CIO ANZ Series - March Edition 2022
Your IT journey: Exploring Winning Implementations from Strategy to Transformation
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 36900 hours
Overview
As technology leaders take action to re-energise their people and organisations, the most forward looking see a larger opportunity—the chance to build on pandemic-related accomplishments and re-examine the organisation’s identity, how it works, and how it grows. Join this months edition to explore how to:
Define and redefine - How do we measure, and prove our success?
What changes from initial vision to the delivery - Learnings from real-world case studies
What today’s CIOs need to know and do to be Future Ready?
Tying IT strategies and business outcomes together
Key innovations, developments, and advancements across AI/ ML
What to expect
- On-site Attendees 70+
- Virtual Attendees 150+
- Live Interactions 1:1
- Speakers 8+
- CIO Roundtables
What we will cover
- Defining Success How do we measure, and prove our success?
- Strategic Innovation How can we employ innovation to our strategy and align across our organisational needs
- Investments Across Technology How to create advocacy for our investment agenda at the executive level, to highlight transformation opportunities
- Future Ready What all CIO leaders need to know to be future ready and to embrace the disruption economy
Agenda
- The Value of Agility for Tabcorp’s Data Transformation Projects(Plenary) Join this interactive interview to hear about t he value of agility for Tabcorp’s data transformation projects
- Minimising The Four Culture Killers(Plenary) 'Culture' is one component of Mark Carter's 5C MODE. For our session we are focussing on one specific aspect: as much as identifying, honing and implementing tools and strategies that allow a culture to thrive, it's equally important to understand the polarity! What are the common enemies at the gates that sometimes make a culture break! In this punchy development session Mark will share one aspect from ideas frequently weaved into his Culture keynotes and programs. Four common culture killers Initial ideas to minimise (even eliminate) the culture killers impact The biggest dirty little secret in business and why it's imperative you consciously strive to put it into action!
- MLOps – A Critical Enabler of AI success- Dataiku(Plenary) IDC research shows that while model training is often seen as the core part of model development, it is rather the rest of the steps, especially the deployment and monitoring of models, that are perceived as being more challenging. On average, 77% of AI models remain in pre-production stage. This inability to scale model delivery suggests many organizations struggle to make an impact from their AI investment. (Source: IDC AI Adoption Survey, APEJ 2019). This is where Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) comes in – a proven framework that helps enable large organizations achieve and sustain AI success. This session aims to unpack this complex concept by defining what MLOps is (and what it is not), why it is a critical enabler of your AI success and how you can make it real within your organisations.
- Growth Speaker- Fear Is Your Future(Plenary) The current environment has left many of us feeling afraid: afraid of slowing down, afraid of keeping up, afraid of holding on and afraid of letting go. It’s not only overwhelming but exhausting and it’s standing between your people and their potential. Fear is the number one barrier to adapting and making impactful change. What if fear was the greatest opportunity you had to work out what next and pave the path to possibility? Uncertainty and change in this new world are constant and many of us lack the skills to adapt and leverage fear to our advantage. Fear Is Your Future seeks to demonstrate how fear is the greatest lever available to us, in making impactful and meaningful change, in a future of unknowns.
- Morning Tea Break(Plenary)
- Attracting and Retaining IT Talent in the New World(Plenary) In terms of digital transformation risks, two years ago, it was mainly about implementation of new technology and change management, allowing IT to boost productivity and create flexible workplaces. Rather, today’s debate focuses more on how to optimise outcomes and deliver organisational value from a change that has already taken place. In the current environment, where expectations for a great UX are high, innovation is accelerating in speed, and the industry is battling with shortage of skilled staff, rising wages, and the potential of a ‘great resignation', this topic is of high importance to Tech Executives.
- Keynote: Radical Digital Transformation - Design, Build, Protect(Plenary) Join Andrew Morgan, Chief Information Security Officer at La Trobe University as we explore what are the security-related things to consider when a business undergoes fundamental and radical change from an IT perspective, key learnings include: It is not all about the tools – it is about the people, the stakeholders, the risks and the journey. How do you get to a win-win? What is the best approach to make sure that the business is getting the outcomes that they need and they are also getting the security outcomes that they need (and may not even know that they need them). What does good enough security look like in 2022? How has it changed and how do you scale from securing the Enterprise through to securing an entire suburb?
