Meet the Founders of the AAP at the Big Data Conference on Nov 15 @ SM Aura

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Meet the Founders…
Daniel Meyer
Executive DirectorPresident and Founder of DMAIPH (Decision-Making, Analytics & Intelligence Philippines), an Analytics, consulting, training and outsourcing company with offices in Manila and the San Francisco Bay Area.He worked as a Senior Analytics Consultant for Wells Fargo Bank for 15 years. He provided executive management analytics for the bank’s remittance service including developing business dashboards, overseeing competitive intelligence gathering, managing data analytics outsourcing projects and facilitating audit and risk management.Catch him on:

  • Oct 18 – Gensan ICT Summit 2017 (SM Gensan)
  • Oct 18 – Data Night Gensan (Mabuhay I.T. Park, Gensan)
  • Oct 24
  • Oct 26-27 – HR Big Data & Predictive Recruitment Analytics
  • Nov. 15 – Big Data Analytics Summit ( SMX Aura )
  • Nov 18 – For Generation Digital by Blogapalooza (City of Dreams)
  • Nov 21-22 – Big Data Analytics and Data Value Chain
  • Nov 23 – Philippines HR Group Summit 2017 (Sequoia Hotel, Quezon City)
  • Nov 24 – Digital Marketing Analytics
  • Nov 28-29 – Analytics for HR Managers (2nd Run)
  • Dec 4-5 – Big Data for 2018
Colin Christie
Governance & Membership ChairA serial entrepreneur, connector and collaborator. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Global Chamber® Manila, and is Dean & Director of Digital Transformation at Enderun Colleges. Colin serves as a President of the Board of Trustees of the Analytics Association of the Philippines (AAP.ph). Colin has practiced a life-long passion for embracing transformative technologies, spanning many industries, from manufacturing, to software, to healthcare and education. Colin is a graduate in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.Catch him on:

  • Nov. 15 – Big Data Analytics Summit ( SMX Aura )
Karlo Panti
External Relations & Marketing ChairA Director of Global Production at QuintilesIMS responsible for mature markets and developed countries in the Asia Pacific and the Country Head of IMS Health Operations Center Philippines, Inc. serving as the President and Chairman. In addition, he is one of the founding members of the Analytics Association of the Philippines, serving in the Board of Trustees as the Head for External Relations.He has more than 16 years of experience in operations and service delivery, having managed large teams in different industries and geographies and migrated new business processes to the Philippines from different Fortune 500 companies.Karlo led teams servicing different verticals mainly in life sciences data analytics, insurance and healthcare, F&A, travel, transportation and logistics, high-tech, consumer and telecommunications.Throughout his career, he has improved the operational processes of different companies as a COPC Practitioner and a Six-Sigma Champion helping them grow their business with his involvement in sales, due diligence, transitions and migrations as well as automations and transformation projects.As a speaker and a facilitator, Karlo has shared his insights on leadership development, operational excellence, team building, business analytics and life sciences.Catch him on:

  • Oct 13 – 15th Philippine Institute of Industrial Engineers (PIIE) National Congress
  • Oct 25 – HIMSCON 2017
Dominic “Doc” Ligot
Research and Development ChairAn entrepreneur, software developer, trainer, and data consultant. Doc’s passions include advanced analytics, disruptive innovation, organizational change, and obtaining business value from data. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Cirrolytix Research Services which provides data and analytics support to small and medium enterprises and analytics freelancers in the Philippines.Doc teaches digital marketing analytics for the Certified Digital Marketer (CDM) program and financial analysis and management science for the American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM). Prior to becoming a tech entrepreneur, he was Asia Pacific Practice Partner for Advanced Analytics for big data analytics firm Teradata and previously held executive leadership positions at global banks HSBC and ANZ.Catch him on:

  • Oct 26-27 – Global CEM Summit Financial Services Singapore
  • Oct 21 – Bookkeepers Summit 2017
  • Nov. 15 – Big Data Analytics Summit ( SMX Aura )

Brenda A. Quismorio

Education (Academe) Chair and Data Science and Analytics Framework Co-Chair

Dr. Brenda A. Quismorio has a combined fifteen years of experience in consulting, training, project management, process reengineering, application development and maintenance, quality management, and data services work for global firms such as Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Watson Wyatt Worldwide (now Willis Towers Watson) and local firms such as First Philippine Holdings and Aboitiz Transport Systems (now 2GO Group Inc.).Brenda joined the academe in 2010 as an Assistant Professor at the University of Asia and the Pacific. She spearheads the undergraduate specialization program in Business Analytics.

