CDAO Singapore schedule

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• Exploring how leaders must take charge of integrating AI into their organisations, moving beyond IT departments to embed AI into strategic planning and decision-making
• Defining success metrics and fostering a culture that embraces AI-driven change to enhance operational efficiency and competitive advantage
• Highlighting the necessity for leaders to champion ethical AI practices and promote a culture of continuous learning and innovation

Join VP, Field Chief Technology Officer – Nick Dobbins as he explores how the combination of AI and reliable data leads to remarkable business success. Discover how advancements in master data management and AI governance can shape your future and prepare you for what’s next.

• Exploring how AI and data democratisation are reshaping business operations by enabling real-time insights and enhancing operational efficiency
• Discussing how enterprises can measure the return on investment (ROI) from AI initiatives in conjunction with data democratisation efforts
• Examining the ethical implications of leveraging AI within a democratised data framework

Moderator

Sigrid Rouam Chief Data Officer & Head of Data Management, Data Analytics & Gen AI EFG Bank International

Panellists

David Duan Head of Data GoTo Group

Soumyajit Sarcar Head of Data & Analytics Product Development, Chief Data Office Nomura

Durjoy Patranabish VP – Head of Global Business Tiger Analytics

Generative AI is only as powerful as the data it learns from — making governance, security, and agility critical for success. In this joint session, Denodo and ABeam Analytics explore how enterprises are using logical data management to deliver trusted, well-governed data for scalable GenAI applications.

Learn how organizations are:

• Unifying fragmented data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments for AI readiness
• Embedding governance and compliance into AI-driven data flows without slowing innovation
• Empowering business users with secure, self-service access to AI-powered insights

Discover how a modern data architecture with logical data management can accelerate GenAI adoption—while ensuring trust, control, and business value.

Co-presenters
Shanmuga Sunthar Muniandy Director of Architecture & Chief Evangelist, APAC Denodo

Weng Kin Chew Principal Solution Architect ABeam Analytics

• Building effective collaborations among stakeholders to enhance innovation and driving business growth.
• Navigating regulatory and compliance challenges while forming data partnerships, ensuring that data sharing aligns with legal frameworks and ethical standards.
• Maximising value through data integration to unlock new insights

Moderator

Rakesh Menon EVP – Group Head of Advanced Analytics Solution Maybank

Panellists

Chen Huaxing Head, Group Wholesale Data Analytics UOB

Srividya Subramanian Vidyasagar Global Head, Cloud and Production Engineering, WRB Tech Standard Chartered Bank

• Exploring techniques for converting raw data into meaningful insights that drive strategic decision-making within organisations
• Quantifying the impact of advanced analytics on business performance through key metrics and case studies
• Highlighting strategies for encouraging a culture that prioritises data-driven decision-making across all departments

• Discussing strategies for leveraging customer data to enhance personalisation while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR
• Explore best practices for collecting, storing, and using customer data ethically to build trust and maintain customer relationships
• Utilising technology to protect customer data while still extracting valuable insights

Speakers

Tarun Samtani Data Protection Director (Privacy & Cyber Risk) Morgan McKinley

Tanveen Singh Director - Legal & Governance IRD Global

Discover how to modernise your data delivery through unified, contextualised, and reusable data at scale. We’ll explore how data products and knowledge graphs can power meaningful AI outcomes—helping you meet regulatory demands, drive operational efficiency, and fuel growth.​

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During the luncheon, we will cover: ​

• Key challenges in building a trusted data foundation for AI​
• How modern data delivery with data products enables enterprise-scale innovation​
• Using decision intelligence to drive compliance, elevate customer experience, and optimise operations.​

AI has the potential to transform businesses, but its success relies on one critical factor—trusted, high-quality data. Despite the excitement around AI, only 4% of businesses believe their data is AI-ready. Without accurate, complete, and well-governed data, AI can produce biased, unreliable, and even damaging outcomes. In this session, we’ll explore:

• The risks of AI failures caused by poor data quality and governance
• Essential strategies for improving data integrity to enable AI success
• Practical solutions for integrating, enriching, and governing data to maximize AI value

• Encouraging experimentation and learning
  without fear of failure.
• Providing training and resources to enhance the team’s data literacy and analytical skills
• Aligning data innovation with business goals to maximise impact and drive growth.

