Tony Ashton surely is one of the most experienced leaders in the field of HR technology & people analytics product innovation.

He is the Chief Product Officer at One Model, an HR analytics solutions provider. One Model offers a comprehensive data management platform & a complete suite of people analytics solutions directly from various HR technology platforms to measure all aspects of your employee lifecycle.

Tony moved to One Model after gaining seventeen years of experience leading the people analytics product team at SAP SuccessFactors & Infohrm.

In this episode, Tony offers us a deeper perspective beyond traditional analytics into how AI and ML are being used in people analytics.

What is the difference or unique things in applying AI/ML for people analytics compared to other disciplines?

He also shares with us some of the key challenges in applying people analytics in your organisation. Additionally, Tony explains how to get started & overcome these challenges.

So, if you are in the fence on applying people analytics for your organization or are currently working on improving your workforce, this is the episode you shouldn’t miss for anything.

#HRAnalytics #PeopleAnalytics #DataManagement #BusinessAnalytics #CustomerExperience #DataScience

David Azar is the AI Innovation Manager of AdOPT AI, a revolutionary enterprise Artificial Intelligence solutions provider for commercial and industrial facilities specialising in real estate.

AdOPT AI works as a centralized solution for all the problems that property owners and tenants can face. Most importantly, one of the major focuses is on environmental sustainability and cost-efficiency.

In this episode, David opens up quite a few new perspectives as far as the technology is involved in reaching new levels of sustainability and profit optimisation for landlords.

This really is a unique use case of data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). We get to learn a lot about how we are collecting more data and using it in ways that were not possible in the past.

David also shares with us how the benefits are three-pronged: energy saving, equipment sustainability, increased labour productivity.

Most importantly, the impact on ROI starts to show within just two weeks to six months.

So, this definitely is the episode you shouldn’t miss if you are into real estate in any shape or form.

#ArtificialIntelligence #RealEstate #BusinessAnalytics #CustomerExperience #DataScience

David Philpot has data science embedded throughout his life both professionally & personally.

As data science manager at the TrainDNA project of Downer, he is currently working on keeping our trains in top-notch condition. TrainDNA can predict the likelihood of equipment failures months in advance.

Downer is a leading integrated service provider in the civil engineering industry & an ASX 100 company.

He is also running a side-project called Mapipedia, a robust visual analytics tool.

In this episode, there’s so much to take in & realize. This is really an episode where you can learn a lot.

Although from the face of it, the interview may sound very specific to trains, TrainDNA & maintaining the rolling stock assets, there’s wisdom to glean for every business that deals with industrial assets.

David really digs deep & enlightens us exactly how the massive project runs. How the data is collected, who the stakeholders are & which party gets benefited in which way.

From the discussion, you will also learn the things to consider for carrying out such platforms, being aware of the challenges & the potential savings that you can gain out of such initiative.

#DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #BusinessAnalytics #CustomerExperience #PredictiveAnalytics

Technologist, marketer, entrepreneur, educator, blogger, & many more.

Kate is Chief Data & Insights Officer for UNSW Sydney & is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science & Engineering at the university.

She has recently been named in the CDO Magazine’s 2020 List of Global Data Power Women & was included among the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries.

In this episode, Kate sheds light on multiple important aspects related to data governance & adoption of technology in the higher education industry.

- How the universities are adopting technological shifts to weather the impact of the pandemic

- How the new technological adaptations are helping student experience & success

- Is the data that’s coming in from the increased use of technology helping the process

- The importance of data governance for any kind of organisation

- 5 questions to ask yourself while building your data governance program

- How students & professionals should prepare themselves for the future job market

#Data #IoT #Business Analytics #CustomerExperience #DataScience

Greg Anderson is here with us from one of the leading frontiers of the world of marketing & sales - the intent-driven marketing.

Greg is the Vice President of Sales (APAC) at TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT), the company that’s leading the global field of purchase intent-driven marketing.

TechTarget offers a wide range of data-driven marketing & sales solutions for B2B enterprises. They have a network of 140 highly targeted technology-specific websites mining & driving real-time intent data & helping over 1,300 tech companies in over 200 target markets.

In this episode, Greg delves really deep into the unique case of using purchase intent-driven marketing.

Intent driven marketing has been around for B2C marketing for some time now but doing it for the B2B is very hard. Now, TechTarget has pulled this off.

Here, you will learn all about how they are doing this difficult but ingenious task in detail. And, what’s in it for your business whether you are a large corporation or a small business.

