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February 12-13, 2020 • Toronto, ON
Transform YOUR business with big data, analytics, AI and machine learning.
BigDataSummitCanada.com
Shawn Mendel, CDO, Cineplex
Niraj Krishna, Vice President, Market Channel Analytics & Quality Assurance, Hudson’s Bay
Ali Bouhouch, VP & CTO of Enterprise Architecture, Sephora
Dave Bhattacharjee, Vice President – Data Analytics, Thomson Reuters
AI and machine learning
Rethinking customer experience
Building predictive and prescriptive models
Securing buy in for your big data initiatives
Implementing a successful digital transformation
Adopting cloud native infrastructure
Improving your business and technology strategy
Applying AI & ML to understand human behavior
Building an effective intelligent supply chain
Develop a leading edge cyber security system
Meet + Network + Learn From: Take Away Key Strategies For
BIG DATA &ANALYTICS SUMMIT
Canada
6th AnnualStrategy Institute presents...
Transform YOUR business with big
data, analytics, AI and machine learning.
Terrence Hickey, Chief Data Scientist, CIBC
Lora Paglia, SVP, Global Risk Management, Data, Analytics & Risk Technology Scotiabank
Speakers from:
As the largest cross-industry big data, analytics, AI and machine
learning conference in Canada, this event has grown into the
must-attend gathering for senior business leaders who want to
stay ahead in this rapidly changing field.
We’ve moved beyond making the case for big data. Today,
it’s a reality. Now the task is to make the most of big data; to
monetize it, to drive efficiencies and to create a competitive
advantage.
This event brings together big data and analytics leaders from
across North America who will show you how to do exactly that.
You will hear first-hand case studies about how to improve
your business processes, drive revenues and improve customer
loyalty with big data and analytics.
Your Big Data and Analytics TeamStrategy Institute
Welcome to the 6th Big Data and
Analytics Summit Canada
• More C-level speakers: Get in-depth details on assembling a big data team, employing artificial intelligence, and mastering machine learning
• Effective Digital Transformations: Ensure the success of the digital transformation in your organization
• Exceed Customer Expectations: With cloud native infrastructure
• Secure Buy In: For your big data initiatives
• Utilize ML & AI: to better understand your customers
• 12+ New Case Studies: Gain more insights with more case studies than ever before
15 Industries Represented25+ Big Data Leaders
Event in Numbers
New This Year
4 Exclusive Panel Discussions
8 Hours of Networking
11 Case Studies
Meet + Network + Learn From:
BIG DATA &ANALYTICS SUMMIT
Canada
6th Annual
Register today by calling 866 298 9343 x 200
Who You Will Meet
Join the LinkedIn Group:Big Data & Analytics Forum
• More C-level speakers: Get in-depth details on assembling a big data team, employing artificial intelligence, and mastering machine learning
• Effective Digital Transformations: Ensure the success of the digital transformation in your organization
• Exceed Customer Expectations: With cloud native infrastructure
• Secure Buy In: For your big data initiatives
• Utilize ML & AI: to better understand your customers
• 12+ New Case Studies: Gain more insights with more case studies than ever before
Past Attendees Include:
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Exploit AI/machine learning: Take advantage of emerging trends
Improve customer experience: apply data to make your organization customer-centric
Reduce costs: Create efficiencies with data
Gain support: Build organizational support for analytics
Explore new technologies: Leverage blockchain and other data technologies
Monetize big data: Turn data into profits
Improve decision making: Put data in the hands of initiatives
Take Away 7 Solutions to Your Challenges Save your spot now for Canada’s largest gathering of
big data and analytics professionals.