Since the 1960s, the bulk of investments in enterprise IT have been focused on processing structured, transactional data. As a result, we now expect 24x7 reliability and straight-through processing from transactional systems. But while we were busy mastering the art of transaction processing, 90% of enterprise data has always been held in unstructured formats: documents: files and images. Until recently, most businesses had no ability to leverage this unstructured data for strategic business advantage. But now, Generative-AI has sparked a data revolution. Gen-AI systems are both trained on and produce unstructured data. So, corporates everywhere are suddenly looking to leverage their unstructured data to better train AI models and drive deeper business insights. Come and hear how Nuix is powering the application of Generative-AI to business by deeply curating enterprise data and enabling a variety of innovative use cases. 

This session explores how Gen AI case studies—across financial services, corporates, and beyond—are transforming decision-making, risk management, and competitive intelligence. Learn how to supercharge your AI models and turn information into impact.

• Encouraging experimentation and learning
  without fear of failure.
• Providing training and resources to enhance the team’s data literacy and analytical skills
• Aligning data innovation with business goals to maximise impact and drive growth.

In today's rapidly evolving generative AI landscape, Chief Data & Analytics Officers (CDAOs) face unprecedented opportunities to revolutionize their organizations. While GenAI integration offers tremendous potential for innovation and competitive advantage, building secure AI systems presents significant challenges.

How do you safely tap all of the unstructured and structured data within your hybrid cloud landscape to feed these AI models? How can you ensure sensitive data is protected? What guardrails are needed to protect AI models from prompt injection and data exfiltration attacks? How do you implement continuous risk monitoring throughout your generative AI pipeline?

Join Tim Stead, Technical Director at Securiti to learn how CDAOs can implement a comprehensive framework to build safe, scalable generative AI systems that drive organizational success.

Key Takeaways:

• Critical risk factors in generative AI implementation
• Four essential components for developing secure, compliant generative AI systems
• Strategic best practices for embracing generative AI with innovative governance and compliance approaches

Co-presenters:

Shouvik Nandy Senior Manager Property Insights Standard Chartered Bank

Mark Cunningham Head of CRES Data & Analytics Standard Chartered Bank

• Structuring the foundational elements—data quality, governance, and ecosystems—to build scalable and impactful data strategies
• Tackling the complexities of fragmented legacy systems and integrating diverse data sources to unlock performance transparency and drive value.
• Practical insights into how generative AI and advanced analytics can complement traditional methods to deliver operational and strategic benefits.

As AI technology rapidly evolves, we face critical questions about its impact on employment relevancy. Supporters highlight increased productivity and efficiency, while critics warn of job displacement and ethical concerns.

Join us as our panellists explore these perspectives on the future of work in an AI-driven world.

Moderator

Joseph Wee VP Data Platform OCBC Bank

Panellists

Anand Gururaj Head, Data Engineering OCBC Bank

Karthika Prakasan Sreejith Head, Data Management OCBC Bank

Chan Chee Keong VP, Project Office OCBC Bank

• Exploring the infrastructure requirements to support the computational intensity of agentic AI
• Discussing the importance of robust data pipelines and real-time processing capabilities to ensure agentic AI systems can make accurate, timely decisions in dynamic environments
• Examining how enterprises can enhance their IT infrastructure with advanced cybersecurity measures and fault-tolerant systems to safeguard autonomous AI operations against threats and disruptions

Speakers

Pawan Darda CTO Pelago

Aishwarya Prabhat Field Solution Architect Google

• People strategy: Recruiting and developing tech workforce
• Culture strategy: Nurturing enabling culture for the data and AI era.
• Structure strategy: Structuring for speed, agility and innovation.

• Monetizing AI with Purpose – Why generative AI alone doesn’t guarantee ROI and how to strategically implement AI to drive measurable business outcomes.
• Identifying the right AI applications that enhance user experience, boost productivity, and create revenue opportunities.
• How a strong data foundation, modern infrastructure, and stakeholder buy-in pave the way for impactful AI-driven transformation.

