
Put Data at the Centre of Business Decisioning
CDAO Auckland is New Zealand's largest annual gathering of Data and Analytics decision makers.
Covering everything from strategic data governance, culture and leadership, to analytics at scale with ML and AI, be part of THE event that sets the data agenda.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Kari Jones
GM Analytics & Insights
Woolworths

James Beech
Chief Data Officer
Westpac

Hamish McEwen
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Fire and Emergency NZ

Dina Hay
Executive leader in digital, data and transformation

Liz MacPherson
Deputy Commissioner
Office of the Privacy Commissioner | Te Mana Mātāpono Matatapu

Dr Craig Jones
Deputy Chief Executive - Data System Leadeship
Stats NZ

Tim Johnson
Head of Automation
Suncorp (Australia)

Juliet Jacka
Head of Data & Analytics
Z Energy

Lizzy Ryley
Chief Executive Officer
Loyalty NZ

Daniel Williams
Head of Data Engineering
Bank of New Zealand

Xanthe Sulzberger
Head of Data Governance & Strategy
NZ Post

Mike Cunnington
Deputy Commissioner Enterprise Services
Inland Revenue NZ
WHY ATTEND
CDAO Auckland has been designed with networking at the heart. When you ask the questions, steer the conversation, and hear directly from your peers you gain the most value. From topic focused discussions to organic coffee counter chats the emphasis is always upon connection between you with the data analytics community.
Enjoy 2 days of networking at out cocktail receptions, networking breaks and VIP functions at this unmissable event.
40+ Key Decision Makers Speaking!
Network with NZ’s Leading Data Decision Makers
CDAO Cocktail Reception & Competitive Wine Tasting
Continue the conversations in a fun and entertaining way with competitive wine tasting.
Keep Current with Tech
Ask Your Burning Data Questions
Who Should Attend?
Decision makers and thinkers in data, analytics, AI, digital and technology from all industries keen to advance their data and analytics business capabilities.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT CDAO AUCKLAND






