Keynote Presentation: The Implications of the Evolving Big
Data Landscape on Traditional Business
Time: 9.00am – 9.30am
On: Main Conference: Day One (http://www.chiefdataofficereurope.com/day/day-one/) – 10/05/2016
Defining the importance of this critical leadership role within current and future business.
Do or Die – Communicating the importance in capitalising on data assets to drive business change
throughout an organisation’s structural hierarchy.
Assessing the untapped potential of the CDO and Big Data as we know it.
Speaking:
Usama Fayyad (http://www.chiefdataofficereurope.com/speaker/usama-fayyad/)
Chief Data Officer – Group Managing Director – Barclays
Usama Fayyad
Usama Fayyad (http://www.chiefdataofficereurope.com/speaker/usama-fayyad/)
Job Title: Chief Data Officer – Group Managing Director
Company: Barclays
Usama Fayyad, Ph.D. is Chief Data Officer at Barclays. His responsibilities, globally across Group, include the
governance, performance and management of our operational and analytical data systems, as well as delivering
value by using data and analytics to create growth opportunities and cost savings for the business.
Usama was previously leading OASIS-500, a tech startup investment fund, following his appointment as
Executive Chairman in 2010 by King Abdullah II of Jordan. He was also Chairman, Co-Founder and Chief
Technology Officer of ChoozOn Corporation/ Blue Kangaroo, a mobile search engine service for offers based in
Silicon Valley.
In 2008, Usama founded Open Insights, a US-based data strategy, technology and consulting firm that helps
enterprises deploy data-driven solutions that effectively and dramatically grow revenue and competitive
advantage. Prior to this, he served as Yahoo!’s Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President where he was
responsible for Yahoo!’s global data strategy, architecting its data policies and systems, and managing its data
analytics and data processing infrastructure. The data teams he built at Yahoo! collected, managed, and
processed over 25 terabytes of data per day, and drove a major part of ad targeting revenue and data insights
businesses globally.
In 2003 Usama co-founded and led the DMX Group, a data mining and data strategy consulting and technology
company specialising in Big Data Analytics for Fortune 500 clients. DMX Group was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004.
Prior to 2003, he co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Audience Science. He also has experience
at Microsoft where led the data mining and exploration group at Microsoft Research and also headed the data
mining products group for Microsoft’s server division.
From 1989 to 1996 Usama held a leadership role at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where his work garnered
him the Lew Allen Award for Excellence in Research from Caltech, as well as a US Government medal from NASA.
Usama has published over 100 technical articles on data mining, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and
databases. He holds over 30 patents, is a Fellow of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and
a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery. He has edited two influential books on data mining and
served as editor-in-chief on two key industry journals.
Usama earned his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is active in the academic
community with several adjunct professor posts and is the only person to receive both the ACM’s SIGKDD
Innovation Award (2007) and Service Award (2003).
Speaking at the following:
9.00am – 9.30am
Keynote Presentation: The Implications of the Evolving Big Data Landscape on Traditional Business
(http://www.chiefdataofficereurope.com/seminar/keynote-presentation-the-role-of-the-cdo-in-modern-
day-business-where-do-we-stand/)
Defining the importance of this critical leadership role within current and future business. Do or Die –
Communicating the importance in capitalising on data assets to drive business change throughout an
organisation’s structural hierarchy. Assessing the untapped potential of the CDO and Big Data as we know it.
10.00am – 10.45am
Panel Discussion: On-boarding CDOs – Measures for the First 90 Days and Beyond
(http://www.chiefdataofficereurope.com/seminar/panel-discussion-on-boarding-cdos-measures-for-the-
first-90-days-and-beyond/)
Perspectives into the early days of the CDO role and how to establish a strong foundation to begin implementing
change. Discussing internal stakeholder relations? Clarifying responsibilities and building internal relationships to
begin cohesive business reform. Reflections from cross-sector CDOs on effective strategies for meeting the
organisation’s data demands.