• How SBS Transit is leveraging advanced data analytics to optimize operations, improve efficiency, and ensure smoother railway performance
• The journey of turning in-house rail solutions into marketable IP and expanding SBS Transit’s impact beyond local operations.
• The journey of turning in-house rail solutions into marketable IP and expanding SBS Transit’s impact beyond local operations.
  
  

• Assessing the maturity level of your data capabilities and setting improvement goals
• Ensuring data initiatives are agile and closely aligned with key business goals
• Leveraging data maturity to drive informed, real-time decision-making

 This group discussion is aimed at answering some of the most pressing questions facing data and analytics leaders today as they navigate the evolving data landscape. From tightening regulatory requirements and the rise of responsible AI to shifting organisational mindsets and managing rising costs, this interactive session will explore how leaders can balance governance, innovation, culture, and value creation. Participants will have the opportunity to share challenges, compare strategies, and uncover practical solutions to future-proof their data strategies in an increasingly complex environment.

Questions we will be answering at this discussions are:

1. How are you adapting your data governance practices to keep pace with changing regulations, especially around AI?
2. What challenges do you face in aligning enterprise-wide data policies with local or global compliance standards?
3. What cultural shifts have been necessary within your organisation to ensure responsible and effective AI adoption?
4. How do you build trust in AI systems among non-technical teams and leadership?
5. Who should “own” AI in your organisation—the business, IT, or a hybrid approach?
6. How do you evaluate the ROI of your data and AI investments beyond just financial metrics?
7. What strategies are you using to ensure data initiatives don’t become cost centres but deliver long-term business value?
8. How do you break down silos between data, IT, and business teams to foster shared ownership of data initiatives?
9. What role do data champions or stewards play in driving cultural change and responsible data use across departments?
10. As AI matures, what are your biggest concerns—or opportunities—when it comes to governance and scaling data-driven innovation?

In the highly competitive age of digital transformation financial service organizations are facing accelerated urgency to improve their customer and employee experience while simultaneously reducing operating costs, and managing risk and compliance.

To meet these competing demands on their business, these organizations are racing to deploy deep learning to achieve a new competitive edge by optimizing their back office operations with intelligent document processing, personalizing their customer experience with cutting edge NLP models, and reducing fraud and risk using state-of-the-art deep learning.

AI is here and delivering new capabilities to help businesses solve large and complicated challenges. Join Bob Gaines to learn what that means for your business and how deep learning is helping organizations:

• Achieve higher compliance, faster and with lower costs • Dramatically improve Customer Experience • Reduce time to value from years to weeks

Sergio Rego is a customer engineer at SambaNova Systems where he helps clients deploy purpose-built, deep learning solutions in weeks rather than years. Sergio started his career in financial services, where he worked in strategy; active and index management; and product design and management. Sergio also served as a senior data scientist and team manager for a system integrator where he helped federal government agencies deploy ML and AI solutions.

In the highly competitive age of digital transformation financial service organizations are facing accelerated urgency to improve their customer and employee experience while simultaneously reducing operating costs, and managing risk and compliance.

To meet these competing demands on their business, these organizations are racing to deploy deep learning to achieve a new competitive edge by optimizing their back office operations with intelligent document processing, personalizing their customer experience with cutting edge NLP models, and reducing fraud and risk using state-of-the-art deep learning.

AI is here and delivering new capabilities to help businesses solve large and complicated challenges. Join Bob Gaines to learn what that means for your business and how deep learning is helping organizations:

• Achieve higher compliance, faster and with lower costs • Dramatically improve Customer Experience • Reduce time to value from years to weeks

Sergio Rego is a customer engineer at SambaNova Systems where he helps clients deploy purpose-built, deep learning solutions in weeks rather than years. Sergio started his career in financial services, where he worked in strategy; active and index management; and product design and management. Sergio also served as a senior data scientist and team manager for a system integrator where he helped federal government agencies deploy ML and AI solutions.