Data Analytics Online Summit (Time Zone – BST)

Raj is a senior Data Scientist in Melbourne who has worked extensively across the Finance, Telecommunication, FMCG, Gambling and Not for profit sector. He specializes in the are of predictive modelling and the ethics frameworks in using these models. In his spare time, he still works as a university educator who still plays cricket and football, I also run volunteer tutoring programs in Collingwood and Footscray and work actively for a few charities in Melbourne these include Liberty Victoria and The Human Rights and Arts Film Festival

Kurian is a strategic Information Governance & Data Analytics leader and advisor, uplifting organisational capabilities for creating and sustaining competitive advantage for Businesses. He commenced his career at the turn of the millennium, evolving through tactical Management of Projects (certified PMP®) enabling decision support through data, direction of Transformation Programs (certified PgMP®) including Data migration and Strategic Portfolio Investments (certified PfMP®) in building Business Intelligence & Analytics capabilities. Kurian has established Data Governance and Analytics practices with continuing Product Lifecycle and Service Delivery Management, enabling Organisational Change through professional services across industries, utilising Scaled Agile Framework and is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). An Executive MBA from Melbourne Business School has equipped Kurian with commercial acumen for Business strategy & execution. As an Executive Director and a Board member of the Melbourne Chapter of Project Management Institute, an NFP with around 1600 professional members, Kurian is a visionary devising chapter strategy and defining operations utilising data & analytics. He is passionate about Information Practice building and uplifting Enterprise governance capability by enabling organisations to leverage information assets for creating insights and thereby developing a competitive advantage in this digital age.

Zak Khan is an accomplished data analytics strategist and thought leader with deep industry experiences. He has held diverse leadership roles across many facets of Information Management domain including data strategy formulation, building data quality and governance capabilities and operations management in Data warehousing, business intelligence & advanced analytics. Zak has global consulting experiences and assisted clients across Telecommunications, Utilities and Financial services sectors to uplift data analytics capabilities in order to solve complex business problems and deliver business outcome.

John is currently the Chief Data Officer (CDO) at Zetaris Pty Ltd, which is a data management, analytics software company with deep expertise in data analytics, information management, virtual data warehousing and ‘big data’ technologies. In this role, John runs the data strategy, data management and data science practice in Australia and overseas for Zetaris’ clients.

Amin is a Ph.D. qualified data scientist with years of commercial experience and a strong mathematical background who has won several national and international mathematics awards. With years of professional experience, Amin has been working on different types of data including time-series, spatio-temporal data (trajectories & GPS), card transaction data, graphs (networks), customer data, bank data, text logs, and sensor data. Currently, he is working at ANZ as a senior data scientist.

Dr William Yeoh is an associate professor at Deakin University. He is a leading researcher in business intelligence and analytics field. His research has appeared in high-tier journals and the top five information systems conferences. He is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the International Journal of Business Intelligence Research. His work has been recognised with several prestigious awards, including the ICT Educator of the Year Gold Award (awarded by the Australian Computer Society ACS), internationally-competitive IBM Faculty Awards, Deakin's Vice-Chancellor Award, and Deakin Faculty Excellence in Research Award.

Deepak S. Mane is a enterprise solution architect in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science domain at Tata consultancy Services . In his previous role he was Scientific Officer at Tata Research Fundamental Research (TIFR). He has published 12 papers in Conference Seminars , and has been conducting Seminar/workshop at various colleges in Maharashtra and MP under AIP/FDP activities-TCS. He's also a mentor for KreSIT, Indian Institute of Technology-Mumbai. He is currently pursuing research in Cloud computing, Performance Management, Disaster Recovery and Capacity management.

Champ Mendis is the Chief Data Scientist of Triple A Super, an adjunct lecturer, Charles Sturt University, Hony Assistant Secretary, IEEE VIC/TAS Section. He has more than 10 years of experience working in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Information Security and Computer Information Systems. He has worked in several industries, including Finance, Defence, Education, Transport, Telecom, Construction and Insurance. He had the opportunity to work for organizations such as Colmar Brunton, University of Melbourne, ACTU, DST (formerly DSTO), University of Sydney and ARRB. He holds PhD in Computing and Information Systems from University of Melbourne and was a member of one of the best research groups in AI in Australia. In his spare time, he plays Table Tennis and Chess, do cycling.