CDOTrends Digi-Live! Summit Series

The Trouble with Data
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DATE
10 December 2020 10:45am SGT/HKT
LOCATION
Online
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The Trouble with Data

Data-driven decisions and data-centric enterprises have captured the limelight in recent years. These organizations are maximizing the potential value of data in creating new revenue streams, making their operations more agile, and becoming innovative.

Data scientists will tell you that having the right data is only half the story. You also need to ensure proper data preparation and governance to ensure the data-driven insights are valid. It is why they spend most of their time in data preparation instead of analysis. While new tools and concepts, such as data virtualization, help, many companies are still far from a proper and streamlined data infrastructure.

This edition of the CDOTrends Digi-Live! Summit, themed The Trouble with Data, serves as a collaborative platform for digital leaders and data scientists to explore how companies can deploy a proper data infrastructure. It will also investigate use cases where companies successfully addressed data challenges with the right platform, tools, and processes.

In support of Asian musical talents who now see performance opportunities severely limited by COVID-19 restrictions, the Summit will also feature Live! music performances for your enjoyment.

This Summit is for all professionals involved in digital, data, technology, and transformation, including:

  • Chief Data Officers

  • Chief Digital Officers

  • Chief Technology Officers

  • Chief Data Scientists

  • Chief Analytics Officers

  • Chief Information Officers

  • Chief Transformation Officers

  • Chief Digital Technology Officers

  • Chief Innovation Officers

AGENDA

10:45AM
Welcome Remarks

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Winston Thomas
Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends
10:50am

Live! Music Performance

Performer:

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Lo Sze Wing (Nicole)
Freelance Singer
2nd runner-up of Asian Millionstars Season 3
10:55 - 11:50am

Growing Data: Crafting a Data Infrastructure that is Agile and Scalable
Data grows in volume and complexity. It is thus essential for data infrastructure to accommodate this growth to support data initiatives. This panel will discuss:

  • What Data Scientists consider as a decent, future-proof architecture
  • New ways to collect and store data that address concerns over scalability, costs, and network capacity
  • How best to optimize data with data virtualization and automated data tiering and compression
  • New techniques and tools that ease Data Scientists’ workload on data preparation
  • Why a proper data infrastructure is crucial for companies looking to partner, merge, and acquire other companies for rapid growth

Sponsored Insights: Logical Architecture for Advanced Analytics
In this session you will learn what data virtualization is and how it can:

  • Provide all of the enterprise data, in real-time, and without replication
  • Create a logical data lake for advanced analytics programs
  • Solve the data pipeline problem and save time for data scientists

 

Speaker:

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Chris Day
Director, APAC Sales Engineering
Denodo

Panelists:

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Dr. Lawrence Wee
Chief Data Scientist
Allianz Asia Pacific
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Chris Day
Director, APAC Sales Engineering
Denodo
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Dr. Yew Choong Chew
Head of Data Science and Customer Value Management
U Mobile

Moderator:

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Winston Thomas
Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends
11:50am

Live! Music Performance

Performer:

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Lo Sze Wing (Nicole)
Freelance Singer
2nd runner-up of Asian Millionstars Season 3
12:05 - 1:00pm

Unlocking Value: Creating Harmony from Ever-Growing Data Sources
As companies access vast amounts of data from an increasing number of sources, integrating and harmonizing data manually is increasingly challenging. This panel will explore:

  • Establishing a data management program to access, integrate, cleanse, and govern data
  • Using AI/ML to automate cleansing and blending of data
  • Orchestrating data-related activities across varied locations
  • Creating a Single Source of Truth (SSOT) from multiple sources
  • Processing and extracting value from unstructured data, including text, audio, and video

Panelists:

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Varun Verma
APAC Head of Data & Analytics
The HEINEKEN Company
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Faiezy Hasnan
Head of Data Analytics
Etiqa Insurance
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Garrett Teoh
Head of Artificial Intelligence
Ascend Money
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Korey Lee
VP Data
SCMP
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Dr. Yuhui Yao
Group Head of Data
FWD Group

Moderator:

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Winston Thomas
Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends
1:00pm

Closing Remarks and End of Conference

SPEAKERS

SPEAKERS

speaker
Dr. Lawrence Wee
Chief Data Scientist
Allianz Asia Pacific
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Garrett Teoh
Head of Artificial Intelligence
Ascend Money
speaker
Winston Thomas
Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends
speaker
Chris Day
Director, APAC Sales Engineering
Denodo
speaker
Faiezy Hasnan
Head of Data Analytics
Etiqa Insurance
speaker
Dr. Yuhui Yao
Group Head of Data
FWD Group
speaker
Korey Lee
VP Data
SCMP
speaker
Varun Verma
APAC Head of Data & Analytics
The HEINEKEN Company
speaker
Dr. Yew Choong Chew
Head of Data Science and Customer Value Management
U Mobile
speaker
Lo Sze Wing (Nicole)
Freelance Singer
2nd runner-up of Asian Millionstars Season 3

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speaker
Winston Thomas
Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends

Winston brings over 20 years of journalistic experience to CDOTrends.com. As the previous editor at Computerworld Hong Kong, CIO Asia and PCWeek Asia, he followed, edited and wrote how the Internet and the rise of the digital economy impacted businesses across various industries. Most recently, Winston served as N. Asia editor of CMOInnovation. As the Editor-in-Chief of CDOTrends.com, he is bringing together intriguing articles, insights from leading thinkers, in-depth lessons from practitioners, and various thought leadership materials to develop a new resource for CDOs and other digital practitioners. Fascinated by new technology trends, he is constantly looking at how digital is reshaping our future lives.

