Agenda: Singapore - 17 July 2025

08:20

Registration

09:00

Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Vincent Paca, Director of AI Engineering, BCG X

09:10

2025 Outlook – Opportunities And Challenges for Singapore’s Data & AI Landscape

• Capitalising on vast opportunities for growth
• Adapting to the evolving landscape and customer demands
• Embracing a data-driven approach

Biswa Banik, Chief Data Officer, Tonik

09:35

The Transformation of the Chief Data Officer Role

• More than data governance
• Driving end-to-end innovation and bridging the gaps
• Modern CDOs are doing both “defend and transform”

Tam Trinh, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Nikel

10:00

Laying the Groundwork for AI: The Critical Role of Metadata and Data Governance

As organisations scale AI and move towards Data Products, success depends on trusted, high-quality data underpinned by strong governance. In this fireside chat, Olam shares how domain-aligned metadata, data quality, governance  powered by Alation, enable a unified framework to reduce risk, drive self-service, and build a foundation for AI-ready analytics and future data product initiatives.

Shivram Ramakrishnan, CDIO, Olam Agri

10:30

Morning Refreshments & Networking

11:10

Your Conclusions Are Probably Wrong: Bias and Error Reduction using AI in a Loan Origination System

• Our brains are wired to draw conclusions and often use random noise to do so
• Errors propagate as previous conclusions are accepted as true
• As AI and systems becomes automated, propagating errors have a significant impact on performance
• Presentation of a Use Case for a loan-origination system that uses Altair RapidMiner to run SAS code, build AI models and deploy them in a no-code software development platform.

Shidan Murphy, Global Director, Banking and Financial Services, Altair

11:35

Panel Discussion: The Modern Data-Driven Organisation

• The importance of data quality
• Creating a standardised approach to balance enterprisewide and business-area governance
• Building a data-driven culture to drive digital transformation

Moderator:

Vincent Paca, Director of AI Engineering, BCG X

Participants:

Biswa Banik, Chief Data Officer, Tonik

Dor Kedem, Head of Analytics and Artificial Intelligence - Wealth and Retail Banking, Standard Chartered

12:10

Lunch & Networking

13:30

Implementing An Effective Data Strategy To Enhance Customer Experience

• Leveraging data analytics to better understand the customer journey
• Harnessing customer data and actionable insights for a holistic customer-focused strategy
• Measuring the effectiveness of customer initiatives

Eugene Teh, Deputy Chief Data Officer, SMRT Corporation Ltd

13:50

Surviving the AI Rat Race: Lessons from Alfagomma on Building Value and Leading AI Agents

• Why the “rat race” feels real – the accelerating churn of LLM releases, vendor hype and internal pressure, and how to separate genuine opportunity from noise.
• Alfagomma’s playbook for sustainable wins – concrete examples of what worked (and what didn’t) in our invoice automation, RAG and developer productivity initiatives; the governance, architecture and change management moves that turned experiments into production value.
• The next leadership skill: managing AI agents – why tomorrow’s digital leaders must master agent orchestration, human AI collaboration and continuous up skilling.

Andreas Kurz, Global Head of Digital Transformation, Alfagomma Group

14:10

Leveraging Predictive Analytics to Optimise Customer Experience in Banking

• Leveraging data analytics to better understand the customer journey
• Harnessing customer data and actionable insights for a holistic customer-focused strategy
• Measuring the effectiveness of customer initiatives

Ahmed Muzammil, AVP (Data Hub / Advanced Analytics), Bank of Singapore

14:30

Afternoon Refreshments & Networking

15:00

Panel Discussion: Unlocking The Value Of Data

• Exploring challenges in data monetisation
• Deriving sustainable value from data by treating it as a product
• Incorporating AI applications into the data practice

Moderator:

Vincent Paca, Director of AI Engineering, BCG X

Participants:

Varun Sharma, APAC Head of Data & Analytics, The HEINEKEN Company

Rajnish Kumar Singh, Head of Data Office, Maybank Singapore

15:30

Chairperson’s Closing Remarks

Vincent Paca, Director of AI Engineering, BCG X