- Modernising Digital Experiences for Customer Loyalty(Plenary) Customers today increasingly expect more refined standards of service. Discover how organisations can provide the right balance of usability and security to drive engagement, deliver better security outcomes, safeguard user privacy and manage complexity. Join this upcoming session to hear more about key trends driving customer identity, to learn: How to drive customer engagement How to deliver better security outcomes How to safeguard user privacy.
- Keynote: Business Transformation during Pandemic(Plenary) Join this session to hear how leading CIO's are responding to current challenges, including Business Transformation and how to implement new ERP systems during a pandemic. In this session we will explore the needs behind implementation initiatives and discuss: Implementation Process Challenges along the way Steps to success
- Networking break and lunch(Plenary)
- Benchmark Your Third-party Sensitive Content Communications Maturity Level(Plenary) Digital transformation is accelerating sharing and transfer of sensitive content to third parties across all industry sectors. Nearly all of this data is regulated and protected by governmental and industry standards. In addition to a cyber-threat landscape that is growing in complexity and maliciousness, maturity of governance and security tracking and controls directly translates into risk. This presentation explores key findings from a new cross-industry global survey focused on third-party sensitive content communications and spells out key takeaways that will help attendees improve their risk posture as it relates to compliance and security.
- Keynote: Implementing and Driving Transformation from the Ground up(Plenary) John Taylor is a transformational executive leader who's experience has been gained via working with market leading companies across the globe, creating value and reducing costs. Join this session as we explore how to implement winning strategies and drive transformation from the ground up. Key insights from this session include: Understanding where to start Maintaining momentum Key learnings from real life case studies
- Tomato or Tomatoes: Exploring the Importance of Questioning Your Data(Plenary) More than ever board members and business leaders are looking for ways to maintain an even focus on maintaining security and performance of their operations while also innovating to create that new edge. Did you know the data you already own holds the key to doing both those things? It all comes down to what questions you ask it. This session will explore this and why more than ever having the right data strategy is so important. Is it Tomato or Tomatoes, come along and find out
- Keynote: How Do We Leverage Data & Analytics to Drive Change?(Plenary) Helping CIOs to be leverage the power of data & analytics, and explore strategies to help drive transformation across your organisation. Join this session to gain insights into: How we are leveraging analytics and data to plan, strategise and drive a major transformation The challenges we have faced in bringing people into a data-driven paradigm. The most useful ways to weave insights from analytics into the change management process.
- Refresher Session(Plenary) Join Dr Paul Conner in this insightful inter-active Q&A session that gives you a chance to ask questions and have fun in the process.
- Why CDO and CIO's Are Turning to Neo4j Knowledge Graph for Critical Business Decision Making(Plenary) Data is one of a business’ most prized assets. The paradox is that the larger the data volume grows, wrangling with it—let alone capitalising upon—data has become a struggle for many. Knowledge graphs are a tool that we can use to restore sanity to data by imposing an organising principle to make data smarter. Through this organising principle, businesses can reason about their data and bring together silos of disjointed information to form a consistent basis for business decision making, without the need to overspend your IT Budget.
- Growth Speaker- Get In the Go Zone(Plenary) How do you mix sustainable peak performance with resilience, recovery and having fun to optimise your day and outperform your competition? By getting into the Go Zone! Go Zones are periods of total focus without excuses or distractions working on todays key tasks. Slow Zones are longer periods of still productive but less stressful endeavour and No Zones are guilt free recovery periods outside of work hours. Having the ability to ’switch gears’ or Zones is crucial to be at your best when you need to without wearing yourself and others out in the process. Learn how to identify which Zone you are in, which zone you should be in and how to make the change. Increase productivity, reduce stress, build resilience, protect mental health.
- A Business-first Approach to Building Data Governance Programs - Precisely(Plenary) Traditional data governance initiatives fail by focusing too heavily on policies, compliance, and enforcement, which quickly lose business interest and support. This leaves data management and governance leaders having to continually make the case for data governance to secure business adoption. In this presentation, Cameron will share a lean, business-first data governance approach that connects key initiatives to governance capabilities and quickly delivers business value for the long-term. He will give examples of organisations worldwide who have successfully implemented a data governance program by engaging with key stakeholders using innovative techniques such as gamification and data catalouge scavenger hunt.