Besides his communication skills, he is well-versed in building conference and marketing programmes externally and internally. Recently, he produced Total Security Conference 2016, Big Data and Business Analytics Forum 2016 and Future Workplace Forum 2016. Previously, he also launched CIO Asia Awards and helped to create the Computerworld Hong Kong Readers’ Choice Awards (today Computerworld Hong Kong Awards under Questex Asia).

As a copywriter, Winston has contributed to South China Morning Post (for finance and IT sections), Asia Week and IT Malaysia. He has also contributed technology-based articles for inflight magazines, including Cathay Pacific’s The Club and Gulf Air magazine, and recently to Benchmark Magazine.

Previous to his career in the media industry, he was a commodities broker and an abattoir manager in Singapore. He currently holds a B Sc. (Biology) with Merit, loves playing the piano and running marathon events.

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Dr. Lawrence Wee
Chief Data Scientist
Allianz Asia Pacific
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Varun Verma
APAC Head of Data & Analytics
The HEINEKEN Company

Varun Verma is the APAC Head of Data & Analytics for Heineken Asia Pacific. He brings over a decade of experience in this field and held various positions in top-tier companies like Heineken, PwC Consulting, Visa Worldwide, Accenture Consulting, and Allianz Insurance.  He possesses a wide range of Analytical skill sets, including data strategy, business intelligence, machine learning & AI. He has deep experience in setting up data analytics strategy and roadmap, building and ramping-up COE and manage large data-driven transformation projects. He inspires and promotes innovation and new ways of working using AI. In his recent role, he is driving and leading data-driven decision making across function for the APAC markets.

speaker
Chris Day
Director, APAC Sales Engineering
Denodo

Chris Day, Director, APAC Sales Engineering, Denodo assists organisations to leverage the capabilities of Denodo Data Virtualisation to increase their understanding, agility and collaboration across their disparate information landscapes.

 

With over 16 years of experience in data integration, data governance, data quality and system architecture, Chris leads enterprises through the challenge of transforming their data contained in disconnected disparate silos, into valuable information assets that the whole enterprise can use and understand.

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Faiezy Hasnan
Head of Data Analytics
Etiqa Insurance

Faiezy Hasnan is the Head of Data Strategy and Governance at Etiqa, a newly created responsibility to bring data at the forefront of the business and to give data its own voice. He joined Etiqa 5 years ago as Head of GI Pricing to prepare Etiqa for Motor detariffication. He next set up the internal Data Analytics team to infuse advance analytics into the daily operation. He currently look into capability building in the data architecture, data governance and metadata practices at Etiqa. Faiezy’s past experience includes actuarial consultancy services to ASEAN insurers/reinsurers and portfolio management at AIG Malaysia.

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Garrett Teoh
Head of Artificial Intelligence
Ascend Money

Garrett Teoh is a data science strategist who partners with CEOs and top management senior executives to improve business outcomes and driving profitable growth by leveraging on data science initiatives and opportunities. Garrett strongly believes that the art of data science is becoming the new art of strategy in this highly competitive era.

Garrett is ranked World's top 500 data scientist on Kaggle, where millions of data scientists compete against each other on data science competitions, using real business problems and data. He has won 7 medals and a Master title on Kaggle. Garrett holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Masters of Science degrees from Singapore Nanyang Technological University. Garrett has co-authored several biomedical publications on top leading journals and he is also the contributing author for Lexis Nexis Practical Guidance on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain.

After spending nearly a decade working with the academia institute researching on statistical analysis for biomedical breakthroughs and advances, Garrett fully understand what it takes to design, develop and integrate Artificial Intelligence models into practical use, elucidating derived insights, how to react upon and make informed decision, thus, achieving tangible outcomes and benefits. Companies across multiple industries within ASEAN has benefited from the data science projects that Garrett delivered, which includes: credit risk scoring, products recommendation, customer service analytics, customer 360 profiling, behavioural analysis, next-best-actions, propensity models, churn analytics, anti-money-laundering, fraud detections, anomaly detections, equipment throughput optimisation, human genetics analysis, and many more.

In addition to his extensive data science experience, he is also the data analytics instructor for General Assembly data science courses, adjunct faculty member of Singapore Management University for Artificial Intelligence in Law and Legal Analytics programme.

speaker
Dr. Yew Choong Chew
Head of Data Science and Customer Value Management
U Mobile

Dr. Chew attained the Master's degree and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Information Science and Control Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. He loves generating ideas, building practically useful products and knowledge sharing. He is an enthusiast of new technologies, especially those related to information retrieval, machine learning, and data science.

Dr. Chew has more than 20 years of working experience in software development, large-scale transformations, data analytics and data management, across multiple industry segments – Banking, Publication, Advertisement, Market Expansion Services, Software Services, Education, Research & Development.

Dr. Chew has been technical leader of a wide range of high-impact projects, resulting in 4 patents, with another 3 pending. He is currently involved in several data science and machine learning projects and is appointed as external supervisor for some undergraduate and postgraduate students.

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Korey Lee
VP Data
SCMP
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Dr. Yuhui Yao
Group Head of Data
FWD Group

Dr Yuhui Yao, PhD in AI, is Group Head of Data at FWD Group. He is based in Singapore and leads FWD’s Big Data, AI and CRM. Dr Yao has over 20 years of Big Data Analytics experience, having served in multinational companies including PingAn, UOB, IBM and Cisco. He has published more than 15 research papers on the topic in addition to delivering data analytics projects for businesses.

speaker
Lo Sze Wing (Nicole)
Freelance Singer
2nd runner-up of Asian Millionstars Season 3

2nd runner-up of Asian Millionstars Season 3 (produced by ATV) in 2010. A former television program host and radio jockey at DBC. Now as a singing coach and freelance singer, performing for television programs, shopping malls, wedding gigs, bars and restaurants.

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