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Plus book your practical, full-day workshop:DESIGNING AN ANALYTICAL ROADMAP FOR SUCCESS Facilitated by Devin Deen, Director, Enterprise IT

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30 August 2017 | Grand Millennium Auckland

Optimise strategic insights to transform your business

• ANZ

• Briscoe Group

• Stats NZ

• Wine-Searcher

• Xero

• CricHQ

+ more!

The question is no longer how well you collect,

categorise, and mine data; it's about how to unlock and leverage data to disrupt, innovate and thrive in tomorrow’s business world.

With the growth of the analytics engine, this year’s NZ Analytics and Insights Forum engages industry

leaders on how data is truly transforming the business landscape. This Forum brings together leaders and experts to share their knowledge and stories working in the analytics space and how to prepare for rapidly changing technologies. We will be covering the

latest analytics such as AI, data science, machine learning, and data-driven transformation all in one massive day of technology and analytics!

31 August 2017 9.00- 4.30pm

DESIGNING AN ANALYTICAL ROADMAP FOR SUCCESS Where does your organisation stand in its strategic insights and analytics journey?

In this hands-on, interactive workshop, start planning your analytical roadmap. We’ll be diving into use cases, exploring pathways, and looking at the latest technologies. Whether you are beginning your journey, or you need to strengthen your analytics strategy to perform better, this workshop is built with you in mind. We’ll be covering:

• Understanding the core business strategy to define a roadmap that delivers strategic insights

• Establishing a strategy to maximise the value and impact of analytics for your business

• Exploring steps to plan architecture and the right technology that supports your business vision

• How to overcome challenges and obstacles during the implementation phase

• Developing a future-fit roadmap that enables the organisation to tap into the power of data

• Moving with the speed of change to ensure success – Adapting to rapidly changing customer expectations and business priorities

Facilitated by: Devin Deen, Director, Enterprise IT

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POST FORUM WORKSHOP

WEDNESDAY 30 AUGUST 2017 8.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

9.00 Welcome from the Chair

9.10 Pathways to enterprise-wide data transformation• Aligning data and analytics to the overarching

organisational strategy• Driving enterprise transformation through

analytics• Roadmap to deliver information into the hands

of decision makers at all levels

timely, accurate & business critical insights

9.50 Leveraging data across the organisation to drive better decision making• Delivering meaningful insights (about customers,

processes and channels)• Making sense of unstructured data sets• Enhancing the speed of insights delivery

10.30 MORNING BREAK

11.00 Panel discussion: Using analytics to effectively manage risk appetite • How to address the challenges in bringing

together the right people and processes to govern data effectively

• How to develop a risk management strategy using data analytics

• What are the opportunities and new capabilities in this space

• Best practice data management tips Beth Kreitzer, Chief Data Scientist,

3 Sheep Analytics and Quotable Value Nina Herriman, Associate Director - Strategic

Reporting, The University of Auckland

11.35 Case study: Harnessing insights from customer analytics• Putting the customer at the centre of service • Maintaining a commercial mindset and business

value to drive analytics• How we enable staff to meet customer needs

predictive & real time-analytics

12.05 Panel discussion: Discovering insights using analytics to implement strategy and efficient processes• How to ensure that the technology being invested

in delivers value on multiple layers in the business strategy

• Improving data performance and how this impacts the business

• How to streamline data mining processes to quickly gain insights for continuous improvement

Ratneesh Suri, Head of Customer Analytics, ANZ David Hughes, General Manager eCommerce and

Customer Insights, Briscoe Group

12.40 LUNCH

1.30 Refining predictive analytic models• Creating a business performance framework• Building forecasting models to align with strategy• Allowing greater interaction with analytics to

discover new insights

2.00 Case study: Real time data in Cricket: Building a data pipeline that delivers value to the customers and business• Low Latency Live Scoring: How a finite State

Machine increases data delivery and lowers cost of transmission

• Driving value back to customers using data• How being Cloud Native has enabled our business

to adapt to new technologies quickly David Robertson, Chief Data Officer, CricHQ

data science & machine learning

2.30 Case study: Unlocking insights through data science and putting machine learning to work• How we utilise analytics as a strategic asset

of the business• Disrupting the business model through the

effective use of analytics• Enhancing machine learning to optimise CX

Sam Daish, Head of Analytics, Xero

3.00 Case study: Using Open Source AI to develop ‘Martin’ - the Wine-Searcher Chatbot• Our roadmap to implementing the Wine-Searcher

chat bot• NLP, concept extraction, disambiguation and

context management: How Martin understands our customers

• Aligning our chat bot with our overarching AI strategy

Vikash Kumar, Artificial Intelligence & Analytics Team Leader, Wine-Searcher

3.30 AFTERNOON BREAK

building a data & analytics centre of excellence

4.00 Case study: Establishing and leading an analytics centre of excellence • Building a high-performing analytics team• Collaborating across verticals• Managing strategic partners to derive new

insights and re-use existing assets

4.30 Skills, traits and abilities needed for the next generation of Analyst• Increasing skillsets in young talent through

partnering with tertiaries• Developing strategies to achieve a data-driven

future for New Zealand • Capacity Planning - Meeting the high demand

for timely accurate data analysis Evelyn Wareham, General Manager - Customer

Support and Development, Stats NZ5.00 Summary remarks from the Chair

and Networking Drinks

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