Tableau Data Day Out - Sydney Agenda
Main Stage: Grand Ballroom
09:10 a.m. - Guest Keynote: Dr Jason Fox - A Quest Beckons
Defaults—established ways of doing things—are an important element of any enterprise. We need them. They save us a heap of time, and make us much more efficient. But lo! Most organisations have now become Cursed with Efficiency. We’re all so busy, and so what happens is... more of the same default thinking. We seek quick fixes and familiar solutions that tick the right boxes and save us time, without realising we may be venturing closer toward irrelevance.
To stay relevant, we must know when (and how) to disrupt default thinking, to ask the better questions and have the richer conversations, so that we may pioneer new ways—beyond the default.
10:10 a.m. - Tableau Keynote: Data Literacy - The Most Important Skill of the 21st Century
Data Literacy will be the most critical skill to acquire in the 21st century. We believe this new skill will change the world in the same way that literacy transformed access to knowledge in the centuries after the printing press. But just having access to tools is not enough. Just as the printing press made books available, people still had to learn to read, the broad availability of data and analytical tools requires a fundamental change in human behaviour. Data literacy is not only about consuming and understanding what others have created but more importantly about the ability to experiment and share our ideas and perspectives.
11:15 a.m. - A New Day for Data
Tableau is empowering everyone with data! Learn what's possible with Tableau Prep, and hear about the latest features in the 2018.1 release. Whether you're new to Tableau or a long time user, we've got something for you during this session.
11:45 a.m. - Announcing the New Subscription Offerings
Tableau’s mission is to help everyone see and understand data. We're excited to announce Tableau’s new subscription offerings designed to deliver the right capabilities to the right people and at the right price, which creates more value for our customers than ever before.
We designed the new subscription offerings to make buying Tableau easier, from the individual analyst to deploying analytics at scale. We want to remove limits on hardware or infrastructure to give our customers the most choice and flexibility in how to deploy Tableau. Our three new offerings – Creator, Explorer, and Viewer – help our customers empower more people with data.
12:00 p.m. - Customer Speaker: Origin Energy - From Coal and Gas to the Clouds
Origin Energy's journey from Tableau as a niche solution residing on a server named 'Betsy' that lived under a desk, to deploying Tableau as a core business asset that is helping over one thousand business users in Australia's largest vertically-integrated energy provider make critical decisions on a daily basis
04:30 p.m. - Tableau Roadmap - Innovation Highlights
Ready to see the next wave of data goodness? Join Francois Ajenstat, Tableau Chief Product Officer, for insight into up and coming releases and future direction.
Breakout 1 - Grand Ballroom
02:00 p.m. - Done BI Before Tableau? 5 Mistakes to Avoid Repeating with your New Modern BI Platform
Tableau is a Modern BI platform but to get the most from it you do not want to deploy it like the old BI tools in the past. This presentation will go through some of the common mistakes we’ve seen people make in their deployments and what you can do to avoid them. You’ll also learn some tips to help you promote culture change and data literacy to successfully deploy a world-class modern BI platform in your organisation
02:30 p.m. - Customer Speaker: Westpac - Data to the People
Simply buying the latest BI technology or software doesn’t guarantee a successful self-service analytics capability, nor is it the solution.
This presentation provides one team’s data and people-centred approach to building and managing a self-service analytic capability and putting data back into the hands of the people who run the business.
03:00 p.m. - How to Make an Impact with your Data: Going from Boring to Beautiful (and Functional)
We sit on a pile of data. What’s the point of having data if it’s not making an impact? We often see customers excitedly pick up Tableau to create visualisations/dashboards with the best of intentions, only to be met with underwhelming feedback, minimal business impact, or even outright resistance from their organisation. This presentation will talk about how you can make more impact with data you have at your fingertips which include a few tips/tricks to help you go from boring to beautiful and hopefully drive change within your organisation.
03:30 p.m. - My success with Makeover Monday
Just started out in Tableau and want to ease the learning curve or are you looking for a challenge to strengthen the knowledge you have? Find out how to become a Tableau Rockstar in the community with Makeover Monday.
Breakout 2 - Maritime Ballroom
02:00 p.m. - Customer Speaker: CommSec, CBA - Achievement Unlocked: From Rookies to Rockstars - Building Data Literacy Through Gamification
Hiring great Tableau designers is one way to get results, but the true value is found in empowering your people with data literacy skills and capability. What if you could motivate your staff to learn, keep them engaged, and coach them to build their skills?!
“Motivating Science + Game Design = Making Magic Happen!” - Dr Jason Fox
Learn how CommSec built the Tableau Quest: a learning framework taking their staff from Rookies to Rockstars with 160 hours of training, challenges and certification. Tinkering with intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, measurement of progress, and a whole lot of fun along the way.
02:30 p.m. - From Chaos to Order - Guiding Principles for your Content Management Strategy with Tableau
You have multiple sites, hundreds of projects, dozens of site admins, a proliferation of data sources and very little notion of whether your Tableau Server is being used well. Learn how to take this chaos and transform it to a governed self-service analytics platform. This session will discuss focus areas for an effective operating model that will help your organisation achieve the greatest leverage from Tableau Server.
03:00 p.m. - Tableau Centre of Excellence Best Practice
A Tableau Centre of Excellence (COE) take on many shapes depending upon the type and size of your organisation and your organisational data strategy. Regardless of how your COE operates or the number of people involved you will be asking the same question: Are we doing this right? We will cover the foundational items organizations should be addressing and some of “add-ons” different COEs are taking on as well.
03:30 p.m. - From the Field: Lessons on Tableau
At Tableau our mission is to help people see and understand data. A key part of this mission are our users. Hear from a Tableau consultant about the stories, and experiences of Australian and New Zealanders as they found their feet with Tableau. Learn tips, tricks, best practices, and some not-so-best practices around Tableau. This session is targeted at beginners to intermediates (anyone with a couple of months to a years experience with Tableau). Most of the concepts will be focused around Desktop with some discussion of Server.
Breakout 3 - Wharf Room
02:00 p.m. - Tableau Test Drive Hands-On
Tableau is all about making data analytics fast, easy, beautiful and most importantly, useful.
Join us for our Tableau Test Drive session and we'll show you how to connect to your data and visualise your queries without writing a single line of code. You'll learn how to create a dashboard from scratch and see how you can quickly analyse, visualise and share information and publish your results. Whether you measure your data in petabytes or in billions of rows, Tableau is built to work as fast as you do.
It’s self-service analytics, for everyone.
If you are new to Tableau or just getting started, then this session is for you.
If you're planning to attend this session, please pre-register here, and ensure you bring your laptop along and have the 14-day trial installed.
3:00 p.m. - Tableau Prep Hands-On
Tableau Prep is a data profiling and wrangling platform designed to give analysts and business users a visual and intuitive way to get their messy data into Tableau platform.
This technical introduction to Tableau Prep will give you a hands-on experience of building a flow from scratch.
Come join us in this session to see how easy, direct and fun prepping data can be.
Topics covered
• Connecting to data
• Profile and Clean
• Common Data transformations made easy (Aggregate, Pivot, Join, Group and much more)
• Easy Integration with Tableau platform ecosystem that you already love
If you're planning to attend this session, please pre-register here, and ensure you bring your laptop along and have the Tableau Prep trial installed.
Previous Tableau Desktop experience recommended but NOT required.
Tim Louie, Sales Consultant, Tableau