Welcoming Remarks
Jim Love, CIO, ITWC
Opening Address:The Business Imperative for Data, Analytics, and Innovation
Kimberly Nevala, Strategic Advisor & Advisory Business Solution Manager, SAS
Lessons In Analytics
Throughout the event, you will experience a series of carefully curated, short videos that provide a valuable and practical glimpse into some of Canada’s most innovative and robust analytic tools.
These information intense vignettes will provide you with different perspectives on what is possible now and in the future.
Panel: The Analytics Landscape – Tools, Techniques and Experiences
Today’s organizations face a dizzying array of options and new technologies in the area of data and analytics. This wide-ranging discussion of data leaders will share their experiences at the leading edge and offer their best advice as to how to stay at the front of the technology curve without risking overreach.
Moderator:
Jim Love, CIO, ITWC
Panelists:
Mike Armson, Data Associate, Sklar Wilton and Associates
Michael Morris, Director, Data and Analytics, Global Furniture
Eugene Y. Wen, MD. DrPH. Vice President, Group Advanced Analytics, Manulife
Lessons in Analytics
Fireside Chat: How to Build an Effective Data-Driven Organizational Culture
No matter how good your analytics, companies cannot realize the full value of your data if people don’t have access to data or work in silos without collaboration.
As many experts in this field assert – data management is not a technology issue but a people issue. Well that means you need to address the culture of your organization and its structure so that you enable your people to work together to achieve the best possible results for the business
Ima Okonny, Chief Data Officer, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Adele Pugliese, Vice President, Data Enablement and Analytics, BentallGreenOak
Lessons in Analytics
Analytics and Rethinking Human Resources – Effective Strategies for Addressing Tech Talent Shortages
Qualified data and analytics experts have always been in short supply but recently trends such as the “Great Resignation” and “quiet quitting” have many employers facing greater chronic and acute shortages of vital talent. What many organizations are experiencing is a major shift in the employer/employee relationship and a rethinking of skills and the nature of work. As a result traditional approaches to talent shortages are losing their efficacy. What’s needed is a reimagining of work fueled in part by analytics“Great Resignation” and “quiet quitting” have many employers finding themselves facing chronic and acute shortages of vital talent. How do you find, nurture, develop and retain the talent you need?
Stela Lupushor, Author, Humanizing Human Capital
Great Governance – Why it matters and how to do it
In this session you will hear some of the essentials of data governance in a rapidly changing environment to ensure you know who has your data, what they are doing with it and ensure compliance with privacy regulations.
Carter Cousineau, Vice President, Data & Model Governance, Thomson Reuters
Lessons in Analytics
Security and Privacy Essentials for Data Professionals
This session will cover some of the latest developments in security, privacy and compliance aimed at analytics professionals, business users, management and executives.
Jennifer R Davidson, Partner, Deeth Williams Wall LLP
Lessons in Analytics
Telling Your Digital Story Effectively
Successful analytics requires that you be able to communicate complex information to a broad audience – to the C-Suite executives who make decisions, to the Board of Directors overseeing the corporation, to those leading change and to the employees implementing it. This session will offer new insights into how to turn data and analytics into a compelling narrative that will inform better decision making and help drive change.
Emma Warrillow, SVP Research and Data Insights, Shift Paradigm
Closing Remarks
Jim Love, CIO, ITWC