Digital ANZ Hybrid Series - April Edition 2022 - CDO - CIO

Overview

The past year has been a game-changer for companies worldwide, not because it demonstrated the importance of digitalisation but because it revealed the crucial need for agility and resilience in disruptive times. And so, data is continually proving to be the key driver of future business models to provide the optimum consumer experience, but the rules have changed and leaders must rethink their data and data teams strategy to remain at the forefront.

You can no longer focus on one aspect of your success strategy and the fact that they all go hand in hand. Organisations now more than ever understand that in order to gain a competitive advantage you have to have an all-encompassing approach to your culture, innovation and your technology and the answer is YES, this goes for your data teams too.

Join this session as we discuss building a winning data foundation when it comes to:

Technology as an enabler: experience for your customers, ease and flexibility for your employees

Innovation at the center of what we do in data whilst leveraging the opportunity of automation

Realigning and defining your talent strategy and what success means for your teams when it comes to data success.

What to expect

• Sessions 6+
• Live Interactions 1:1
• Virtual Attendees 200+

What we will cover

• Technology as an enabler Experience for your customers, Ease and flexibility for your employees
• Innovation vs. Tech Innovation at the center of what we do in data whilst leveraging the opportunity of automation
• Data teams and Success Realigning and defining your talent strategy and what success means for your teams when it comes to data success.
• Data positioning Harmonising your data strategy through the right positioning of data in your organisation.

Agenda

• 9:00 am Prioritizing Data as a Strategic Asset(Main room) Data is a critical business asset, whether that's realized to its full potential is up to the business. How an enterprise prioritizes data as a strategic asset will determine its survival, growth potential, and competitive advantage. Having a true data management strategy to ensure quality, trustworthy data at scale will be key for businesses to drive increased revenue and outperform competitors. Join Rex Ahlstrom; CTO, EVP Innovation & Growth at Syniti, as he discussed on what are the cost and implication of bad data and how with improved data management, business executives can then make more informed decisions. Attendees will walk away with: ● Understanding data’s significance & value - why is it so important for businesses today? ● How data quality and company success are inextricably linked ● Combining quality data with the right choice of emerging tech to improve competitive advantage
• 9:23 am Keynote: Developing IT Architecture for Large Companies(Main room) Join this session to gain insights into: IT strategies, and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower Enhancing organizational productivity and improving efficiency of operations Successful business process re-structuring, implementation of business solutions in organizations within present budgets and deadlines. Insightful knowledge of business process analysis and design, re-engineering, process rationalization, cost control, capacity planning, performance measurement and quality How to manage Network & IT Infrastructure Design for global organization
• 9:46 am Why CDO and CIO's Are Turning to Neo4j Knowledge Graph for Critical Business Decision Making(Main room) 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.
• 10:06 am Keynote: Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable – How we Need to Think Differently About the Future of Work(Main room) In a post-pandemic world leaders are increasingly concerned by the high turnover of their people. What can organisations be doing to maximise their employee experience and drive the careers of their people. Join EY's Global People Strategy Lead Liz Heathwood as we explore how to evolve our thinking as data & analytics leaders during times of uncertainty.
• 10:28 am Why a Logical Data Fabric is Essential for Modern Data Analytics?(Main room) Ongoing digital transformation is generating new data assets that have the potential of offering organisations unprecedented insights into operations, business processes, customer behaviour, the competition, and much more. However, if organisations cannot effectively access, integrate, and govern their data that is distributed across on-premises and multiple cloud providers’ data platforms, they are doomed to fall short of realizing its value. A logical data fabric that uses virtualization capabilities can avoid the traditional approach and challenges of integrating data. Join this session to hear how data virtualization will benefit your organization by minimizing data movement or data replication which can be time-consuming, expensive and pose security and compliance risks. Taking a logical approach to integrating, managing and governing enterprise data assets, will help organizations to be more agile and allow them to future-proof their data architecture to meet new and future demands for data analytics.
• 10:50 am Keynote: Digital Transformation Journey - How To Choose The Right Scale of Agile For Your Business(Main room) Join this session to gain insights on how PWC has been working to achieve: Evolve and transform to new efficient ways of working Vision Purpose Focus activity to deliver value using the right structure & empower PwC to transform Philosophy To apply internally to PwC, the practice & approach that we advise our clients to use
• 11:13 am How a Modern Data Stack Can Help You Meet Your Organisational Objectives(Main room) Is quality and access to data blocking your organisation from meeting its goals? This presentation will go over a holistic summary of the Modern Data Stack, where it originated from and how it can propel your business ahead of the competition. You’ll also hear how organisations across the globe have been using Fivetran to gain access to better quality data which is enabling better business decisions.
• 11:34 am Keynote: Monitoring Your Business Pulse Through Quality Insights(Main room) Join this session to understand and gain insights into why we need to enrich our decision making when it comes to our data, what are the challenges involved.
• 11:57 am Tomato or Tomatoes: Exploring the Importance of Questioning Your Data(Main room) 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
• 0:13 pm Keynote: The Opportunity of Disruption - People, Process, Technology & Culture(Main room) Join this session to gain insights into: What level of digital literacy do we need to improve? How to enable better data decision making The future of technology The work of LaTrobe in creating ' Smart City - Smart Campus '
• 0:27 pm Keynote: Data and Analytics Architecture: The Foundation of Your Digital Acceleration(Main room) In 2017 a study by Gartner found that only 15% of AI projects were successful.In 2019, a full two year later, this success rate had gone up by only 5%. In the same time the overall data and analytics spend of businesses had multiplied many times over. This leads us into asking what is a data and analytics architecture? How can we get better as data & analytics leaders? Join us to explore if there is a simpler more effective way forward.
• 0:37 pm Fireside Chat: Utilising Technology To Accelerate Business Growth(Main room) Attend this session to gain insights into Wunderman Thompson's transformational journey and understand how to: Focus on business led initiatives versus technology driven transformations Build incrementally and iteratively. Ensure data governance is business led

