Day One : Tuesday, May 4, 2021
10:30 EDT
15 minWelcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
10:45 EDT
60 min
Jack of all Trades: Requirements for a Successful Analyst
- Critical Thinking
- Research Skills
- Data Visualization and Organization skills
- Software versatility
- Writing skills
- Presentation and public speaking skills
- Collaboration & support
11:45 EDT
60 min
Key Business Intelligence Technologies
Darko Knezevic, Enterprise Architecture Specialist & Information Technology Planning, Metrolinx
- Data Storage
- Dashboards
- Reporting
- Data Discovery/Visualization
- Cloud Data Services
12:45 EDT
45 minBreak
13:30 EDT
60 min
The Key Ingredients to Toronto's Successful Launch of a Workforce BI Dashboard
Genevieve Zletni, Team Lead, Reporting & Analytics, People & Equity Division, City of Toronto
- Top three ‘must haves’ for success
- What we learnt on our journey
- One main, simple focus for all members of the design/development team
- A ‘never seen before’ element of Toronto’s dashboard
- Dashboard demo
14:30 EDT
60 min
Journey and Evolution of Data and Analytics
Jagmeet Cheema, Analytics & Data Science Specialist, Alberta Pension Services Corporation
15:30 EDT
45 minBreak
16:15 EDT
60 minUsing Data & Analytics to Look Inwards: Managing Hiring & HR Practices in a Data-Driven Way
- Understand the importance of a data-driven culture
- Identify the tools you have
- Guard against information being shared with unintended recipients
- Look both internally and externally
- Use data insights to present to business leaders to help drive decision making
17:15 EDT
Closing Remarks from the Chair
Day Two : Wednesday, May 5, 2021
10:30 EDT
15 minWelcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
10:45 EDT
60 min
Dashboard Fundamentals: The resources you need, the project plan that works and a game plan that empowers you and your team to create an effective and impressive dashboard
Jo-Ann Yewchuk, Business Intelligence Analyst, Edmonton Police Services
- The Project Plan: Why 4 Month Agile Sprints Work
- The Team: The Resource on Your Critical Path and Why You Need to Bring Them in BEFORE the Project KickOff
- Data: The Devil is in the Details and Why Your Stakeholder Will Be Given Homework
- Dashboard Design: Selecting the Correct Graph Takes Time…Lots of Time
- Formatting: Why Navigation and White Space Matters
- Deployment = Training: Implementing a Solid Training Strategy Will Define the Success of Your Project
11:45 EDT
60 minOptimizing Data and Analytics Investments to Achieve Business Value
- Step-by-step guide to drive operational performance improvement
- Understand how analytics can help product management
- Improve service level performance while driving down costs
- Explore data and analytics strategies that support business priorities
- Develop a toolkit that optimizes business value from data and analytics investments
12:45 EDT
45 minBreak
13:30 EDT
60 minCloud Computing & Business Intelligence: A Powerful Blend for 2020
- Develop and implement an efficient data quality management strategy
- Practical tools to utilize a data integration process
- Ensure efficient data analysis
- Understand your customers and construct the right business decisions
- Use KPIs to break the quality process of data management
14:30 EDT
60 minLeveraging Data & Analytics to Increase your Budget
- Implement proper budget allocation
- Discover product insights
- Using data insights for budget allocation
- Optimize your budget and increase ROI
- Using predictive analytics to drive decision making
15:30 EDT
45 minBreak
16:15 EDT
60 minBusiness Intelligence & Data Security: Opportunity vs Risk
- Implement advanced data processes
- Extract data with scheduled, or ad hoc queries
- Effectively distribute data and manage oversight data
- Understand the importance of presenting it in a format which is easily understood
- Leverage business intelligence in order to gain competitive advantage
17:15 EDT
Closing Remarks from the Chair