Alex Maund

Presentation

A Brief History of [Alex’s] Time [in Statistics]

During the course of my nearly 20 year career, where I started as a government statistician in the UK, I have gone from doing analysis and building statistical models to peer reviewing scientific research to developing automated decision making machine learning solutions to advising some of Australia’s largest corporations on how to succeed in their own Analytics journey, before reaching my current role where I get to do it all!

My talk will reflect on the amazing journey – including the highs and lows – that maths and stats has taken me on, and why I believe that this time we find ourselves in, our skills are in more demand than ever.

Biography

Leader in using Analytics & AI to drive business transformation.

I have nearly 20 years’ experience on both advising businesses and being inside a business on using Analytics & AI to drive business change. I have worked across a wide range of industries including: healthcare, public sector, mining, defence, utilities, and consumer. I specialise in helping businesses achieve operational improvement through:

• Development of insight driven business strategies focused on achieving value based outcomes and organisational capability uplift
• Deployment of decision support/automation tools using a combination of technologies, machine learning/AI, automation and visualisations
• Implementing self-service analytics tools to enable data driven insights to be generated throughout the business.

I am currently the Head of Analytics & Insights at Australian Finance Group (AFG), leading a team of Analytics professionals that include BI/visualisation developers, data engineers and data scientists. Our vision is “Everyone has the data and insights they need, at the time they need it” – and we deliver a range of data and analytics services provide and enable data-driven insights to help AFG decision makers and our partners execute our growth & customer experience strategic initiatives.