- The Synergies Between Data & IT Leadership Teams with a Look at Technology and AI as an Enabler(Plenary) The understanding of IT and Data leaders always being in the same boat when it comes to management information is a notion that often is overlooked. Specially when it comes to leadership and what it takes to build winning teams. During this panel we get together with 3 industry executives to discuss: The synergies of IT and Data teams The implications of your leadership, the current climate and workforce tendencies The application of AI and Machine learning to add to your competitive advantages
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.
Andrew Morgan · Chief Information Security Officer, La Trobe University I am a driven professional with deep experience in security, forensic technology, cyber security, data breach response, privacy, compliance, fraud and corruption investigation, risk management, board effectiveness and a range of other related disciplines. With extensive experience as a: • telco industry security risk/forensic investigations/cyber incident and data breach specialist, • forensic technology practitioner, data and privacy breach responder, • forensic risk/regulatory/investigations and technology consultant, • financial services fraud/compliance/corruption and AML/CTF/ABC expert, • as well as an early career in law enforcement and as a corporate regulator; I have experience, skills and knowledge across a wide range of areas. I have used these skills and experience to build and lead capable, motivated and high performing teams who have: • Provided cyber security, security intelligence and security investigation and risk response and protection to national critical infrastructure through operating in a converged security model (physical, personnel and information security working through a single accountable security executive • Benchmarked capability for fraud investigation, card fraud management and risk management functions for Australian and international banks • Established forensic technology offerings providing computer forensic and cyber investigations services for clients ranging from banks, law firms and other corporate entities. • Designed and delivered an enterprise wide compliance and enforcement program for a State Government Department reflecting international best practice guidelines. • Conducted and published Australia’s largest study on the current capabilities relating to risk management in the not-for-profit sector after the implementation of ISO31000. • Conducted significant AML CTF and ABC investigation and remediation projects for Australian and international clients • Involved in a number of FCPA investigations – with specific responsibility for verification of some work carried out by field operatives in remote locations. • Development and delivery of proactive fraud risk management and AML training material using both face to face and online delivery channels for financial services.
John Taylor · Group CIO, MedHealth John is a transformational executive leader who's experience has been gained via working with market leading companies across the globe, creating value and reducing costs. MBA qualified with the business acumen required to produce strategic value, review operations and identify opportunities for improvement and is supported by the technical skills to develop cost-effective solutions. The ability to relate well at any level of an organisation has been pivotal to success in managing effective business relationships. Internationally experienced (across the America’s, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia) with a good understanding of differing business cultures. A well-respected leader who motivates both self and others to deliver excellence within a culture of continuous improvement. John has delivered a number of successful technology programs and lead effective business units which has transformed the way IT operates and partners with the business in large enterprises.
