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DAY 1 19th February 8.30 Registration and coffee 9.00 Opening remarks from the Chair David Bloch, Head of Business Intelligence, Yellow Pages Group 9.10 BI is maturing, and how: Upcoming trends, changes and challenges What s new in BI? Examples of how organisations are getting more out of BI in NZ and beyond The interplay between Innovation and BI Factors that are currently shaping the future of BI Shawn Lewis, Senior Technical BI Lead, Vodafone New Zealand 9.55 Human Intelligence meets Business Intelligence Data is just data. It s what your people do with it that makes it valuable. Without the ability to visualise information and share insights, action is hindered and the value is lost. In this session we will discuss: Why is human intelligence your organisation s biggest untapped competitive advantage? BI that enables organisations to share, create and and maintain knowledge will achieve exponential results What differentiates Best in Class BI solutions from the rest? Ray Major, Chief Operating Officer, Halo Business Intelligence (iq for Business) 10.35 Morning break & refreshments 10.55 Demonstrating the value-add of BI to decision-makers How can BI executives effectively demonstrate the value-add of BI to decision-makers? Why is it consistently challenging for BI professionals to secure the buy-in of senior management to deploy BI? Is there a downside to deploying Business Intelligence systems? What are some of the examples of this? What are some of the ways in which BI maintenance costs can be minimized without having to compromise on performance and outcomes? Gayle Reihana, Information Systems & Development Team Leader, Otago Polytechnic Grant Newton, Support Manager, Transpower More panelists to be confirmed Moderated by: David Bloch, Head of Business Intelligence, Yellow Pages Group PANEL DISCUSSION 11. 40 Making self-service BI a success within your organisation Self-service BI makes analysis easy and fast. However a non-bi professional, would require training to effectively use self-service reporting for best possible outcomes. Who within the company takes the responsibility to ensure selfservice BI is being used up to the mark? The advantages of improving self-service BI and why it is important now? The challenges in encouraging self-service and a wider user base The role of the IT and the business departments in ensuring self-service BI is delivered effectively. Robb Fergus, Information Manager (Formerly Manager Information Systems, Tower New Zealand) 12.25 Lunch break 1.25 Executing a successful BI strategy Common reasons for BI programme failure and how to mitigate against them Practical guidance and insight on how to move your organisation from viewing data with distrust to information as asset How understanding your organisation s information supply chain is vital in moving your organisation beyond compliance reporting Kari Jones, Information Management Consultant, PwC 2.10 Data Quality Governance: Where does IT begin and Business end? The good old garbage in, garbage out rule applies here. The consequences of acting upon poor data have proven to have dire consequences over several BI processes, including predictive analytics and decision-making. But then again, who in the organisation is responsible for deploying stringent data governance policies, and consistently maintain highest level of data quality? Chris LaGrange, Business Information Manager, Kiwibank 2.55 Afternoon break and refreshments 3.15 Data Quality Governance culture at Auckland Transport (AT) Following the how-to approach to data governance from the previous session, this case study will look into the practical side of executing successful data governance and the best way to approach common issues that affect it. Roger will be discussing: The human factors of data governance Developing a team culture to execute successful data governance Lessons from AT: The massive amount of incoming data on a daily basis and the trick to managing it smartly and cost-effectively Roger Jones, IT Manager, Auckland Transport 4.00 Big data and Business Intelligence: How do they interact? What does big data mean for BI? How does it affect the information-driven decisionmaking process? What are some of the changes that big data will bring to conventional BI processes? Phillip Higgins, BI Architect 4.40 Summary remarks from the Chair 5.00 Networking Drinks Make sure you attend the complimentary networking function, and network with New Zealand s BI community in a relaxed setting. register today
DAY 2 20th February 9.00 Welcome back from the Chair David Bloch, Head of Business Intelligence, Yellow Pages Group 9.05 A picture paints a thousand words: Creating real insight through visualisation Local case study examples of the visualisation of BI data within a location context The business benefits to those organisations of visualising their data Is near enough good enough anymore when visualising location business intelligence data? Mike Donald, Managing Director, Terralink International 9.55 Developing a data-driven culture in the organisation Why develop a data driven culture? Data analytics vs intuitive analytics: The key to making them play along Finding the balance between data-driven and insight driven BI processes The pros and cons of deploying data-driven cultures Murray Browne, Service Delivery Manager-BI, Fonterra Co-Operative Group 11.45 How BI was used to develop a strong and targeted marketing strategy Customer Data, targeted marketing and BI all share a very strong relationship with each other. This session will explore the continuing role that each of these disciplines plays in improving the marketing outcomes and how they can be leveraged to obtain best marketing results Targeted marketing and the role of BI Examples of successful campaigns and how they were strategized according to the insights gathered from BI Susan Needham, Manager Data Solutions, New Zealand Post 12.30 Lunch break 1.20 Making the