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Our 2024 Speakers included
Chandra Donelson
Author The Data Detective
Kate Lucas
Chief Analytics Officer
Department of Health
Darshil Mehta
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
ASIC
Ciara McGoohan
Chief Customer Officer and Chief Data Analytics Officer
Baby Bunting
Akanksha Wangnoo
Executive Data Risk Governance
NAB
John Cox
Chief Technology Officer
Coles
Raf Cinaglia
Executive Data and Insights, Business and Private Bank
NAB
Pieter Vorster
General Manager Data Platforms
Westpac
Nonna Milmeister
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
RMIT
Varun Verma
Chief Data Analytics Officer
L’Oreal
David Thomas
GM Portfolio
New Zealand Post
Tracy Moore
Exec - AI Product Incubation and Ethics
Telstra
Why should you attend?
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CDAO Melbourne 2024 is designed for CDAOs, Directors, Heads, Managers of data and analytics, and practitioners from across sectors in Australia working in the data field.
Network with Melbourne's Key Data Decision Makers over three action packed days
Make new contacts and reconnect with peers at Melbourne's largest and most senior data meeting place.
Ask Your Burning Data Questions of 100+ speakers!
Let your voice be heard at our Discussion Groups, Roundtables and Panel Discussions. Join the fun and bring discussions as we work towards solving common problems.
Deep Dive on Governance and AI & Analytics Focus Day
Focus on the most relevant topic to support your strategic goals.
Update Your Tech Stack
Be inspired by those delivering change and serving the community through exciting new services at our one-stop amazing tech exhibition and trade show!
Who should attend?
Decision makers and thought leaders in data, AI, and analytics - from any organisation that puts data at the center of decisioning.
What people say about the event
"I recently started in an Executive leadership role in Data and Analytics, and this event gave me the ideal opportunity to get across industry trends, new tools and technologies, and to gain from hearing about experiences and learnings which has given me a head start in my role."
Key themes & takeaways
AI & ANALYTICS Drive business and commercial value from AI at our AI & Analytics pre-conference focus day |
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PRACTICAL DATA Work towards solving the problem with pragmatism, this theme focuses on implementing realistic strategies that can be brought to life |
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SCALE Embed data-enabled decision making as part of your business DNA |
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BUSINESS GENERATION Explore opportunities and tap into new data, AI & analytics growth avenues |
Thanks to our 2024 Partners
Lead Partner
Qlik
Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster. We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources. Our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities. As strategic partners, our platform-agnostic technology and expertise make our customers more competitive.
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Diamond Partners
Informatica
Informatica, an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader, brings data and AI to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets. We have created a new category of software, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud™
(IDMC). IDMC is an end-to-end data management platform, powered by CLAIRE® AI, that connects, manages, and unifies data across virtually any multi-cloud or hybrid system, democratizing data and enabling enterprises to modernize and advance their business strategies. Customers in more than 100 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica to drive data-led digital transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.
SAS
With 45+ years of analytics innovation, SAS is a trusted data and AI powerhouse for organisations seeking immediate value from their data.
A deep bench of analytics solutions and broad industry knowledge keep our customers coming back. With SAS®, you can discover insights from your data and make sense of it all. Identify what’s working and fix what isn’t. Make more intelligent decisions and drive relevant change. SAS gives customers THE POWER TO KNOW®.
Learn more at sas.com/viya
Tiger Analytics
Tiger Analytics specializes in building AI and data science solutions that enable enterprises to generate business value from data. The company brings deep expertise in marketing science, customer analytics, operations analytics, and risk analytics, and is a trusted partner for several Fortune 500 companies
Visit websiteTableau
Tableau helps people transform data into actionable insights. Explore with limitless visual analytics. Build dashboards and perform ad hoc analyses in just a few clicks. Share your work with anyone and make an impact on your business. From global enterprises to early-stage startups and small businesses, people everywhere use Tableau to see and understand their data.
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Gold Partners
Interworks
InterWorks is a data innovation team. We’re data strategists, analytics experts, solution architects, platform engineers and product builders. Above all, we’re devoted problem solvers. We understand what it's like working with data today because we work side-by-side with our customers to get more done together. We offer services dedicated to dashboarding, UI/UX, performance, governance, data prep and cloud migration. We offer products such as Curator by InterWorks so you can build your dream analytics hub, customize/design the end-user experience and unlock embedded analytics or data monetization. We offer support through ServerCare and KeepWatch which manage and monitor the health of your BI platforms, so you get time back. We offer strategic advisory, solution sprints, assessments, training and a full-scale customer success model through InterWorks PRO. When you think of InterWorks, think of answers and think of a team of people you’ll love working with.
