CIO SEA Live Series - September Edition 2022
Your IT Journey : Exploring Winning Implementations From Strategy to Transformation
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 33300 hours
Overview
The explosion of new technologies and their constant churn are always a challenge for CIOs and the role that once was the caretaker of technology is now the innovator and thought leader that is today.
CIOs focus is no longer the ticketing business model and is now shifting towards enabling business outcomes that support the business vision.
During this edition of the CIO Series we look at the outcomes of execution and what the winning implementations look like and we take a look at ML, AI and the advanced utilisation of data that has helped CIOs take the next step in becoming future ready.
Join us during this edition of the CIO Series as we take a look at:
Generating predictive insights with ML models
Automation and AI at the heart of what the future holds and how to harness the technology
Building ecosystems as the pillars to enable successful realisation of the initial vision
Empowering teams and advancing story-telling across your teams
What to expect
- In-deep Interactions 1:1 Engagements
- Sessions 10+
- 10+ Speakers Half day program
- Attendees 150+
What we will cover
- ML models Generating predictive insights with ML models
- Automation and AI Automation and AI at the heart of what the future holds and how to harness the technology
- Ecosystems as the pillars Building ecosystems as the pillars to enable successful realisation of the initial vision
- Advancing story-telling Empowering teams and advancing story-telling across your teams
Agenda
- Registration & Welcome Coffee(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022)
- Welcome Address & Introduction by Sit-Down(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022)
- Scaling AI Without Crashing: Secure Your AI Lifecycle and Scale up at Speed(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) Many companies see the opportunity in AI to radically change the way they do business and speed up their digital transformation. Whether it’s to improve customer experience and reduce customer churn, accelerate innovation or optimize productivity of financial flows, or reduce costs through predictive analytics. After focusing resources on their AI practice, organisations are pushing their models out of the sandbox and serving them at scale so that they can start realising the ROI. However, it is not that simple and companies continue to face many challenges. Numerous government agencies and enterprise customers have deployed their models two to three years ago, but have not retrained the models using the latest data since then. That’s not even counting the many models in sandboxes failing to go live in production. The question is therefore, how to secure your AI lifecycle and scale up at speed? Join this session to learn more about: What are the challenges & limitations with AI industrialization? What are the ingredients to correct the flaws, secure your AI launch and scale the use of AI across the business? How to create resilient AI-driven assets to maximize impact?
- Evolve: Digital Integration- Solving Business Problems for an Authentic Customer Experience(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) The core goal of a business transformation process is the efficient integration process. Leading and being at the forefront of a transformation process requires a market strategy that is authentic reliable and creative. Join Marta in this session as she shares her experiences in leading global teams to: Innovate to enhance customer journeys Mentoring and Developing resilient teams while working in remote locations Enhancing organisational outcomes
- How to Shorten the Time From Insight to Action with Apps(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) Data apps are about enabling everyone across the organisation access to data and insights, from knowledge workers to frontline workers, in a user-friendly interface that encourages adoption. With data at everyone’s fingertips, decisions are made faster and smarter. Data experiences are no longer limited to executives, analysts or IT, they are democratised throughout the organisation, so everyone can do their job better with the insights they need to optimise performance for themselves and the business.
- Precise & Personalized: The Door-Way to Consumer Lifetime Value (An Analogical Approach to Modern Marketing)(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) Given the disruption in markets today, a clear digital strategy leveraging precision marketing principles is critical; however, going beyond precision marketing at the upper funnel to personalization at lower funnel is what opens up the door-way to consumer lifetime value. The journey can be short/ medium-term, but the benefits in the long-term are worth the investment. Join us as Gautam Narang shares an analogical approach to unlock the door-way to consumer lifetime value: How precision & personalization can go hand-in-hand from upper to lower funnel? What long-term benefits can accrue? What are the choices we can make to unlock the opportunity?
- Morning Tea & Networking Break(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022)
- Attracting and Retaining IT Talent in the New World(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) 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.
- Bridging the IT and Line of Business Gap(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) For too long, IT has been strategically isolated from the core business for a variety of reasons. Whether it’s lack of understanding of the value a business-focused IT team can deliver. Or it’s fear of the unknown among other line of business execs. Or it’s short-sighted CIOs who can’t see past their precious infrastructure. Whatever the reason may be, it results in a no-win situation for any business. Let’s align the business instead of trying to align IT to the business. The latter concept suggests that IT is some foreign entity that will never align with the business. It’s time for that to change.
- Driving Certainty with Your Data(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) With constantly shifting economic and market conditions, every businesses wants to operate with certainty so they can navigate through unknowns and steer the organisation towards their goals. Having a complete and current view of your data creates trust and confidence, helping you get it right every time. In this session, learn how you can create certainty for your business with Active Intelligence, overcome the shortcomings of traditional, passive BI by delivering AI-powered insight from real-time data.