"The connections and learning from others' experiences made the CDAO Auckland 2022 an invaluable experience."
KEY THEMES & TAKEAWAYS
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AI/LLMs: Assess the impact of generative AI on business operations and take advantage of the new opportunities it brings with the right integration moves. |
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Data Ethics: Navigate the ethical implications of AI, data usage, and privacy so that your business leads in regulation requirements and does right by your existing and future customers and partners. |
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Data Value Creation: Drive value-creation through data and effective business decisioning to lead your business towards new waters and achievements. |
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ESG & Sustainability: Lead change in Sustainability and ESG with data and analytics to show business how we can make a difference. |
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Trending Insights: Learn valuable insights from New Zealand’s data leaders and use these ideas to create a data stronghold of your own! |
Thanks to our 2023 Partners
Lead Partner
Alteryx
Driving Data-Driven Decisions
Breakthroughs don’t just happen. They come from people dedicated to finding answers that drive change. Our signature ease of use and low-code, no-code technology gives your team everything they need to start solving your organization’s toughest questions.
PLATINUM PARTNERS
Denodo
Denodo is the leader in data virtualization providing agile, high performance data integration, data abstraction, and real-time data services across the broadest range of enterprise, cloud, big data, and unstructured data sources at half the cost of traditional approaches. Denodo's customers across every major industry have gained significant business agility and ROI by enabling faster and easier access to unified business information for agile BI, big data analytics, Web, and cloud integration, single-view applications, and enterprise data services. Denodo is well-funded, profitable, and privately held. For more information, visit www.denodo.com
Visit websiteSAS Institute
SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. Some people see data as facts and figures. But it’s more than that. It’s the lifeblood of your business. It contains your organization's history. And it’s trying to tell you something.
SAS helps you make sense of the message. As the leader in business analytics software and services, SAS transforms your data into insights that give you a fresh perspective on your business. You can identify what’s working. Fix what isn’t. And discover new opportunities.
We can help you turn large amounts of data into knowledge you can use, and we do it better than anyone. It’s no wonder an overwhelming majority of customers continue to use SAS year after year. We believe it’s because we hire great people to create great software and services.
SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.
Tiger Analytics
Tiger Analytics specializes in building AI and data science solutions that enable enterprises to generate business value from data. The company brings deep expertise in marketing science, customer analytics, operations analytics, and risk analytics, and is a trusted partner for several Fortune 500 companies
Visit websiteTableau Software
Tableau helps people see and understand data and explore with limitless visual analytics. Customers can build dashboards and perform ad hoc analyses in just a few clicks. They can share their work with anyone and make an impact on their business. From global enterprises to early-stage startups and small businesses, more than 70,000 customer accounts around the world use Tableau to turn data into actionable insights, and more than 300,000 people use Tableau Public to share public data in their blogs and websites. See how Tableau can help you https://www.tableau.com/leading-through-change
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Informatica
At Informatica, we believe data is the soul of business transformation. As the Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader, we empower businesses to realize the transformative power of data. We have pioneered a new category of software, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud™, powered by AI and a cloud-first, cloud-native, end-to-end data management platform that connects, manages and unifies data across any multi-cloud, hybrid system, empowering enterprises to modernize and advance their data strategies. Customers in 84 of the Fortune 100 rely on Informatica to drive data-led digital transformation. www.informatica.com. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Informatica. Cloud first. Data always.
Visit websiteSnowflake
Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries, including 543 of the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 (G2K) as of October 31, 2022, use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses. Learn more at snowflake.com.
Visit websiteSilver Partners
Actian
Actian is helping businesses build a bridge to a data-defined future. We’re doing this by delivering scalable cloud technologies while protecting customers’ investments in existing platforms. Our patented technology has enabled us to maintain a 10-20X performance edge against competitors large and small in the mission-critical data management market. The most data-intensive enterprises in financial services, retail, telecommunications, media, healthcare and manufacturing trust Actian to solve their toughest data challenges. But our success goes beyond technology. It’s rooted in our people and an outstanding culture that values work-life balance, collaboration, and a spirit of innovation.
Visit websiteFivetran
Fivetran automates data movement out of, into and across cloud data platforms. We automate the most time-consuming parts of the ELT process from extracts to schema drift handling to transformations, so data engineers can focus on higher-impact projects with total pipeline peace of mind. With 99.9% uptime and self-healing pipelines, Fivetran enables hundreds of leading brands across the globe, including Autodesk, Conagra Brands, JetBlue, Lionsgate, Morgan Stanley, and Ziff Davis, to accelerate data-driven decisions and drive business growth. Fivetran is headquartered in Oakland, California, with offices around the world. For more info, visit fivetran.com.
Visit websiteSnapLogic
SnapLogic powers the automated enterprise. The company’s self-service, AI-powered integration platform makes it fast and easy to connect applications and data across the enterprise to improve business processes, accelerate decision-making, and drive better business outcomes.
SnapLogic powers the automated enterprise. The company’s self-service, AI-powered integration platform helps organisations connect applications and data sources, automate common workflows and business processes, and deliver exceptional experiences for customers, partners, and employees.
Precisely
Precisely is the global leader in data integrity, providing accuracy and consistency in data for 12,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including 90 percent of the Fortune 100. Precisely’s data integration, data quality, location intelligence, and data enrichment products power better business decisions to create better outcomes.
Learn more at precisely.com
Visit websiteFIRN Analytics
