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2021 Agenda

Your time is maximised onsite through a combination of keynote presentations, workshops, interactive discussion groups, pre-arranged one-to-one meetings & quality networking sessions

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  • Day 1
  • Day 2
Monday 25th October 2021
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
Tuesday 26th October 2021
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

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    10-11 October 2022

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