- A CDO’s Field Guide to Finding Value in Data(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) In the early years, CDOs mostly reported to technology leaders. However, Forrester Research indicates that in 2020, 42% of CDOs reported to their company’s CEO, revealing that the role had become more strategic and critical to the success of the company. To facilitate delivering analytics and insights for business innovation and value, CDOs are now tasked with overseeing the entire data value chain,2 from data capture or acquisition (including security and governance) to enabling data discovery and access.
- Lunch & Networking Break(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022)
- Demonstrating Automation Values and Why it Can be Your Key to Success(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) Synopsis: Automation, leveraging process Management and other technologies, has opened up new possibilities. The pace of adoption has been rapid. Institutions of all sizes globally are leveraging automation to drive value. When done right, automation has proven to deliver real benefits, join this session to explore the power of automation and why it could be your key to success: streamline processes improve efficiency & accuracy maximise compliance reduce costs improve productivity.
- Singapore Commodity Trade , A Symbiotic, Big Hub for Data... How did it Progressively Digitised Trade?(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) If we have realised anything in the past few years, it's amount of initiatives to digitalise supply chains falling flat due to difficulties in getting enough stakeholders to use digital platforms, take it from lack of trust, cost, and the high failure rate of these platforms to take off. But if the pandemic allowed us to do anything, it was the possibility of digitalisation, one reason being, the big port operators providing technologies to companies organising freight and shipments with the aim of improving their processes. During this session we look at a journey that resulted in full transparency of trade, improved efficiency and savings with better management of risks and more use cases for AI and ML applications. Join us with Dr. Tom of James of Tradeflow as we dive into: Enabling the digitalisation of logistics side of things Benefits brought by digitalisation of supply chain Increasing requirement for AI, Data analytics and predictive risk management
- A Business-first Approach to Building Data Governance Programs(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) 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, we 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. We will also cover off other vital aspects of our Data Integrity suite including data quality and data observability.
- Strategies to Make your Business Transformation Deliver Value(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) In an unprecedent and turbulent marketplace, the word Digital Transformation has taken centre stage. It is often the efficient execution of a transformation process along with integration and alignment that delivers the breakthrough value. The integration process is complex and so is the strategy of a business team. The most critical aspect of digital transformation is the alignment of the entire team and the business to the transformation process. Join us for this session with Yiliang Zhao as highlight ways to efficiently synchronise the relevant departments to collaborate and establish a synergy for a successful digital transformation. Some helpful strategies to make your business transformation deliver the value you are seeking. How do we ensure that the transformation goals and objectives support business strategy? How do we identify competencies, skills, talent infrastructure, to execute the capability?
- Afternoon Tea Break & Networking(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022)
- Envisioning the Impact of a Modern Data Team(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) Organisations appreciate the power of data and the need to build successful business strategies to benefit fully from all the data collected. Hence data teams have gained importance in recent years and organisations are investing in retraining and retaining the available talent and including them to participate in all aspects of a growing business. The digital transformation journey has just begun and how we got here with all the challenges is interesting. Moving from a traditional mindset to growing a team of 80 people globally, Richa Arora takes us on a journey of how the data team is actively contributing towards revenue, marketing and all other functionalities. In this session she will dive deep into: Why the data team has become so vital for crating better visibility, transparency to predict outcomes. Moving the team into a product oriented mindset, being a part of the entire product cycle. Sharing the passion of building a sustainable culture within the team.
- Evolve: Creating an Ecosystem for Future Proofing Business(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022) How are we future proofing our businesses and at the same time leveraging past experiences to evolve differently? While technology is the first answer, there are other critical aspects in the ecosystem which integrates with technology to give a more holistic road map. We are experiencing meaningful shifts and these are currently undermining the traditional structures by moving towards a flexible environment. All the Data and Tech from the marketing point of view will become redundant very soon, how do we then scale from point A to B? What do we need to conquer in the next twelve months? How versatile can businesses be as the expectation from the new generation workforce is more the hybrid format? Experimenting and Innovating boldly while keeping in mind the winning cultures
- End of Day & Closing Remarks by Sit-Down(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022)
- Cocktail Hour & Networking Break(CIO SEA Live Series- September 2022)
Speakers
Richa Arora · Sr Director - Data Governance, JLL Technologies A data governance leader with 15+ years of experience in managing strategy, client relationships and geographically scattered analytics, data and technology teams. Responsible for building the capabilities from grounds up and leading teams for: customer insights, reporting and analytics, data mining / big data, research and development- platforms, data and tools, data management /governance/stewardship.