Visit websitePrecisely
Precisely is the global leader in data integrity, providing accuracy, consistency, and context in data for 12,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including 99 of the Fortune 100. Precisely’s data integration, data quality, data governance, location intelligence, and data enrichment products power better business decisions to create better outcomes.
Learn more at precisely.com
Visit websiteSnowflake
Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) and analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries, including 647 of the 2023 Forbes Global 2000 (G2K)1 as of October 31, 2023, use the Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses. Learn more at snowflake.com
Visit websitedbt Labs
Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt is a data transformation framework that lets analysts and engineers collaborate on transformation workflows using their shared knowledge of SQL. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work faster and more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust.
dbt Labs pioneered the practice of analytics engineering and has been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today there are 11,000 companies using dbt every week, 30,000 practitioners in the dbt Community Slack, and 2,000+ companies paying for dbt Cloud.
Databricks
Databricks’ mission is to accelerate innovation for its customers by unifying Data Science, Engineering and Business. Databricks’ founders started the Spark research project at UC Berkeley that later became Apache Spark. Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform powered by Apache Spark for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. Users achieve faster time-to-value with Databricks by creating analytic workflows that go from ETL and interactive exploration to production. The company also makes it easier for its users to focus on their data by providing a fully managed, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure that reduces operational complexity and total cost of ownership. Databricks, venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Battery Ventures, among others, has a global customer base that includes Viacom, Shell and HP. For more information, visit www.databricks.com.
Visit websiteSecuriti
Securiti is the pioneer of the Data Command Center, a centralized platform that enables the safe use of data and GenAI. It provides unified data intelligence, controls and orchestration across hybrid multicloud environments. Large global enterprises rely on Securiti's Data Command Center for data security, privacy, governance, and compliance. Securiti has been recognized with numerous industry and analyst awards, including "Worldwide Leader in IDC MarketScape Data Privacy Compliance Software“, "Most Innovative Startup" by RSA, "Top 25 Machine Learning Startups" by Forbes, "Most Innovative AI Companies" by CB Insights, "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner, and "Privacy Management Wave Leader" by Forrester. For more information, please visit Securiti.ai and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Visit websiteThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is the Modern Analytics Cloud company. Our mission is to create a more fact-driven world with the easiest to use analytics platform. With ThoughtSpot, anyone can leverage natural language search and AI to find data insights and tap into the most cutting edge innovations the cloud data ecosystem has to offer. Companies can put the power of their modern data stack in the hands of every employee, extend the value of their data to partners and customers, and automate entire business processes. Thoughtspot enables everyone within an organization to limitlessly engage with live data regardless of their cloud data platform, making it easy to achieve granular, actionable insights through Live Analytics. Customers can take advantage of ThoughtSpot’s web and mobile applications to improve decision making for every employee. With ThoughtSpot’s developer-friendly platform, ThoughtSpot Everywhere, customers can also bring the Modern Analytics Cloud to their products and services, engaging users and keep them coming back for more. Organizations like Walmart, BT, T-Mobile, Snowflake, HubSpot, Exxon, Daimler, Medtronic, Hulu, Royal Bank of Canada, Nasdaq, OpenTable, Workato, and Nationwide Building Society rely on ThoughtSpot to transform how their employees and customers take advantage of data. See for yourself and try ThoughtSpot today.
Visit websiteConfluent
Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Our cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion --- designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, our customers can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital customer experiences and real-time business operations. Our mission is to help every organization harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.
Visit websiteQuest Software
At Quest, we create software solutions that simplify IT management and help customers achieve IT resilience. Our solutions maximize the value of our customers’ data performance, streamline migration and modernization processes, enhance Active Directory and Office 365 management capabilities and strengthen cybersecurity.
Since 1987, we have partnered with more than 130,000 organizations, including 95 percent of the Fortune 500, to help them become data empowered, protect their identities and directories, and reduce their potential attack surface.
Quest provides a broad range of service offerings to support our solutions and meet the ever-changing customer needs in an evolving enterprise IT landscape.
Aiven
Aiven is a global, open source data and AI platform company, helping organizations gain more value from their data. Aiven’s cloud platform combines open source services to stream, store, and serve data, simply, securely, and rapidly on any cloud. Aiven is trusted by thousands of start-up and enterprise customers to create next-gen applications like AI/ML confidently and quickly. Aiven is fully committed to the open source community and helping organizations revolutionize the performance, scalability, and resiliency of their cloud data infrastructure, and streamline the work of technical teams to lower costs.
