Agenda

We’ve got it all.

The agenda is specially curated to bring out the most pressing topics from the industry.

8:00 - 9:00

Registration & Refreshments

9:00 - 9:20

The Trends and Journey of AI in 2023
  • Trends of AI in 2023
  • My journey of AI and Data transformation
  • Definition of a Talent in Digital world
KENNY TAY
CEO
SINGAPORE DIGITAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

9:20 - 9:40

Data Sustainability (Preserving the present to secure the future)
  • Data Growth without sustainability is an environment cost we cant afford
  • Uncovering the hidden environmental cost of data
  • Managing data sustainability for a greener future
  • Navigating the challenges of achieving data sustainability
SACHIN TONK
Deputy Chief Data Officer
GOVTECH SINGAPORE

9:40 - 10:00

Maximizing ROI on your Data
  • The high cost (how high?) of stale data
  • What wasting data engineering talent can cost you
  • How to get a force multiplier for teams of all sizes
  • Making end-to-end automation, reliability and scalability a reality
SEYAN THURAIRAJAH
Enterprise Account Executive
FIVETRAN

10:00 - 10:20

Powering Sustainable Business Growth with a Customer-First Data Strategy
  • How Data Governance relates to Customer Insights
  • Leveraging Behavioral Data to drive Business Objectives
  • Optimizing Data for Sustainable Growth
BEN LU
Head of Solutions Engineering, APJ
AMPLITUDE

10:20 - 11:00

Panel Discussion
The Blueprint for Driving Data Culture
  • Top priorities for CDO
  • Barriers to becoming data driven
  • How cloud creates opportunities but fuel chaos
  • Viable framework solution
Moderator
LIM MAY–ANN
Director of the Fair Tech Institute
ACCESS PARTNERSHIP
SACHIN TONK
Deputy Chief Data Officer
GOVTECH SINGAPORE
CHRISTELLE YOUNG
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
LOREAL PTE LTD
CHRISTOS MOUSOURIS
Vice President of Sales Engineering
ALATION
BHAGYESH CHAUBEY
APAC & EMEA Head - Data quality and Stewardship CDO, Personal Banking and Wealth Management
CITI
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11:00 - 11:30

Networking and Coffee Break

11:30 - 11:50

GenAI and Business Implications: Move Beyond the Frenzy and Empower your Database to Transform your Business.
  • Gain insights into the practical applications of leveraging large language models (LLMs) on internal corporate data sources to drive tangible business growth.
  • Unveiling essential advancements in database technology to effectively harness the capabilities of gen AI, encompassing vectorization, ingestion, performance, and scalability. Additionally, witness the transformative impact of simplifying data architecture.
  • Exploring real-world gen AI use cases adopted by Fortune 500 companies and new-age businesses, ranging from preventing human trafficking to detecting fraud in credit card transactions, ensuring a competitive edge.
ANKUR RAINA
Manager, Solutions Engineering, APAC
SINGLESTORE, INC

11:50 - 12:10

The Democratisation of Analytics - Scale the Impact of Analytics Across the Organisation
  • The stages of analytics maturity
  • The divide between people and technology
  • A better way to do things – a proven method – that helps organisations democratise analytics
SAMUEL KOH
Director, Southeast Asia
ALTERYX

12:10 - 12:30

Innovation with Data Analytics and Data Science to Transform Commerce in Southeast Asia in this Golden Era of AI?
  • With increasing data availability, how do we make use of data effectively to bolster business?
  • How will technology advances affect data analytics and data usage?
  • What are the currencies of success for tech enterprises? How to identify winning tech enterprises given the growth of AI?
BRYAN TAN
Group Chief Scientist
CARRO

12.30 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:10

Panel Discussion
Transforming Customer Experiences with Analytics Driven Behaviour Trends, Targeted Marketing/Sales etc.
  • Enhancing customer experience journeys with better operational insights
  • Leveraging customer data management technologies for delivering a better customer journey
  • Providing personalized customer experience with AI, ML and data analytics
Moderator
RAJEEV RAVI
Head of Social Business Analytics
KENVUE
WEI MING LIM
Head of Data Architecture
OCBC BANK
ABHISHEK RATHI
VP, Digital Solutions, Customer Engagement & Wellness
PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL
HEAJEONG NOH
Senior Director
PROCTER & GAMBLE
JOHN LI
Head of Client Analytics Technology
ENDOWUS

14:10 - 14:40

Fireside Chat
Improving Enterprise’s Ability to be Proactive, Competitive, and Agile in Light of New Data Insights from a Data Warehouse 
  • Analyzing large amount of data and running complex analytical queries on cloud data warehouses
  • Providing data and analytics leaders with greater productivity and agility with Data warehouse Automation systems.
  • Extracting real-time data and analysis of cloud and web application services
BALAMURUGAN JEGATHEESAN
Head of Architecture, Digital Channels and Data Analytics (DCDA), CCIB
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
ANURAG CHAUHAN
Director of Data
FLASH COFFEE

