Join leading professionals at CDAO Sydney 2023 who are active in the data and technology community in Sydney, leading change and passionate about the impact and value of data to share their experiences.
For all things data, this is the place to be at to stay connected in NSW.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Imma Chippendale
Chief Data Officer
Department of Regional NSW

Julian Delany
Chief Technology Officer, Data and Digital
News Corp Australia

Jenny Simpson
Chief Technology Officer
Football Australia

Ashwin Sridhar
Chief Data & Technology Officer
CHOICE

Guy Feibish
Chief Data Officer Australia & New Zealand
J.P. Morgan
ABOUT THE EVENT
The topic of ethics, particularly with AI, has been the talk of the town. What should you be doing with data ethics?
Trying to get the organisation to adopt a data-driven culture but need more ideas to make it work?
How do you get the board and other departments to see the business power that data has to offer?
Keeping current with data and analytics is the sure-fire way to keep us ahead of competitors and grow market share.
However, as we have got better at it, data and analytics has only gotten more complex.
From challenges around ethics and AI to extracting insights and value from masses of data, our top tier speaking panel will share their tips, ideas and best practices to remain current and lead the pack in data and analytics growth.
Enjoy fantastic takeaways and content at CDAO Sydney including developing a great data leader and innovator, winning the hearts of the board, planning and execution of long-term data strategy, nurturing a lasting data culture, developing capabilities, aligning governance and stakeholders, and much more. Don’t miss the opportunity to be a part of this iconic event.

