Sahar Nezami

Senior Director, Analytics & Data Management
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Sahar Nezami Senior Director, Advanced Analytics and Data Management Internal Audit Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)Sahar is the Senior Director of Advanced Analytics and Data Management with the Internal Audit team at CIBC. She has held BI and analytics leadership roles in different areas of the bank, including the office of the CDO, Cards & Payments, Finance, and Marketing, and she leads CIBC’s BI and Analytics Community of Practice. Sahar is an advocate of self-serve, automated, and visual analytics and of enabling the business users with tools and data that will help them become more agile and relevant in delivering insights and analyses. .Sahar holds degrees in software engineering, economic systems engineering, and business administration. She lives in Toronto, Canada. You can connect with her on LinkedIn on: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/saharnezami Or email her at: Sahar.Nezami@cibc.com

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Day 2: Monday, April 29th

Monday, April 29th, 2019

11:50 AM Fact vs Fiction in The Application of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning

The path to the effective implementation of AI is littered with costly, poorly planned projects that ultimately resulted in expensive failures. This discussion will reveal how specific tasks were identified and then the process by which AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning were applied in order to achieve positive outcomes.

Key discussion points:

• Where is AI within your organization presently?

• Where will AI become more prevalent in the near future?

• What will be the key action points in “getting there”?

• What could potentially go wrong along the way?

3:45 PM Set yourself Up for Success - A Blueprint to Designing and Deploying your Data Analytics Strategy

Even if data analytics is a mature function in your organization, your clients and their analytics needs and capabilities are constantly evolving. At one point it’s time to bring everyone back on the same page again and remind ourselves WHY and HOW we are using data analytics.

In this presentation, we will share a blueprint for successfully designing, communicating, and re-deploying your strategy; from setting the stage and clarifying purpose, to lining up your assets, and finally to sustainable delivery and growth