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business intelligence2017

summit

Auckland Int. Airport

University of Auckland

Lotto NZ

Bank of New Zealand

Partners Life

Sovereign

NZ Post

Airwork NZ

intelligence driven decision making

expert insights & case studies from:

13-14 february 2017 grand millennium auckland

Supporting Organisations:Media Partner:Silver Sponsor:

wednesday 15 february 2017 | 9.00 - 4.30

separately bookable post-conference workshop

RIPPLE EFFECT: GETTING INTERACTIVE

WITH DATA VISUALISATION

Leaders and cross-functional teams will require a level of data literacy to thrive in the digital business world. This workshop looks to develop your own crucial skills in data visualisation and also gain techniques to inspire a data wave across the organisation. Take the concepts and lessons learned from the conference a step further; this workshop focuses solely on honing your data visualisation skills to add real value and meaning to teams outside the IT department.

· Break down silo-thinking and open up your creative flair: Learn principles of good design and how they apply to data visualisation

· What you’re not expecting: Covering the challenges and pitfalls that can arise in data visualisation

· Getting hands-on experience and using data visualisation tools

· Data representation is key: Knowing your audience and how they draw meaning from BI

· Develop visualisation capabilities: Learn visualisation techniques to explore data and how to educate wider teams to utilise tools

· Take it up a notch with real-time visualisation and the architectural considerations that come with it

· Training your skills in telling compelling stories and building business cases that put analytics into action

Facilitated by: Ali Khan, Director - Information Management and Data Science, Tenzing ltd

mike rankin

The power of modern BI to uncover interactive insights and drive intelligent decision making is transforming the New Zealand commercial landscape. 2017 will be the year where businesses will need to innovate and disrupt their organisation to thrive in the future. The 2017 Summit looks at how leading companies are leveraging BI and analytics to gain an edge. Tomorrow’s competitive playing field is a whole new ball game with BI and analytics at the core. Join us at the 2017 Summit to hear real-world case studies; and insights from experts, this is one event not to be missed.

shay desai

featured speakers

nicola jackson

cliff ashford

agendaday 1: monday 13 february 2017

8.30 Registration and coffee

9.00 Welcome from the Chair

future outlook

9.10 Pushing the boundaries of business with cutting edge BI · Dive into the emerging trends, predictions, and what’s

happening in the BI world globally · The 2020-ready checklist: Covering the latest

technology developments · Aligning with 24/7, real-time business: How BI will need

to meet the needs of new and emerging business models

9.50 Case study: The next generation of analytics-driven business is here · How Business Intelligence is becoming a driver for

intelligence-led innovation · Navigating the analytics: Gaining the support and inspiring

key decision makers on the value of BI · Leapfrogging the competition: using BI and analytics as a

springboard to get ahead of the competitionPaul Kelland, BI Manager, VendRoss Stanley, Head of Product, Vend

10.30 Morning break and refreshments

the modern bi vision

11.00 Case study: Utilising BI to drive growth in a competitive retail market at Auckland Airport · The changing landscape of retail: Key market trends

and how we use BI to understand the drivers of customer behaviour

· Competing in a digital world: Digitalisation creates another layer of competition, but also creates new opportunities

· Bringing it all together: Data integration enables us to build a deeper relationship with our customers

· Converting data into insights into strategies: Using BI to shape our business for the future

Shay Desai, BI specialist, Auckland International Airport

11.30 Case study: Throwing out the rulebook: Our roadmap to building up BI capability · How we built up a BI delivery approach to increase

value and business capability · Out with the old! The chaos of updating our

legacy systems · What are our architectural and data governance

considerations going forward to free up analytics for everybody

· The long road ahead and lessons learned Nicola Jackson, BI & Reporting Delivery Manager, University of Auckland

12.05 Case study: Casting a bigger net to capture data from multiple sources · Converging social feeds to enrich data and simplifying

for end users to draw decisions · From unstructured to structured: Diving into data lakes

to discover insights · Streamlining BI and decision science for higher

performance and productivity

12.40 Lunch

1.30 Case study: Power shift: Today’s data democracy and how self-service BI is changing the gameNo longer is BI only for the IT department. With more businesses becoming intelligence-driven end users are able to access BI for their own real-time use to make strategic decisions backed by insights. Hear our journey enabling teams to BI to the centre of their operations, and the challenges tackled along the way.Tim Davison, Data Warehouse Architect, Auckland University of TechnologyCliff Ashford, Software Development Director, Auckland University of Technology

2.05 Meeting new analytics demands: Emerging BI architecture design and expanding BI capabilities · Thinking different: How should we be designing

the architecture to align with future developments and implementation decisions

· How will the architectural design accommodate the exponential increase of data generated?

