Agenda 

08:15-09:00

Registration

09:00-09:15

Opening Remarks from Chair
Kunal Taneja, A/NZ Systems Engineer, Cloudera

09:15-10:00

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Big Data Analytics
Dr Amr Awadallah, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera

10:00-10:30

Government Keynote: The Art of the Possible
Darryl Richardson, Assistant Commissioner, Smarter Data Program, Australian Taxation Office

10:30-11:00

Morning Tea

11:00-11:30

Sponsor Keynote: Challenge or Opportunity? Small Steps to Big (Data) Innovation
Helena Hamilton, Partner, Analytics & Information Management Public Sector, Deloitte

11:30-12:00


KEYNOTE PANEL: MAKING THE MOST OF GOVERNMENT DATA FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND IMPROVING SERVICE DELIVERY
- How can we digitally transform government services with data?
- How can we work better across government to achieve cross-portfolio outcomes?
- What are some of the newest application to use Data to transform the way we interact with our citizens?
- How will AI impact the way we deliver Government services
- How can we build our Data Management and Analytics Capability?
- What is the next step in creating reliable and state of the art data analytics implementations?

PANELLISTS:
Gemma Van Halderen, First Assistant Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Andrew Lalor, General Manager Analytical Services, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
Peter Alexander, Chief Digital Officer, Digital Transformation Agency
Ole Nielsen, Deputy Chief Digital Officer and Director of Digital Transformation, ACT Government
Mathew Smorhun, Assistant Secretary, Department of Defence

12:00-12:45

Interactive Roundtable Discussions - Peer to Peer Discussion Groups

Roundtable Sessions

Digital Transformation through Data Science

Data breaches: Dealing with the threat from within

 

Data Science Innovation and Collaboration within Government

Seth Hendrickson, Data Scientist & Fergus McKenzie-Kay, Federal Government Account Executive, Cloudera
Hybrid deployment of Cloudera/Azure and on premise Enterprise Data Warehouse

Ronnie Guha, Principal Solution Specialist, Data & AI & 
Sanjiv Bansal, Principal Solution Specialist, Data & AI, Microsoft

 

Use Cases to maximise return from Big Data investments

Tony Howell, Director Analytics & Information Management – Public Sector Specialist, Deloitte
Providing Insight with Data Analytics for Improved
Business Performance in Government

Paul Leahy, Public Sector Director ANZ, Qlik

 

AI and Government: the good, the bad, the ugly

Dr Amir Haddad, Lead Architect (Big Data Solutions) Insight & Data, Capgemini
New data requirements in the business require
new tools, meet the fastest visual analytics for 
streaming/IoT/Geo Spatial/modern data sources/ Hadoop and big data

Mark Burnard, Senior Solutions Consultant, Zoomdata

 

A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist

Lisa Rosenthal, Senior Data Scientist, Leidos   
Challenges in getting data ingested efficiently
to ensure successful Replatforming of Data
Warehouses to Hadoop

Jobi George, VP Business Development and 
Rupal Shah, Field Engineer, Streamsets


24X7 Government

Craig Fox, Selwyn Snell & Andy Hindmarch, AWS 		 Considerations for building scalable and flexible Analytics solutions

John Osborn, Solution Architect - Big Data, HPE

How security has moved from digital transformation blocker to enabler

Peter Jones, Account Director - Federal Government, Macquarie Government
 The Insider Story - How to Protect from Within 


Michael Livingstone & Leigh Costi, Securonix

12:45-13:30

Lunch

 

Stream A: Data Science

Stream B: Cyber Security

13:30-13:40

Opening Remarks from Cloudera: Delivering Value through Data Science

Seth Hendrickson, Data Scientist, Cloudera

Opening Remarks: Securing Agencies and Departments with Data Analytics from a Cloudera User perspective

13:40-14:00

Leveraging Data Science and Advanced Analytics to better Deliver and Inform Government Policy

Denis Bauer, Team Leader, eHealth,
Data61 / CSIRO

Building bridges across industry, academia and government silos to create a culture of data and analytics for cyber security

Michelle Price, Chief Operating Officer, Australian Cyber Security Growth Network

14:00-14:20

Sponsor Session: AI and Government: the good, the bad, the ugly

Dr Amir Haddad, Lead Architect (Big Data Solutions) Insight & Data, Capgemini

Sponsor Session: How digital transformation bakes in security

Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director Macquarie Government

14:20-14:40


Data Science and Healthcare

Richard Hurley, Director, Health Modelling Section, Health Analytics Branch Research, Data and Evaluation Division
Department of Health

Using data and analytics for cyber security and innovation at Austrac

Leanne Fry, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Information Security Officer,
AUSTRAC

14:40-15:00

Sponsor Session: Tackling America’s Opioid Crisis with Data Science

Lisa Rosenthal, Senior Scientific Systems Analyst, Leidos 

Sponsor Session: Open Source Data Science on Microsoft Azure

James Kavanagh, Azure Engineering Lead, Microsoft

15:00-15:15

Closing Remarks from Cloudera

Closing Remarks 

15:15-15:30

Afternoon Tea

15:30-16:00

Sponsor Keynote: 24X7 Government
Liam Caskie, Senior Practice Manager, IT Transformation, AWS

16:00-16:30

Government Keynote: Leveraging data science and advanced analytics to better deliver and inform government policy

Kelvin Watson, Deputy Government Statistician & Deputy Chief Executive –
Data Services Statistics NZ

16:30-16:55

Maximising the benefits of public sector data

Duncan McIntyre, Assistant Secretary, Data and Digital,
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

16:55-17.10

Closing Remarks from Chair

17:10-18:10

Networking Drinks hosted by Hitachi Vantara