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Private Sector
Banking | Insurance | Pharmaceuticals | Technology | Retail | Energy & Utilities | Consumer Products | Travel & Transportation | Oil & Gas | Telecommunications
Public Sector
Federal | Provincial | Municipal government Big data – analytics – data science – information technology Big Data | Data Assurance | IT & Project Assurance Data Protection & Privacy | Enterprise Content Management | Data Warehousing
Solutions providers
Big Data Consultants | Analytics | Data Governance | Computer Storage | Applications | Cloud Software | Infrastructure Software | Director/VP of Sales/ Marketing/ Business Development | Consultant
Alochol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) • Aviva •Burman Energy • Cablevision • Canada Post Corporation • Canadian Automobile Association • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce • Capgemini North America • CIBC • CIPS Ontario • Cloudera • Corporate Solutions and Services • Cushman & Wakefield Ltd. • Cyberdyne SystemsDaffron Canada • Gilt Groupe • IBM • Institute of Global Research • Just Energy • L’Oreal Canada • L’Equipe L’Oreal • Lakeside Process Controls Ltd • LoyaltyOne • Managed Analytic Services Inc. • Mane-frame Systems • MaRS • McGraw-Hill Education • Mozilla Corporation • New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business • Newtopia Inc. • NICE Systems Canada • North Waterloo Farmers Mutual
Register online at BigDataSummitCanada.com
9:00 AM CDO panel Building a Secure Business Foundation to Ensure Success of Your Digital Transformation
A digital transformation has occurred in every industry, whether it be health, transportation, agriculture, even education. Accelerate your own business transformation by leveraging the power of IoT. Gain insights to:
• Acquiring best practices and lessons learned from companies who have navigated the digital journey.
• Discussing the pitfalls that threaten successful digital imple-mentation efforts
• Future proofing secure architecture to help you scale as you go
Secure successful digital transformation with a secure business foundation.
Shyam Oberoi, Chief Digital Officer, Royal Ontario Museum
Shawn Mendel, CDO, Cineplex
Roberto Gennaro, CDO, Redtag.ca
8:30 AM Keynote
Harnessing the Power of AI, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics for ROI Optimization and Value Creation
Companies in every industry are flush with data. Now, the challenge is transforming the vast amounts of data into intelligence that drives competitive advantage and smarter day-to-day business. Advance your strategy across data, analytics and AI to thrive in this digital economy. Walk away with an action plan to:
• Formulate a holistic and long term data strategy• Capitalize on a strategy that embraces AI advancements• Leverage your processing power to handle machine-learning
algorithms and high data volumes
Thrive and survive in this digital economy with AI and Machine Learning.
Dave Bhattacharjee, Vice President – Data Analytics, Thomson Reuters
7:30 AM Registration and Breakfast
8:20 AM Opening Comments from the Chair
WednesdayFeb 12, 2020DAY ONE
9:45 AM Industry Expert See, Connect, Do – From Strategy to Execution
Effective marketing is hard enough without the added complexities of using inconsistent data and having target audiences get diluted as you move from strategy to execution. Explore how the see-connect-do approach provides an opportunity for superior results. Gain insights on:
• Using data to develop more consumer insights• Connect to more applications across the enterprise• Executing more effectively in an omnichannel environment
In this session, hear about several examples of organizations that have applied this approach and have gone from strategy to execution seamlessly across various media channels.
Rupen Seoni, Senior Vice President, Practice Leader, Environics Analytics
10:15 AM Morning Break
Amazing insights to solving real-world problems with cutting edge technology and
business process evolution"
- Brent Uemura, Manager, Data Management & Analytics, TD Bank
Choose Your Track
Business Use Technical Use
10:45 aM Maintain your Competitive Advantage with a Cloud Based ERP System
Traditional on-site enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems often prove too rigid to keep up with evolving technology and business practices. Explore why the cloud has become the preferred SaaS ERP software deployment option for companies of all sizes. Source practical tips to:
• Simplify your business infrastructure for alignment and scale• Stay current with the pace of innovation with cloud-
based ERP systems• Empower your IT department to support more strategic
growth initiatives
Leverage a cloud based ERP System to maintain your competitive advantage.
10:45 aM Utilizing Technological Innovation to Improve your Business Model
With new customer channels and expectations, IT functions are under pressure to support new capabilities such as data analytics, cybersecurity, automated processes and integration with third-party systems. Enrich your understanding of cloud-based, cross-industry digital infrastructure needed to successfully plan and invest around technological innovation. Key insights include:
• Simplifying your architecture• Designing for flexibility and speed• Becoming more agile and user-centric
Improve your business model with technological innovation.
11:15 aM Case Study: Co Star Group
Unlocking the Potential of Prescriptive Business Analytics to Improve the Quality of your Insights
As the amount of data that we collectively consume continues to expand, the changing potential of prescriptive business analytics is limitless. Improve your ability to leverage your insights by utilizing business analytics. Walk away with strategies on:
• Examine the evolution of analytics and the incorporation of real time data
• Analyze the pros and cons of automated analytics and why a human touch is still required
• Explore the future of analytics and figuring out the story behind the data
Optimizing your business analytics to improve the quality of your insights.
