Ronen Schwartz

Ronen Schwartz
SVP, Cloud and Data Integration
Informatica

Ronen Schwartz is the senior vice president and general manager responsible for product strategy, product management, strategic ISV partners and go to market for Informatica's core Data Integration, Cloud Integration and Big Data Management. Previously Ronen was General manager for Informatica. Prior to this role Ronen held multiple leadership position including GM of emerging technology, VP Product Management and Product Marketing.


Murraysargant

Murray Sargant
SVP
Informatica APJ


Murray Sargant is Senior Vice President Asia Pacific & Japan at Informatica with the responsibility for expanding the company throughout Asia. Murray's passion is helping partners and customers get ahead of digital disruption by using data-driven initiatives to transform their own businesses. In doing so, he also fosters new business sales, and has a key focus on service delivery and improved customer support. He is a specialist on the Asia Pacific and Japan market sectors with 20+ years' previous experience in banking, telecommunications, airline and transportation segments.

Nick Smith

Nick Smith
Managing Director 
Australia and New Zealand
Informatica


Nick Smith is the Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand at Informatica. In this role, he is responsible for all business operations for the Informatica business within the ANZ region. Nick is a thought leader who is passionate about helping businesses maximise the opportunities created by the digital, consumer centric, and always on world. Nick has over 20 years of experience transforming and leading technology companies across four continents.


Jack Basley

Jack Basley
Data Management Consultant
Capgemini’s Insights & Data practice


Jack is a Data Management Consultant within Capgemini’s Insights & Data practice which offers a full suite of data management, enterprise analytics and business intelligence services. With a background in industrial engineering, Jack is particularly interested in the ways that data can be used to streamline processes and provide real benefit to a business’s bottom line. Jack also has a keen interest in bridging the divide between ICT and business teams and discovering the ways in which business units can be empowered to unlock the value of their data.

Twitter: @jkbasley
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-basley/


Ben Sullivan

Ben Sullivan
Group Director Insights & Innovation
and Automotive specialist
Potentiate


Ben Sullivan has over 15 years’ experience in Automotive research, covering Brand, advertising & marketing strategy, product development, customer experience and business consulting. Ben is one of the most knowledgeable and talented automotive researchers in Australia with a depth of knowledge of and passion for the automotive industry that is hard to surpass. In his current role as Group Director, Insights and Innovation Ben draws on his extensive experience in designing and overseeing Potentiate’s Automotive Insights offering, large scale Customer Experience programs and complex ad-hoc research projects. He spent 6 years working as the head of Toyota Australia’s Consumer Insights team and now provides insights and consultation around brand strategy, tactical activities, business operations and research and modelling solutions across the industry. He has appeared at numerous conferences, workshops and training events and is always an engaging and informative presenter.


David Johnston-Bell

David Johnston
Bell Enterprise Architect
Toyota


David is an Enterprise Architect with over 15 years’ experience across a range of industries (telco, health, retail, education, government and now automotive) with a high degree of commercial acumen and technical expertise demonstrated by an outstanding record of achievement. David possesses extensive expertise in applying technology, systems engineering and project management principles to create cost-effective and realistic solutions to support business objectives; and to manage solution implementation; David also has extensive experience in providing governance and oversight of third party/outsourced/off-shored development teams to ensure the implemented solution meets the project success criteria and complies with the client’s Enterprise Architecture standards and guidelines, but also achieves the organisation’s goals. David has a Masters of Engineering from RMIT and a MBA from Deakin.


Ken

Ken Struthers
GM
Barhead Solutions


Ken started the Australian operation of Barhead in 2016 with a mantra of doing the right thing for the customer. In a seemingly unconventional move, Barhead was created to focus on helping customers take advantage of Microsoft cloud business applications. The team that founded two of the world's leading salesforce.com consultancies believes Microsoft's pivot to cloud and business applications is a game changer.


Duane

Duane McLeod
Manager,
Systems & Information, Finance
Bank of New Zealand


With over 20 years of experience in Information Architecture in UK and NZ. In his current role as Manager, Systems and Information (Finance) at Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), his primary focus over last 2 years has been to lead the Big Data and Analytics ecosystem deployment at BNZ and more recently, transforming BNZ Finance.


Jon Gray

Jon Gray
Principal Consultant
Catapult BI


Dr Jon Gray has 30 years of computing experience in industry and academia both in Australia and the UK. Jon’s research interests have encompassed parallel and distributed systems design, database technologies, software engineering methods and tools, organisational capability development, and business process improvement.


Duane

Frank Windoloski
Vice President / Head of Insights & Data
Capgemini


Head of Capgemini’s Insights and Data business across Australia and New Zealand. The Insights and Data practice brings together leading data technology experts with business and industry sector expertise to help organizations gain better value from both corporate and external data.


Jessie

Jessie
Insights and Data Consultant
Capgemini


Jessie is an Insights and Data Consultant at Capgemini, she has a passion for people, growth and a strong focus on technology, in doing so, she is driven to work collaboratively with businesses to identify their goal, define their needs and recommend insightful solutions. Jessie is able to combine her psychology background, problem solving and effective communication skills to provide a holistic approach that engages the organisation to consider its processes and policies around information governance. Jessie is an advocate in blurring the boundaries between the business and IT to ensure organisations are gaining the most from the world’s largest commodity- data.

Twitter: @jessiemeleck


Gautam

Gautam Nakarni
Director Cloud Services
Capgemini


Gautam Nadkarni is Director for Cloud Services with Capgemini. He carries with him a wide local and international experience in consulting, operations and practice management for cloud and infrastructure services. In his current role, he focuses on cloud strategy, assessments, AWS practice and public cloud managed services for Capgemini Cloud services. He is a speaker at various national and international conferences.

Twitter: @ngautamd


Gautam

Jonathon Wetton
Director Insights & Data
Capgemini


Jonathon Wetton is a Director of Insights & Data at Capgemini Australia. Trained as an Enterprise Architect, Jonathon's experience covers Analytics, DevOps, corporate reporting systems and developing Analytics Centres of Excellence. Jonathon knows the lyrics to far too many 80s rock songs for his children to ever regard him as cool.


Gautam

Surinder Singh
Director Data & Insights
Capgemini


Surinder is a Director in Capgemini’s Data and Insights practice and has in-depth experience in implementing Information Management and Analytics solutions for clients in Financial services, Airlines and Utilities sectors. He has worked with various organisations to define their Data and Analytics strategy. Surinder specialises in the areas of data management, MDM, Data Quality and Data Governance.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/surindersingh1


Gautam

Danny Centen
Head of Data Management
Capgemini


Danny Centen is the Head of Data Management within Capgemini's Insights & Data service line and has been in the Enterprise Information Management space for over 15 years, predominantly as an architect. His focus is mainly on All-Things-Master-Data-Management (MDM, Data Quality, Information Governance and Product Information Management).

Danny's perspective on Data Management is that it doesn't need all kinds of academic approaches. Key are pragmatism, agility and solidity in order to achieve tangible business outcomes.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannycenten
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dannycenten

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