215 participants (16% at C-Suite level), representing 147 organizations across 19 industry sectors and 10 countries attended the 2024 CDOIQ APAC Symposium on 24 May 2024 at Nanyang Business School, NTU, Singapore.

Targeted at Chief Data Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, and Heads of Data & Analytics, it brought together APAC data leaders in industries, government, and academia by facilitating thought-provoking conversations and collaborations on topics related to:

Theme 1: Data Strategy and Management

Theme 2: Analytics and AI Value Creation

Insightful presentations from 8 panellists and 7 track speakers and the engaging Q&A marked the event.

In panel session 1 (topic: How to enhance the outcomes of Digital Transformation with Analytics and AI?), top data leaders from CBRE, Microsoft, National Healthcare Group and Synapse shared strategies and tips.

In panel session 2 (topic: What are the risks of AI and how do we manage them?), key decision makers in McAfee, NTUC Income, Singapore Digital Chamber of Commerce and SingHealth explained the key risks encountered, emerging threats and ways to manage the risks.

Panel 1

Panel 2

The 7 track speakers covered specific topics ranging from AI Governance, Evolving Tech Landscape, Strategic Decision Making with AI, Innovation with Data Science and Data Analytics, Personalized Customer Experience with AI, and GenAI in action.

In several speakers’ presentations and questions from audience, the importance of Explainable AI was brought up. In the age of increasingly complicated AI and bigger Deep Learning Neural Networks (Chat GPT 4.0 hits trillions of Neural Network parameters to optimise), it is important that AI predictions be explainable so that reasons and risks can be assessed, especially when millions of dollars or lives are at stake. In NTU executive education on AI and Analytics courses, we explain what questions to ask and show how to extract key information from AI models to achieve Explainable AI.