Marta Grutka · Global Head of Brand and Communications, Various Companies Whether supporting capital markets development projects in sub-Saharan Africa at the World Bank, IFC; launching some of the earliest and most successful interactive programming and transmedia offerings at AOL; or introducing the first nationwide 4G Wimax network in Malaysia, Marta’s unconventional, quick-start approach has helped to create positive disruption in more than 15 industries and 100 brands worldwide; She is currently the Global Head of Brand and Communications for Cialfo, a fast-growing edtech startup and digital transformation leader in higher education and international student mobility. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in foreign languages (French and German) and mass communications, and a Master's in International Relations from Boston University (Brussels), she went on to live and work in some of the world’s leading business, media and political centers, including: Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, and Washington. From 2005-2012, she was a founding Board Member of the Singapore chapter of Junior Achievement, the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students in workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Over the years, she has served as a mentor and volunteer for The Alliance for Women in Media (Los Angeles) The Singapore Council of Women’s Organization (Singapore); Women in Media (Sydney); Women’s Media Networks (Hong Kong; Singapore); and more. Today, she is a lecturer at New Campus and EMERITUS's APAC faculty network, teaching next gen leadership skills to next gen leaders.Yiliang Zhao · Head of Data Science, Openspace Ventures At Openspace, Yiliang leads the data science team and advises portfolio companies on how to improve their AI and machine learning strategies to accelerate growth. He also plays an important role in assessing new opportunities from a data science perspective. He has over 10 years' experience in managing and developing end-to-end machine learning projects from ideation to production. Previously, he was with Google as their J/APAC Machine Learning Practice Lead, where he oversaw the regional ML practice, ML pipelines and managed training/enablement programs/initiatives. He has worked with multinational industry leaders.
Irfan Shaikh · Head of Digital Transform, UM WorldWide Irfan is currently Head of Digital Transformation with UM, which is part of IPG MediaBrand, in his currently role he extensively work on futureproofing and transforming UM clients business. Some of the few renowned clients that he leads are Johnson and Johnson, Dyson, Accenture and many more. As a digital first leader he has also done diverse roles across 4 countries and the recent one was leading Reprise Canada which is the leading performance marketing agency in Canada, and prior to it was launching Essence (WPP) in Indonesia and leading the relationship for Google. His other stint has been with MediaCom as AOR head for Indonesia and prior working in India.
Tom James · CEO & CIO, TradeFlow Capital Management Pte Ltd Dr. Tom James has been digitising the commodity industry since 1998 when he designed and launched the first ever online digital ID secured trading platform for the commodity swaps market. In 2016 he was the solution architect for and co-founder of TradeFlow Capital the Innovative AI powered FinTech Fund Management company. TradeFlow's Digital Transaction and Risk Transformation Architecture enables global physical commodity trade for SME’s via an innovative non-credit, non-lending model which also provides superior risk adjusted returns and capital protection for investors. The approach is also collaborative with traditional lending institutions such as Banks and other lenders, creating Hybrid finance opportunities unlocking liquidity.Ranjit Ramachandran · Solutions Engineer, Nintex Ranjit comes with extensive 13 years of experience in digitally transforming customers in both Public and Commercial sector in Asia Pacific Region. He has been using Nintex for more than 8 years now and has he been involved in many intelligent automation programs wherein we have bought in AI and ML features on Nintex using Nintex connectors and extensions. It fascinates him to see how organisations are adapting to the new digital era and are eager to bring in a continuous flow of transformation.
Esther Lim · Sales Engineering Manager, Precisely :Esther Lim has been helping clients clean and govern their data for the last 8 years – oh the things she has seen! Before that she worked as a consultant implementing large enterprise projects for the Oil & Gas and Financial Services industry. During this time she has come to realise that when it comes to data quality, there is no such thing as a finished product. Esther is a sucker for game shows and has been on TV twice (Hot Seat and The Chase).
Gautam Narang · CX Lead, Abbott A Marketing & Commercial leader with expertise across multiple categories & business models in regional & local emerging & developed market roles, Gautam has more than 16 years of experience leading share growth & innovation initiatives, driving digital transformation and nurturing partnerships & teams. Having worked across MNC’s like Dabur and Johnson & Johnson in past across sales, marketing, business development, customer marketing & digital marketing, he currently heads the Consumer Experience & Digital team at Abbott Singapore and is responsible for profitable growth of the nutrition business portfolio by driving meaningful consumer experiences across the digital marketing funnel.
Partners
- Nintex Nintex is the global standard for process intelligence and automation. Today more than 10,000 public and private sector organisations across 90 countries turn to the Nintex Platform to accelerate progress on their digital transformation journeys by quickly and easily managing, automating and optimising business processes. Learn more by visiting www.nintex.com and experience how Nintex and its global partner network are shaping the future of Intelligent Process Automation (IPA).
- 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.
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