
Accenture, Adobe and Friends Webinar: The Cognitive Enterprise and The Customer
Summary
Featured Speakers
- As exponential technologies drive us towards the cognitive enterprise, how do we put the Human Experience at the centre of it all. What are the challenges of mixing different data signals, and what role does marketing and customer experience play in shaping not just the data, but also the outcomes we are looking for.
- Join us for a discussion on new technologies and how Marketers and Experience Leaders can partner with CIOs to bring in the customer perspective, broaden the data ecosystems and most of all work on the culture of building a data-driven organisation.
Speaker bio
Sanjay Thomas
CIO
AIS
Sanjay Thomas is the CIO of AIS, Thailand’s leading Telco provider. He runs a dynamic technology organization that he is rapidly evolving to fulfill AIS strategy of moving beyond connectivity and transforming AIS into a “digital lifestyle company” that will provide fulfilling and unique digital experiences to our customers. Sanjay’s areas of interest are large scale digital transformation, delivery methodologies, organizational and change management, building partnerships, growing technology leaders and using technology wisely for the greater good of humanity.
Speaker bio
Sivanandan Ganeshanandan
MD | Experience Platforms | JAPAC, MEA, LatAm
Accenture
Siva has been in the digital experience space for 20 years, all of that across the Asia Pacific Region. Having worked on multiple platforms in that time, he has worked on technology managing advertising, marketing, content, data and more recently the broader front office across sales, service and loyalty.
His experience with Financial Services also extends 20 years working with starting with retail banks in Australia, Singapore and South East Asia, and the broadening over the last 10 years to insurance, fund management, and wholesale banking. Siva joined Adobe to run APAC product and industry strategy just as the Digital Experience business was taking off in 2011 and held several roles over 8 years, including starting the Digital Strategy Group. We are delighted to have him back on an Adobe (virtual) stage to share his experience and expertise.
Speaker bio
Simon Dale
Managing Director, Southeast Asia (SEA) & Korea
Adobe
A respected leader in the industry, Simon has over three decades of professional experience in the technology sector, including twenty years in Asia Pacific. His career has spanned software development, sales management, and executive leadership at both start-ups and large corporations. Prior to Adobe, Simon held senior roles at MapR and SAP where he established and scaled new businesses across the region, and gained deep and practical understanding of the software and cloud services business.
Since February 2022, Simon has extended his leadership to the Korean market to drive Adobe’s Korea and SEA businesses across Adobe Experience Cloud, Creative Cloud and Document Cloud.
Simon currently chairs the ASEAN committee on the board of the US-ASEAN Business Council, and sits on the advisory board of the Nanyang Polytechnic School of IT. He is an active mentor and angel investor in multiple start-ups, and also a mentor and coach to early talent through Mentorshub.