Summit Agenda

MC OPENS

Welcome Address by the Guest of Honor

Creating an Integrated and Holistic Data Environment

• Cloud: The way to ensure optimal data exchange
• Exploring the challenges and benefits
• Data Management: Speed, Quality and Fidelity

AI and Machine Learning: Going Mainstream in Data Management

• Correlation between AI and Machine Learning- The tools for real time data analytics?
• Machine Learning is based on AI, so is Machine Learning the next obvious step?
• Is AI driving the customer experience market?

Adoption of Blockchain in Data Monetization

• Data Monetization creating a niche market in the UAE
• Is monetizing data a stepping stone for AI?
• Impact of blockchain in securing data?

Cloud Analytics: Easier Access to increasing data  

• Cloud Computing is envisioned as a storage platform, how has cloud as a service changed the perception about cloud?
• Business Intelligence, Real Time Analytics and Social Media Analytics: Powered by cloud
• Factors that drive cloud analytics

Panel Discussion: A Fluid Data Strategy

• The reason for advancement in data – Business Drivers & Tech Enablers?
• Influence of data analytics and strategy to achieve organizational goals
• Use of data strategy to compete with known players as well as future disruptors

Using Knowledge Graphs to predict Customer Needs, Improve Product Quality and Save Costs

• Knowledge Graph represents the single highly connected source of truth for the entire organization
• Knowledge Graph adds "context" to AI and Machine Learning
• Knowledge Graph can evolve accordingly to the mutating needs of the company

Using Predictive Analytics and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Customer Loyalty & Retention

• Customer loyalty is influenced by data- corelating purchasing behavior and customer characteristics
• Engaging in social media analytics to access customer behavior pattern
• Role of data analytics; building blocks for decision making?

Panel Discussion: Power of Personalization: Key to a successful business

• Personalizing data leads to increase in customer engagement, how can marketers leverage this information?
• Personalization- where to stop
• Building trust with customers to ensure data security

Dark Data: A Myth?

• Accessing Dark Data, to provide a competitive edge for companies
• Move, Secure, Create and Analyze: The future
• Is Adoption of Blockchain a permanent solution for Dark Data?

Panel Discussion: Cyber Security and Breaches: Inevitable?

• Complexity of hacks witnessed in UAE over the years
• Ethical & Unethical hacks: Companies preparedness to cope with them
• Policies governed to regulate cyber security

General Data Protection Regulation: Creating Data Awareness

• Data today is valued greater than the currency of any country, making it valuable- Will GDPR be able to tackle the nuances and pitfalls in this digital age?
• How has the UAE market implemented GDPR? What are the shortcomings?
• With Dubai Data Law being set to monitor the data exchange, how is it compliant with GDPR?

MC OPENS

Augmented Analytics: Future of Analytics and BI

• Is AI and NLP the base for Augmented Analytics?
• Will analytics transform workflow?
• Digital Transformation and Innovation: Being drive by Augmented analytics

Real Time Analytics: Enables faster, precise and effective decision making

• Modify Rules and Analytics for quick decision making
• Preventing errors: Guard rails to break circuit to enable fewer errors
• Data analytics to determine customer engagement and optimize profit margins

Paradigm shift: Business Intelligence to Mobile Business Intelligence

• Organizations drive growth and profitability through effective implementation of Mobile BI
• Harnessing power of Mobile BI through innovations and not disruption
• Creating dynamic dashboards for business through Mobile BI

Data Lake Management: A foundation for Analytics

• Data Lakes are increasing with increase in data generated- how effective is real time data analytics?
• Efficient use of Data Lakes through adoption of cloud
• Use of data lakes to accelerate business decision through self-service

Data Humanism: An Upcoming Trend

• Analyzing data through data personalization
• Small Data to reshape and re-focus industry by concentrating on quality
• Data design and depict complexity: Parameters for Data Humanism

Panel Discussion: Predictive or Prescriptive Analytics: The best fit for the retail industry

• 2017 was predicted as a Retail Apocalypse: Impact of Digital Transformation to transform the industry
• To overcome obstacles- Adopting newer technologies to increase growth of the sector?
• Role of analytics in determining customer engagement and profit margins

Building an Organization’s Structure: Data Governance

• Understandable, Trustworthy, Secure and Discoverable Corporate Data: A Guarantee?
• Revolutionizing the transaction of data through formal control to achieve actionable insights
• Amplifying business value analytics through data governance
• Adoption of Data Governance in UAE in comparison to rest of the world?

Customer engagement through Robotics and AI powered chatbots

• Influence of chatbots in enhancing customer experience and evolution of chatbots through AI
• Adopting AI for network management within the telecom sector
• To enhance customer engagement- Robotics the new future

Securing Data: Creating possibilities for tomorrow

• Technology advances are leading to Complex IT systems; does it make data vulnerable to cyber-attacks?
• Is defense the best practice to tackle cyber attacks- White Hats the new way to protect your data?
• Does Analyzing and collecting data from past attacks, bring in the need to regulate data?

Panel Discussion: Predictive Analytics driving the Ecommerce market

• E-commerce in the region is set to be worth $48bn by 2022- What is the contribution of predictive analytics in the growth of the industry?
• How has data insights and consumer behavior lead to developing strategies to grow business?
• Big Data detects payment laundering; that helps in creating a secured online payment platform

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