available to everyone who needs it throughout the organization. Businesses rely on Talend to deliver exceptional customer experiences, make smarter decisions in the moment, drive innovation, improve operations, and thrive in a future they can’t yet see.
- Snowflake Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the Data Cloud.
- BMC Software From core to cloud to edge, BMC continues to build on a 40-year heritage of shaping digital transformation for organizations around the world. We deliver the software and services innovations that help over 10,000 global customers, including 84% of the Forbes Global 100, thrive in their ongoing evolution to an Autonomous Digital Enterprise—a state in which intelligent, integrated, value-creating functions operate with minimal human involvement across every facet of the organization and its ecosystem. We are proud to have earned recognition as an ITSM Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for seven years running, as well as being named overall leader in the EMA Radar Report for Workload Automation for five years in a row and top of the charts in EMA’s recent AIOps Radar report. Our future-focused portfolio helps drive business success with AI-enabled solutions for automation, optimization, performance, security, and service management, covering everything from mainframe to multi-cloud. BMC’s open, scalable, modular technologies help ensure that our customers can run and reinvent their businesses for growth and competitive edge while optimizing cost, performance, and security. For more information about BMC, please visit www.bmc.com.
- 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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