Chief Data Officer
Sit-Down Hybrid

Early graph innovators have already pioneered the most popular use cases – fraud detection, personalisation, customer 360, knowledge graphs, network management, and more.Building upon their efforts, the next generation of graph thinkers are engineering the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning,

Join this session to explore:

• How graph data platform provide the latest in connected data capabilities
• Ability to scale to 1.2 trillion relationships with lightning fast processing speeds
• The power to enable your enterprise to cater for the needs and demands of today's digitally transformed world.

Join global sales coach and leader Ryan Tuckwood (SWISH Co-Founder and CEO) as he takes us on a dynamic, inter-active session on goals setting for leaders as we head into 2022. Without goals, we have no clear direction, Ryan will help to transform your mindset and help you develop both personally and professionally. This session will focus on:

• Habits and behaviours
• Infinite goal setting
• How to increase your productivity / your teams productivity

In collaboration with MIT, Accenture recently surveyed Chief Data Officers and other C-suite executives responsible for driving the data and AI agenda. The research examined the challenges and barriers facing CDO’s in securing enterprise adoption. Join this session as we explore the CDO’s position today and reveal insights around the future CDO role and developing the organisation’s data strategy.

It’s easy to forget the potential role of data fluency in making employees happier. Join this session to learn:

• Use analytics to help employees that will benefit CX strategy
• Real life case studies
• The power behind creating diverse teams

At Elsevier, the marketing organisation is currently undergoing a large-scale transformation, putting end-to-end data self-service at the core of how business teams operate. To enable this, technology have built a central data platform, underpinned by Snowflake, which is capable of ingesting data from a wide range of sources through a configuration based front-end. As an objective, the platform had to cater for several unpredictable and unforeseen use cases, and scale according to the complexity of data needs - all this with minimal input from technology teams.

Behavioural data is something that companies have had for years, but the way that organisations are now using that data has changed radically. In fact, many companies are using it to drive sustained competitive advantage by executing multiple use cases on top of it using sophisticated analytical techniques, especially AI. However many organisations struggle to keep up because their behavioural data is not fit for purpose.

In this session, we'll explore

· How organizations can harness behavioural data to drive decisions across the organisation

· How to overcome organizational, compliance and technical challenges

· Real-life examples of the organizations leading the way

Paid advertising and social media is now one of the key marketing spending forms, but how are we really maximising the data from this to not only understand the client’s needs but also improve the connection the brand has with them and the brand image.

In this session, we are joined by Luke Houghton, as he takes us through his expertise on the intersection of digital media, problem-solving, and dealing with the most difficult issues of our time.

• Turning data into value
• Creating brand awareness and a meaningful bond through data
• Understanding client’s complaints and addressing them  
• Using paid advertising and other platforms to communicate goodwill

In this digital information age there are vast amounts of data being created, moved, ingested, and transformed to support the Autonomous Digital Enterprise. DevOps and DataOps principles play a key role in assuring the business gets value from its data. Join this session to hear a real life story of leveraging orchestration, DevOps, and DataOps in a data-driven environment and how the effort helped to reduce cost, enabling data democratisation and ensuring quality data is accessible to all business users.

Understanding how to manage your ongoing organisational and culture needs, being able to think pro-actively as well as being flexible to learn and grow as moments and new opportunities present themselves. Join this session to gain insights into:

• How to harmonise your data strategy and how to fine tune the details
• Drive organisational culture initiatives
• Present flexible and clear growth plans to keep teams energised

In this session we will help you to understand how you can achieve data integrity by ensuring the accuracy, consistency and context of your data. This means you can make better, faster, more confident decisions based on a deeper understanding of data you can trust. Join this session to gain insights into:

• With unmatched data expertise, we support you through a unique combination of software, data enrichment and strategic services.
• Data Integrity Suite, with its flexible, modular approach, can meet your needs no matter where you are on your journey to data integrity.
• What matters most – building new possibilities.

Today the business landscape has changed due to COVID-19. In order to stay relevant and remain competitive, organisations must embed a data-driven culture to support operational resilience and revenue generation. This panel will hear insights from leading CDO’s on how data can drive business outcomes and meaningful insights through successful storytelling:

• Using data and analytics to influence stakeholders at all levels
• How to shape data into a narrative to help reveal findings and emerging trends
• How to use data storytelling, data visualisation and dashboards to think differently about its impacts on the wider enterprise?
• What are the data literacy skills required in a data-driven era?

As data professionals we need to re-assess and re-evaluate our strategy according to our existing talent and workforce, alongside what needs we have to align to our strategic objectives, both as a team and as an organisation. Join this session to explore how to:

• Realign your talent strategy, are we utilising our existing workforce to their best ability?
• Understand what success means for your teams
• Creating the right environment for growth

The Growth Series is a new leadership initiative brought to you by Sit-Down Events. As part of our commitment to developing, nurturing and supporting our members we will be showcasing leading keynote speakers to help you and your organisation thrive and survive across these current times.