8:30 - 9:30
Arrival, registration & breakfast networking
9:30 - 9:40
Introduction from the Network Group & Chairpeople
A brief introduction to the event software, SNS — this software, unique to the industry, empowers our attendees to make the most effective use of their time at the event by maximising networking opportunities. The software designs a personalised agenda & enables attendees to arrange one-to-one meetings with each other. This will be followed by a welcome from the Chairpeople.
Sebastian Klapdor, Chief Data Officer, Vistaprint & Thomas Bodé, VP - Head of Data & Analytics, Swarovski
9:40 - 10:15
Building data products in a data mesh architecture to drive revenue & customer value at scale
- Building a cutting-edge data organisation that attracts, excites, develops & retains exceptional & diverse talent
- Generating sustainable value with industry-leading data products, insights & expertise
- Increasing efficiency by giving data product teams end-to-end responsibility in a data mesh architecture
- What’s next: democratising data, data-enabled innovations, & winning customers’ hearts, minds & loyalty with a world-class data stack
Sebastian Klapdor, Chief Data Officer, Vistaprint
10:15 - 10:50
The overstretched CDO
CDOs have multiplying responsibilities with little consensus from the board about which to prioritise. In this session we will build an understanding of the organisation’s true expectations of the CDO & learn how to intelligently match your capabilities with those expectations.
Carl-Johan Nakamura, Chief Data Officer & VP, ZEISS Group
10:50 - 11:00
Coffee break & networking
11.00 - 11:25
Workshop 1
Addressing the Talent & Skills Gap
Holger Kobler, RVP, DACH, Udacity
11:25 - 11:50
Networking
11:50 - 12:15
Workshop 2
Moving from pilots to the global adoption of digital initiatives
Eva Schönleitner, CEO, Crate.io
12:15 - 12:40
Networking
12:40 - 13:05
Workshop 3
The Lakehouse – One Simple Platform to Unify all your Data, Analytics & AI Workloads
Frank Boening, AVP Central Europe, Databricks
11:00 - 13:05
One-to-One meetings
Intelligently matched one-to-one meetings:
- Advanced Analytics
- IOT
- Digital Transformation
- Enterprise Information Management
- AI / Machine Learning
- Big Data
- Business Intelligence
- Data Privacy / Security
- Cloud
- Data Management
- Data Integration
- Risk, Compliance & Regulation
- Data Visualisation
- Data Storage / Infrastructure
- Data Governance
13:05 - 14:00
Networking Lunch
Stream 1—Case Study
14:00 - 14:35
Advanced analytics strategy & implementation
- Overview of challenges experienced & lessons learnt from ABB’s global rollout
- Discussing how to manage stake holder relationship & buy-in to ensure good quality insight
- Presenting advanced analytics use case examples
Mircea Zamfir, Group VP – Analytics, ABB
Stream 2—Frameworks
14:00 - 14:35
Data Governance
- Identifying the right framework for your organisation
- Discussing how having the perfect data strategy & governance in place will drive AI & ML
- Understanding how to prove the impact that data governance has on generating value from data
Thomas Bodé, VP – Head of Data & Analytics, Swarovski
Stream 1—Strategy
14:40 - 15:15
Data strategy
- No magic bullet: getting through the hype & creating a clear data strategy
- Bringing outside help: when, who & how
- Data drives code: what can go wrong
Jack Lampka, Head of Data, MSD
Stream 2—Strategy
14:40 - 15:15
Information Architecture
- Introducing a framework to ensure consistent data handling
- Discussing how to manage the technology stack & expectations
- Working collaboratively with other departments to create a unified vision
Christian Koblmiller, Chief Data Officer, International Committee of the Red Cross
15:15 - 15:25
Coffee break & networking
15:25 - 15:50
Workshop 4
Balancing Control & Autonomy for a Successful Data Strategy
Jan Wetzke, RVP Sales, EMEA Central, Talend
15:50 - 16:15
Networking
16:15 - 16:40
Workshop 5
A day in your life with Cassandra
Michel de Ru, Data Architect, DataStax
16:40 - 17:05
Networking
15:25 - 17:10
One-to-One meetings
Intelligently matched one-to-one meetings:
- Advanced Analytics
- IOT
- Digital Transformation
- Enterprise Information Management
- AI / Machine Learning
- Big Data
- Business Intelligence
- Data Privacy / Security
- Cloud
- Data Management
- Data Integration
- Risk, Compliance & Regulation
- Data Visualisation
- Data Storage / Infrastructure
- Data Governance
17:10 - 17:50
Panel Discussion: Overcoming the cultural challenges to build the optimum data-driven business
Principles to improve culture, literacy & data democratisation
This panel is open to Q&A from the audience throughout
Thomas Bodé, VP - Head of Data & Analytics, Swarovski
Sebastian Klapdor, Chief Data Officer, Vistaprint
Peter Boldt, VP, Enterprise Data Operations, Uniper
Christoph Sawade, Global Senior Director of Data, HelloFresh
19:00
NETWORKING DINNER & DRINKS RECEPTION HOSTED BY MAGICIAN DEE RILEY
8:30 - 9:00
Morning registration & breakfast
9:00 - 10:15
Roundtable discussions
Join group discussions with your peers on some of the most challenging & significant data topics - please confirm attendance prior to the session. Each host will facilitate the discussion & give a short presentation of key findings in the wrap up session.
