6th Chief Digital & Data Officer Asia Summit
Being digitally enabled is no longer enough for Singapore enterprises. Instead, CDOs are under pressure to create impactful outcomes so their organizations can remain competitive. These, which include new revenue streams, enhanced efficiency, improved agility, better resiliency, and deeper and real-time insights for better decision-making, will be especially critical as the market environment becomes more challenging and global.
The 6th annual Chief Digital & Data Officer Asia Summit provides a platform for digital, transformation, data, IT, and business leaders to discuss how CDOs can finetune their architecture, processes, technology and capabilities to changing market needs. Using a blend of insightful panel discussions and presentations, it aims to uncover new strategies that leverage advances in AI, automation and data management to create the optimal digital enterprise.
Why Chief Digital & Data Officer Asia Summit is Different
- Create business impacts and outcomes through digital and data initiatives
- Achieve agility and digital capability through architecture, application, and process modernization
- Craft seamless experiences for customers and employees in a phygital world
- Enhance data and AI capabilities through structure, talent and tech
- Refine talent and organizational strategies for digital and data resources
- Explore exponential technologies for monetization opportunities
AGENDA
CDOs have made incredible progress in the past couple of years. Yet, they still face immense hurdles in their digitalized journey. Keeping an eye on new technology opportunities while leveraging the IT methodology of agile continues to be critical. As digital, data, IT, marketing, commercial and finance converge, the working relationships and processes remain siloed. Meanwhile, the fear of being replaced hinders last-mile deployments and adoption. A leading consultant will provide his perspective on what an optimal digital enterprise looks like and how CDOs can transform theirs into one of these.
The drive to use digital for business growth ushered in a new era of innovations and strategies. It also created new revenue opportunities as brands engaged customers directly. Yet, for all the promises of eCommerce, CX, and D2C, these are still evolving capabilities that digital leaders are refining. This panel will examine:
- Accelerating online and digital-driven growth with the right organizational structure, tech, infrastructure, and resources
- New ways to differentiate products and capabilities to attract and engage customers from online to offline
- Linking digital and physical experiences seamlessly for better personalization
- Creating the winning playbook for eCommerce and Direct-to-Consumer models
- Developing more intuitive and empathetic customer journeys with AI tools
Panelists:
As AI solves increasingly complex problems which affect people’s lives in more profound ways, the questions of the ethical use of AI is front of mind for many organisations. In order for AI to help our work and improve our lives, it must respect our data and the insights about us, and it must be transparent and explainable. Join this session to hear about how companies around the world are leveraging IBM’s cutting edge AI technology to build trusted AI solutions.
Against the ever-changing IT landscape, what does the future hold for organizations embarking on digital transformation journeys? As the focus shifts to data-centric architecture, deriving actionable insights from data becomes a key business imperative. Drawing relevant insights from Digital Realty’s Data Gravity Index™, this session highlights how a global datacenter platform that can support deployments of any scale is critical to enable a meeting place for connected data communities. This strengthens the actionable insights and intelligence you can get from data, your most vital asset and accelerates innovation for your business.
Interconnected business problems make the lives of CDOs that much harder. Whether driving revenue, business decisions, efficiency, agility, or experiences, they need to carefully pick the right digital solutions, data and processes to create end-to-end technology ecosystems that meet the diverse needs of functional and business units. But this is never easy. This panel will highlight how CDOs can:
- Piece together functional elements into a working IT architecture
- Modernize core IT by transitioning to cloud-native, internet-based, modular architecture, microservices, and open API
- Integrate siloed tech solutions for interoperability
- Optimize cloud expenses to avoid future sticker shocks
Moderator:
To create a competitive advantage for their organizations, digital leaders today must cut through an increasingly volatile environment to enable and deploy new business models rapidly. Standing in the way is rigid and complex infrastructure, rising costs and supply chain challenges. The good news is that there are smarter ways to drive efficiencies which deliver improved global risk governance while also accelerating expansion at scale.