Roelof Van Dijk, Director of Market Analytics & Market Economist, Co Star Group
11:15 aM Case Study: Hootsuite
Adopting Cloud Native Infrastructure to Increase Agility
Driven by the need for agility, scaling, and resiliency, organizations have spent more than a decade moving from testing the cloud to a deeper, more sustained commitment to it, including adopting cloud native infrastructure. Exceed your customer expectations when it comes to availability, features and performance with cloud native infrastructure. Adopt best practices to:
• Evaluate why a cloud native infrastructure is necessary to effectively run cloud native applications
• Decide if and when your business should adopt cloud native practices
• Deploy and manage infrastructure and applications
Increase developer driven on demand data architectures with cloud native infrastructure.
Kalan MaCrow, Manager, Data Technology
12:15 PM Networking Lunch
11:45 aM Industry Expert
Avoid Costly Cyber Breaches By Securing your Big Data
Within the enormous amounts of data organizations collect, store and use, comes the risk for the potential damage of a breach. Develop a full proof strategy to keep your data out of the hands of cyber criminials. Source best practices to:
• Develop a secure infrastructure to house data• Monitor employee account access to prevent internal breaches• Secure applications and hardware to minimize
vulnerabilities
Employ effective security measures to keep your data secure.
11:45 aM Industry Expert
Leveraging Data Platforms for Systems and Process Improvements
There is a growing demand for better use of data analytics to drive improved services. Enrich your understanding of managed data platforms as a foundation for Business Intelligence, data mining, and advanced analytics. Learn how to:
• Implement best practices of bridging the data gap to improve system performance
• Harness the power of machine learning and predictive analytics• Apply methods and best practices used to improve
administrative and operational processes
Improve your systems and data processes with data platforms.
Register online at BigDataSummitCanada.com
1:30 PM Industry ExpertApplying Analytics for Continuous Process Improvement to Maximize Your ResourcesOrganizations are now taking a self-service analytics approach to help improve processes while optimizing resources. Identify how analytics can play a key role in process improvement to maximize your organization's resources. Get new ideas to:
• Leverage business intelligence tools for data discovery• Optimize data to innovatively solve problems• Utilize data visualization to tell a story and get buy-in
Maximize the use of resources by applying analytics to process improvements.
1:30 PM Industry Expert
Utilizing Data Visualization Tools to Better Understand your Business InsightsData needs to be understood by almost all employees in an organization, from leaders to front line workers. Employ practical visualization tools to improve the way data is understood it can be better used across business units. Source practical tips to:
• Transform complicated data sets into easily understood graphics
• Easily tell the story of the data with clear visualizations• Uncover hidden insights from text content
Leverage data visualization tools to better communicate your business insights.
Choose Your TrackBusiness Use Technical Use
2:00 PM PanelRethinking the Customer Experience in Banking: The Digital Transformation in Financial ServicesIn the age of the empowered customer, financial institutions can no longer count on traditional pathways to structure their customer interactions. Enrich your understanding of how these leaders dealt with the changing landscape of the financial industry and leveraged their digital transformation to give their customers what they want. Gain insights to:
• Utilizing and applying AI to help create meaningful insights• Combining AI, machine learning and the cloud to create
communities and ecosystems for the customer• Leveraging blockchain as we move into a more open
architecture system
Rethink the customer experience in the digital age.
Lora Paglia, SVP, GRM Analytics & CRO, Scotiabank
Ozge Yeloglu, Vice President - Entreprise Advanced Analytics, CIBC
Jennifer Gibbs, VP, head of office of the CDO, TD
2:00 PM Panel
Secure Buy in for your Big Data Initiatives in a Data Driven CultureGetting buy in for your data initiative is no easy task which requires a cultural shift to a data driven culture. Achieve buy in for your big data initiatives from these top companies who have successfully adapted a data driven culture to their organizations and have successfully launched their big data initiatives. Practical tips include:
• Giving your data a narrative by utilizing visualizations to simplify understanding
• Emphasizing your big data initiatives’ value by tailoring your value proposition correctly based on your audience
• Exploring the lessons learned and best practices building and sustaining a data driven culture.
Achieve buy in for your big data initiatives in a data driven culture.
