The Analytics Show

Imagine this. You have a garden, and you’ve spent years growing apple trees. You harvest the beautiful juicy red fruits every season. And then, you leave them. You don’t eat them. You have so many of them. You don’t know what to do with them. You’re not even sure if you like apples, and no one else wants them either. They rot away in your basket every time, but, for some reason, you keep harvestin...

How often do you find that your hard work goes unappreciated? Others are doing what you do - maybe less - and getting all of the love and attention. It can be exhausting and demotivating, no matter how often you tell yourself that it doesn’t matter. Europe is facing the exact same problem in the technology and data science industry. They are often overshadowed by countries like the United States a...

Meet Benn Stancil It's no secret that running a startup is not for the faint of heart. From fundraising, managing teams, collecting data, and more, it's all part of the painful but electrifying process. Anyone who has done it before will tell you about the fine line they had to walk between success and failure. We read it on the news all the time, but today, I will take you behind the scenes and h...

Alignment and focus across the board are key in achieving a company’s goals as quickly as possible by working smarter not harder. But how does the finance team work with other departments to ensure everyone is focused on a common goal? Malcolm has the answer to creating a more cooperative environment to reach that end of the rainbow. Meet Malcolm Shroff Malcolm’s Role as a Financial Leader at Esse...

What is Smart Water Metering and what does it mean for sustainability across Australia? Is this the future of water conservation? Enter into the movement of smart cities and have a look into a brighter future - one step at a time - with Steven Tye. Meet Steven Tye Steven’s Role as a Smart Water Utilities Leader at Tyeware Steven Tye has been the Owner, Director, and Solutions Consultant at Tyeware...

If communication is key to running a successful business, then why do the different departments in a business fail to communicate? How many people go about their work day without knowing a single thing about what their co-workers are doing? If communication really is key, then what can miscommunication do to a business? Meet Sigal Pilli Sigal’s Role as a Finance Leader at Seer Medical Sigal Pilli...

With over half a billion fans following its events worldwide, Formula 1 is the greatest racing spectacle in the world. But very few of us know about Formula 1 as a corporate entity. What makes F1 such a highly successful organisation with raving fans? Max Métral, the Senior Analytics Manager at Formula 1®, is here to give us an insider view into the inner workings of data and analytics in the corp...

Aviation is an industry that naturally has a significant existence of legacy systems within financial and IT operations. How to harmonise these systems and what are the benefits of the harmonisation? Above all, how can you synchronize the legacy systems existing in your industry and organisation? To discuss all this and much more, we have Albert Ishak, the CFO of Airbus, Indonesia, for this exclus...

Vishal Kapoor is a senior analytics leader and data science professional with more than a decade of experience working in the data analytics industry. He has been recognised as the IAPA Top 25 Analytics Leader in Australia 2021. Currently, Vishal is working as the Head of Innovation at Prospection, a data analytics solutions provider for the healthcare industry. Prospection is a pioneer in healthc...

Meet Stephen Fernando Stephen’s Role as a Business Leader at Murray River Council Stephen P Fernando recently took on the role of the Director of Corporate Services at Murray River Council, a government administration or municipality covering 11,865 square kilometres located in the Southern Riverina bordering Victoria, Australia. It is a picturerous area that sees over 2 million room nights per ye...

Geeta Pyne is the Chief Enterprise Architect - Platform and Architecture at Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU). Intuit is a finance and accounting software development company serving millions of customers worldwide with popular financial products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mint. The company has 10,000 employees worldwide with $9.6billion in revenue in 2021 Geeta is currently leading Capabilit...

Anastasia Leng is the founder and CEO of CreativeX, an AI-based creative analytics company. Creativex is doing some truly out-of-the-box data analytics to blend the creative aspects of marketing and data science together. By analyzing creativity at scale, the CreativeX technology aims to advance creative expression through the clarity of data. The company has been helping the world’s most loved an...

What would you do if someone told you that you had lost hundreds or thousands or millions of dollars in your business? What if someone told you that there’s a high chance you’re losing out right this minute…? That someone is the data-driven pricing strategy. Answer me this. Are you really selling your products or services at the best price you could be, or are you losing the money you could have h...

