Building a winning Data Strategy to become a Data-Driven Organization

A solid data strategy is key to building a robust foundation for your data analytics infrastructure in your organization. It’s very important to identify the key data points which need to be captured in order to build KPIs critical for decision-making. A lot of times, businesses don’t collect the required data which leads to the unavailability of key KPIs. This session is going to be benefit companies who are starting their analytics journey as well as the ones who have built different data analytics use-cases. Suprisingly, mature organizations miss the step of formulating a winning data strategy sometimes as well.

• Why is a data strategy important? How can organizations benefit from it?

• How to make a data strategy? Best practices and framework

• Examples of organizations who have had a data strategy in place and how they have benefited from it.

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Ali Mojiz – CEO/Head of Analytics and Data Science | Data Pilot

I’m a full-stack data scientist with extensive experience in helping organizations become data-driven. I’ve been in the data space for the last seven years. I started my career with an ETL/BI Consultancy firm (2015) as an ETL/BI Engineer. I implemented end-to-end BI and DWH solutions for banks and insurance companies using tools like Talend, IBM Datastage, IBM Cognos, OBIEE, SQL etc. After that, I switched to Modemetric where I I worked as a data analyst in their predictive analytics department. That’s where I helped the company build a predictive analytics module as part of their BI product called Lantern. Side by side, I did a lot of online courses and started my Master’s in Data Science at the University of Illinois. After building the predictive analytics module, I switched to NETSOL Technologies as Lead Data Scientist, leading the AI/ML team at NETSOL and OTOZ Mobility. That’s where I used tools like Tableau, Metabase Power BI, Python, R, Azure ML, Azure Databricks etc. I architected the complete data architecture of OTOZ, which is being used by Drivemate, one of the biggest car-sharing platforms in Thailand. I also built many ML models for the captive finance market with clients like Nissan Finance, Hyundai, CNH etc. In Jan’21, I started Data Pilot (Pilot (w.data-pilot.com), an analytics and AI/ML services company. We wing with clients in the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Pakistan.