Creating Business Alignment in Analytics

Johnny Serrano joined GroundProbe in February 2010 and currently holds the position of Chief Digital Officer. Johnny has been recognised in many industry awards and featured in the Top 50 CIO 2020, technology magazines such as ARN, Computerworld, CIO magazine and Information age on emerging technologies. Johnny is a registered member of the Australian Computers Society (Senior and Cybersecurity), the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Institute of Managers and Leaders (Associate Fellow), and the CIO council Australia.

Johnny currently holds multiple board positions at the Australian Computer Society National Diversity and Inclusion Council and the Australian Computer Society Queensland Branch Executive Committee. Prior to joining GroundProbe, Johnny worked in several IT roles in Software and the Defence systems, including over five years with Raytheon Australia defence systems.

Johnny holds a Bachelor of IT, Majoring in E-Commerce from the Queensland University of Technology.

Katerina is an experienced business leader, with a track record of building and scaling multicultural teams and growing business in EMEA and APJ regions. She is passionate about facilitating personal, team and organizational transformation, delivering client success and launching new operating models in complex global organizations.

In her current role in Tableau, Katerina leads Customer Success Organisation in APJ region. Her role expands to leading multinational accounts program globally. She is driving innovation for growth and sustainability initiatives across the global Customer Solutions business. While at LinkedIn, Katerina led Customer Success Organisation across EMEA and later APAC, with a specific focus on Global Clients.

Prior to joining LinkedIn, Katerina was based in the UK where she led the EMEA arm of Cape Group, a Human Capital Strategy consultancy headquartered in Singapore. Before her consulting career, she worked in tech and financial services sectors as TA and HR leader. She is a Cisco Australia and DWS Australia alumni. In her earlier career she worked across Central Europe at PPF Group. Katerina’s experience includes working as a Teaching Associate for MBA and Masters at the University of Warwick and Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom. She specialises in Business Transformation, Organizational Leadership, Customer Success and Building and Scaling High Performing Teams.

As Editorial Director of Asia Pacific and Middle East, James is responsible for developing the content, audience and partnership strategy of IDG’s premium enterprise and channel brands across the region, including CIO, CSOonline and Channel Asia.

Drawing on more than 10 years of in-market experience, James, a well-known event host and moderator, specialises in converting global technology trends into regional and local insights, with a specific focus on Technology Leadership and Channel Partner audiences.

Prior to entering the technology industry, James worked for mainstream media in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, following editorial roles at The Times of London, The West Australian and The New Zealand Herald among others.

Nupour Mukherjee joined SCB as Managing Director for T&I Enterprise Technology (ET) Data Technologies on 28th Oct 2020. She manages the Strategy, Architecture, Resilience and innovation for Data related Estate for the Bank Enterprise, which includes the Enterprise Data Lake, Enterprise Data Tools for BI, Al ML, Metadata, Data Sourcing, Real time streaming, Data on cloud acceleration for the bank, Virtualization, Blockchain apart of from a few innovations that are under way.

Nupour specializes in VUCA Leadership and is a digital technologist having worked with Global banks in US, UK and Hong Kong and now Singapore/India and regarded as an industry influencer for Al ML, Cloud adoption, data trends and associated with several industry guides such as Alan Turing Institute for Unconscious Bias and mentor to start-up
incubation programs for fintech. She is a major from Stanford University on design thinking and Al ML, worked on data science programs with John's Hopkins and is a CIMA UK Guild member for Strategic management, apart from being a Cloud professional architect and admin. Currently she is exploring further on Emotive Al and Quantum Computing and integrating that with Blockchain for data and metadata.

She is a cloud practitioner and has completed her thesis on cognitive Al and industrial behavioural strategy and has 3 patents to her name. She has worked extensively on cloud and demystifying Al /ML tools and adoption in her tenure in past associated banks including Alteryx and made is approachable for all personas of data science enthusiasts to
hardcore engineers to adopt and run, for making Al ML models more explainable, traceable without unconscious Bias.