NEW THIS YEAR
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Largest ever speaker panel featuring 70+ leading data and analytics leaders in Australia
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Focus Day Pro+: Take your pick from governance and business alignment or innovation for enterprise as we bring you the meaty content you need!
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New and Innovative local, regional, and international case studies that share best practices, strategies and tips!
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VIP Think Tank – an invite-only, closed doors conversation focusing on “Too Hot to Touch” topics
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Even more interaction with lots of VIP functions, tracks, discussion groups, fireside chats, panels & many more…
Topics we cover
Governance
Intelligence adoption
Innovation
Data ethics
Questioning roadmaps
Transformative analytics
Data culture
Unifying teams
Data transformation
Actionable insights
Data monetisation
Championing literacy
Quality and compliance
KEY THEMES & TAKEAWAYS
- Delivering Quality Governance for Decision-Making: Using governance to make quality and valuable decisions for business.
- Innovation for Enterprise: Capitalising on innovation and new ideas to take enterprises along the journey towards a technologically savvy business.
- Driving Strong Data Teams for the Long-Haul: Building capacity starts with your teams and keeping strong teams running in the long-haul is critical to a successful organisation.
- Embarking on a Transformative Data Journey: Unlock the next steps in your transformation journey with data & analytics.
- Scale Up! Driving Analytics in Business: Capture the value across all points of your organisation, with the right scaling tactics and strategies.
- Visualisation and Buy-in: Winning the buy-in with good communication and visualisation.
- Building a Data-Sophisticated Organisation: Building businesses around data by driving data knowledge, usage and delivery.
- Analytics as the Vanguard of Business Innovation: Using analytics to drive growth and innovation in business.
- Insights, Impact and Change: Extracting value and insights from data to deliver impactful decisions and positive change.
- Future Analytics: Anticipating what the future of analytics has to offer and preparing a successful strategy.
WHY ATTEND
C-Level Connections
Meet NSW's leaders and influencers, learn from their experiences and ask them your questions.
Focus Day
Choose between getting clarity and hear best-practices on aligning data governance with stakeholder and business needs or innovation for enterprise with the next generation technologies.
Interact & Participate
Let your voice be heard at our Discussion Groups, Roundtables and Panel Discussions. Join the fun and bring discussions as we work towards solving common problems.
Cheers with Peers
Relax, continue the conversation during an informal and fun cheers with peers.
Tech Demo Exhibition
Be inspired by those delivering change and serving the community through exciting new services.
Over 70+ Speakers:
Hear from Sydney's top companies over three action packed days: Keynote addresses, interactive discussion groups, exhibition interaction and networking opportunities.
Benchmark Strategy
Peg your your data strategy against Sydney’s leading organisations to find the right solution for you.
Hear what our 2022 attendees had to say about the event:
Lead Partner
Alteryx
Visit websitePlatinum Partners
Denodo
Denodo is the leader in data virtualization providing agile, high performance data integration, data abstraction, and real-time data services across the broadest range of enterprise, cloud, big data, and unstructured data sources at half the cost of traditional approaches. Denodo's customers across every major industry have gained significant business agility and ROI by enabling faster and easier access to unified business information for agile BI, big data analytics, Web, and cloud integration, single-view applications, and enterprise data services. Denodo is well-funded, profitable, and privately held. For more information, visit www.denodo.com
Visit websiteInformatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader, brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets. We have pioneered a new category of software, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC), powered by AI and an end-to-end data management platform that connects, manages and unifies data across any multi-cloud, hybrid system, democratizing data to modernize and advance their business strategies. Customers in more than 100 countries and 85 of the Fortune 100 rely on Informatica to drive data-led digital transformation. www.informatica.com. Connect with LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Informatica. Where data comes to life.
Snaplogic
SnapLogic powers the automated enterprise. The company’s self-service, AI-powered integration platform makes it fast and easy to connect applications and data across the enterprise to improve business processes, accelerate decision-making, and drive better business outcomes.
SnapLogic powers the automated enterprise. The company’s self-service, AI-powered integration platform helps organisations connect applications and data sources, automate common workflows and business processes, and deliver exceptional experiences for customers, partners, and employees.
Tiger Analytics
Tiger Analytics specializes in building AI and data science solutions that enable enterprises to generate business value from data. The company brings deep expertise in marketing science, customer analytics, operations analytics, and risk analytics, and is a trusted partner for several Fortune 500 companies
Visit websiteGold Partners
Snowflake
Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries, including 543 of the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 (G2K) as of October 31, 2022, use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses. Learn more at snowflake.com.
Visit websiteAmplitude
Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Almost 2,000 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. Amplitude is the best-in-class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2’s 2023 Winter Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at amplitude.com.
Visit websitePrecisely
Precisely is the global leader in data integrity, providing accuracy and consistency in data for 12,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including 90 percent of the Fortune 100. Precisely’s data integration, data quality, location intelligence, and data enrichment products power better business decisions to create better outcomes.
Learn more at precisely.com
Visit websiteNeo4j
Neo4j is the world’s leading graph data platform. We help organisations – including Comcast, ICIJ,NASA, UBS, and Volvo Cars – capture the rich context of the real world that exists in their data tosolve challenges of any size and scale. Our customers transform their industries by curbing financial fraud and cybercrime, optimising global networks, accelerating breakthrough research,
and providing better recommendations. Neo4j delivers real-time transaction processing, advanced AI/ML, intuitive data visualisation, and more. Find out more at neo4j.com and follow us at @Neo4j.