14:40 - 15:00

Data Sobriety - Purpose Driven Data
  • Focus on purpose driven data analytics
  • Analysis paralysis
  • Data and sustainability
KHALID NIZAMI
Regional Leader Asia Pacific IT and Digital Transformation
ECOLAB

15:00 - 16:00

Closing Remarks and Networking Break 

8:00 - 9:00

Registration & Refreshments

9:00 - 9:20

Structure the Unstructured – Natural Language Processing in Sustainable Finance
  • Challenges of using NLP in Finance
  • Impact of recent NLP Innovations
  • NLP in production
NITISH RAMKUMAR
Principal Data Scientist
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP

9:20 - 9:40

Unlock AI for Marketing
  • The AI opportunity in marketing
  • Meta’s approach to AI
  • Principles to get the most value from AI in Meta
VIKRAM BANSAL
Director, Marketing Science
META SINGAPORE PTE LTD

9:40 - 10:00

Enter the Dataverse -- Seeing the Matrix
  • How to think about organization design for the AI age
  • Harnessing the strategic value from data network effects
  • AI Factory and its advantages
MILIND
Data Science Product Owner and AI Specialist
MERCEDES BENZ

10:00 - 10:20

Data Democratization – Empower Everyone with Data Analytics Capability
  • What is data democratization?
  • Why do we promote data democratization?
  • What is the next move after data democratization?
JERRY PING
Vice President
SGX GROUP

10:20 - 11:00

Panel Discussion
Future-Proofing Your Business Data Strategy to Deliver More Intelligent Services 
  • Incorporating effective data-driven strategies, standards and vision that direct the organization to specific business goals.
  • Providing a clear roadmap with real-time data source, its use case and business objectives
  • Ascertaining technologies that will impact your organization’s data ecosystem with changing business needs
Moderator
MILIND
Data Science Product Owner and AI Specialist
MERCEDES BENZ
NATALIE QUE
Head of IT, Southeast Asia and North Asia
KENVUE
AKASH GOEL
Head of Data Engineering
GOTO FINANCIAL
ANDREAS KURZ
Global Head of Digital Transformation
ALFAGOMMA GROUP
HARIRAM VERAMANI
Head of Data, Platforms & Engineering
INCOME INSURANCE LIMITED
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11.00 - 11:30

Networking Break & Coffee Break

11:30 - 11:50

Adoption of Data Mesh Architecture to achieve self-serving data platform and to enable data-driven organization
  • Fostering more productivity and enabling business users to make faster business decisions with Data Mesh architecture
  • Using semantic knowledge graphs, metadata management, and machine learning for seamlessly unifying data across various data types and end points to create data products
  • Advantages and use cases of adopting Data Mesh / Fabric architecture in new age enterprises
BALAMURUGAN JEGATHEESAN
Head of Architecture, Digital Channels and Data Analytics (DCDA), CCIB
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK

11:50 - 12:10

Harnessing The Power of Generative AI: A shift from Traditional to Cutting-Edge Advertising
  • Introduction of Generative AI & its key use cases in advertising
  • Key barriers & roadblocks in adopting Generative AI for advertisers
  • Navigating the Advertising Transformation Journey while accelerating AI adoption
REEDEV TANEJA
International Head of Analytics & Martech
TBWA SINGAPORE PTE LTD

12:10 - 12:30

Implementing Augmented Analytics for Delivering More Accurate Results and to Support Better Decision-Making
  • Understanding how Augmented Analytics is transforming business intelligence
  • Use Cases and sectors that would be highly benefitted from augmented analytics
  • Highlighting the top benefits and inherent challenges of using augmented analytics
LEE SIEW KIT
Vice President (Technology & IT)
SINGAPORE CRUISE CENTRE PTE LTD

12.30 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:10

Panel Discussion
Unlocking the Outcomes of Digital Transformation by Harnessing Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Accelerating innovation and driving business outcomes by turning data into actionable insights
  • Unlocking operational efficiency and business growth with the application of data analytics along with the adoption of AI
  • Taking a glimpse into the future to operate more efficiently with big data analytics and AI tools and solutions
Moderator
PATRICIA MULLES
Director and Global Head of Partnerships
SHE LOVES DATA
SIMON LONG
Director of Technology Strategy & Transformation
CBRE
PRERIT MISHRA
Director, Applied Analytics
DHL
SAIRAM SUBRAMANIAN
Director, Singapore Decision Science CoE
AMERICAN EXPRESS
HAN LEONG GOH
Senior Principal Specialist
INTEGRATED HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IHIS)

14:10 - 14:30

From Prototype to Production: Harnessing the Power of MLOps
  • Feature Engineering
  • Monitoring and Performance Tracking
  • Model Governance and Compliance
SHIWAM DIVEDI
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
NTUC ENTERPRISE CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED

14:30 - 14:50

The New Emerging Threats Facing All Businesses Today
  • The current state of businesses today.
  • Will AI be our friend or foe?
  • How do we embrace threats?
ANDEED MA
President
RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE (RIMAS)

14.50 - 16:00

Closing Remarks and Networking Break