Nick Yang is the Head of Marketing at Jacaranda Finance. Jacaranda is a Brisbane-based personal finance company providing super fast lending services to Australians with a broad range of risk profiles. Nick and Jacaranda want to usher in a new era of financial inclusion by making micro-financing available to all Australians, including the 3 million people who are deemed ‘unbankable’ by traditional...

Katja Hanewald is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies at UNSW Sydney, which has been ranked 1st in the world for Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance research. She is also the Coordinator of the Actuarial Co-op Program at the university. Apart from that, Katja is the Director of Research of the Ageing Asia Research Hub, which is hosted by the ARC Centre of Exc...

“What’s happened?” my wife asks me as I walk in the door, home late from work another day. I'm too embarrassed and upset to say that I just lost the company a truckload of money. Instead, I force a smile, lie about heavy traffic, and go to bed early. I know it was my fault. I made the wrong decision - again - and the company was suffering because of it. I recall a time long ago when someone told m...

Kshira Saagar is the first Chief Data Officer (CDO) of Latitude Financial Services. Latitude is Australia’s biggest non-bank lender, digital payments, and finance company with over 2.7 million customers across Australia and New Zealand. At Latitude, Kshira is currently working on enabling the enterprise to make faster and smarter data-driven decisions. Kshira oversees all the data science processe...

Andy Sutton is the Head of Data & Personalisation at Endeavour Drinks Group (ASX:EDV). Endeavour Drinks is the largest liquor retailer in Australia under the BWS, Dan Murphy's, Cellarnasters, and Langtons brands. Andy is currently working on setting the data and personalisation vision and strategy for Endeavour Drinks. He has over 20 years of experience in working with data insights, campaign...

Eran Vanounou is the CEO of Varada, a data lake acceleration platform that enables business users and data platform teams to seamlessly carry out analytics directly on their cloud data lake without compromising on query performance. It’s all about agility and flexibility -- No need to move data or model it to get any insights that you may need. Varada enables the fastest time big data analytics en...

Rachel Fojtik Directs Business Engagement for Data & Digital Solutions at Mater Health Services and is Managing Director at Data Literate by Design. Mater Health Services has an extensive network of hospitals, health centres, and related businesses across Queensland. Mater Hospitals have played a key role in the provision of healthcare in Queensland since 1906. On the other hand, Data Literate...

Anu Kukar is the Associate Partner - Cyber Security Strategy, Risk & Compliance ANZ at IBM. She leads the ANZ Cyber Security - Strategy, Risk & Compliance team for the critical infrastructure sectors. IBM is a multinational company focused on hybrid-cloud and Data & AI, operating in over 170 countries. Anu is also the Director of Arascina that helps organisations and professional assoc...

Chris Dolman is the EM, Data and Algorithmic Ethics at Insurance Australia Group (IAG). IAG (ASX:IAG) is the largest general insurance company in Australia and New Zealand. Chris joined IAG as Manager, Insurance Liabilities in 2010. Since then, Chris has held various senior leadership positions across the company, including analytics director and GM analytics. Over the years, his responsibilities...

Sue-Anne Lim is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Trapper, a leading marketing and media agency in Malaysia. Trapper helps clients grow their business exponentially through innovative and integrated solutions. The company has full-scale digital marketing and data analytics capabilities to serve its clients. At Trapper, Sue-Anne recently led the rebranding of the company from Trapper Media Servi...

Tim Spicer is the Head of Automotive Business at Assetinsure Pty Ltd. Assetinsure delivers innovative specialist insurance solutions to the business community. The company has been delivering a variety of innovative solutions to the Australia and New Zealand market since 2004. Tim has more than 25 years of experience in actuarial science working primarily in general insurance and accident compensa...

Ben Nichols is the Head of Product at IMS, Inc. Based in Liverpool, New York, IMS, Inc. is a fully integrated service provider of Conversational AI, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Payments, Print, Electronic, and Mobile Communications. Ben is also an Adjunct Professor of Data Science at Syracuse University, where he conducts lectures on Natural Language Processing, Database Design, and Scriptin...