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DataCon Africa 2022

The Westin, Cape Town, South Africa
7-8 June 2022

Presentations

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Day 1

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  • How do we ensure our data strategy is aligned to the business strategy?
  • What methods of collaboration work the best? How does remote working impact this?
  • What external implications can there be which will alter your strategy?
  • Learning when to stick and when to quit with a strategy

Eugene Ras, Head, Data & Analytics, Distell

 

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  • As the amount of data increases at an exponential rate year on year, the total time it takes to turn raw data into meaningful and actionable insights increases also exponentially.
  • This impacts decision making; slows the business down and or increases the TCO of data analytics. In data driven economy, the race to reduce the time it takes to get from raw data to actionable insight is on.
  • Companies which accelerate their data analytics increase their customer loyalty, improving revenue and staying one step ahead of the competition.

David Akka, SVP EMEA, SQream

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  • Understand why The Data Fabric approach is the next big thing
  • Learn how Data Virtualisation is the key enabler of the Data Fabric
  • Explore examples from the largest data platforms globally
  • Discover the quickest, simplest and safest way to deliver data

 Chris O’Connell, Managing Director, BITanium Consulting

Paul Moxon, SVP Data Architectures & Chief Evangelist, Denodo

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  • Real life examples of what to expect from low code/no code analytics platforms, and lessons bad coffee can teach us.

Vishal Soni, Technical Product Marketing Manager, Alteryx

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  • What steps have been made with achieving data literacy in your organisation?
  • How are you adapting your data literacy programs to meet the business where they are?
  • How have you adapted to delivering data literacy training virtually? What has the response been like?

Maciej Kaliszka, Chief Data Officer: Corporate and Investment Banking, Absa Group

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Aamer Mushtaq, Manager, Sales Engineering, Snowflake

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  • How does Data Fabric bring value to your processes?
  • How does SAP Business Technology Platform reconcile Business and IT.
  • We will show how an end-to-end platform gives you a competitive edge.

Jean-Claude Pizzi, Director Analytics Cloud for EMEA South – Business Technology Platform – SAP Italy

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  • Discover and classify data across structured and unstructured data types across cloud, on-premise and legacy systems and assets
  • Automatically fulfil specific use cases including privacy rights and data retention policies
  • Demonstrate compliance through built-in reporting and governance

Joshua Hunter, Privacy Consultant, OneTrust

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  • What role does data play?
  • Reflections from the last couple of years working with Donors, Governments non-profits and NGOs, serving the poorest, most vulnerable communities across the world.

Bill Hoggarth, Head of Partnerships, Growth and Innovation, Simprints

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  • We all want to be data driven, but what about the unintended consequences?
  • How can we spot them?
  • What do we need to do to both identify them and then deal with them?
  • What education can we do around this topic to the business?

Nerushka Bowan, Director and Head of Technology, Norton Rose Fulbright

Day 2

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  • Learn how CIH Bank - an institution with more than 100 years of history in Morocco - modernized its data analytics with Dremio.

Keeshan Pillay, Enterprise Lead, MEA, Dremio

Badr Lemkgente, Customer & Data Officer, CIH Bank

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  • How Intel vPro® Platforms and ASUS Business ensures business data security in the modern world

Koketso Letoaba, ITS | Business Consumption EMEA Territory, Intel Corporation

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  • Self-Service plays a critical role in being future-proof
  • How to gain executive buy-in to enable self-service success
  • What is the best way to set up new tools and processes so that they are actually used
  • How can we continue to inspire usage of these self-service applications?

Pieter Wessels, Head Consumer Innovation, Nedbank

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  • Highlighting the key challenges organizations face as they strive to deliver business value from Data & Analytics projects.
  • Making the right decisions and avoiding pitfalls along the way.

Paul McKay, EMEA Cloud Director, Cloudera

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  • Data Governance is going through a transformation whereby it’s viewed as an enabler rather than a barrier, but how do we scale this transformation business-wide?
  • How can we foster collaboration across the D&A functions to ensure DG has a seat at the table from the beginning of the project?
  • How have DG policies had to adapt to remote working?

Sizwe Gwala, Head of Data Governance, Absa Group

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  • The Global Landscape vs The African Landscape
  • Data Science outlook in Africa, a bright or dim future?
  • Opportunities and threats facing the African Data Science industry
  • Preparing the next generation of data leaders in Africa

Henrica Makulu, Data Scientist & Founder, EcoCash Holdings & HM Digital

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  • An introduction to design thinking, examining how data science applications fail due of a lack of it
  • What is the design thinking process?
  • What is the critical role of design thinking in artificial intelligence and data science applications?
  • Consider some of its key implications in data-driven use cases.

Dr Mark Nasila, Chief Analytics Officer, FNB

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  • Walk through a practical case study where AI is productionized into a retail environment
  • The AI deployment processes which was followed
  • Typical deployment issues which occurred and how they were solved
  • How to show the results of an AI in production

Dino Bernicchi, Head of Machine Learning, HomeChoice International PLC

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  • Is a cloud migration the ideal time to consider data quality?
  • What are the pitfalls of a lift and shift approach to migrating.
  • How does cloud-native data mastering deliver higher quality, enriched data as a key part of a cloud migration?

Kamolhelo Motaung, Manager, Data Integrity & Quality Assurance, City of Cape Town