Join Equinix and CDOTrends at this roundtable, where technology experts and industry peers will explore how digital strategies can help your organization achieve the agility to modernize, innovate and grow. Hear case studies from your peers, learn about their challenges and discover how to leverage new technologies to deliver successful outcomes.
Join us to discuss:
- How to stop reacting to market pressures and unlock the agility needed to respond to market opportunities?
- Is cloud technology a binary decision or are their mixed options? What drives optimal cloud choices?
- How to design a dynamic, agile, and resilient business environment using technology and leverage an ecosystem of providers, partners and customers?
- How can organizations capitalize on growth opportunities by delivering compelling digital experiences and gain real-time intelligence?
- Best practices on deploying adaptable infrastructure anywhere to accelerate business advantage.
With its ability to drive efficiency, innovation, and growth, AI offers the promise of solving complex problems and helping businesses stay ahead of the curve. But how can organizations ethically harness the power of AI and data for disruptive innovation? What can they do to ensure AI models remain transparent and explainable, while maintaining a strong foundation of quality, observability, and governance around the data?
The roundtable discussion hosted by IBM and CDOTrends will discuss how organizations can unlock the full potential of AI and benefit from data-driven innovation. A selected group of digital, data, and AI leaders, alongside experts from IBM will visit topics such as:
- Maintaining a balance between innovation and ethical use of AI
- Strategies for fostering a culture of trust and transparency
- How organizations overcame data challenges to unlock ground-breaking innovations
Ad hoc data and analytics can’t create sustainable business success. Chief data officers and data leaders need a data strategy to drive business growth, fuel innovation, and improve customer experience. They must also align this data strategy with business priorities and outcomes, democratize data, and build a strong culture where every employee sees data as a strategic asset.
Join Informatica, CDOTrends and fellow data leaders at this lunch roundtable as we discuss how to craft such a data strategy. We will hear your peers share their journeys and insights as we examine the finer points of implementing data strategies.
Key discussion points:
- Identifying business value opportunities and securing stakeholder commitment
- Mapping business outcomes to processes, analytics and data
- Defining metrics for measuring data strategy impact on business outcomes
- Connecting technical capabilities to processes and analytics
- Linking organizational and program capabilities to data strategies
Privacy-conscious companies struggle to leverage highly sensitive datasets for data science and AI. Getting access to privacy-preserved data can take months. Real data is generally too costly or time consuming to collect and/or use. Synthetic data is easy to scale and collect for any use case.
In this session understand how digital innovation through data science & AI can be accelerated by using Synthetic Data.
To enable predictive and prescriptive analytics, internal data on its own may not provide the whole context. We need external data, and it is an area Asia lags. This panel will explore how CDOs can:
- Orchestrate internal and external data to generate insights for business strategies
- Utilize data platforms and industrialize data sources for data sharing
- Harmonize data sources and structure across the region
- Detect contextual changes and continuously refine data models with external influence
- Overcome legacy challenges: data quality, technology infrastructure, regulatory and compliance
Leading enterprises are progressing from rules-based decisions to judgment-related ones with the help of AI/ML. Yet, legacy mindsets and processes continue to hinder progress. This panel will discuss:
- Complexity of producing scalable, reusable, and robust AI models
- Codification of AI and the training needed for machines to make judgment-related decisions
- Integration of AI with automation to support prescriptive analytics
- Overcoming the last mile resistance to ensure successful AI deployments
- Creating a responsible AI culture for driving trust in AI data models
Moderator:
CDOs face numerous recruitment challenges, from a global talent shortage, a continuing great resignation, and stricter foreign worker policies that throw cold water in cross-border recruiting. But there are still strategies and solutions recruitment teams can look at. This panel will discuss:
- How to better structure the tech organization: centralization vs. decentralization
- The pros and cons of outsourcing instead of recruiting: the latest update
- Enhancing employee propositions for companies in traditional industries
- How standalone IT organizations can help build employer brands
- Identifying the next tech hub: which countries are primed for digital and data talent recruitment
SPEAKERS