Roundtable 1: Data Governance
Dr. Alexander Borek, Head of Data, Zalando SE
Roundtable 2: Data Quality
Svenja Mueller, Data Director Continental Europe, Managed Investment, Morningstar
Roundtable 3: Data Culture
Peter Boldt, VP, Enterprise Data Operations, Uniper
Roundtable 4: Scaling AI & ML
Chris Lobo, Global Head of Data & Analytics, Fresenius Kabi
Roundtable 5: Data Partnerships - Leveraging data
Bettina Goerner, Chief Data Officer, Centogene
10:15 - 10:50
Wrap-up session
Each host gives a short overview of key findings from their discussion & creates an ideas board to be distributed post event with the presentations.
10:50 - 11:00
Coffee break & networking
11:00 - 11:25
Workshop 6
Algorithms are stupid (without good data)
Stefan Roskos, Managing Director, ONE LOGIC
11:25 - 11:50
Networking
11:50 - 12:15
Workshop 7
How to leverage modern real-time analytics with legacy applications
Bradley Flemming, Senior Sales Engineer, HVR Software
12:15 - 12:40
Networking
12:40 - 13:05
Open Forum Think Tank
Talent & culture development
Dr. Alexander Borek, Head of Data, Zalando SE
11:00 - 13:05
One-to-One meetings
Intelligently matched one-to-one meetings:
- Advanced Analytics
- IOT
- Digital Transformation
- Enterprise Information Management
- AI / Machine Learning
- Big Data
- Business Intelligence
- Data Privacy / Security
- Cloud
- Data Management
- Data Integration
- Risk, Compliance & Regulation
- Data Visualisation
- Data Storage / Infrastructure
- Data Governance
13:05 - 14:00
Networking Lunch
Stream 1—Strategy
14:00 - 14:35
Interdepartmental collaboration
- Addressing the cultural challenges of change management initiatives
- Discussing how to educate the business to understand what AI is & how it can deliver value
- Understanding how to unlock the potential of analytics capabilities across teams
Armin Müller, Director of Analytics, Lidl
Stream 2—Trust
14:00 - 14:35
Data Quality
- Ensuring that your data is trusted, secure, governed & fit for purpose
- Discussing how to define, measure & monitor data quality
- Data transparency: what, where, when, why & who
Dr. Andreas Győry, Head of Data Quality Management, Adidas
14:40 - 15:15
How to scale AI & ML
- Discussing the vision, strategy & action plan required to scale with focus
- Addressing the challenges of having disparate data models & fragmented data sets which are difficult to harmonise
- Methodologies to ensure that algorithms & applications work together in an orchestrated way
Dr. Alexander Borek, Head of Data, Zalando SE
15:20 - 15:55
Panel Discussion: AI & Data Ethics
Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should!
This panel is open to Q&A from the audience throughout
Thomas Bodé, VP - Head of Data & Analytics, Swarovski
Igor Rotin, Chief Data Scientist, Liebherr Aerospace & Transportation
Björn Roccor, Director Data & Analytics, LSG Group
15.55 - 16:00
Closing remarks from the Chairpeople