Palash Thakur

Senior Director, Enterprise Analytics
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Palash is the Senior Director for Enterprise Analytics at CIBC. In this role, he is accountable for modernizing, simplifying & standardizing CIBC's Data Analytics ecosystem, enabling self-serve BI/Analytics for data consumers and developing a community of practice for data analytics. Palash was one of the lead organizers of the Data VizArt Student challenge, a data storytelling competition for post-secondary students across Canadian educational institutions.

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Day 3: Tuesday, April 30th

Tuesday, April 30th, 2019

8:35 AM Panel Discussion: Raising Unicorns - Strategies for Talent Acquisition, Development and Retention

The war for talent is very real within the data and analytics space. The significant shortage of experienced talent makes finding candidates with the right skills and experiences a rare thing indeed. When you d find that rare person, the development and retention strategies must be properly defined and well executed or the talent you do manage to get in the front door will quickly walk right out the back door.

Join this discussion to learn about innovative and creative strategies that are being used to build effective data and analytics organizations