Put Data at the Centre of Business Decisioning
Now in its seventh year, CDAO Melbourne is Victoria’s largest annual gathering of Data and Analytics decision makers.
Covering everything from strategic data governance, culture and leadership, to analytics at scale with ML and AI, be part of THE event that sets the data agenda.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Sam Shaheen
Chief Data Officer (Director City Data)
City of Melbourne

Coert du Plessis
Chief Executive
MaxMine

Alan Lowthorpe
(recently) General Manager of Data and Advanced Analytics
Wesfarmers

Revital Rosenberg
Chief Data Officer
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

Darshil Mehta
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
ASIC

Bob Sparshatt
Chief Data Officer, Data & Analytics
Equifax Australia/New Zealand

Dr. Ansar Kassim
Head of Finance Analytics
Verizon (USA)

Clare Kitching
General Manager - Data, Insights & Analytics
Treasury Wine Estates

Maruf Hossain
VP of Data Science, Intelligent Automation
ANZ

Varun Verma
Chief Data Analytics Officer
L’Oreal

Andrea Chang
Chief Data Officer
Comcare

Sandhya Iyer
General Manager - Data Science
Sportsbet
WHY ATTEND
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.
100+ Key Decision Makers Speaking!
Learn from the largest ever speaker panel of data and analytics leaders in Australia
Ask Your Burning Data Questions
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 Innovation 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!
KEY THEMES & TAKEAWAYS
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INNOVATE Stay at the cutting edge of data innovation at our Innovate pre-conference focus day |
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BUILD and keep strong, diverse data teams for the long haul |
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SCALE Embed data-enabled decision making as part of your business DNA |
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CREATE a data-sophisticated organisation through data literacy, democratisation and leadership |
TRACK A: Governance!
Delivering Quality Governance for Decision-Making, covering:
- AI governance and ethics frameworks for sustainability
- Centralised vs. decentralised data and analytics strategies
- Democratisation of data with the right governance
TRACK B: Innovate!
Innovation for Enterprise with Next Gen Technologies, covering:
- How to measure AI impact
- Are you ready for Big Data Analytics?
- The ethical question of AI
TRACK A: Governance!
Delivering Quality Governance for Decision-Making, covering:
- AI governance and ethics frameworks for sustainability
- Centralised vs. decentralised data and analytics strategies
- Democratisation of data with the right governance
THANKS TO OUR 2023 PARTNERS
THANKS TO OUR 2023 PARTNERS
lead Partner
Alteryx
As a leader in analytic process automation (APA™), Alteryx unifies analytics, data science and business process automation in one, end-to-end platform to accelerate digital transformation. Organizations of all sizes, all over the world, rely on the Alteryx APA Platform™ to deliver high-impact business outcomes and the rapid upskilling of their modern workforce.
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Denodo
Denodo is the leader in data virtualization providing agile, high performance data integration, data abstraction, and real-time data services across the broadest range of enterprise, cloud, big data, and unstructured data sources at half the cost of traditional approaches. Denodo's customers across every major industry have gained significant business agility and ROI by enabling faster and easier access to unified business information for agile BI, big data analytics, Web, and cloud integration, single-view applications, and enterprise data services. Denodo is well-funded, profitable, and privately held. For more information, visit www.denodo.com
Visit websiteDataiku
Dataiku is the centralized data platform that moves businesses along their data journey from analytics at scale to enterprise AI. By providing a common ground for data experts and explorers, a repository of best practices, shortcuts to machine learning and AI deployment/management, and a centralized, controlled environment, Dataiku is the catalyst for data-powered companies.
Customers across retail, e-commerce, health care, finance, transportation, the public sector, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and more use Dataiku to power self-service analytics while also ensuring the operationalization of machine learning models in production. By removing roadblocks, Dataiku ensures more opportunity for business-impacting models and creative solutions, allowing teams to work faster and smarter.
More information on www.dataiku.com
Visit websiteQlik
Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, one where everyone can use data to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. Only Qlik offers end-to-end, real-time data integration and analytics solutions that help organizations access and transform all their data into value. Qlik helps companies lead with data to see more deeply into customer behavior, reinvent business processes, discover new revenue streams, and balance risk and reward. Qlik serves over 50,000 customers around the world.