FIRN is a cloud data analytics company and a reseller of leading international data warehousing, analytics, visualisation and artificial intelligence tools, and a professional consultancy, training and support hub for these products.
FIRN was formed to bring new and leading business technology products to New Zealand, and in doing so, disrupt the market. We ensure we’re always ahead of the NZ market and our competitors by spending a lot of time globally researching the very latest data tools. Organisations want to work with our data specialists because they know it gives them a leg up on their competitors, adds immense value to their organisation, and streamlines their BI and digital infrastructure.
We partner with a full stack of modern, best-of-breed products to create an end-to-end solution. Our enthusiastic team specialises in applications such as Tableau, Alteryx, DataRobot, Snowflake, Collibra, Thoughtspot, dbt, Matillion and Fivetran, bringing our customers data and analytics capabilities they once dreamed of.
Intech Solutions
Intech Solutions has been delivering Data Quality solutions to a wide range of organisations and industry sectors in Australia and New Zealand for over 20 years. Intech’s flagship product, IQ Office, consists of ‘best of breed’ software components to resolve Data Quality issues. Solutions include address validation and geocoding enabling Location Intelligence, entity resolution and single entity view enabling Intelligent Analytics, with hosting available on a secure private Cloud. The flexibility of IQ Office ensures the solution can be tuned to meet each customer’s unique requirements and allows the use of multiple data reference files for site-specific implementations.
Recently, Intech Solutions has become the exclusive reseller for Australia and New Zealand of the only truly scalable graph database for enterprise, TigerGraph, which is the world's fastest graph database and analytics platform, designed to deliver ultra-fast, deep analysis of huge datasets in real-time.
We can help you solve data challenges in areas including data matching for single customer view, intelligence analytics, master data management, data integration, deduplication and federated search; data quality including address validation, email validation, phone number validation; and data enhancement including geocoding, entity or party extraction, among others.
Theta
Theta Analytics specialises in data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics strategy, consulting and implementation.
With over 60 New Zealand based analytics consultants we deliver strategy, architecture, data modelling, design and delivery. We are also skilled in data lakes, data visualisation and dashboards and advanced analytics. We work with all mainstream data warehouse and BI technologies and provide customised training. Our experienced BI and analytics consultants deliver versatile solutions targeted to your needs.
Established in 1995, Theta is a technology consultancy with offices in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Tauranga.
We help organisations transform their businesses with technology. We design, deliver and support solutions across four key areas – analytics, software development, business solutions and systems management.
Our team of 200+ experienced professionals work with our customers to get projects across the line and get them right. We deliver smarter solutions, together.
Industry Partner
CFO Tech Outlook
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APAC CIO Outlook
APAC CIOoutlook is a digital and print magazine that aims to provide a platform for CIOs, CTOs and other senior level IT buyers and decision makers along with CXOs of solution providers to share their experiences, wisdom and advice with enterprise IT community of APAC countries. We promote our unique 'learn from our peers approach' in the Asia Pacific region.Visit website
Business of Data
Driven by our global, connected network, Corinium inspires data and analytics senior leaders to make quicker, more informed decisions and follow proven paths to success. Through insights, practical tools, expert guidance and industry connections, we help executives harness data as an asset to drive efficiency and innovation.On our new platform, Business of Data, we have curated a wealth of thought-leading insights, via video podcasts, in-depth articles, reports, and interviews. Find out how other senior data and analytics leaders are tackling the challenges we’re facing today and are accelerating their organization’s recovery and transformation.
For a limited time, subscribing to business of data is free, so make sure to do so today for complimentary access to exclusive insights you just can’t find anywhere else.
Visit websiteWire19
Wire19 is a leading news portal dedicated to the digital transformation, brought about by cloud and advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence, IoT and more, driving innovation in different industry verticals, including ICT, healthcare, retail, managed services etc.
Wire19 are the IT magazine for key decision makers, services providers and managed service providers in the cloud business.
The content of Wire19 is regularly updated with the latest industry news and innovations built around AI, IoT, Robotics and other modern age technologies.
CIOReview APAC
CIOReview is a leading technology magazine that is at the forefront of guiding enterprises through the continuously varying business environment with information about the solutions and services. The magazine serves as a trustworthy knowledge source as well as a platform for the C-suite executives, industry experts, technology buyers, and other decision-makers to share their valuable insights about new technology trends in the market.Visit website
MySecurity MarketPlace,
MySecurity MarketPlace, powered by MySecurity Media is a dedicated marketplace connecting industry and enterprise professionals to the latest events, education, technology and media platforms across a global security domain.On our new platform, the Business of Data, we have curated a wealth of thought-leading insights, via video podcasts, in-depth articles, reports, and interviews. Find out how other senior data and analytics leaders are tackling the challenges we’re facing today and are accelerating their organization’s recovery and transformation.
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MySecurity Media
MySecurity Media is a multi-channel, multi-platform content provider specialising in the security and critical technology domain. First established in 2006, we have extensive industry knowledge, an international network of security professionals, talented digital marketing expertise and an active audience database. Our solutions consider your business goals and connect you to the right audience with a focus on results.Visit website
Datafloq
Datafloq is the One-Stop Source for Big Data, empowering organizations to create value from data. The platform aims to create an overview of the global big data market by bringing together all stakeholders within the global Big Data market. The objective of Datafloq is to spur the global understanding and application of Big Data in order to drive innovation and growth.Visit website
AI Time Journal
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Charity Partner
Data4Good
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Conference Director
Vanessa Jalleh
Conference Director
Our events are all carefully created from scratch. The whole process from research to post-production is crafted by our team, so we are always available to assist with any queries! We look forward to meeting you at the event!