numbers talk: Achieving transparency through data visualisation With the immense volumes of information that end users have to deal with, it is too difficult and time consuming to scroll through large amounts of data to find the answers. In this session Theta will present How Z Energy have been empowered by a rich user interface to deal with Inventory Forecasting volumes How it allows Z Energy to see trends, patterns and challenges in inventory levels Clive Trott, Lead Consultant, Theta 10.40 Morning break & refreshments 11.00 Building an end-to-end BI model at Yellow How and why we executed the end-to-end BI model How we managed to make data meaningful for our executive leadership team through information delivery. Opportunity to sell insights alongside creating insights David Bloch, Head of Business Intelligence, Yellow Pages Group 2.00 Making Agile BI work Agile is one of the fastest growing frameworks, getting popular by the day amongst BI professionals. However it cannot be simply applied in its original form and ideally requires tweaking and customisation to suit the role of a BI professional. This session will address the key to making Agile work and common challenges that one may encounter while deploying Agile BI. 2.40 Summary remarks from Chair and end of conference Network with your industry peers BI Analysts: 35% Head of Business Intelligence: 10% Business Analyst: 10% Data Analyst: 10% ICT Manager: 10% Data Architect: 5% MIS Analyst: 5% CFO: 5% CIO: 5% IT Manager: 5% register today EXHIBIT AT OR SPONSOR THIS EVENT! Sponsorship is now recognised as a highly effective marketing medium make sure you gain competitive advantage in your markets by sponsoring this event. To discuss the range of opportunities available, contact: sponsorship@conferenz.co.nz or call our team on (09) 912 3616
Separately bookable workshops: 21st February 2013, pullman hotel, auckland Agile project management for BI professionals 9.00am - 12.30pm Agile methodology is gaining growing importance in the IT field and has time and again proven its competency in enabling efficient teams. This workshop will cover how this methodology can be applied to BI processes and what are some of the tools and frameworks that will successfully enable the incorporation of Agile practice into BI. Part A: Teamwork A mini-masterclass on team dynamics before executing Agile: How to prepare the team for Agile? Part B: Executing Agile A brief overview of how to customise Agile for your BI team An overview of agile methods and tools most suited and widely used in BI globally Developing winning teams through Agile Top tips and best practices while executing or introducing Agile into your team Phillip Higgins, BI Architect, Data Governance frameworks and the key to executing a unified data governance model 1.30pm - 5.00pm This workshop describes the range of competencies and frameworks to guide you through the data governance essentials. The course will closely examine as to how good practices in data governance will affect BI processes and ultimately the decision-making. We will be covering the workshop in two parts, Part A discussing the human factors and Part B focusing on the technical aspects of data quality governance: Part A: Human factors What are the salient features of a successful data governance team? Defining roles for effective execution of data governance Challenges in dealing with bureaucracy within the organisation when it comes to implementing data governance Developing a roadmap to understand how data governance is best applied practically Part B: Strategy and technical governance Evaluating the reason behind doing data governance and linking it to the objective of the organisation and the bottomline Resource management and outputs: How to do more with limited or available resources Ensuring the stakeholders who contribute to these resources are content with the outcomes Phillip Higgins, BI Architect, Phil Higgins is a Big Data and Business Intelligence Consultant with a track record of delivering best of breed analytics to New Zealand companies. Phil has a strong interest in Big Data business and information architectures and governance utilizing both agile and structured approaches. Phil has many years experience delivering ROI througn BI in fields such as TV ratings and advertising, energy, logistics, manufacturing and financial services. register today
From Welcome from the Chair The rapidly increasing digital universe and the sheer volumes of information that are available through the likes of search engine analytics and social networking has evolved business intelligence. We no longer simply ask what was?, now we also ask what is? and increasingly there are tools to enable what will be? reporting. The pace of this change means that an effective data strategy now comes with the understanding that much will change during the next year. A major challenge for the business intelligence manager is to know when and where your organisation should use advances in technology, new datasets and approaches to BI. Agility is has never been more crucial. The purpose of this conference is to discuss factors shaping the future of business intelligence, and the key points of discussion are: The future state of business intelligence: drawing from the knowledge of specialist practitioners from New Zealand and around the world on the current and future state Agile strategies: identifying best-practice in building an agile business intelligence strategy that can change with the needs of the business Data-driven: enable your organisation to become truly data driven in its decision making The implications: what does it all mean? Reviewing the implications of big data and social media on business intelligence Welcome to the 6th Annual Business Intelligence Conference. David Bloch, Chairperson Silver Sponsors Agile Project Management and Data Governance Workshops available - see inside Exhibitors Halo Business Intelligence
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