CDAO Melbourne
Speakers

Ben Pattison
CDAO
Flight Centre Travel Group

Kate Lucas
Chief Analytics Officer
Department of Health

Catherine Arnold
Chief of Data Services
SEEK

Craig Rowlands
General Manager Enterprise Data & AI
Australian Unity

Greg Turner
GM Data & Analytics
Resolution Life

Dr David Black
GM Data & Analytics
Scentre Group

Darshil Mehta
Former Chief Data Officer
King & Wood Mallesons

Tracy Moore
General Manager of AI & Data
MYOB

Marc Ashworth
General Manager Data Science & Data Product Engineering
nbn Australia

David Evans
Director of Data & Analytics
WorkSafe Victoria

Amanda Princi
Head of Data Enablement
Transurban

Naresh Teckchandani
CIO
Forever New

Ian Jackman
Former General Manager Data and Analytics
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
Milica Ng
Senior Director, Head Data Science
CSL

Saurav Sachdev
Head of Data
Coles

Kathryn Gulifa
General Manager-Data Analytics
HBF

Xavier Varalda
General Manager Data, Analytics & Data Governance
Sigma Healthcare

Benedict Chiu
Director, Services
Australian Research Data Commons

Sveta Freidman
Global GM, Data & Analytics /VP of Data & Analytics
Xero

Christian Biggs
Director, Data Analytics and Transformation
The University of Melbourne

Mark Sergeant
Head of Technology - Data Platforms
Latitude Financial Services

Katie Bayley
Program Director, Council Strategic Planning Program
City of Melbourne

Navin Vishwanath
Head of Data Management
NAB

Rakesh Kalyankar
Head of Data Services
AustralianSuper

Tonya Higgins
Head of Data and Insights
Beyond Blue

Asel Mendis
Analytics Lead Property
Kmart

Peta Stevenson
Group Head of Data and Analytics
Cbus Super Fund

Dr M Maruf Hossain
2024 Global Top 100 Innovators in Data and Analytics
Banking and Financial Services

Kennie Greagen
Applied Research & Innovation Manager
Foodbank Victoria

Mark Gu
Group Manager Advanced Analytics
St John of God Health Care

Asmita Deshpande
EM Data Product & Data Governance Expert
NBN Australia

Apurv Baviskar
Head Data/AI Strategy, Architecture, Innovation, Product
Medibank
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Kshitij (Kris) Nema
Senior Manager - Data Risk Services
ANZ

Nader Chmait
Head of Data & Analytics
New Aim

Swati Gupta
Head Of Data & Analytics
Yarra Valley Water
Melroy Vanlangenberg
Head of Data Governance
Australian Unity

Bismi Palatty
Manager, Data Platforms and Integrations
Alfred Health
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Raja Koushik
Data Migration and Governance Manager
Kinetic Group

Anshu Singh
Data Governance Manager
Yarra Valley Water

Su Jella
Winner - Women in AI for APAC, Top 25 Analytics Leaders, Vice President
Women’s Tennis Foundation

Ana Roy
Former Head of Merchandise Analytics
Kmart

Brad Starr
VP Data & AI
Informatica

Jonathon Bowring
Field Engineer
Informatica

Cristian Gomez
Data & AI Technology Lead
Strategy

Laxmi Narayana Piska
Digital Impact Consulting Leader
HCLTech

Esther Lim
Principal Solutions Consultant
Quest Software

Vicent Osabel
Principal Solutions Engineer
Dataiku

Tim Stead
Technical Director
Securiti

Sam Darmo
Senior Sales Engineer
Precisely

Stuart Rees
Country Manager, ANZ
ThoughtSpot

Ketan Karkhanis
CEO
ThoughtSpot

Gunjan Shrestha
Senior Solution Architect
Tricentis

George Bassili
Managing Partner
IMS

Sundar Ramaswamy
Head – AI & Analytics CoE
Happiest Minds Technologies

Della Zhuang
Vice President of Growth (ANZ)
Ataccama

Adam Plotnikov
Senior Solutions Engineer
BigID

Eric Poulin
General Manager and VP Sales
Strategy

Ram Jayaraman
Senior Manager - Data & Analytics
Deloitte