11:30 – 12:10pm - Data Literacy: Why it Matters, and Why You Should Care
Martha Bennett, Forrester Research (Room Room 201)

Martha is a Vice President & Principal Analyst at Forrester that serves CIOs and other tech leaders. She supports business and technology leaders, helping them assess the impact of emerging technologies on their business and systems. During her 30+ year career in technology (first on the enterprise side, then as an analyst), Martha has worked with a broad range of technologies, with data and analytics a key theme throughout. Her main focus area today is the effect of emerging technologies and business pressures on the way BI and analytics capabilities are managed and delivered, and she helps CIOs and their business partners develop data and analytics strategies fit for the digital age. In other current research, Martha analyzes the intersection of new and emerging technologies like IoT, AI and blockchain, and how organizations can leverage these to best effect.

11:30am – 12:10pm - Migrate to a Modern Analytics Architecture: Opportunities and Challenges
Claudia Imhoff, Intelligent Solutions Inc (Room 207)

A thought leader, visionary, and practitioner, Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert on analytics, business intelligence, and the architectures to support these initiatives. Dr. Imhoff has coauthored five books on these subjects and writes articles (totaling more than 150) for technical and business magazines.

She is also the Founder of the Boulder BI Brain Trust, a consortium of internationally recognized independent analysts and experts. You can follow them on Twitter at #BBBT or become a subscriber at www.bbbt.us.

1:30 – 2:10pm - Humanized Business Growth in the Face of Disruption
Andrew Stephen, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (Room 203)

Professor Andrew Stephen is the L’Oréal Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean of Research at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is also the director of the Oxford Future of Marketing Initiative, which brings together Oxford’s world-class academic researchers with industry leaders — including Teradata — to tackle some of the biggest challenges faced by organizations as they look to the future in search of new customer-centric, analytics-enabled ways to create value. Andrew is one of the world’s leading marketing professors and is an expert on digital transformation and how organizations can use data and advanced analytics to deliver better customer experiences and propel business growth.

2:30 – 3:10pm - Create Memorable Customer Journeys with Moments-Based Experiences
Rusty Warner, Forrester Research (Room 207)

Rusty is a Principal Analyst at Forrester that serves B2C Marketing Professionals. His research focuses on marketing technologies, including customer analytics, cross-channel campaign management, enterprise marketing platforms, real-time interaction management, and digital customer experience delivery. Rusty helps organizations ensure that marketing technology investments are aligned with strategies to meet shifting customer expectations and support the BT agenda — technologies, systems, and processes to win, serve, and retain customers. He has more than 30 years' experience in customer and business analytics, product management and product marketing, marketing leadership, and strategic planning. He also has extensive global consulting and sales support experience across 40 countries.

3:30 – 4:10pm - How AI Will Change Marketing Forever
Felipe Thomaz, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford - (Panelist) (Room 207)

Felipe is Associate Professor of Marketing at Said Business School, University of Oxford. His research focuses on empirically modelling marketing strategy issues, with a focus on the effectiveness and efficiency of marketing initiatives in digital domains. Currently, this research is leading to the incorporation of social networks into the understanding of black markets (digital or otherwise) and strategies developed to stunt their growth and proliferation. His research additionally involves questions of social networks’ impact on brand and firm performance, the behavior of consumers in digital marketplaces and interactive marketing channels, as well as the development of managerial metrics that rely on abundant and timely social media data.

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