Alan Paris

Global Head of Financial Services Consulting & Global Account Manager Finan
eClerx

Alan Paris is the Global Head of Financial Services Consulting and a Global Account Manager at eClerx. His responsibilities include global account management with a focus on operations, regulatory reporting, FATCA, Dodd-Frank, cost-basis and KYC (Know Your Customer). With over 25 years of experience in the financial sector, Alan contributes a high level of front to back office and financial markets expertise to eClerx’s global services platform.

Prior to joining eClerx, Alan was Executive Director at Ernst & Young, where he led the Capital Markets Technology and Operations Transformation division. He was formerly Global Head of Trading Support at Deutsche Bank and has held senior-level positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, BearingPoint, Capco and Bankers Trust Company.

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Day 1

Thursday, December 11th, 2014

10:00 Keynote Panel: The role of Chief Data Officer – what is achievable in 2015 and how?

Can you imagine your business without a Head of Marketing? How about getting rid of the Head of Sales? Do we really need a CFO? These questions sound crazy and unreasonable, and yet the Chief Data Officer still has to defend his/her right to exist. Why? What is stopping organisations from giving power to the person who keeps and looks after often the first or the second most valuable asset in any company? Financial institutions are not alone. Retail, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, logistics, transport companies are all working on recognising the role of data in their bottom lines. And it is taking
ages. A company's data has value. However, to date, data assets have not been shown directly on company books, although it is sometimes there as goodwill or is partially reflected
in the price of the stock. How, as a community, do we value our arguably most profitable commodity Data, and what is the point of having a Chief Data Officer? Attend this keynote panel to discover the views of leading CDOs. Take their feedback to your board of directors and, who knows, perhaps your business will change its approach to the value of data.

• Identifying the main challenges facing the CDO

• Is CDO following in the footsteps of CIO

• Why should CDO be on the board of every financial institution?

• Relating data maturity to the role and practical goals of the CDO

• Some argue that CDO is an impossible job with an impossible task – true or false?

• Looking into the future role of CDO and data in business

13:20 Chair's opening remarks

14:10 Flash Panel: Weighing costs vs benefits of managed utility model

16:00 Flash Panel: How can you best take advantage of data maturity in your business?

If you are not crushed by your own data already, many predict that by 2017 your business will likely be suffering from data overload to the point of total incapacitation. In practice, that means your board of directors will soon be asking questions about data management and will not only be interested in the “what” and the “why”, but “how much?” and “do we have to?”. This panel is designed to give you trends in data maturity modelling and how financial institutions are using them. You will see how other organisations are tackling the data maturity challenge as well as be able to benchmark your organisation’s ability to use and manage data against some of the very best in the world.

• Identifying different levels of data maturity in financial institutions

• Evaluating the levels of maturity of your data across the business

• Building a pan-enterprise data maturity model – how to best take advantage of it?

• Benchmarking against different maturity models

• Looking at your data holistically

• Remodelling your data for the real world scenario - governance policies and procedures, ensuring customer centricity of your data capability