Keng Ng · Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Munro Footwear Group Keng is one of those IT professionals you bring in to turn strategic visions into reality or straighten a major programme. The secret ingredients to Keng's effectiveness in getting things done successfully are: (1) Keng understands business realities and appropriately align the investment levels, risk appetite and governance processes of the IT function, resulting in IT working hand-in-glove with the business. (2) Keng believes in actions over words. Applying a practical and collaborative approach to overcoming organisational, technical and financial hurdles to achieve success. This, in turn, builds confidence and self-motivated drive within the team to continually raise the bar. (3) Keng thrives on impossible challenges and Keng's contagious enthusiasm rallies the team behind common organisation goals, pushing the team to perform beyond their own expectations. (4) Keng has taken on a wide range of roles, from deeply technical to people focussed. This means Keng has a much wider perspective when it comes to bringing together the right people to solve problems. Skills: System Integration Demand Management Team Leading and Building Strategy Delivery Vendor Management Budget Planning and Control Board-level Stakeholder Engagement Resource Planning and Forecast Business Systems Life-cycle Management Technologies: ERP, WMS, POS, EDW/BI, Cloud, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, CRM, Oracle SOA Middleware Industries: Retail, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, FMCG, Health care, FinanceKeng is one of those IT professionals you bring in to turn strategic visions into reality or straighten a major programme. The secret ingredients to Keng's effectiveness in getting things done successfully are: (1) Keng understands business realities and appropriately align the investment levels, risk appetite and governance processes of the IT function, resulting in IT working hand-in-glove with the business. (2) Keng believes in actions over words. Applying a practical and collaborative approach to overcoming organisational, technical and financial hurdles to achieve success. This, in turn, builds confidence and self-motivated drive within the team to continually raise the bar. (3) Keng thrives on impossible challenges and Keng's contagious enthusiasm rallies the team behind common organisation goals, pushing the team to perform beyond their own expectations. (4) Keng has taken on a wide range of roles, from deeply technical to people focussed. This means Keng has a much wider perspective when it comes
Punita Udeshi · Head of IT, Monde Nissin Corporation A dynamic IT management career spanning 20+ years starting from grassroots to senior management. A thought leader in emerging and traditional technologies with specialist skills in bringing people and resources together to get the best results. Experience in ERP implementations (Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O, SAP, JD Edwards, Pronto, SAGE) Business Intelligence solutions, data warehouse, project management and customer analytics for various industries such as FMCG, Government, Insurance, Supply Chain, Energy and Utilities, Retail, Health Care, Manufacturing, Food and Education. Extremely effective at establishing superior relationships and collaborating with stakeholders from C-level executives through line managers, to technical Business Intelligence delivery personnel to identify needs, define strategy, and guide the delivery of tools, systems, interfaces and analytics to measure performance against goals, identify trends, and respond immediately to new opportunities or issues. Natural communicator and leader with strong motivational and team building skills, ability to produce and succeed as well as work well with diverse work groups and off shore teams. Proven ability to quickly grasp and apply new technologies and best practices.Erik Eekelen · EGM EduTech (CIO), Open Colleges Recent Experience: CIO & Transformation at Open Universities Australia | Digital product leadership at two startups | CTO at a electric smart charging company | Major Digital Transformation at large Dutch organisation I am a digital transformation leader with a passion for Innovation. I love working with teams towards high performing organisations. Together we remove red tape. We improve flow. We change culture. We reduce time to market while improving quality. We experiment, we measure, we try again and improve. I strongly believe that open, honest cultures and high levels of transparency create the best organisations with highly motivated people. I hold a Masters of Science in Artificial Intelligence combined with a minor in Business Economics from both universities in Amsterdam. I've built teams and achieved great things with them in Fintech, Enterprises large and small, Consultancy, Online Retail, Start Ups, and Online Education in both Australia as the Netherlands. I am always keen to talk to you about your challenges and share the ones I'm working on!
Andrew Ogbourne · Digital Program Director, Urban Community and Business Innovation Pty Ltd I am an experienced IT Management Consultant specialising in IT strategy execution, IT services and organisation transformation and digital program strategy. I have a background spanning organisational, technical and program leadership but my passion is helping people to recognise and respond to the complex challenges and opportunities that contemporary technologies present. I have a particular interest in helping for-purpose organisations to understand the expectations and manage the experiences of their clients and stakeholders, enabled by Information Technology. My broad experience allows me to help NFP Boards and CEOs to understand the opportunity and develop and implement strategies to harness it.
Dr Fiona Neilson Onfidan · Business Transformation Lead - Data Strategy, Office of the CDSSO, Monash Univeresity I am passionate about how business and new technologies intersect to improve business outcomes and create new ways of working. My next career goal is to drive an organisational transformation to a data-driven and insights-led culture. I have specialised in complex transformations for 10 years where change never follows a linear process, working at scale is a given, and collaboration is critical to success. I also worked in research management for over 10 years where I developed expertise in strategy, managing C-suite stakeholder relationships and performance reporting. I combine exceptional critical thinking with graduate data science and analytical skills to help leaders and teams develop insight-led strategies and plans. I like to get hands-on, creating prototypes and adapting tools to meet the needs of each project, and learning by doing. My experience and skills position me to help organisations reach business goals by aligning leadership, building workforce skills, and using data to inform change. I am also a seasoned manager and inspiring leader and mentor who has directly supervised 60+ staff and benefited from extensive management training.
