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Date
Day 2 – 25
th
November 2015 (Wednesday)
Session
Session 6: ‘Open Data, Big Data, Mobile Data’
Time
17:15-18:00
Format
Panel Discussion (Moderator)
Topic
Collaborate across Government and Industries to Provide Open
Data for Big Data Innovations
Speaker
Dr. Toa Charm
Chairperson, Business Intelligence and Big Data Special Interest
Group, Hong Kong Computer Society
Dr. Toa Charm is one of the few veterans in Business Intelligence and Analytics industry
in Greater China. He held senior management, marketing and consulting positions in
leading multinational Business Intelligence and Analytics companies. Dr. Charm was
the former Regional Head, Business Intelligence Competency Centre, Asia Pacific,
HSBC; the former Associate Partner, Greater China, IBM Global Business Services;
and former General Manager, Business Intelligence, Greater China, Oracle
Corporation. Apart from providing strategy and business analytics consulting and
executive training to major clients and partners in Greater China, Dr. Charm provides
advisory services to Big Data and BI start-ups in the region on strategic direction,
management and funds sourcing.
Dr. Charm is a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP) of TDWI in the US.
He also completed a Big Data Certification Program of MIT Sloan School of
Management. The research area for Dr. Charm’s doctoral thesis was Impact of
Organizational Capability on BI and CRM Success. Dr. Charm possesses DBA, MBA
and
B.Sc.qualification. He has also completed a number of senior executive programs
from Harvard, UC-Berkeley, CEIBS and Fudan University. Dr. Charm found the BI and
Big Data Special Interest Group (BISIG) for the Hong Kong Computer Society in 2008
- 1st of its kind in the Greater China region. BISIG members include BI and Big Data
practitioners, business executives and IT leaders from leading enterprises, consulting
firms, governments and vendors in the region. Dr. Charm is the author of two books to
be published in 2014 – "Strategic Success of BI and Big Data Journey in Greater China"
and "Strategy - Make or Break Our Company and Career Lives".
Dr. Charm is an active speaker and moderator for international and local business and
IT forums locally and internationally, such as Computerworld's Business Intelligence
and Analytics Forum in HK, IDC Business Analytics Forum in HK, Retail Analytics
Forum in HK, Insurance Analytics Forum in HK, Finance Innovation Forum in HK, Cloud
Asia in HK, Annual CIO Forum in China, Annual Big Data Business Forum in the US,
BankTech Innovation Forum in Singapore, CIO Forum in Macau, etc. Dr. Charm
currently holds adjunct professorship in a number of leading universities in Greater
China including University of Hong Kong, Fudan University in Shanghai and University
of Macau. He was the former Honorary Advisor for the China-Trade Board of the Hong
Kong Trade Development Council.