Eugene Wen, Vice President, Group Advanced Analytics Manulife Financial
Niraj Krishna. Vice President, Market Channel Analytics & Quality Assurance, Hudson’s Bay
Sunanda Parthasarathy, Associate Director Data Science & Algorithms, Wayfair
2:45 PM Industry Expert: Improving Decision Making with Self Service Analytics
Examining Data Governance Laws to Support Privacy ComplianceThe Canadian economy has transformed to become increasingly data-driven. The digital transformation has brought with it new and charted challenges surrounding the nature of work, privacy and consent. Enrich your understanding of the changes 2019 has brought in terms of the updated privacy laws surrounding your data. Gain insights on:
• Exploring the current data protection legislation including procedures with breaches
• Examining the key principles that apply to processing of collected data
• Clarifying the rights individuals have in relation to the processing of their own personal data
Improve your data privacy compliance by complying with the updated privacy laws.
2:45 PM Text analytics and data science: a marriage of convenience?Text analytics borrows techniques from many disciplines, from information sciences, statistics and data sciences to artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. Don’t compromise your techniques that could lead to sub-optimal applications. Gain insights to:
• The factors behind these incompatibilities• Examples that include the questionable borrowing of techniques• How to become a better user of text analytics tools
Combine text analytics and data science for more convenience.
Normand Peladeau, Founder and CEO, Provalis Research
5:00 PM Conference Adjourns to Day Two
5:15 PM Event Reception
3:15 PM Afternoon Break
Plenary Sessions Continue
3:30 PM Exploring the Future of Big Data: Powering Emerging TechnologiesExplore the future of big data in 2020 and beyond by examining the link to emerging technologies. Apply these technologies to power the digital evolution of your business. Gain insights on:
• Evaluating the rise of future themes in Augmented Analytics, Blockchain for data governance, etc
• Amazon’s role in democratizing the hottest trends in big data analytics• Case study: Exploring the digital evolution of AWS
Explore the future of big data by powering emerging technologies.
Zahra Zahid, Practice Area Lead – Products & Innovation, Slalom
4:00 PM Addressing Community Challenges through Smart Collaborative Planning ProcessesThe challenge remains for cities to figure out how to stimulate the development of intelligent, collaborative planning processes given digitization and the fast pace of technological change. Improve your data and technology rich planning processes with the lessons learned from the winning communities of Canada’s Smart Cities challenge and how they plan to utilize connected technologies and data to improve the quality of life for their citizens. Gain insights on:
• Increasing resident engagement• Examining the success factors in taking a participative, smart
cities approach• Addressing community problems
Amanda Aizlewood, Program Manager, Smart Cities Challenge, Government of Canada
7:30 AM Registration and Breakfast
8:15 AM Opening Comments from the Chair
8:30 AM Keynote
Using Big Data & Machine Learning to Understand Human Behavior and Optimize TransactionsAs more and more data is being collected, data science techniques will help industries reduce operational costs, enhance security, and increase revenues. Another aspect that is becoming increasingly important is the ability to understand human behavior through data science. Learn how to properly leverage your customer data, product data, transactional data and operations to maintain your competitive advantage. Gain insights to:
• Understanding your customer ecosystem• Paying attention to your underwater data• Increasing the quality of your data
Use big data to better understand your costumers.
Ali Bouhouch, VP & CTO of Enterprise Architecture, Sephora
9:00 AM Industry Expert Successfully Utilizing AI to Cultivate Strong Customer Relationships Businesses ranging from manufacturing to finance are clamoring to integrate AI within their workflows. Despite the efficiency of AI-driven tasks, ensure that your business activities are driven towards one main purpose, cultivating strong customer relationships. Gain insights to:
• Improved consumer familiarity with conversational interfaces• The rise of the “lean back customer” interaction• The intersection of data and customer relationship platforms
Cultivate and Increase the quality of your customer relationships with AI.
