Coles’ Advanced Analytics team has been on a remarkable journey in scaling a smart, data driven approach across 4000 staff underpinned by algorithms and machine learning capabilities. It’s unique vision, approach and set up have ensured the businesses’ ability to prove commercial value and ROI for the business as well. In this session Dearbhla will take you through just how the AA team is enabling this by sharing insights around:

• The structure and set of the Advanced Analytics team around problem solving streams
• Use cases - Development and delivery of globally recognised advanced analytical capability in forecasting product clearance, inventory management and more
• Overcoming challenges with securing buy-in and support from the operational staff to adopt new models and decision-making approaches

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)