· What about open source BI? How can BI work without blowing the budget?

Phillip Higgins, Big Data Consultant, Higgins Consulting

2.45 Reinforcing data governance and sustaining data quality One of the central pillars of BI rests in data governance and data quality. This session evaluates how to deal with data quality issues, redefining requirements to ensure that access to data is secure, and the war stories of bad BI. Alex Leonov, Director, Knowledge Lab

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3.15 Afternoon break and refreshments

culture eats strategy3.45 Quick fire round

We’ll have two quick sessions that look at how shaping real data-driven cultures is making an impact to their organisation

1. Integrating people, processes and platforms to bring BI to the massesHow our BI journey has opened up more data-driven collaboration across teams.Malcolm Cole, Senior BI Specialist, Airwork NZ

2. Stakeholder management and driving data driven cultureFrom data restricted to IT department to being championed by the key leaders to drive culture. Josh Frankland, BI Manager, Partners Life

10mins Quick fire extended Q&A

4.25 Panel discussion: Why strong support from the leadership matters to champion BI and analytics · How have we engaged the leadership team to bring BI

into the decision making function? · How can we encourage business engagement and

stakeholder buy-in to be data-led rather than relying on gut feeling?

· What are ways we can collaboratively work to address skill and resource shortage?

· How will BI practically impact the future of business? Stuart Pattison, BI Lead, AIAIvan Wells, Head of BI, Bank of New ZealandPhillip Higgins, Big Data Consultant, Higgins Consulting

5.00 Summary remarks from the Chair and networking drinks

day 2: tuesday 14 february 2017

9.00 Welcome back from the Chair

real insights now9.10 Mastering the art of data visualisation

Deriving valuable insights from data is half the challenge, the other is communicating them in a meaningful manner to enable action. In this session, learn how to bring data to life to seamlessly convey data to end users and allow them to create their own stories by utilising interactive visualisation tools to make sense of the numbers.

9.50 Case study: Harnessing real time: From overnight batch updates to real time · How we’re aligning with the real-time trend to keep

up with changing customer needs · Going in deep: Hat were the pain points, trips

and traps overcome · How does this add value to the bigger picture for

the organisation? Matthew Smith, Data and Applications Architect, Transpower

10.25 Morning break and refreshments

10.55 Case study: Accelerated advantage: Getting Agile in BI · Adapting to business changes and swift implementation

of BI projects · Shifting away from long term projects to shorter,

iterative cycles to produce interactive data sets · How to maintain governance in Agile environments · How does DevOps help to fast track the process

and provide outside the box thinkingClive Trott, BI Manager, New Zealand Post

11.30 Case study: Hitting the jackpot by increasing our BI capability · From traditional ‘once a day’ to 24/7 reporting capability:

How we've developed our BI framework · Uncovering the strategic challenges we faced to transform

our data resources into actionable insights · Revolutionising our technology, the lessons learned,

and the steps we're taking for the futureBrett Cross, GM of Technology, Lotto NZ

12.00 Case study: Bringing real time BI under our wings and using insights to take flight · How our leadership is utilising real time BI and analytics

and integrating it into strategic decision making · Creating a meaningful real-time data that resonates with

teams across the wider organisation · New directions with BI and what this means for our futureMalcolm Cole, Senior BI Manager, Airwork NZ

12.35 Lunch

beyond bi - the world of analytics1.35 Case study: Heading into advanced analytics: A whole new ball game

· Complimenting BI with advanced analytics skill sets and taking our business to the next level

· Bringing in the big guns: Using machine learning to identify insights to put analytics into action

· Collaborating with cross-functional teams to hit the bottom line

Dina Hay, Head of Customer Analytics, Sovereign

2.05 Leveraging Cloud BI and bringing the technologies together · The next wave: How Cloud BI is increasing business

process efficiency and faster results · How can Cloud BI bring value to mobile businesses? · What are the security implications of doing BI in the Cloud?

2.40 Case study: Where Business Intelligence meets Digital TransformationOur transformation puts a spotlight on the IT and tech teams to be the drivers of progress and capability. Hear how we’ve been making strides to in this space to transform the way we work and make a difference in lives. Hear how BI is playing a strategic role to get the right information, at the right time, to the right people.Mike Rankin, Head of BI, Royal New Zealand Plunket Society

3.15 Closing remarks from the Chair and end of conference

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