Why creating a good data culture is key to your digital strategy

Byron Connolly is a highly experienced technology and business journalist and editor with 20 years’ experience. As the editor-in-chief of CIO Australia he is responsible for commissioning, writing and editing content that appears on www.cio.com.au, published by IDG Communications – Australia. Byron also facilitates roundtables and conferences for senior IT and business executives and creates content from these events.

Prior to this role, Byron was a senior writer and editor at Editor Group, a Sydney-based corporate writing agency, where he produced editorial material for some of the world’s top technology and consulting companies.

Byron was editor of technology channel publication, CRN Australia, published by Haymarket Media Group, and held senior editorial roles at technology publications ITNews and Information Week at Penton Media and APN News and Media.

He was also client services director at public relations firm Upstream Australia (now Bite Global).

Linus Lai is a member of the Asia/Pacific software and services research group. He has more than 20 years of IT experience in the region. Based in Sydney, Australia, he has experience in several cloud, software, and services programs in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ), which covers a wide range of technology and services markets across 13 countries.

In this role, he is responsible for providing insights and analyses in enterprise adoption, integration, and management of these solutions. This includes sourcing strategies, vendor selection, and identifying emerging trends in business and technology solutions across technology buyers in the region.

Lai is a founding member of IDC Asia/Pacific’s Emerging Technology Advisory Council and is a recipient of numerous awards for country, regional, and quality research contributions. In his previous role as head of research in Southeast Asia, he developed and grew IDC’s presence in the region.

Lai is frequently quoted in various publications and media outlets and is a regular presenter at industry forums, client events, and strategic workshops. Prior to joining IDC, he worked with a large outsourcing service provider that focused on retail banking solutions.

He holds a master of science degree from the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom.

Steve Street is a Principal Solution Engineer at Tableau based out of Perth, Western Australia and has been immersed in data technologies and solutions for over 20 years. With a grounding in database technologies and data modelling Steve gravitated to reporting and analytics as a way to help business users support their decisions with information.

Steve has worked in the IT industry throughout his career, largely as a contractor in the UK and now based in sunny Perth in Western Australia. Having worked with many of the leading vendors in the BI space, Steve now works for the #1 Analytics platform Tableau. As a Principal Solution Engineer Steve’s role is to listen to customers and prospects and help them understand how analytics can help support and promote their business, enabling scalable self-service analytics across organisations of all sizes.

Steve also has the role of Technology Evangelist for Tableau, helping promote the benefits, both personal and organisational, of analytics, and how Tableau helps people see and understand data.