Programme

 

Day One: 28 August 2012

 

8:50 Opening Remarks from the Chairperson

Doug Campbell, Chairman,

    

DRIVING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, ANALYTICS AND STRATEGY THROUGH BIG DATA

 

9:00 Panel Discussion: The Big Picture for Big Data: How can a Data Driven Approach Improve Business Insight?

 

• How is Big Data changing business reporting and strategy?
• Analysing the proposition for analytics and is Analytics Business Intelligence
• Is ‘Crude Data' the new Black Gold in the 21st century?
• Is Analytics a business function or an IT function?
• How much of Analytics is software/hardware vs. methodology and approach?
• Is mobile the ultimate ‘Big Data' source?
• How will social data shape the enterprise?

 

Paul Ormonde-James, Director, Business Solutions & Insights, Echo Entertainment Group

Marco Schultheis, Executive Director, Strategy and Planning, Curtin University of Technology

Daniel Collins, Manager - Strategic Analysis at an Energy Distribution company

James Foster, Chief Technology Strategist, SAS Institute

 

Moderated by:

Doug Campbell, Chairman, Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia

 

9:45 High Performance Analytics: Driving Bigger Opportunities from Big Data

 

• Why High Performance Analytics can fundamentally change the traditional approach to a variety of industry problems
• How the emerging capabilities of In-database, Grid Computing and In-Memory can be leveraged for maximum benefit
• Specific case studies highlighting the value organisations are already obtaining from this new approach

Gold Sponsor Presentation by:

James Foster, Chief Technology Strategist, SAS Institute

 

 

10:15 Speed Networking and 1-to-1 Meetings

 

An informal meeting format designed to accelerate business contacts. Participants greet each other in a series of brief exchanges during a set period of time. During an interaction, attendees share their professional backgrounds and business goals. Networkers are generally seeking exposure to new markets and/or to expand their pool of vendors.

 

11:00 Morning Break

 

THE STORAGE AND ARCHITECTURE CHALLENGES OF BIG DATA

 

11:30 Panel Discussion: Storage: the Ever Changing Architecture

Big Data means a big challenge for storage. This panel will discuss how IT leaders can address the storage requirements of Big Data and predict which direction the storage market will go in the next 18 months.

 

• Are Big Data and the cloud, two interlinked concepts?
• Is the Cloud becoming a commodity?
• Analysing what Cloud infrastructure you need for Big Data: public, community, private or hybrid
• Strategies for migrating to Cloud
• How will data centres evolve over the next 18 months?
• Challenges moving Big Data in and out of the cloud
• Options for managing budget pressures and existing storage assets
• Key points for discussion when defining contracts with Cloud solution providers

 

Cameron Moore, Chief Technology Officer, Movideo

Dr. Leif Hanlen, Health Business Team Leader, NICTA

Darryn Capes-Davis, Acting Head of Operations, Head of Information and Communication Technology, Children's Medical Research Institute

 

Moderated by:

John Zantey, Technical Director, Contexti

 

 

12:15 Panel Discussion: Big Data Platforms and Tools: What’s the Future for Hadoop? 

 

A lot of data is unstructured which most businesses don't even attempt to use to their advantage. Hadoop changes the economics and dynamics of large scale computing due to its scalability, cost efficiency, flexibility and fault tolerant design. 

 

• What is Hadoop and how can organisations use it to maximum value?
• Will we see the end of relational databases with the advent of new database architectures and parallel processing?
• What impact will increasingly powerful algorithms and processors have?
• What are some of the challenges with large and unusual data sets? 
• What is Complex Event Processing and what great promise does it offer?
• Data Driven Apps: analysing the use of new vertical Hadoop-based Big Data applications

 

Mark Kortink, Chief Architect - Information & Corporate Systems, Telstra

Dr. Stephen Kennett, Science Team Leader Data Quality, Defence Science and Technology Organisation

Dr. Rami Mukhtar, Head of Big Data Analytics, NICTA

 

Moderated by:

Sidney Minassian, Founder & CEO, Contexti

 

1:00 Lunch

 

EXTRACTING VALUE AND GOVERNING THE HUGE VOLUME, VELOCITY AND VARIETY OF INFORMATION

 

 

2:00 Privacy and Data Governance: Security, the Cloud and Big Data 

 

 

• Strategies for determining a Personal Identity Management Policy
• Big Data, Big Brother: when will the Big Data privacy debate go mainstream?
• What has been the impact on consumers, business and regulators from high profile breaches? 
• Who owns your Big Data and what happens if there is a data breach?
• Managing unstructured data from mobile, tablets, and sensors
• How can storing and processing data drive operational excellence?

 

2:45 Case Study: Examining the Data Frontier: Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualisation

Research generates petabytes of data. Our ability to manage, mine, analyse, and visualise the data is fundamental to the knowledge discovery process. This presentation will demonstrate one industry's solution for extracting value from large datasets.

