CDO UK Series - October Edition 2021
The changing landscape of a CDO's role in 2022
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 18000 hours
Overview
As a data leader, now is the time to accelerate the business value you drive for your organisation. Having led your team through one of the toughest periods in our global history and overcome huge obstacles for not only your department but your entire business, all of these challenges also bring many possibilities. Our Chief Data Officer series is committed to delivering transformation strategies that will build agility, speed, intelligence and drive innovation. This months series will focus on:
How to align your data and analytics strategy with the wider organisation, and help build your role as a key advocate across the business
Develop your leadership and culture skills
How to innovate by leaning in to compliance and governance strategy
What to expect
- Speaker 5+
- Live Interactions 1:1
- Virtual Attendees 200+
- Sessions 5+
What we will cover
- Analytics Everywhere: Drive Pervasive Outcomes Leverage our analytics process to stay ahead of the competition and create stronger ROI
- Business Strategy and Outcomes: Accelerate the Value How does the role of CDO help to drive the wider needs of our organisation?How can we demonstrate value back up the line
- Leadership and Skills: Be the Change Maker What are the soft skills modern data and analytics leaders need to embrace to drive a strong culture?
- Emerging Technologies and Trends: Compose the Future How do we navigate new technology to help derive insights and translate them to understand emerging trends and needs.
Agenda
- A Modern Data Platform - Enabling Speed, Agility, and Scalability(Plenary) At Elsevier, the marketing organisation is currently undergoing a large-scale transformation, putting end-to-end data self-service at the core of how business teams operate. To enable this, technology have built a central data platform, underpinned by Snowflake, which is capable of ingesting data from a wide range of sources through a configuration based front-end. As an objective, the platform had to cater for several unpredictable and unforeseen use cases, and scale according to the complexity of data needs - all this with minimal input from technology teams.
- 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
- 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
- Leadership and Culture in Data Governance(Plenary) Lloyd’s of London, as part of its Future at Lloyd’s initiative, released Blueprint Two in November 2020 as a follow-up to its initial strategy of advancing the London market’s efficiency and enhancing stakeholder experience. The initiative clearly outlines the changes to be implemented over the next two years to realize the vision set out in Blueprint One, which was released in September 2019 and which listed the different components that would make up Lloyd’s ecosystem: primarily, a complex risk platform with data-first capabilities; Lloyd’s risk exchange to process relatively non-complex, high-volume, low-value risks; a claims solution to automate simple claims; and a new syndicate-in-a-box concept to encourage innovative and accretive business and talent at Lloyd’s.
- Data Culture and Why You Need One, Now(Plenary) Andy ’s primary responsibility is in developing the business value strategy as well as delivering business value assessments for the region’s largest customers. Andy has worked in the industry for over 30 years and brings a wealth of value expertise, from across different sectors, to all parts of the region. Andy is here’s with us today and will talk about Data Culture and Why You Need One, Now
- 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 leading CDO’s on how data can drive business outcomes and meaningful insights through successful storytelling: 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?
- Behavioural Data: One of Your Most Valuable Data Assets and Why Driving Value From That Data Can Be So Hard(Plenary) Behavioural data is something that companies have had for years, but the way that organisations are now using that data has changed radically. In fact, many companies are using it to drive sustained competitive advantage by executing multiple use cases on top of it using sophisticated analytical techniques, especially AI. However many organisations struggle to keep up because their behavioural data is not fit for purpose. In this session, we'll explore · How organizations can harness behavioural data to drive decisions across the organisation · How to overcome organizational, compliance and technical challenges · Real-life examples of the organizations leading the way
- Post-Brexit GDPR and How to Shift to Innovative Compliance Strategies(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into current: GDPR leading principles, Post Brexit challenges Best practice initiatives
- Transforming your Business with Data Driven Insights(Plenary) Data is the lifeblood of businesses today, powering applications, driving decision making, predicting consumer trends, and boosting revenue. But as data becomes more important, it also becomes more abundant, complex, and varied; for companies to make the most of their data, they need to leverage a best-in-class application platform and implement best practices. In this presentation, we’ll cover the history of data, discuss the evolution of databases, examine common data challenges, and demonstrate how MongoDB can help any organization modernize their data infrastructure — and transform their business model.
- Your Company’s Data Should Be One of its Greatest Assets(Roundtable 2) Data has always been used to inform business strategy. But today, data often is the business strategy. Consider this: 20 years ago, there was no such thing as a Chief Data Officer. Today? Almost two-thirds of Fortune 1000 companies have one. Why? Because we are asking more of our data than ever before. And rightly so. In the digital economy, every company competes on the basis of insight-driven innovation. During this roundtable, your peers will discuss: * How to generate essential business insights from your data * How to accelerate digital transformation initiatives * And the ability to efficiently and effectively manage data at speed
- Roundtable 1 - The Future of Data and the Role of the CDO The vast quantities of data being produced require a change in how businesses acquire, process, and use that data in order to monetize it in different business use cases.Discover how you can use the Data Cloud to accelerate your company's data-driven approach, from evolving to the Data Cloud to how the CDO role is facing the Trend of the Data Cloud.
Speakers
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.
Ann McManus · Market Information Security, Data Privacy & Ethics Lead, LLoyds New York qualified and internationally educated lawyer specialising in data governance, privacy, ethical use of data and cybersecurity.
Fay Godfree · Senior Data Protection Manager & Legal Counsel, Nuffield Health Fay has worked in several in-house DataProtection roles over the last 8 years. She has also worked on a consultancy basis gaining a wealth of experience across a diverse client base. She is currently an in-house Solicitor for Nuffield Health, specialising in data protection law and has a practitioner certificate in data protection. Advising a healthcare charity means Fay gets involved in complex and innovative projects, keeping her right at the cutting edge of data protection law.
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.
Joao Cazarotti · Data & Analytics Lead - Marketing Technology, Elsevier Joao leverages his analytical background to understand business needs and solve problems promptly in quantitative settings applying Agile and Big Data methodologies. As an analytics consultant he works across multiple teams and platforms to deliver actionable insights through in-depth knowledge of Data Analysis, Data Modelling, Business Intelligence, Data Visualisation, and Statistical Analysis.
Partners
- Talend · Event Partner 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.
- 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.
- MongoDB MongoDB is the next-generation data platform helping businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data. The world’s most sophisticated organizations use MongoDB to create applications never before possible at a fraction of the cost. MongoDB Atlas, the database as a service, delivers the world’s leading database for modern applications as a fully-automated cloud service with operational and security best practices built-in. Easily deploy, operate, and scale your databases across the leading cloud platforms.
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