DAy TWO Thursday Feb 13, 2020
4:30 PM Driving AI/ML Adoption to Improve Analytic Models and Business ProcessesThe number one reason why data science investments fail to create impact is the difficulty of deploying these projects into existing business processes and applications. In this session, we’ll cover best practices to enhance your ability to deploy machine learning at scale and fully operationalize advanced analytics at your organization by empowering both business and IT. This session includes insights on how you can:
• Streamline the deployment of new analytics• Overcome technology and human obstacles• Understand the huge impact of ‘doing nothing’• Learn new ways to unlock the benefits of AI/ML
Mazen Moussa, Sr. Director, Decision Management Solutions & Analytics, FICO
Register online at BigDataSummitCanada.com
9:30 AM PanelReskilling Your Team for the Digital Age to Maintain your Competitive AdvantageAs digitization, automation, and artificial intelligence change the face of work, companies are realizing the importance of learning new as their job functions evolve. The gap between demand and supply of highly skilled talent is widening fast, while industry standards continue to evolve for advanced technical skills. Explore the factors that will help you hire and reskill your team for the digital age. Key insights include:
• Examining how digitization and technological innovation are changing team skill sets
• Exploring the key strategies for reskilling your team across all corporate levels
• Empowering your team through cross-training
Train and retain your employees with the necessary skill set for the digital age.
Steve Holder, head of strategy & innovation, SaS Canada
Houtsin Diep, Manager, Digital Analytics, McDonald’s Canada
10:00 AM Charting a Course to Cloud Analytics Success What Cricket, Luxury Fashion, and Mining have in Common
Organizations have long talked about putting analytic workloads in the cloud for better flexibility, on-demand scalability, and to enable innovative new use cases. Turn that talk into action and get real value from running your analytics in the cloud
• Examining real case studies where companies were at various stages of the cloud data maturity continuum
• Showing how you can get better insights from your data• Sharing real-life examples of embedding machine learning and
artificial intelligence into daily operations• Creating entirely new business opportunities using data
Lynda Partner, VP, Analytics, Pythian
10:45 aM Morning Break
11:00 AM PanelWomen in Leadership: Climbing the Tech Ladder for Increased EqualityAcross the globe, women account for less than one-third of those employed in tech research and development. Reinforce an open and broader discussion on building, advancing, and maintaining careers for women in STEM fields as well as other disciplines based on technology and big data.
• Career challenges and their possible solutions• Lessons learned and strategies in attracting more women
to the field• Advice for the next generation of women leaders in tech
Inspiring stories from female leaders who have navigated climbing the tech ladder.
Alicia Close, Cofounder/CEO, Women in Tech
Sunanda Parthasarathy, Associate Director Data Science & Algorithms, Wayfair
Tara Mulrooney, Vice President, Edmonton International Airport
11:00 AM Panel
Guiding Sustainability Initiatives with Improved Use of AnalyticsCompanies are facing rapidly changing expectations for improving and reporting sustainability performance based on market and regulatory requirements. Explore the benefits that analytics can offer in helping make better decisions about your organization’s CSR. Develop a blue print to:
• Improve and automate data gathering• Implement business intelligence tools for managing
operational performance• Extend visibility through the supply chain
Utilize analytics to guide your sustainability initiatives.
Manual Casas, Process Improvement Lead, Mars
Kyle Chiman Cai, Solutions and Analytics Specialist, UPS Supply Chain Solutions
Choose Your Track
Business Culture Technical
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2:00 PM Case Study
Developing a Leading-Edge Cyber Security Organization to Protect your Business
Most organizations are in the phase of rapidly gearing up to contain and manage cyber security threats. The question is how and where to begin. Transform your organization with these tips to protect your sensitive and valuable data. Walk away with an action plan on:
• Steering cybersecurity at the corporate level and acting on the frontlines
• Employing proactive measures and mechanisms to combat system hackers
• Converting internal information to intelligence with associated best practices
Perfect your use of customer data platforms to leverage valuable insights.
Dr.Teju Olegwaal, Regional Manager, Security & Compliance, Indigo
1:30 PM Industry Expert
Leveraging Customer Data Platforms Across Channels to Personalize Experiences
Businesses continue to recognize the ability to increase revenue and long term relationship value by offering their customers personalized experiences. However, firms find their data is too distributed across multiple channels to effectively create and act on a truly unified customer profile. Source practical tips to:
• Leverage identity matching across siloed data sources and diverse channels
• Act on the explicit and implicit data about individuals• Use CDP to power in-the-moment personalization across
multiple channels
Perfect your use of customer data platforms to leverage valuable insights.
