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Connecting You to What's Next in Data

Welcome to our 5th annual Chief Data & Analytics Officer Sydney! Our 2019 event boasts an inspiring speaker line-up with a really comprehensive agenda covering the biggest strategic concerns for leaders in the data and analytics space. Chief Data & Analytics Officer Sydney will gather Australia's senior executives responsible for championing the data agenda, to share insights on the infrastructure, governance, privacy, innovation, culture and leadership required to effectively harness data as a strategic asset. Focusing on the biggest challenges faced by data and analytics leaders today, CDAO Sydney tackles how to lead and drive data and analytics strategies to improve operations and services. Discover how Chief Data and Analytics Officers are driving change and shaping their organisations to become analytically mature, business-driven enterprises that outperform their competitors.

Australia’s Largest Gathering of Senior Level Data and Analytics Executives

50+ Speakers

300+ Attendees

New Contacts Guaranteed

Dr Abhi Seth

Senior Director, Data Science & Analytics, Honeywell Aerospace USA

Emma Gray

Chief Data Officer, ANZ

Dr Anthony Rea

Chief Data Officer, Bureau of Meteorology

Melissa Hayes

General Manager - Marketing, Blackwoods

Jane Eastgate

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, FoxCo

Glenda Crisp

Chief Data Officer, NAB

Pieter Vorster

Executive General Manager, Customer Solutions and Insights, Bankwest

Dr Troy Wilson

Chief Data Scientist & Research Fellow, CIM Environmental Group & Macquarie University

David McGrath

Chief Digital Officer, Clubs Australia

Adam Skinner

Chief Data & Technology Officer, Fitness & Lifestyle Group

Kim Heng

Chief Operating Officer, Australian Ethical Investment

David Thomas

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, BNZ

Thanh Nguyen

A/g National Manager Enterprise Architecture, Department of Human Services

Darren Klein

General Manager - Data & Analytics, Tabcorp

Kshira Saagar

Head of Analytics and Data Science, The Iconic

Fady Hanna

General Manager Technology, Endeavour Drinks - Woolworths Group

Sandra Hogan

Group Head, Customer Analytics, Origin Energy

Aaron Chau

Head of Data Analytics, Munich Re Australasia

Rocky Scopelliti

Director – Centre for Industry 4.0, Optus

Gaurav Ahuja

Head of Digital Analytics, Big W

David Miller

David Miller, Director, Data & Business Insights, Seven West Media

David Short

Head of Analytics, Insights and Measurement, Product, Brand & Reputation, AustralianSuper

Michelle Pinheiro

Head of Enterprise Data Governance, ANZ

Dr Michelle Perugini

Co-Founder, Life Whisperer

Agustinus Nalwan

Head of AI and Machine Learning, carsales.com

Laura E. Ribeiro

Global Product Manager (Investment Strategy & Execution), AMP Capital

Violetta Misiorek

Senior Manager, Data Science, Chief Data & Transformation Office Technology, Data and Labs, Suncorp

Gabrielle Shone

Head of Customer Decisioning Strategy and Data, AGL Energy

Brendan Haire

Head of Search and Machine Learning, Atlassian

Prof Bogdan Gabrys

Director, Advanced Analytics Institute, UTS

Sheetal Patole

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Macquarie Bank

Alex Barreto

Head of Delivery, MYOB

James Tanios

Senior Manager, CRM Analytics, BT Financial Group

Alan Eldridge

Director of Sales Engineering APAC, Snowflake

Liz Moore

Data, Reporting & Analytics Executive, Telstra

Ai-Hua Kam

Head of Data & Technology, Compliance Program, @Data4Democracy

Blair Hudson

Blair Hudson, Passionate Data Science Influencer, Changemaker, working on #problemsworthsolving, @Data4Democracy

Craig Napier

Associate Director, Institutional Analytics and Planning, University of Sydney

Stuart Thom

Head of Data and Analytics, nbn

Niranjan Thomas

General Manager, Platform and Technology Partnerships, Dow Jones, Professional Information Business

Will Howard

Director, Datasource

Andrew Lim

IT Service Manager - Master Data & Integration, Orora Packaging Solutions

Simon Williams

Data Literacy Evangelist, Qlik

Glen Rabie

CEO , Yellowfin Business Intelligence

Amit Bansal

Managing Director, Analytics Delivery Lead APAC & Artificial Intelligence Delivery Leader, Accenture

Teams, Talent & Diversity is a pre-conference event dedicated to your biggest priority – sourcing talent and building high-performing teams that embrace diversity for the best results. Over the course of the morning the expert speaker faculty will address your common challenges in building teams, retaining talent and strategies to improve employee tenure. You’ll also hear from experts at UTS and the University of Sydney on how universities can help in bridging the talent gap. With ample opportunity for networking and discussion, embrace this opportunity to shape the future for data and analytics talent.