 

• Understand why data visualisation tools are crucial for Big Data
• Discover the latest innovations in large data management, analysis, and visualisation
• Strategies for extracting value from large scale data sets
• The importance of collaboration

 

Sunil Arumugam, SBS Business Intelligence, Platform Manager, Suncorp Group

 

3:15 Afternoon break

 

PUTTING BIG DATA IN TO PRACTICE: HOW TO INTEGRATE THE BEST TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES INTO EXISTING SYSTEMS

4:00 Panel Discussion: Software Applications: Big Data Apps

How are businesses using Big Data to make data driven business decisions and deliver new products/services to their customers?

 

• What Big Data Apps are emerging for specific industries?
• When and what to consider with in-house Big Data Apps
• Connecting disjointed systems and data from disparate sources
• Encouraging organisation wide buy-in into the importance of data
• Analysing challenges integrating Big Data Apps into an existing architecture

 

Warwick Graco, Senior Director Operational Analytics, Australian Taxation Office

Graham Sammells, Chairman, ASFA Electronic-Commerce

Evan Stubbs, Chief Analytics Officer, SAS Institute

 

 

Moderated by:

Doug Campbell, Chairman, Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia

 

 

4:45 Closing Remarks from the Chairperson

 

5:00 End of day one

 

 

 

Day Two: 29 August 2012

 

8:50 Opening Remarks from the Chairperson

 

9:00 Keynote Presentation: The Big Market for Big Data: Analysing Big Data and Analytics Solution Providers

This presentation will provide a detailed analysis of the Big Data and Analytics vendors so enterprise users can understand where to start with their Big Data vendor management strategy.

 

• Where has Big Data emerged from? Convergence of storage, Business Intelligence and Analytics
• Overview of key solution providers and consultants
• Growth forecasts for the enterprise Big Data and Analytics markets in ANZ
• Where will growth in the Big Data software market occur?
• Where is the Big Data market in the USA, Europe and Asia?
• Will open source solutions challenge the traditional vendors?

 

Denise Montgomery, Research Director, Financial Services - Asia/Pacific, Ovum

 

9:45 Case Study: The Telstra Strategy- Using Customer Analytics to Generate Valuable Data

 

• Generating a return from customer data
• Key considerations before deploying a dedicated Analytics platform
• Five critical factors to align 
• Analytics are a way to measure and improve organisational capability

 

 

Max Miller, General Manager Information Strategy and Partnering, Business Intelligence Centre of Excellence, Telstra

 

 

10:30 Morning break

 

Banking is a data driven industry and powerful industry trends are putting business analytics at the top of the banking agenda.

 

• The role of analytics in risk strategies
• Applying data analytics to implement changes towards Positive Reporting
• How can analytics improve and support customer-level decisions?
• Challenges with data governance in a changing regulatory environment

 

Poli Konstantinidis, Head of Risk Infrastructure, GE Capital

David Erving, Manager Retail Credit, Project and Initiatives, ANZ

David Grafton, Executive General Manager, Credit & Marketing Solutions, Veda Advantage

Steve Brown, Director Consumer Risk Solutions, Dun & Bradstreet Australia

 

Moderated by:

Damian Paull, Chief Executive Officer, Australasian Retail Credit Association

 

12:00 Case Study: Leveraging Big Data to Improve Enterprise-wide Demand and Capacity Forecasting and Profitability Measurements

Leveraging Big Data can trigger a sequence of business enablers:

 

• Accurate demand and capacity forecasting
• Better decisions on investment levels and timing
• Accurate measurement of shared infrastructure costs
• Measurement of current and future product profitability

 

Dr. Marie Balce, Manager,Networks Forecasting & Analytics, Optus-Consumer Australia

 

12:30 Lunch

 

1:45 Case Study

  

2:30 Case Study: Using Big Data Analytics in E-Health to Improve Patient Insight and Outcome

Understanding the transformation of unstructured mixed data set within the Health Information system and securing their uses to support beyond direct clinical decision.

 

• "Big Data" Problems - Population health, preventative health, genomics and disease control
•  Changing the society health expectation with Big Data
•  Case study:  big data for clinician support and disease prevention
•  How the next generation of clinicians are using data

 

Dr. Leif Hanlen, Director, Health Business Team, NICTA

 

3:15 Afternoon break

 

4:00 Roundtable Discussion

Speakers and delegates share ideas, provide feedback and network in this intimate learning format. Delegates choose to participate on one of the topics below. After the session, the room regroups and is debriefed by each Roundtable Leader. 

 

Topic 1: Developing and Reorienting an Analytics Driven Organisation

• Nathaniel Ramm, Senior Manager, Strategic Analytics, National Australia Bank

 Topic 2: Leveraging Big Data for Better Customers’ Insights

• Max Miller, General Manager Information Strategy and Partnering, Business Intelligence Centre of Excellence, Telstra

 Topic 3: Developing Data Governance Best Practices for Big Data

• Adam McGuinness, Senior Business Intelligence Solutions Architect, CGU Insurance

 Topic 4: Getting More Value out of your Analytics Investments

• Daniel Collins, Manager - Strategic Analysis at an Energy Distribution company

4:45 Roundtable Debrief

 

5:00 Closing Remarks from the Chairperson

 

5:15 End of conference