2:30 PM Afternoon Break
3:30 PM Addressing Community Challenges through Smart Collaborative Planning Processes
With an ever-expanding catalog of products that are inherently harder to buy with just an online description, retail (especially furniture) has a unique challenge in personalizing a customer’s journey. Leverage the benefit of applying AI & ML techniques to personalize a customer’s touchpoint. Gain insights on:• How to best use reinforcement learning techniques• How best to translate cutting edge data science technology into
real business decisions• Typical challenges faced in scaling these technologies
Utilize AI & ML techniques to personalize your customer’s touchpoint.
Sunanda Parthasarathy, Associate Director of Data Science & Algorithms, Wayfair
4:00 PM Conference Adjourns
Plenary Sessions Continue 3:00 PM Case Study Developing a Scalable, Agile Framework to Support your Big Data InitiativesAs you build your big data and analytics program, you must be ready for your needs to change. Develop a program that can adapt as you scale your program. Source a framework to:
• Start small and scale your program up• Anticipate and respond to future needs• Build flexibility into your program
Improve your operations through a scalable and agile platform.
Shannon Archibald, CIO, Shared Services Canada
Gilles Dufour, Director General, Business Planning and Client Services, Shared Services Canada
11:45 AM Industry Expert Boosting the Productivity of your Analytics Teams for Increased SuccessTo increase business agility and market competitiveness, organizations are capturing more data than ever before and are asking new sophisticated business questions at an accelerated rate. Address the challenges analytics professionals are being faced within an increasingly complex data landscape. Walk away with a blueprint to:
• Discover how you can improve the productivity of your analytics teams
• Get same day answers in your data (up to 100x faster than traditional methods)
• Gain access to all of your data assets no matter where it resides, whether it is on-premise, in the cloud, in SaaS applications, or with external service providers.
Boost the productivity of your analytics teams.
11:45 AM Industry Expert
Reduce IT Costs While maximizing Business ValueIT managers are continually tasked with ways to cut costs while simultaneously being assigned more technology services to support. Reduce the burden of budget cuts by maximizing your available resources. Develop a blue print to:
• Using IT to digitalize and optimize business processes.• Preparing for a digital future by digitalizing physical assets
and business processes.• Maximize available resources by strategically prioritizing
allocations
Maximize your business value while decreasing your IT spend.
12:15 aM Networking Lunch
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Post Conference WorkshopFebruary 14, 2020
Workshop A
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM WORKSHOP B: Cloud migration
Refining your Vision for Cloud MigrationThe benefits of cloud migration are significant, but so are the challenges that come with planning, building, and managing a cloud environment. This workshop will give your organization the information you need to build a solid cloud migration and management strategy. During the workshop, our team will guide you through a discussion that will ultimately result in recommendations to help you navigate the next steps in your cloud adoption journey.
• Learn about the risks associate with moving to the cloud• Necessary supports for cloud computing• Effectively evaluating your cloud options• Building a solid cloud strategy• How to align existing processes and procedures with the cloud• Building automation into your cloud strategy
9:00 aM - 12:00 PM WORKSHOP A: SAS
Establishing Best Practices in Automated & Collaborative Model ManagementFor many organizations, model deployment is an inefficient and manual process. Failure to update decayed models can result in revenue loss. SAS Model Manager streamlines the tedious and often error-prone steps of creating, managing, deploying, monitoring and operationalizing analytical models. In this workshop, gain insights on:
• Best practices of model validation• Model fairness and bias considerations• Various model deployment options including open source models• Orchestrating a continuous learning platform in real time
Marzi Rasooli, Data Science Solution Specialist, SAS
Yen Nguyen, Associate Systems Engineer, SAS
4:00 PM - 7:00PM WORKSHOP C: Education
How to Successfully Adapt to Service-Driven Technologies in a Digital World It's tough for businesses to keep up with the speed of today's ever-changing digital world. However, those businesses that are more technologically-savvy and use the latest digital methods to operate, promote themselves, engage with customers and grow their businesses have an upper hand. Unlock productivity across your organization through digital leadership by:
• Creating new business models to drive your KPIs • Investing in fundamental business transformation to move into
responsive• Interfaces and systems • Enhancing the customers' in-person experience through a mobile-
first approach• Putting strategic, disruptive, service-driven technology to work to
yield increased profitability
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Analytics - 25%
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Information - 20%
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Audience Breakdown
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Data Science & Business Intelligence - 15%
Marketing - 12%
Business Strategy - 11%
Solutions Providers and Consultants - 8%
Human Resources – 6%
Indust Stakeholders - 6%
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