SIlver Partners
StreamSets
StreamSets, a Software AG company, eliminates data integration friction in complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments to keep pace with need-it-now business data demands. Our platform lets data teams unlock data—without ceding control—to enable a data-driven enterprise. Resilient and repeatable pipelines deliver analytics-ready data that improve real-time decision-making and reduce the costs and risks associated with data flow across an organization. That’s why the largest companies in the world trust StreamSets to power millions of data pipelines for modern analytics, AI/ML, smart applications, and hybrid integration.
Visit websitedbt Labs
Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt is a data transformation framework that lets analysts and engineers collaborate on transformation workflows using their shared knowledge of SQL. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work faster and more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust.
dbt Labs pioneered the practice of analytics engineering and has been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today there are 11,000 companies using dbt every week, 30,000 practitioners in the dbt Community Slack, and 2,000+ companies paying for dbt Cloud.
dbt Labs
Fivetran automates data movement out of, into and across cloud data platforms. We automate the most time-consuming parts of the ELT process from extracts to schema drift handling to transformations, so data engineers can focus on higher-impact projects with total pipeline peace of mind. With 99.9% uptime and self-healing pipelines, Fivetran enables hundreds of leading brands across the globe, including Autodesk, Conagra Brands, JetBlue, Lionsgate, Morgan Stanley, and Ziff Davis, to accelerate data-driven decisions and drive business growth. Fivetran is headquartered in Oakland, California, with offices around the world. For more info, visit fivetran.com.
Visit websiteVertica
Vertica is built for the scale and complexity of today’s data-driven world. The future belongs to the fast, and Vertica delivers the fastest, most scalable advanced analytics platform, forever independent from underlying infrastructure. You may choose to deploy fully managed Vertica-as-a-Service or manage the platform yourself. Vertica’s SQL Data Warehouse is trusted by the world’s leading data-driven companies to deliver speed, scale and reliability on mission-critical analytics. Vertica combines the power of a high-performance, massively parallel processing SQL query engine with advanced analytics and machine learning, so you can unlock the true potential of your data with no limits and no compromises.
Visit websiteMicroStrategy
MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is the largest independent publicly-traded business intelligence company, with the leading enterprise analytics platform. Our vision is to enable Intelligence Everywhere. MicroStrategy prides modern analytics on an open, comprehensive enterprise platform used by many of the world’s most admired brands in the Fortune Global 500. Optimized for cloud and on-premises deployments, the platform features HyperIntelligence ®, a breakthrough technology that overlays actionable enterprise data on popular business applications to help users make smarter, faster decisions. For more information about MicroStrategy
Visit websiteTableau Software
Tableau helps people see and understand data and explore with limitless visual analytics. Customers can build dashboards and perform ad hoc analyses in just a few clicks. They can share their work with anyone and make an impact on their business. From global enterprises to early-stage startups and small businesses, more than 70,000 customer accounts around the world use Tableau to turn data into actionable insights, and more than 300,000 people use Tableau Public to share public data in their blogs and websites. See how Tableau can help you https://www.tableau.com/leading-through-change
Visit websiteAI Consulting Group
AI Consulting Group uses Data, AI, ML, IoT, Predictive Analytics & Advanced Insights to optimise business success. We deliver the highest calibre advice, technical resources and outcomes, supported by a highly experienced Project Management and Management Consulting capability. We are technology agnostic and can offer impartial advice and direction on tools, platforms, and technologies including Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks and Snowflake.
Aside from delivering a Fixed Price or T&M based outcomes, we also leverage IP, consulting capabilities and technical specialisation to help modernise your data estate (Data Lakehouse) and help define your Data/AI roadmap through our tried and tested Strategic Think Tank sessions (https://www.aiconsultinggroup.com.au/data-ai-think-tank/).
Collective Experience:
Strategic Data and AI Think Tank
Data Lakehouse in 5 Days
Power BI Foundations
Databricks Foundations (Enabling Data Innovation and Experimentation)
Data Foundations
Data Platform Modernisation
Data Quality
Data Management
Real-time Data Streaming / Stream Analytics
Data Visualisation (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik)
Machine Learning Based Modelling
Supervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Model Optimisation and Tuning
Master Data Management
Digital Twins
Scenario Simulations
Natural Language Processing
Image Recognition
Optical Character Recognition and Speech to Text
Edge Based Data
IoT and IIoT
LoRaWAN and LoRa Data Centralisation
Video Analytics
Voice Analytics (Pitch, Tone, Emotions, Keyword Extraction, Topic Extraction, Sentiment)
Location Analytics
Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
And lots more!
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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT CDAO SYDNEY

"It was an absolute pleasure to attend CDAO Sydney. The content was high quality and it was great to network with colleagues and exchange ideas in an awesome location!"

"Great opportunity to meet and discuss emerging technology opportunities with other data and AI leaders."

"It was a great way to see how other companies are tackling the same issues we face, and achieving great outcomes!"

"CDAO is a great opportunity to mingle with peers in the analytics space. It helps cut through the hype and really get down and on with business."

"CDAO was insightful, thought-provoking and inspiring for our business - confirmatory that we are on an industry-leading pathway to greater data driven insights and service delivery!"

"CDAO is a unique place to refresh our perspective about concerns, directions and actions that will guide the future of data-driven organisations."

"It was great to pick the brain of industry leaders in the data field. There was a wide variety of vendors, interesting topics of discussion, and the organisation of the event was very professional. I came out of the event feeling enlightened and inspired after listening and talking to many people."

Conference Director
Vanessa Jalleh
Conference Director
Our events are all carefully created from scratch. The whole process from research to post-production is crafted by our team, so we are always available to assist with any queries! We look forward to meeting you at the event!