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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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DMAIPH & Cirrolytix present Big Data Analytics 101 in Cebu on October 16!

Big Data was supposed to make things easier, but more often than not, it simply overwhelms us.

This program is for you if you feel like you’re drowning in data and unsure which data to use to drive your company initiatives.

The truth is that the amount of data available to help run your business is greater than ever before. To effectively use this information, managers must consider the practical side of big data…what matters to you is how do you grow and build a team to make smarter decisions.

Much of the information out there just discusses the promise of the data deluge. The challenge is not the volume of data but rather the judgment needed to use it.

This seminar goes beyond the qualitative side of data analysis to explore proven quantitative techniques and technologies for identifying, inventorying and integrating data, so that more informed and reliable business decisions can be made.

With that in mind, DMAIPH has created a learning session entitled: Big Data Analytics 101. Join us on October 16 in Cebu for the next run of the program.

Our resource speakers: Dan Meyer, Executive Director of the Analytics Association of the Philippines and Doc Ligot, Founder and CEO of Cirrolytix Analytics Consulting Services. Between them, Dan and Doc have over 40 years of Big Data Analytics experience in banking, finance, education, training and data science.

Learning Session Objectives:

  1. Apply Best Techniques and Cutting Edge Technologies to Organize, Interpret, and Summarize Quantitative Data
  2. Create a Process to Analyze Data and Identify Patterns Not Apparent at First Glance
  3. Master the art of Data Storytelling using Predictive Analytics

In this session, your organization will be able to use:

  • Specific skills to effectively frame the problem you’re addressing to uncover key opportunities and drive growth
  • Critical marketing steps of orientation necessary before engaging tools and technology
  • Strategies to simply and quickly amplify decision making by separating the signal from the noise
  • A framework for asking the right questions, allowing the ability to link analytics to business strategy

In this session, your participants will be able to:

  • Bring out patterns in data that were not apparent at first glance
  • Identify and explain tools for data analysis
  • Shorten the time between analysis and action to avoid “analysis paralysis”
  • Know how to get from hard data to well-reasoned conclusions
  • Understand the entire Data Value Chain from data collection to data visualization

Who Should Attend: All business professionals who need the basic tools to quantitatively and accurately analyze the mountains of data that come across their desk each minute of every day. Managers of analysts or staff who spend a significant amount of their time collecting, analyzing and reporting data.

Section One Title: Big Data—It’s Not Just Size


  • Ascertain the current state of Big Data Analytics in the Philippines
  • Describe the Importance of Effectively Analyzing Big Data in Business Today
  • Establish Clear Objectives When Analyzing Big Data
  • The Three “I’s” of Big Data Analytics
  • Assess Your Current Analytics Culture

Section Two Title: Unlocking the Data Value Chain with Big Data Analytics



  • Recognize and Apply Various Data Collection Methods
  • The importance of Good Data Governance
  • Identify and Resolve Problems Associated with Data Collection
  • Discuss the difference between Data Warehouses and Data Lakes
  • Utilize Business Intelligence Tools

Section Three Title: Moving from Descriptive Analytics to Predictive

  • Determine and Analyze Risk, Uncertainty, and Probability
  • Spot Patterns, Trends, and Fluctuations Through Correlation, Regression, and Descriptive Statistics
  • Understand when to employ Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive or Prescriptive Analytics
  • Build Data Models
  • Exercise: Building a Predictive Model Prototype

Section Four Title: The Art of Presenting Big Data



  • Discuss the concept of Data Visualization
  • Apply a Process to Present Big Data Clearly
  • Select the Appropriate Presentation Format to Communicate Your Findings Effectively to Your Audience
  • Case Study: Using Data Storytelling to determine the Best Team in NBA History
  • Use Findings from Big Data to Drive Decisions Within Your Organization

Too often people dive into the data only to be lost in haze of data. This discussion will be pragmatic and immediately applicable to analysts, professional using analytics and managers of analysts across all industries.

Analytics Training – DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help.

Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation to learn which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.

 

The Automation Storm is Coming… is Your IT-BPO Ready?

The number of posts like this one that talk about downsizing in traditional IT-BPO firms are getting more and more common every day.

Some naysayers think statements like this are just hyperbole, “saw their aggregate workforce shrink by seven the same year, highlighting a situation created by a perfect storm of tough business conditions and increasing automation.” But not me. I’m preparing for it.

And then there is this statement… that can easily be talking directly about the IT-BPOs in the Philippines. “This is a war of many battles being fought where smart service providers are aggressively implementing RPA (robotic process automation) into their own operations to drive down their delivery costs and reduce their own headcount. Hence, services providers will be hell-bent on destroying each other and the winners will be those who eventually succeed in winning more work than they lose amidst all the destruction”

I would add to this nationalistic pressures to counter the flow of globalization and “bring jobs back home”.

There are plenty of signs on the horizon that will spell doom for companies that aren’t ready for the coming storm.

Which is where DMAIPH can help.

DMAIPH has successfully set up Filipino analytics teams for over a dozen U.S. based businesses. Offering both virtual and office based teams that specialize in problem solving using data, new technology and analytics techniques is our strength. Finding and empowering analytics talent is increasingly challenging, but we have mastered Surfing Into The Storm and can show you how to succesfully set up a team.

may 17-18

The Philippines is at the center of the action when it comes to solutions to the global need for analytics. Blessed with a solid foundation of young, educated and English speaking workforce, companies around the world are look for Filipino analytics talent to fill analytics positions.

DMAIPH was set up to facilitate these solutions and bring the talent and the business together. And that is exactly why I wrote Putting Your Data to Work, the first analytics guidebook designed specifically for the Philippines. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly so we can help you take advantage of this unique global opportunity.