Our panel of experts and peers from UNSW, EY, and Greater Bank debate the best tactics to scale data strategies and architectures.

The heavy lifting is getting the foundations right in physical and logical architectures, setting data policies, assessing the time to value of data, and building data capabilities – then you need to evolve the art of data storytelling, the visualisation of data, and training the top execs.

They answer the burning questions…

  • What are the strategies, roadmaps, structure and skills required to deliver in the Chief Data Officer role?
  • How to correlate data strategy to business outcomes?
  • How to manage perceptions, relationships, and take siloed departments on the journey?
  • Who owns governance and compliance and the data itself?
  • How do we measure progress and success?
  • How to manage the talent shortage?
Contributors
Kate Carruthers Chief Data & Insights Officer at UNSW
Technologist, marketer, entrepreneur, and educator with extensive experience in commercial and public sector senior executive roles. Currently working at the intersection of... More
Technologist, marketer, entrepreneur, and educator with extensive experience in commercial and public sector senior executive roles. Currently working at the intersection of data analytics, AI, ML, privacy, cyber security, and data protection at UNSW Sydney. Member of the NSW Government Data Analytics Centre Advisory Board.
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Donna-Maree Vinci Former CIO/CDO at BoQ, Chief Operating Officer at GenVis
Donna’s career has predominantly centred on financial services, across retail, business, and institutional customer banking segments. Donna has deep corporate, regulatory and... More
Donna’s career has predominantly centred on financial services, across retail, business, and institutional customer banking segments. Donna has deep corporate, regulatory and commercial experience in senior executive roles across global business operations, risk management, digital, data and technology.Donna has been at the forefront of the strategy, business, digital, technology, operations, regulatory and risk management for the organisations she has worked with. Her extensive experience in, and her track record of delivering digital disruption and transformation projects for major financial services organisations globally enables her to play a key role in business decisions as they continue to digitise their business and create new customer experiences.Donna’s focus is not just being technologically driven, a large part of her approach is centered on culture/mindset, customer platforms, partnerships, team development, leadership and a commitment to continuously learn through new experiences and creating new possibilities that enable change.

From ‘finding her passion’, to ‘living her passion’ to ‘expanding her reach’, Donna has used her experience and opportunities to elevate her people and businesses to be competitive in the fast pace of change and is known for her commitment to paying-it-forward to others.

In addition to her executive business roles, Donna has held a number of leadership roles incorporating corporate responsibility, diversity and inclusion programs into any strategy and operating rhythm, such as is her roles as the chair and executive sponsor of Diversity & Inclusion, Indigenous Reconciliation Programs and Domestic and Family Violence initiatives.

Donna is currently the Chief Operating Officer at GenVis Pty Limited and, also currently serves as a Non-executive Director on the boards of a number of organisations in the financial services, education, compliance and risk management sectors.

Donna previously held senior leadership positions at Bank of Queensland as the Chief Digital and Information Officer, IAG where she was Group General Manager, Group Digital and Group CIO, and prior to that, Donna was the Chief Operations and Information Officer of Westpac’s Institutional Bank for four and half years. Donna has also held many global executive management roles at Citigroup over a span of fifteen years, including Regional CIO and Global Head of Technology Risk Management.

Outside of her corporate roles, Donna actively works with not-for-profit organisations in both formal and informal capacities across healthcare, education and community services, to support her passion of paying it forward and making a societal impact.

In 2019, Donna was awarded Cisco’s Women in IT, 2019 CIO of the Year Award.

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Louisa Francis Partner, Technology & Consulting, Data & Analytics at Ernst & Young
I am a Partner of EY’s Data and Analytics practice bringing over 20 years of professional services, corporate and not-for-profit experience focused... More

I am a Partner of EY’s Data and Analytics practice bringing over 20 years of professional services, corporate and not-for-profit experience focused on leading successful business transformation.

My focus is on supporting organisations across Government, Health and Life Sciences with their data and information management objectives to deliver real business value and working across EY to collectively strive to build better citizen outcomes, across Oceania, every day.

My leadership experiences have included:

  • Large-scale complex regulatory and compliance program delivery
  • Data governance and policy set-up and implementation
  • Data Protection and Privacy program implementation
  • 800+ data engineering organisations to deliver of $120m data projects p.a.
  • SaaS implementation from both business and technology perspectives
  • Business operations
  • Program Portfolio management

I am a passionate and motivated leader with a proactive approach to complex problem solving and process improvements through cross-business collaboration. Information management has incredible value beyond compliance and repository functions, unlocking this will lead to improved business performance.

In moving back from corporate to consulting my passion is to demonstrate the value of data in leveraging current and new assets to make a difference – bringing a digital strategy that enables organisations to determine how they can best leverage data and analytics technology to deliver the business outcomes they require, simply and sustainably. Making real changes to an organisation through the strategic implementation of easy-to-use solutions that create sustainable value that can be linked to an organisation’s bottom line – whether greater efficiency, increased revenues or both.

I am incredibly people-focused and enjoy building new teams, motivating challenged teams and bringing together a diverse group of people to collaborate on a common objective. My team leadership experience ranges from small teams of 15 to over 800 people. I am passionate about diversity in the workplace, particularly women in technology, and I am proud of working with The Growth Project to help charity leaders build sustainable organisations that make a difference for years to come.

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Peter Hind Principal Research Analyst at ADAPT
Peter Hind has spent the last 25 years as an analyst and commentator on the ICT industry. ​ His primary areas of interest... More

Peter Hind has spent the last 25 years as an analyst and commentator on the ICT industry. ​

His primary areas of interest are the potential of technology to transform the way organisations operate, the change management obstacles executives encounter in realising this potential, as well as the tactics and techniques leaders have deployed to overcome these difficulties.​

Peter now takes on multiple roles within ADAPT including the moderation of private events and roundtables, interviewing business executives about the strategies they are pursuing and assisting with the structuring of delegate surveys.​

He also interrogates and analyses ADAPT’s treasure trove of end-user and C-suite data.​

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