|05 - 06 November, 2020 | 8:50 - 12:20 pm (AEDT)
Catherine Lopes
Head of Data Strategy & Analytics ME Bank
Dr. Catherine Lopes is a strategic team leader, an outcome and value focused data scientist, a data and business driven consultant, and a passionate educator in data and analytics with more than 20 years of international experience across a wide range of sectors.
Her recent focus is on helping organizations to uplift business performance by developing data and analytics strategy, applying broad range analytics including machine learning and AI through a governed enterprise data management framework and process. Her specialties are in Machine Learning, Analytics Transformation, Data Strategy and Management, and end-to-end delivery. She is an advocate for supporting women in analytics and data science, and bridging gaps between academia and industry.
Day 1 Agenda (November 5th)
9:30 AM Leveraging Advanced Analytical Capabilities To Bring A Proactive, Predictive Approach To Business Decision Making
While many organisations have already build some sort of BI and analytical capability in their organization, advanced analytics efforts are fast gathering pace given their ability to improve forecasting and forward-looking business decisions. In this session, Catherine will reflect on her experiences at AGL and ME Bank to take you through how she has created the tooling, foundations and also touch upon use cases with embedding advanced capability across your organisation
- Scope – what cases have shown a good fit for advanced analytics
- Improving use of unstructured data in business decision making
- Driving business understanding and maturity in use and reliance on complex analytical use cases
Day 2 Agenda (November 6th)
9:00 AM Keynote Panel: Top Trends Shaping The World of Data, Analytics & AI Through 2021 and Beyond
As ways of working change rapidly through digital innovation and disruption, data & analytics leaders need to stay on top of the emerging trends around data analytics capabilities, practices and capabilities to ensure that their strategies are maximising opportunities available. With Covid-19 only increasing competitive pressures, in this session hear from global thought leaders in the data analytics community around new trends and innovations such as:
- Understanding how organisations are using non-traditional data sources
- Uncovering the role and value of augmented analytics (Data Prep, Modeling & Analyses, Storytelling, Commodification)
- Exploring changes and potential impact of regulations to data analytics applications (Explainability, Privacy & Globalization)
- Algorithmic Evolutions (Imitation Learning, Self Organizing Maps, GANs, BERT, Graph, Active Learning, Algorithmic Optimization, Causation Techniques)
- Nature of AI products (Edge AI, Anomaly Detection, Generative Networks, RPA/bots)
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Catherine.
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