Visit websiteTricentis
Tricentis is a global leader in continuous testing and quality engineering. The Tricentis AI-powered, continuous testing platform provides a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing. An approach that’s totally automated, fully codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. It addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Widely credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications, Tricentis has been recognized as a leader by major industry analysts, including Forrester, Gartner, and IDC. Tricentis has more than 2,500 customers, including the largest brands in the world, such as McKesson, Accenture, Allianz, Telstra, Dolby, and Vodafone.
Visit websiteDataiku
Dataiku is the Universal AI Platform, uniting the technology, teams, and operations needed for companies to build intelligence into their daily operations, from modern analytics to Generative AI. Together, they design, develop and deploy new AI capabilities, at all scales and in all industries. Organizations that use Dataiku enable their people to be extraordinary, creating the AI that will power their company into the future.
Founded in 2013, Dataiku has proven its ability to continue to develop its founding vision for Everyday AI, and to execute on its growth.
Contact Dataiku: Through our Blog, follow us on Twitter/X (@Dataiku), connect with us on LinkedIn , and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Silver Partners
Billigence
Billigence’s mission is to transform the way people work with data. We are a professional services company, providing high-calibre data expertise and using the best technology on the market, to help our clients leverage their data. We have a proven track-record of consistently producing exemplary results, taking the guess work out of decision making and helping our clients to gain a competitive edge.
Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Billigence’s is a global business with a growing customer base of iconic brands, from SMBs to large enterprise corporations across various industries. We provide business intelligence solutions that help to consolidate and transform data into critical business insights.
Our capabilities include, but are not limited to, cloud data architecture and deployments, data governance management and strategy, data science and ML ops, data visualisation and advanced analytics, customer lifetime value analytics and data engineering and automation.
Fivetran
Fivetran helps customers use their data to power everything from AI applications and ML models, to predictive analytics and operational workloads. The Fivetran platform reliably and securely centralizes data from hundreds of SaaS applications and databases into any cloud destination. Global brands including Autodesk, JetBlue and Morgan Stanley, trust Fivetran to move their most valuable data assets to fuel analytics, drive operational efficiencies and power innovation. For more info, visit fivetran.com.
Visit websitePI.EXCHANGE
PI.EXCHANGE, a Melbourne-based deep-tech company, pioneers accessible AI. Their team is composed of seasoned machine learning (ML) experts with Fortune 500 experience committed to delivering ML solutions with real ROI for clients.
The AI & Analytics Engine, their flagship product, is a no-code ML platform streamlining extracting insights and predictions from data. Born out of a genuine business need for efficient pathways to ML value creation, it addresses common ML barriers of cost, time, and complexity.
Catering to business users, analysts, data scientists, and developers—the Engine unites functions to leverage data for informed decision-making and processes. Offering pre-built templates for ease-of-use and a customizable flow for regression, classification, and clustering, it scales seamlessly across use cases.
Whether embarking on a pilot project without dedicated data science resources or implementing expansive enterprise ML systems, the Engine enables your team to overcome prevalent obstacles in building and deriving value from AI.
The Data School
Over the last 3 decades, the team at MIP Australia have worked with leading organisations to provide data and analytics consulting services. We have also trained thousands of people to use Tableau, Alteryx, and Power BI.Over this time, we have seen data visualisation software growing incredibly fast, the largest organisations in Australia have been adopting these technologies for increasingly ambitious projects – ambitious in both scale and complexity. As a partners in these key software, a key role is to help ensure this momentum continues.
That’s why in 2018 we launched The Data School Down Under. We are partnered with and work closely with The Data School in London, New York, and Hamburg where for the past 8 years recruits have been trained to become the next generation of great data analysts and consultants, gaining real-life experience in many different organisations. Our partners include some of the largest names spread over various industries like education, finance, healthcare, telecommunications, transport, and retail. Visit website
KX
Our mission at KX is to accelerate data and AI-driven innovation with high performance analytics solutions, enabling our customers to transform into AI-first enterprises. Trusted by the world's top investment banks & hedge funds, aerospace & defense, life/health sciences, and advanced manufacturing companies.
