Adapt and Advance Business with Leading Data Insights
Not missing a beat, CDAO Auckland 2024 will cover everything from modern data governance, data operationalisation and delivery, the AI and LLM data strategy, leadership insights, to analytics at scale, literacy, talent and more, so be part of THE event that sets the New Zealand data agenda.
Top 100 Global Innovators
Featured Speakers
Congratulations to Peter Gavin (ANZ), Kari Jones (Woolworths) and Brian Ferris (Loyalty NZ) for being recognized as one of the 2023 Global Top 100 Innovators in Data and Analytics!
For the complete 2023 Global Top 100 Data Leaders Report, click below.

Our 2023 Speakers Included:

Kari Jones
Chief Data Officer
Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ)

James Beech
Chief Data Officer
Westpac

Peter Gavin
GM, Data & Analytics
ANZ

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
Sarah Cawsey
General Manager Data
Auckland Council
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT CDAO AUCKLAND
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"My first CDAO was inspiring. It was fantastic to learn how similar our local problems are compared to the rest of the industry. It was great learning how large corporations are managing these challenges and what we can apply to our strategy."
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.
Network with 50+ of New Zealand's Key Decision Makers
Ask your Burning Questions with 50+ Speakers
CDAO Speed Networking & Competitive Wine Tasting
Continue the conversations in a fun and entertaining way with competitive wine tasting and meet new contacts during our dedicated speed networking session.
Update your Tech Stack
10+ Interactive Strategy Sessions & Panels
Who Should Attend?
Decision makers and influencers in data and analytics - from any organisation that puts data at the center of decisions.
KEY THEMES & TAKEAWAYS
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Operation & Delivery: Drive change, execute effective data delivery, and fine-tune your data strategy |
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Privacy, Ethics & Bias: Do what's right by your consumers while honouring privacy regulations, by working towards removing bias and making ethical business decisions |
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Literacy: Champion data within your organisation and beyond! Improve data understanding and usage across the entire business with a focused literacy strategy |
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Governance: There's always a need to strengthen governance processes, find out the latest best practices and ideas through use cases and exciting insights |
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LLMs: How should you approach your Gen AI/LLM strategy in 2024? Benchmark your progress against New Zealand's leading organisations for new ideas on Gen AI best practices and strategies |
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
Visit websiteInformatica
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.
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Snowflake
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 websiteDataXchange
Our mission is to provide our clients with the tools and knowledge to shift their relationship with their data and to change the game away from monolithic data governance and holistic data management.
We do this by offering services that combine practical experience with our own intellectual property to accelerate programmes and assist in managing the risks associated with data related initiatives.
Our primary focus and specialisation is data governance and broader data management. talk to us about our modular frameworks, DGaaS, sector-specific IP, and how we might help you enable and/or deliver your business-led data management journey.
Silver 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 websiteSoftware AG
Software AG helps you create effortlessly connected experiences for your customers, employees and partners with an enterprise-grade iPaaS that integrates anything, anywhere, any way you want. By bringing application, data, API and B2B integration together in the same generative AI-enabled platform, you can run a high-performing enterprise and constantly improve it based on data.
Get end-to-end visibility and governance across geographies, IT environments, and complex business ecosystems, with hybrid multi-cloud connectivity, and enterprise-grade security relied on by the most powerful banks, governments, and corporations in the world. Trusted by the world’s best brands for more than 50 years, our technology and team of integration enthusiasts will make sure that integration is a driver of innovation for your enterprise.
SnapLogic
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 28 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.
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.
Wine Tasting Partner
Denodo Attura
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 websiteIndustry 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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