She is a founding member of the Analytics Association of the Philippines (AAP) and the Business Analytics Society of Educators (BASE). She forms part of the Advisory Group of the APEC Project DARE (Data Analytics Raising Employment). She is currently the Board Member and Chair of the Education-Academe Committee of the Analytics Association of the Philippines. She is a resource person of a number of professional organizations and training institutes on Business Analytics.   Brenda holds degrees from the University of the Philippines (Diliman) in BS Statistics, MBA, MS in Management and Phd in Business Administration with a dissertation on modeling financial extreme risks.

Catch her on:

  • Oct. 17-18 – 2017 BSP-UP Professorial Chair Lectures (Executive Business Center, BSP Complex)
  • Nov. 15 – Big Data Analytics Summit ( SMX Aura )
Sherwin Pelayo
Data Science and Analytics Framework Chairhas been involved in strategic capability development initiatives at Accenture, IBM, and now at Pointwest Technologies Corporation. In this role, Sherwin has been responsible for defining strategies to initiate and expand key transforming digital services including identifying focus areas, defining competencies, building curricula, enabling practitioners, developing leads and opportunities, architecting solutions, and ensuring project delivery.His current focus is in Analytics and Experience Design. It is in the intersection of these two where Sherwin finds his passion–connecting the science of Analytics and the art of Human-Centered Design not only to bring data-inspired, user-driven solutions for business partners but also deliver greater, more impactful social innovation for the Philippines.Catch him on:

  • Nov. 15 – Big Data Analytics Summit ( SMX Aura )
Dr. Eugene Rex L. Jalao
Education (Academe) and Research and Development Co-ChairAn Associate Professor of Analytics and Industrial Engineering in the University of the Philippines Diliman, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He specializes in Decision Support Systems, Business Analytics Solutions, Data Mining, Optimization and Systems Simulation. He obtained his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU) in May 2013. Additionally, he obtained his Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering degree as well as his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2009 and 2007 respectively. He was inducted into the Alpha Phi Mu, Industrial Engineering Honor Society in 2012.His ten years of work and research experience are in the fields of business analytics both here in the Philippines and in the United States of America, specifically in the Banking, FMCG, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Information Technology industries. Also, he is the current director of the Business Analytics Certification Program of UP National Engineering Center. Furthermore, he was part of 50-person APEC team that drafted the Recommended Data Science and Analytics Competencies last May 2017 in Singapore. He is also a certified SAP ERP Materials Management consultant, a Matlab computing associate and an advocate of the R Programming language.Catch him on:

  • UP NEC Analytics Certification Training Modules
  • Oct 18 – 20 – Module C – Descriptive Analytics
  • Nov 22 – 24 – Module B – Data Warehousing
  • Dec 6 – 8 – Module D – Predictive Analytics
  • Nov. 15 – Big Data Analytics Summit ( SMX Aura )

Michelle Alarcon

Education (Professional) Chair

With more than 20 years of IT consulting experience in the Philippines, US and Europe, she started her own consulting firm 4 years ago that specializes in analytics, her passion ever since she graduated with a degree in Statistics from the University of the Philippines. She trained on and practiced data mining in Spain for two years, and later on pioneered the Analytics Department of the largest local private bank in 2005.

In 2011, she was the Consulting Director for a top software company where she led a team of 150 consultants in implementing enterprise solutions for companies worldwide. Now as President and Managing Director of Z-Lift Solutions, she brings all these experiences to her clients as she defines their roadmap towards a smarter business with analytics, and enables them to make it part of their new culture as a data-driven organization. She is also the organizer of the R Users Group of the Philippines, a 4-year-old community that aims to promote the use of open source R for statistical programming in the country.

Catch her on:

  • Oct 18 – R Users Group (RUG-PH) Meetup (TIP Manila)
  • Oct 17 – Big Data and Analytics (Colegio de San Agustin)
  • Nov. 15 – Big Data Analytics Summit ( SMX Aura )
  • Nov 16 – RUG-PH Meetup (Manulife UP-Ayala Technopark)

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