

A recurring theme among analytics and data science leaders is the concern of not being able to keep up with all of the rapid change taking place – both individually and as a team.
Sense check your approach with like-minded industry experts, sharing insight on business-critical challenges and disruptive technology and drive your industry forward collaboratively.
Connect with 70+ senior Data & Analytics leaders for a curated agenda focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward.
Our summits are designed to help you:
Build new connections with likeminded senior leaders
Stay current with emerging business trends
Understand the impact new technology can make
De-risk new projects by gaining a broad range of insights
Accelerate key projects through meaningful new partnerships
Downloadable and actionable takeaways
09:00 - 09:20
09:20 - 09:50
Yum Brands! & KFC: Their Data & Digital Journey to Success
During this fireside chat you will hear from Cameron Davies, Chief Data Officer at Yum Brands! and Nitin Chaturvedi, Chief Digital & Technology Officer at KFC as they discuss their successful partnership, and how they have navigated together over the past 24 months. What does their Ecommerce and Digital interaction look like? How did the pandemic accelerate that process? Where is the Data and Digital journey taking them?
09:55 - 10:35
Decision making is a core capability for every organization. Decisions are becoming more connected, contextual, continuous, and complex. D&A leaders must prepare to reengineer decision making and make it a competitive differentiator
10:35 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:45
Track 1: Continuous Transformation and the Future of the CDO
Track 2: Emerging Tech and Delivering at Scale
Track 3: The Business Engine Room - Identifying Insights and Making Data Driven Decisions
11:50 - 12:20
Enterprise AI, 5 Ingredients for Enterprise AI success
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
The cutting edge of data democratization
Expanding the pool of people who can analyse and develop meaningful business action from data is critical to gain a competitive edge for your business. Data democratisation as a goal has been hampered by silo issues, fears around data quality and access to skills to analyse it properly. That said, if done properly it will enable different functions to make better decisions and collaborate more effectively. Critical to success is creating a culture where people want to take control of their own data destinies and how can IT be an enabler given the critical questions of governance.
09:45 - 10:25
Alleviating the Analyst Headcount Shortage via AI-driven Analytics
The pre-existing limited supply of data & analytics professionals mixed with the unprecedented turnover brought on by today’s great resignation is impacting every insights driven business. This new mix is making it even harder to staff analytics teams, but AI-driven analytics can make any sized team more efficient. When AI is set up to automatically pull insights across all the data supporting your business it gives the analysts on staff more time to focus & apply their expertise to big picture questions like how to dramatically increase revenue. During this session, Mike Kim, Co-founder & CTO of Outlier, will explore how data & analytics leaders can help their company thrive in this new environment and why automated business analysis makes any team more productive.
10:25 - 10:35
Data & Analytics: From Adaptation to Growth
10:35 - 11:35
Track 1: Continuous Transformation and the Future of the CDO
Track 2: Emerging Tech and Delivering at Scale
Track 3: The Business Engine Room - Identifying Insights and Making Data Driven Decisions
11:40 - 12:10
Applied Analytics in Action
While many businesses generate huge amounts of data, not everyone is taking the most out of it. Let’s talk about real cases on how companies across different industries use data, and the insights they can gain from analyzing that data, to enhance business processes by making them more intelligent and efficient.
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
Learning Velocity: People, Data & Technology
Digital Transformation is fuelled by Data Driven Insight, but not without people & technology. Resistance to change, effective integration, and the right smart technology are just a few challenges organizations face.
09:45 - 10:25
How Active Metadata Drives Business Value: Insights from a CDO
True data-centric corporations are those that use data and metadata as a mechanism to improve corporate agility, increase customer satisfaction and improve business performance. Those with the greatest success treat metadata as an actionable asset. They understand how to collect and standardize it from disparate businesses and corporate silos, use it to gain insights on business practices and then apply their findings in material ways to drive business value.
10:25 - 10:35
Accelerating Outcomes from D&A Investments
10:35 - 11:35
Track 1: Continuous Transformation and the Future of the CDO
Track 2: Emerging Tech and Delivering at Scale
Track 3: The Business Engine Room - Identifying Insights and Making Data Driven Decisions
11:40 - 12:10
Engage with a virtual live audience just as you would at a physical event and create meaningful conversations.
The ultimate live polling and gamification tools, keeping your audience engaged.
Enabling our team to help you control your session experience.
Interactive quizzes to gamify your session.
Content and insight from industry experts when it matters most.
There is no cost associated with attending a GDS Summit. In return, we ask that all senior executives in participation attend for the full duration to ensure that all attendees get maximum value and insight from the interactive roundtables, live Q&As and breakout networking sessions.
Our digital summit portfolio is designed to bring together senior decision makers from large global businesses and innovative disruptor brands to drive industry forward through addressing business critical challenges collaboratively.
If you’re keen to build new connections with likeminded leaders, de-risk your projects through new insight and establish new partnerships that can accelerate your projects then apply to attend today.
Complete our ‘apply to attend’ form on the event page if you’re interested in attending the summit and you meet our application criteria. A member of the GDS team will then reach out to run you through the programme and event format and discuss your participation.
On stage: co-host a panel discussion with a group of likeminded senior executives or host a solo keynote presentation. Both slots include elements of interactive audience Q&A
Off stage: become a roundtable moderator, leading the discussion with the same cohort of executives for the duration of the summit around a specific topic you’ve agreed to focus on during the roundtable session.
We can tailor a partnership package to help meet your business objectives. This might include brand awareness, driving traffic to your site or quality editorial content via exclusive interviews and Q&As with our executive audience. Enquire today for more information.
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You will leave the summit with best practices to immediately apply back to your organisation and new connections from meaningful conversations.
If you haven’t been to a GDS Digital Summit, you will be incredibly impressed. It’s far more engaging than most digital event experiences. It’s a very interactive environment.
I connected with peers that I know I’ll stay in touch with, including suppliers which have presented a fantastic opportunity for 7-Eleven Global in the future. It may well be the most valuable summit I’ve attended in many years
Thank you so much! Great Summit - an outstanding 3 days that culminated in this Award ... I am humbled and honored. Congratulations to you all for pulling off a Hybrid Summit with Augmented Reality features that are truly unparalleled in the Industry! Collaborative, Interactive & showcasing leading edge technology ... GDS Summits really set the bar so high that a return to physical conferences might be re-evaluated in the Industry. You are an amazing Team of Professionals & I am truly honoured to have been a part of this Summit.