Visit websiteInformatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader, brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets. We have pioneered a new category of software, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC), powered by AI and an end-to-end data management platform that connects, manages and unifies data across any multi-cloud, hybrid system, democratizing data to modernize and advance their business strategies. Customers in more than 100 countries and 85 of the Fortune 100 rely on Informatica to drive data-led digital transformation. www.informatica.com. Connect with LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Informatica. Where data comes to life.
Snaplogic
SnapLogic powers the automated enterprise. The company’s self-service, AI-powered integration platform makes it fast and easy to connect applications and data across the enterprise to improve business processes, accelerate decision-making, and drive better business outcomes.
SnapLogic powers the automated enterprise. The company’s self-service, AI-powered integration platform helps organisations connect applications and data sources, automate common workflows and business processes, and deliver exceptional experiences for customers, partners, and employees.
SAS Institute
SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. Some people see data as facts and figures. But it’s more than that. It’s the lifeblood of your business. It contains your organization's history. And it’s trying to tell you something.
SAS helps you make sense of the message. As the leader in business analytics software and services, SAS transforms your data into insights that give you a fresh perspective on your business. You can identify what’s working. Fix what isn’t. And discover new opportunities.
We can help you turn large amounts of data into knowledge you can use, and we do it better than anyone. It’s no wonder an overwhelming majority of customers continue to use SAS year after year. We believe it’s because we hire great people to create great software and services.
SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.
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 Software
Tableau helps people see and understand data and explore with limitless visual analytics. Customers can build dashboards and perform ad hoc analyses in just a few clicks. They can share their work with anyone and make an impact on their business. From global enterprises to early-stage startups and small businesses, more than 70,000 customer accounts around the world use Tableau to turn data into actionable insights, and more than 300,000 people use Tableau Public to share public data in their blogs and websites. See how Tableau can help you https://www.tableau.com/leading-through-change
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ThoughtSpot
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 websiteCollibra
Since 2008, Collibra has been uniting organizations by delivering trusted data for every use, for every user and across every source. Our Data Intelligence Cloud Platform brings flexible governance, continuous quality and built-in privacy to all types of data. The Global 2000 relies on Collibra to create the critical alignment that accelerates workflows and delivers better results faster. 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 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 543 of the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 (G2K) as of October 31, 2022, use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses. Learn more at snowflake.com.
Visit websiteAlation
Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. More than 350 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realise business outcomes with Alation including Cbus Super, Belong (Telstra), Spark NZ, Virgin Australia, HBF Health. Alation was named in Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list and is backed by leading venture capitalists including Blackstone, Costanoa, Data Collective, Dell Technologies, Icon, ISAI Cap, Riverwood, Salesforce, Sanabil, Sapphire, and Snowflake Ventures.
For more information, visit alation.com.
MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is the largest independent publicly-traded business intelligence company, with the leading enterprise analytics platform. Our vision is to enable Intelligence Everywhere. MicroStrategy prides modern analytics on an open, comprehensive enterprise platform used by many of the world’s most admired brands in the Fortune Global 500. Optimized for cloud and on-premises deployments, the platform features HyperIntelligence ®, a breakthrough technology that overlays actionable enterprise data on popular business applications to help users make smarter, faster decisions. For more information about MicroStrategy
Visit websiteNeo4j
Neo4j is the world’s leading graph data platform. We help organisations – including Comcast, ICIJ,NASA, UBS, and Volvo Cars – capture the rich context of the real world that exists in their data tosolve challenges of any size and scale. Our customers transform their industries by curbing financial fraud and cybercrime, optimising global networks, accelerating breakthrough research,