Speakers

• 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.
• Heidi van der Griend · Account Executive, Commercial, Fivetran Starting in the Mar-tech industry, Heidi has within the last few years transitioned over to the data space and has been loving every minute of it! Heidi recognised that the data space is ever evolving and not two days are the same. Whether that be talking through the modern data stack or walking customers through their data journey from start to finish, Fivetran has given Heidi the opportunity to excel in the data space and constantly learn new skills.
• Katrina Briedis · Sr. Product Marketing Manager Asia Pacific, Denodo Katrina has 20+ years Information Technology experience covering software development, project delivery, software sales and marketing. Her expertise lies in application development, data integration, business intelligence, and analytics. She has worked for leading software vendors such as IBM, Informatica, MicroStrategy, OpenText, Domo and more recently Denodo. Katrina has a passion for data and has worked in a variety of roles primarily helping organizations drive business insights and value through their data assets. She has held leadership positions managing software development teams as well as managing and building technical and marketing teams for startup organizations across the Asia-Pacific region.
• Rex Ahlstrom · CTO, EVP Innovation & Growth, Syniti Seasoned executive with strategic vision and ability to execute. Highly successful in leading organizations during growth and turnaround stages through influence and action. Operational experience across a broad range of executive roles including CEO, CSO, CTO, CMO, global operations, strategic partnerships, technology and strategy. History of delivering results based on long-range planning with a high degree of accuracy. Built corporate structures and executive teams from the ground up; extremely low attrition rates, high morale and company loyalty. Financially savvy with full P&L responsibility. Diverse market and business development expertise across Enterprise Software, Cloud, ERP, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Aerospace & Defense sectors. BSEE and MSEE degrees. Specialties: • Creative, strategic thinker on a broad range of businesses and technologies • Complex M&A, contract negotiation and partnership strategy experience • P&L responsibility including raising capital across private and venture networks • Due diligence experience in evaluating businesses/investment opportunities for VC firms • Deep technical and engineering background within many market segments • Continual focus on revenue growth and cost containment
• 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.

Partners

• Fivetran Shaped by the real-world needs of data analysts, Fivetran technology is the smartest, fastest way to replicate your applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance cloud warehouse. Fivetran connectors deploy in minutes, require zero maintenance, and automatically adjust to source changes — so your data team can stop worrying about engineering and focus on driving insights.
• 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.
• Denodo Denodo is the leader in data virtualization – providing unmatched performance, unified access to the broadest range of enterprise, big data, cloud and unstructured sources, and the most agile data services provisioning and governance – at less than half the cost of traditional data integration. Denodo’s customers have gained significant business agility and ROI by creating a unified virtual data layer that serves strategic enterprise-wide information needs for agile BI, big data analytics, web and cloud integration, single-view applications, and SOA data services across every major industry. Denodo Platform offers the broadest access to structured and unstructured data residing in enterprise, big data, and cloud sources, in both batch and real-time, exceeding the performance needs of data-intensive organizations for both analytical and operational use cases, delivered in a much shorter timeframe than traditional data integration tools. The Denodo Platform drives agility, faster time to market, increased customer engagement from single view of customer and operational efficiencies from real-time business intelligence and self-serviceability. Founded in 1999, Denodo is privately held, with main offices in Palo Alto (CA), Madrid (Spain), Munich (Germany) and London (UK). For more information visit www.denodo.com, follow Denodo via twitter: @denodo or contact us to request an evaluation copy at info@denodo.com.
• Syniti Syniti enables agile enterprises with silo-free enterprise data management that helps turn complex data challenges into competitive advantages. With a unified, learning platform and one of the world’s largest teams of data-focused experts, enterprises and global alliance partners choose Syniti when they require trusted data to ignite business growth and reduce risks. Syniti is a portfolio company of BridgeGrowth Partners LLC. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in 25 countries around the world, Syniti operates in all global regions and industry verticals, and maintains a 99.7% client success rate across thousands of complex data projects and initiatives.
• 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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