Demo of industry adopted AI usecases and Impact on how manufacturing industry changing with AI.

Rahul Lodhe is the Senior Director for SAP Machine Learning / Analytics. In his current role, he is responsible for building Machine learning data intelligence platform for realizing / scaling AI and ML usecases. In the past he was responsible for conceptualizing and technical delivery of Leonardo accelerators working across IoT, Machine Learning, Analytics cloud and S4 applications.

He has 17 years of experience in SAP and has worked across various departments in SLI and in multiple roles. His area of expertise  is the SAP Analytics portfolio, Global Tests center, SAP ERP  and SRM (procurement)  areas.  Before joining SAP he has worked extensively in the Database Administration area. He has over 18 years of software industry experience in various companies like TCS, Indiamarkets and now SAP.

Rahul is passionate about driving innovation in products and quality. Having couple of patents on improvement product applications.

Business Analysts are responsible for clear communication between all stakeholders and development team.

This talk mainly focuses on how being responsive helps attain confidence with the customer, prioritize the work and build rapport within team.

I will be also talking about how can we improve responsiveness in our communication with the customer citing examples' .

I will include some pointers on do's and do not's while working on improving responsiveness.

Business Continuity depends on how well an organization is prepared to face internal and external risks and challenges. Survival rate of the organizations, which have succeeded to establish and maintain sound Risk, Incident and Crisis Management Frameworks are higher than the competition.

A holistic view of Business Processes and Business Process Management includes those processes used to resolve or mitigate issues at all levels of the organization that's why it’s important to consider the Risk-Control Assessment as an essential part of BPM since the performance goals, processes, risks and related controls as well as risk mitigation actions need to adapt to business changes that have occurred or anticipated based on emerging internal and external factors.

Accomplished professional with international consulting and executive management experience with significant background in Strategic Planning, Organizational Development and Design, Business Process Architecture, Program and Process Development. As well as development of the Risk, Incident and Crisis management frameworks, processes and procedures.

Specialties: Power Generation and Distribution, Energy, Finance, Insurance, Food Production, Retail.

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20+years industry experience world-wide (Netherlands, USA, Serbia), from science& engineering (PhD in EE, UTwente NL) to marketing, business, analytics to Applied Data Science. In 2016 he started Data Science & Analytics team within marketing department of Telenor Serbia. He has been a keynote speaker and presenter to many Data Science conferences in Europe; promoting applied data science in Marketing & Business. Currently, he is as a freelance consultant on Business Convenient Analytics & Data Science.

The successful delivery of projects is in the hands of the people. People govern and make decisions impacting the scope of the project, the benefits and also the risk profile of the project. The importance of assurance from the outset when the business case is developed or thought of, the design of the project and methodology and the actual delivery benefit from active, constructive and pragmatic risk management to avoid failure. However, it is not the silver bullet - people and their decisions, or indecision at times derail the best plans and approaches.

This session will explore a few case studies, provide generalised guidance of the lessons learned and leave you with a renewed appreciation for risk management and how it can support strategic and tactical project delivery success.

Kobus Dippenaar is a director of The Practitioners Limited and CultureXP Limited. Kobus has had roles in large programmes and projects delivering digital transformation, in senior management and executive roles responsible for complex data, application and technical infrastructure in regulated industries. Data and people are the most important assets for any organisation of any size and together with a robust and resilient delivery approach supported by every person on a project, including the executive. Kobus is a proud father of two adult sons and husband to his wife of 28 years. They all live in Wellington, New Zealand - the cutest little capital in the world!

Customer needs to strategy
Customer needs to stakeholder selection
Strategy to KPIs

Analytics is the practice of using data to drive strategy. The Business Analytics role of today is going through great disruptive changes. Not so much in the tooling used to perform an analysis, even though these are evolving rapidly. Change is more around the deep relevance analytics plays in strategic planning and execution in today's ever changing market dynamics, customer behavioral alterations, technologies enabling new business models and so on. Wether it is in medicine, construction, oil and gas, robotics, web applications and computing... data is the new premium, and it is data that is at the heart of analytics. It is up to the Business Analyst, to understand the data in subject, build a judgment around it, and make/suggest a decision. And you must make it fast. Data is not worth a dime without it being used to take the next step, or not to take it. It is the decision, consequence of that data analysis, that truly matters for business. It is our judgement that needs to evolve. Informed judgements often makes the best decisions, but not all judgments will be informed at a timely manner. Sometimes data will be insufficient, messy and confusing. It is then when we must trust our gut, our intuition. The meta point is, at the end of the day, you must make a call, and it must be a darn good one to drive the proper strate

The world is changing, and changing fast. The big will not beat the small anymore, it will be the fast beating the slow. In a constantly changing and rapidly evolving world, organizations need to become more responsive and adaptive to changes while delivering value to the customers…organisations need to be more Agile. But who else should be at the centre of driving business agility if not the Business Analyst? In this presentation, I will highlight the global trends in business agility, present two case studies of Agile Transformation, the critical roles Business Analysis played and how Business Analysts would drive Agility and value delivery in organizations.

Key takeaways:

• The key concept of Agile and Business Agility
• The role of Business Analysis in Agile Transformation and Business Agility
• How to support their organizations in driving Business Agility and Change that delivers value to their customers
• The right mind-set and the most effective framework for Business Agility

Bola is a multi-award winning Agile and Business Transformation Consultant, Trainer, Speaker and Coach with experience across Africa, Europe and North America supporting several organizations in transforming their businesses and products for better and faster value delivery. His experience cuts across Business Analysis, Project/Portfolio Management and Change Management in both traditional and Agile environments. He has spoken at conferences across Europe, Africa and North America for such organizations as PMI. IIBA. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summits and so on. His research paper, Top 5 Skills in Business Analysis was the Most Popular article in 2018 by BA Times. He also won the Article of the Month on PM Times and a regular contributor to several online and offline platforms. He was nominated for the 2020 Global Leadership Prize and also RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Award