and providing better recommendations. Neo4j delivers real-time transaction processing, advanced AI/ML, intuitive data visualisation, and more. Find out more at neo4j.com and follow us at @Neo4j.
SingleStore
Today’s data is complex and often siloed, presenting serious challenges for leading brands that rely on it — to make the right business decisions, to deliver exceptional customer experiences and to stay ahead of the competition. This reliance on data brings with it a need for simplicity, speed and scale. SingleStore delivers the world’s fastest distributed SQL database for data-intensive applications, SingleStoreDB.
By combining transactional and analytical workloads, SingleStore eliminates performance bottlenecks and unnecessary data movement to support constantly growing, demanding workloads. Digital giants like Hulu, Uber, Comcast and many more of the world’s leading SaaS providers choose SingleStore to unleash the power of their data — supercharging exceptional, real-time data experiences for their customers.
Visit websiteMIP
MIP: Revolutionising Data Analytics with Cutting-Edge Solutions and Expertise.
As a trailblazing data company, MIP delivers comprehensive, self-service analytics solutions for our clients. Combining data experts from our Advisory, Digital Transformation and Project Augmentation Practice with industry-leading technologies, we create innovative solutions that garner consistent praise.
Our partners - including Linkurious, Alteryx, Tableau, H20, WhereScape, Coalesce.io and Neo4J - value our dedication to client success, which has earned us the "partner of the year" recognition on several occasions.
As the exclusive reseller of Linkurious in ANZ, we provide state-of-the-art graph data visualisation and analytics software for a wide range of applications, including financial crime, intelligence, cybersecurity, and data governance. Our graph approach empowers both technical and non-technical users to effortlessly detect, investigate, and manage data, unveiling insights unreachable by other solutions.
Embark on your analytics journey with MIP! Reach out to us at info@mip.com.au.
Visit websiteSilver Partners
StreamSets
StreamSets, a Software AG company, eliminates data integration friction in complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments to keep pace with need-it-now business data demands. Our platform lets data teams unlock data—without ceding control—to enable a data-driven enterprise. Resilient and repeatable pipelines deliver analytics-ready data that improve real-time decision-making and reduce the costs and risks associated with data flow across an organization. That’s why the largest companies in the world trust StreamSets to power millions of data pipelines for modern analytics, AI/ML, smart applications, and hybrid integration.
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.
Fivetran
Fivetran automates data movement out of, into and across cloud data platforms. We automate the most time-consuming parts of the ELT process from extracts to schema drift handling to transformations, so data engineers can focus on higher-impact projects with total pipeline peace of mind. With 99.9% uptime and self-healing pipelines, Fivetran enables hundreds of leading brands across the globe, including Autodesk, Conagra Brands, JetBlue, Lionsgate, Morgan Stanley, and Ziff Davis, to accelerate data-driven decisions and drive business growth. Fivetran is headquartered in Oakland, California, with offices around the world. For more info, visit fivetran.com.
Visit websiteCloudera
At Cloudera, we believe data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. Cloudera taught the world the value of data, creating an industry and ecosystem powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community. We empower our customers, leaders in their industries, to quickly and easily transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. Through our hybrid data platform, organisations are able to build their data-driven future by getting data - no matter where it resides - into the hands of those that need it.
Visit websiteInterworks
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.
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Konnexus
We are deep specialists in the data analytics, project services and delivery space.
At Konnexus the team is connecting the industry’s lead talent with forward-thinking employers across Australia.
Our technological, data-driven approach to recruitment plays benefit within the industry we've chosen to make our niche. We engage an influential network of passive and active jobseekers, creating strong, long-lasting relationships between talented data professionals and the businesses they impact.
In this ever-evolving sector, we're proudly dedicated to continuous learning and agile working. Our tailored recruitment solutions encompass permanent and contingent hires for roles spanning across all areas within data, as well as project services & delivery, within data based environments.
Expect a personable, decisive approach and a true partner to consult with from start to finish.
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"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."

Conference Director
Siobhan Hady
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!