CDOTrends Reader’s Choice Awards: And the Winners Are…
- By CDOTrends editors
- April 04, 2023
Surprises, laughter, nervous speeches and a celebrative mood punctuated the air at the recent CDOTrends Reader’s Choice Awards: 2022 ASEAN Edition.
The awards were a long time in the making. After five years of growing CDOTrends, we knew we needed a benchmark. So, we created a simple methodology and left it to our over 45,000 readers to decide who the industry’s movers and shakers are.
During the night and among the various thank-yous, we asked two judges — Vicky Abhishek, vice president of technology services at Johnson & Johnson and Darren Yong, head of technology, media and telecommunications at KPMG Asia Pacific — how the landscape has changed.
They noted that while digital is now pervasive, and companies need to look out for DeFi and Web3 for the future, one trend companies must watch out for is hyper localization. This trend is already shaping processes and creating continuous supply chains. But both felt it would be more critical as a digital-savvy world looks for better phygital and metaverse solutions.
Meanwhile, another of our judges, Fred Giron, research director, Forrester, beamed in for a keynote. During the 15-min speech peppered with various insights, he noted that companies would need to start getting realistic about customer engagement. And instead of looking at future tech, the winners will be those who do more with the tech we have now — and there are plenty of opportunities.
So who are the digital leaders and vendors in the region making this happen today? Well, the winners are:
- Chief Data Officer of the Year: David R Hardoon, Chief Data & AI Officer, UnionBank of Philippines and Chief Data and Innovation Officer, Aboitiz Group
- Chief Digital Officer of the Year: Cheow Hoe Chan, Government Chief Digital Tech Officer, Singapore Government
- Data Analytics Excellence Award: Google
- The Best DataOps Player Award: Informatica
- The Best Cloud Data Management Enabler Award: Microsoft
- Most Innovative Data & Cloud Storage Vendor Award: Pure Storage
- The CX Innovation Expert Award: Salesforce
- The Artificial Intelligence Disruptor Award: IBM
- The Robotic Process Automation Leader Award: Automation Anywhere Inc
- The Best MLOps/ModelOps Champion Award: Google
- Public Cloud Platform Vendor of Choice Award: Amazon Web Services
- The Digital Security Leader Award: Palo Alto Networks
- Hybrid Cloud Services Provider Enabler of Choice Award: Microsoft
- The Future Workplace Enabler Award: Workday
- Most Valuable Digital Vendor Award (based on vote performance in all the above categories): IBM
Congratulations!
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