Nitish Mathew · Global Head of Data Engineering, Afterpay Nitish Mathew is the Senior Director of Data Engineering and Governance at Afterpay. He built the engineering program that brings together data from 50+ sources and is the foundation for their executive decision making, sales enablement, marketing campaigns, fraud monitoring, risk analytics, machine learning development, financial reporting etc. A graduate of College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India and the Pennsylvania State University, his entire 15+ year career has been in Business Intelligence and Data Platforms, across the US and Australia.Sandhya Iyer · Head of Data Governance & Strategy, Latitude Financial Services I am a customer focused, commercially aligned analytics and data science leader with 15 years of multifaceted experience in driving data-led decision making in fast-paced and innovation led organizations. I have a proven track record in leading and developing teams to drive business results through advanced analytics, insights and Machine learning.
Maya Natarajan · Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Neo4j Successful, self-motivated, and talented product, field and corporate marketing executive with broad enterprise software experience in the U.S. and Europe. Strong record of developing and implementing innovative product positioning and demand generation strategies across multiple product categories including Predictive & User Behavior Analytics, BI, Big Data, Search, AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Blockchain, Cloud Computing, SQL and NoSQL, Distributed Computing, IoT, and BPM. Well-honed presentation and negotiation skills within a multi-national environment.
Alex Hopkins · Head of Data and Analytics, Jetstar Airways Ltd. Experienced data & analytics leader with broad global experience guiding technical and business focused teams in the delivery of innovative data-driven solutions. Sold, managed and delivered data & analytics roadmaps & transformations, SaaS and consulting engagements powered by 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. Recognised as a thought-leader and exceptional communicator with the ability to think outside the box and solve complex, mission-critical challenges.
Amarilla (Millie) Simon · Sr. Regional Director, Pluralsight Amarilla Simon is an enthusiastic and results-driven leader with 20 years of progressive people management experience, of which almost 10 have been in the ICT sector. Since arriving in Sydney in 2015, she has established relationships with a range of Australian organisations, from nimble startups and government agencies to the largest Finserv and Tech Enterprises. In addition to observing and responding to the needs of her clients, her passion is centered around connecting technology and people. At Pluralsight, the tech workforce development company, she has the opportunity to tie these together while solving today’s pressing issues for Tech Executives. When she is not working, she enjoys traveling and volunteering at a dog rescue. She recently also started to collaborate with like-minded Australian organizations aiming to create tailored educational and employment pathways for disadvantaged young people. If you would like to work with Amarilla to learn more about technology workforce transformation, you can send her a direct message on one of her social media platforms.
Partners
- Pluralsight The technology workforce development company At Pluralsight, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to create progress through technology and develop the skills of tomorrow. With assessments, learning paths and courses authored by industry experts, our platform helps businesses and individuals benchmark expertise across roles, speed up release cycles and build reliable, secure products.
- Okta Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, and the Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to both secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their customers’ experiences. With over 5,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely adopt the technologies they need to fulfill their missions. Over 5,600 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to securely connect their people and technology.
- Kiteworks Kitework's mission is to empower organizations to effectively manage risk in every send, share, receive and save of sensitive content. To this end, we created Kiteworks a Content Governance, Compliance, and Protection platform. The platform enables customers to unify, track, control and secure sensitive content moving within, into, and out of their organization to reduce risk exposure and ensure regulatory compliance.
- Neo4j Neo4j is the leading graph database platform that drives innovation and competitive advantage at Airbus, Comcast, eBay, NASA, UBS, Walmart and more. Thousands of community deployments and more than 300 customers harness connected data with Neo4j to reveal how people, processes, locations and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built using Neo4j tackle connected data challenges including artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and master data. Find out more at Neo4j.com.
- Splunk Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) turns data into doing with the Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk technology is designed to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on data at any scale, from any source over any time period. The Data-to-Everything platform removes the barriers between data and action, so our customers -- regardless of size or business -- have the freedom to deliver meaningful outcomes across their entire organization. Our unique approach to data has empowered companies to improve service levels, reduce operations costs, mitigate risk, enhance DevOps collaboration and create new product and service offerings.
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