Book onto a small group, in-depth workshop to troubleshoot your biggest obstacles and get an action-plan to implement in the office, designed with the help of our expert facilitators. Choose from two topics:

A) Building an Analytics Practice from Ground Up. Analytics Myths & Best Practices

Facilitator: Dr. Abhi Seth, Senior Director, Data Science & Analytics, Honeywell Aerospace USA

B) Project Management – Embedding Data Governance into Your Delivery Lifecycle

Facilitator: Ai-Hua Kam, Head of Data & Technology, Compliance Program, Standard Chartered Bank

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Be inspired

Hear how data and analytics professionals are leading change, impacting the business and deriving value through a data centric culture. A unique opportunity to benchmark, ask questions and share your story.

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Get Informed

Corinium's approach of visionary keynotes, strategy based panels & discussion groups fosters a discursive, inclusive environment. This is the platform to discover the latest from your industry both locally and internationally.

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New for 2019

Brand new, interactive formats including the Data Talent Gap, Aussie Innovators, ‘Let’s Talk’ meet ups, round tables, live poll analysis, meet the speakers lounge, and expanded speaker tracks for maximum learning.

AUSTRALIA'S DATA AGENDA - Building a powerful economy underpinned by data, analytics, AI and machine learning. Bridging industry, academia and government to drive innovation.

THE DATA DRIVEN C-SUITE - Evaluating data analytics investment, prominence and acceptance in the boardroom.

DATA FRAMEWORK: MANAGED AND GOVERNED - Data governance, quality, privacy and ethics. Supporting data driven decision making across the enterprise with robust and evolved data strategies that support the current and future needs of the enterprise.

DATA SCIENCE AND INTELLIGENCE - Adopting and evaluating data-driven approaches and tools to support the move from data insight to execution. Practical experiences on the future of analytics: open source and advanced, predictive and experimental analytics.

CULTURE & LEADERSHIP - Defining, fostering and embedding a culture of data analytics and insight based decision making. Democratising analytics to foster insight and co-operation throughout the organisation.

THE SMART ENTERPRISE - Driving innovation, agility and business value. Monetising data to deliver strategic worth to the business.

FUTURE DATA TALENT - Understanding innovative approaches to data staff training, increasing expertise and building effective teams.

"A fantastic conference to share learnings about data in real life, connect with people from the industry, and understand current challenges ahead."

Florence La Carbona, Data Operations Senior Manager, BTFG
"A great opportunity to learn what other organisations are doing in the analytics space as well as talk to vendors"

Chris Caley, National Customer Insights Manager,Property, Lendlease
"A very valuable conference which enables industry and suppliers to collaborate. It also provides the industry to meet likeminded people that are passionate about data and analytics."

Louise Barber, Head of Data and Decisioning, AGL Energy
"Very relevant with interesting content and great representation across all industries. It has provided me with the external insight I was looking for. "

Sinead Kennedy-Guy, Portfolio Manager Internal Audit, IAG
"Amazing neural and social networking opportunities for data and analytics leaders"

Swee Ee Bruggisser, Senior Manager,Planning Data and Analytics, Coca Cola Amatil
"It was a wonderful conference with great variety of speakers sharing the wonderful things you can do with the right data."

Trisha Lee, Head of Data Risk and Compliance , ANZ

How Data is Driving Digital Transformation

As part of our ongoing commitment to data and analytics professionals, we interviewed 100 senior data and analytics professionals. The study was commissioned by Paxata, Accenture and Microsoft and the results are presented with commentary from our advisory board members and sponsors.

The following report is designed to give an overview of the challenges, opportunities and technology requirements facing those responsible for accelerating data and analytics within their organization.

CDAO Sydney is the best event on the calendar to get inspired and make new contacts with the people that can help you drive your data analytics projects forward. It's also a lot of fun so don't miss out - book your place now!

Chief Data & Analytics Officer Sydney