So, if you want to take your marketing initiative to the next level & get the most out of cutting edge marketing technology, this is the episode you shouldn’t miss.

Mark Monfort is the Client Partner at Decision Inc., a global leader in information-driven transformation with a core focus on data.

Mark is very passionate about helping businesses make better decisions with the help of data science. He has over 10 years of professional experience working with data.

He is also leading the not for profit organisation Data Science and Ai Association of Australia | DSAi as a Co-Head.

In this episode, Mark shares a lot on the ways to start & progress on the data journey specially for SMBs & midsized businesses:

- Start small with a minimum viable project (MVP) & then gradually move ahead.

- The formula is – MVP, reiterate & increment.

- Starting with data doesn’t necessarily have to be costly. There are lots of free resources out there that you can utilize.

- Mark also shares some of the strategies that you can adopt to start with the free resources.

- How you should take help from consultants & experts.

- What are the considerations that you should keep in mind while choosing a tech partner.

- Some general guidelines & tips on building your data solutions.

#BusinessAnalytics #DataScience #Finance #DataAnalytics #BusinessIntelligence #Investment

Sudhir Mishra has been working in the banking industry since 2005.

Now he is working as the Executive Manager at Westpac Group.

At Westpac, Sudhir is leading a team of Senior Managers across program management, data analytics & change management to deliver digital business transformation.

His operations range over 900+ branches covering all 4 Westpac Group brands & 10K+ bankers.

In this episode, Sudhir shares with our audience:

- How he & his team developed analytics tools helping bankers deliver better customer experience.

- Why many digital transformation projects fail. Hint: being too ambitious.

- Factors contributing to a successful digital transformation for any organisation.

- Why you should always strive to be closer to the ground realities while implementing data solutions.

- Lessons the financial services industry can learn from the tech companies.

- Dynamics of the tech companies, like Google or Facebook, entering into the financial services.

- Impacts of neo-banking organisations.

- How to develop organisational culture where everybody feels safe & contributions are appreciated.

#BusinessAnalytics #CustomerExperience #DataScience #Banking #DigitalTransformation

Alexis Fournier is the Director of AI strategy at Dataiku, an AI & machine learning company. Dataiku provides a centralized data platform that moves businesses along their data journey from analytics at scale to enterprise AI. The company has been named a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for data science & machine learning platforms.

Before joining Dataiku, Alexis worked at SAP, a multinational software company with a revenue of 27.55 billion EUR.

In this episode, Alexis steps into the hotspots of topics around AI/ML:

- The process & benefits of democratizing data & AI technologies at your organisation

- Why the focus should always be on the people instead of the product as it’s the people who build your company.

- Democratizing AI means empowering all these people to grow & increase productivity.

- Data applications are no more any particular industry-specific or process-specific You can use data & AI technologies almost everywhere.

- On top of that, it brings home a huge amount of benefits for the businesses & organisations.

- Things you should be aware of if you are still procrastinating about implementing AI use cases in your business

#BusinessAnalytics #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning

What does digital transformation mean for your business?

There’s so much to ponder about when we think of digital transformation for businesses.

Let’s get into the crux of the matter with one of the leaders in the field of business transformation & data analytics - Ashish Saxena.

With more than 20 years of experience, Ashish is currently working as the Principal of Digital Business at Cognizant, one of the most admired Fortune 500 companies.

In this episode, Ashish shares with us a lot about digital transformation & some of the key lessons that he has learned over the years:

- How to make the digital transformation successful

- Why data has the most important role to play in the journey

- How to keep your focus on the right kind of data

- Why you should always start small with clear business use cases & how to tie the data to these business use cases

- Why it is important to understand your customers & how to apply the human-centred design with your understanding of the customers

- How this approach would be applicable to integrating the online & offline worlds

- What the future looks like for the field of data science

And much more!

#DigitalTransformation #BusinessAnalytics #CustomerExperience #DataScience #Analytics

Leanne Pilkington is one of the most influential personalities of the Australian property industry. She has over 35 years of experience in all aspects of real estate.

Currently, she is the Managing Director of Laing+Simmons, the leading boutique real estate franchise network in New South Wales. She is also the President of the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales (REINSW). Real estate is a $107 billion industry annually in NSW.

In this episode, the conversation ranges across quite a broad spectrum of topics:

The most important key takeaway for anyone is how Leanne is actually using the data to build her own audience & subsequently drive the business.