Time series and vector data analytics and management are at the heart of our products, independently benchmarked as the fastest on the market. KDB.ai is the only Vector Database which is natively time-aware, cost effective, scale pretrained LLM's with your private knowldege bases to process high volumes of multi-modal unstructured data works across all data types with a single query; with Python Package available brings advanced analytics to your Snowflake or Databricks environment; and our unrivaled KX Insights platform drives the most demanding business decisions with connected, contextual, and continuous data-driven intelligence on prem, in the cloud or at the edge. More at www.kx.com
Visit websiteCoalesce
Coalesce revolutionizes data transformations for scalable data innovation. Recognizing data transformation’s critical role in the analytics lifecycle, we’ve created a solution that automates most SQL coding without sacrificing flexibility. Our platform boosts data team efficiency tenfold, allowing faster data pipeline development and management while empowering organizations to concentrate on extracting value and insights from their data. Discover more at Coalesce.io.
Visit websiteSlalom
Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. Our purpose—to help people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all—guides everything we do. And our north star is our vision of a world in which each person has the opportunity to love their life and work.
Since our consulting business started in 2001, Slalom has grown rapidly to 13,000+ team members in eight countries and 45 markets. We have close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, including AWS, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Snowflake, and Tableau.
From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. We deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact.
IM Systems
IMS is a strategic innovation consultancy that excels at aligning technology, data, and people to realise business potential. Vendor-independent and cloud-agnostic, we provide strategic advice, and implement business aligned digital, data and AI solutions for some of Australia’s most well-known public and private organisations. Many of our clients face challenges managing vast amounts of data and systems, and achieving alignment of their customer, business, and technology strategies.
They turn to us for advice on optimising their technology and data environment to ensure their data is fit for purpose, their systems are consolidated and aligned with business needs, and their people are ready for change.
Our approach combines the best of enterprise architecture, digital thinking, and data management, and most importantly, effectively engages with the people who are central to change.
As emerging technologies like predictive models and AI reshape productivity and value creation, its crucial organisations create strategic innovation pathways. Together we can create pathways that help realise your business potential.
From cross-government data sharing and managing sensitive health data, to rationalising complex multi-vendor technology and increasing technology and adoption - we’ve helped countless organisations solve their most complex problems through smart innovation.
Visit websiteArdoq
Ardoq is a dynamic, data-driven tool for Enterprise Architecture and a key tool for your digital transformation journey. Our software helps organizations and businesses plan, execute and predict the impact of change across their people, projects, strategies, processes, applications, infrastructure, and capabilities.
With Ardoq, fresh data creates a dynamic overview that provides insights for better decisions. Through the aid of dashboards, interactive visualizations, and diagrams, users can focus on understanding interdependencies between technology and people, and less time documenting.
Ardoq is a bold, caring, and driven company with a mission to empower our customers to drive value through successful change. More info: www.ardoq.com.
Coffee Lounge Partner
General Assembly
Since 2011, General Assembly (GA) has launched the technology careers of tens of thousands of diverse individuals and cultivated emerging tech talent pipelines for hundreds of the world’s leading employers. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers bootcamps, digital upskilling, apprenticeships, and other career onramps into today’s most in-demand jobs in web development, data, design, and more. Part of global HR solutions giant The Adecco Group, GA has become a leading provider of world-class technical training, equitable job opportunity, and social impact. GA has been recognized as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 and a Fast Company World-Changing Idea, as well as the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education.
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Networking Partner
EXL
At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations.
Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale.
Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact.
We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition.
Rubix
RUBIX is a leading Australian data technology company, providing innovative custom end-to-end data solutions to enterprise and mid-market companies. Founded in 2011, RUBIX is values based and data driven, putting the customer and our people at the heart of everything we do.
Our key offerings include; Data strategy, Data governance, Data preparation, Business intelligence, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence.
We’ve completed over 350 data projects and have been recognised as a leader in our field. We are the trusted data partner of some of Australia’s most successful companies.
As well as specialising in modern technologies, RUBIX adopts a fresh company culture with Employee Happiness at the core of our business philosophy. It’s just one of the ways we attract the best of the best!
Interested in becoming a partner?
Are you looking for an edge, a way to stand out and opportunities to tell your story to the people that matter?
CDAO Melbourne provides you with the ideal platform to showcase your solutions in front of the key decision makers.
Please contact our Sponsorship Manager, Alistair Clemett alistair.clemett@coriniumgroup.com or +61412 118 146 or book a call using the link below:
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Vanessa Jalleh
Conference Director
Our events are all carefully created from scratch. The whole process from research to post-production is crafted by our team, so we are always available to assist with any queries. We look forward to meeting you at the event.