Melbourne Business Analytics Conference
Wednesday 2 August 2023
The Grand Hyatt Melbourne
Leading The Way: Navigating Data and Digital Transformation in the Age of AI & Automation
Melbourne Business School’s Premier Business Analytics Conference
In today's age of AI and automation, businesses must embrace data and digital transformation to stay competitive. This requires a strong understanding of the latest technologies, trends and applications, as well as the ability to navigate the ethical and societal implications.
The 2023 iteration of Melbourne's premier Business Analytics Conference will centre around the theme of 'Leading the way: Navigating Data and Digital Transformation in the Age of AI & Automation'. Esteemed analytics academics, executives, and practitioners from across the globe will present to over 600 board members, senior executives, and industry professionals during this one-day event.
The conference aims to help Australian businesses gain a distinctive advantage by harnessing the trilingual insights of business, technology, and mathematics. Attendees can expect to learn about the latest business applications in Machine Learning, AI and advanced Data Analytics. We invite you to join us at the Grand Hyatt on 2 August 2023.
Speakers
Executive Director,
Melbourne Connect
Research Professor, Language Technologies
Carnegie Mellon University
Director Centre for Business Analytics and Professor of Operations
Melbourne Business School
Executive Director, Centre for Business Analytics
Melbourne Business School
Past Speakers
Ryan Oliver
Senior Director
Twitter Next
Kelly Bayer Rosmarin
CEO
Optus
Professor Sinan Aral
David Austin Professor of Management, IT & Marketing
MIT, Sloan School of Management
Christelle Young
Chief Strategy & Analytics Officer
L'Oréal
Professor Raghu Iyengar
Professor of Marketing
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Lisa Ronson
Chief Marketing Officer
Coles Group
Jordan Sweetnam
Senior Vice President and General Manager Americas
eBay
Professor Oded Netzer
Professor of Marketing
Columbia Business School
David Koczkar
Chief Executive Officer
Medibank
Professor Christine Kilpatrick AO
Chief Executive Officer
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Anil Sabharwal
Vice President, Product Management
Google
Wendy Stops
Non Executive Director
Blackmores, Coles Group, Fitted For Work
Professor Harikesh Nair
Professor of Marketing
Stanford University
Jessica Richmond
General Manager, Marketing, Data & Insights
Officeworks
Dr Phillip Lowe
Governor
Reserve Bank of Australia
Professor Steve Tadelis
Sarin Chair Leadership & Strategy
UC Berkeley (Haas)
Peter Sauerborn
Former General Manager
Amazon Marketplace
Dr Kendra Vant
Executive General Manager, Data
Xero
Glenn King
Chief Executive Officer
Property Exchange Australia Ltd (PEXA)
Lisa Buckingham
Deputy Secretary
Jobs Victoria, Secure Work and Inclusion Group in the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions
The Centre for Business Analytics Practice Prize
The Centre’s Practice Prize celebrates outstanding applications of business analytics with significant organisational impact with a $10,000 honorarium.
The work must be analytically sound, innovative (either in terms of a new methodology or application in a new problem context), and appropriate to the problem and organization. The work is also expected to provide evidence of verifiable and quantifiable impact on the organisation’s performance. The implementation of the work should be completed within the three-year period prior to the year of the competition.
The competition welcomes successful advanced analytics applications in business, government, healthcare, education, and non-profit.
Semi-Finalists 2023
Judging Panel
The judging panel for the Melbourne Business School’s Centre for Business Analytics Practice Prize includes industry leaders and prominent scholars.
Tava Olsen
DEPUTY DEAN, ACADEMIC, MELBOURNE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Dr Jenny George
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CONVERGE INTERNATIONAL
Prof. Nicos Savva
PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND OPERATIONS; CHAIR, MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND OPERATIONS FACULTY, LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL
Natalie Field
CHIEF DIGITAL AND DATA OFFICER, BUPA
George Saoud
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF EMERGING BUSINESSES, COLES
Prof. Huseyin Topaloglu
HOWARD AND ELEANOR MORGAN PROFESSOR IN THE SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Inaugural Practice Prize Winners: Suncorp
Geospatial Technology Introduced in Industry First
The project saw Suncorp transform insurance operations by challenging the status quo and questioning if there was a different way to gather data which resulted in fewer questions for customers to answer. "It was an industry-first," said Emily Chong, Pricing Manager at Suncorp.
"We used geospatial intelligence to inform our risk selection and pricing, removing the need for customers to answer 50 per cent of property questions on their application."
The technology was able to identify property building attributes from aerial images of more than 9 million Australian homes, turning these images into usable data.
"The new capability brings a better, simpler customer purchasing experience, and puts Suncorp at the leading edge when it comes to the innovative use of new technology for the benefit of our customers," Ms Chong said.
"Analytics when used as a strategic advantage across all areas of business operations, could deliver profitable financial outcomes for the business, delight our customers by delivering on promises and allow us to keep ahead of a competitive market."
Venue
Grand Hyatt Melbourne
123 Collins Street, Melbourne
A Melbourne icon, the Grand Hyatt is located in the heart of the city along the prestigious Parris end of Collins Street surrounded by the city’s high fashion and fine dining.
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