Michael Page Business Intelligence Seminar

The Michael Page Technology Business Intelligence Seminar saw well over 100 industry leaders enjoy a morning of presentations covering a wide range of topics including, Big Data, Predictive Analytics, setting up and embedding BI functions and Data Strategy. We were lucky enough to welcome four speakers with diverse backgrounds and remits within the information technology sector and a focus on business intelligence.

Our speakers:

Miriam Vizvary
Miriam Vizvary – Data Specialist, Lloyds of London. Is data driving business change?
Miriam opened proceedings with a talk inspired by her experience in large scale enterprise data warehouse implementations and discussed the importance of understanding the nature of your business and responding to the demands of your customer. By identifying the correct strategy and investing in the right technology you can effectively transition from legacy systems to the big data model.

Miriam Vizvary

Daniel Johnson – Director of BI, Smith & Nephew. Introducing Global BI from the ground up.
Dan Johnson was brought in by Smith & Nephew to address the challenges presented by a BI landscape developed piecemeal through various projects and acquisitions. Dan discussed the eight step plan he has implemented over the past three years and how he addressed issues such as poor data quality, inconsistent data definitions, reconciliation issues and heavy data manipulation. Dan also fielded a number of questions from the audience on how he managed internal stakeholders and chose the right technology to implement his strategy.

Richard Heyns

Richard Heyns – Founder and CEO, Brytlyt. Why strategy unravels at the execution stage.
After refreshments, Richard opened up the second half of our seminar with a talk about how strategy often unravels at the execution stage and how to recognise issues before they become terminal. Richard took an interesting and unique approach, using analogies from history and pop-culture to bring his talk to life.

Maciej Piwoni

Maciej Piwoni – Global Analytics Manager, Sage. BI meets Data Analytics
Closing the morning, Maciej talked about how he sees the future of BI and Data Analytics taking shape. As lines blur between integration, people and culture, Data Analysts are becoming the key conduit between Business Intelligence and Data Analytics. In a world where data is worthless unless it leads to meaningful insights any business with a data set up needs BI, Data Analytics and Data Science professionals to succeed.
Michael Page Technology will be hosting a number of future events on a range of subjects in the technology space. For more information on the BI summit or upcoming events, please contact Terry Manson, Senior Consultant at Michael Page Technology.
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