Paul Pierotti

Paul Pierotti leads Accenture’s Strategy Consulting Practice in Ireland. He has sixteen years experience of delivering successful assignments for clients across numerous sectors, including Financial Services, Healthcare, Government and Telecoms. He specialises in using Analytical techniques to inform strategic investment decisions and improve business performance.

Examples of Paul’s relevant client experience includes estimating Ireland’s future acute healthcare capacity requirements and the optimal service delivery model to meet this demand for the Health Service Executive, building and implementing a new suite of best practice customer level behavioural scorecards to reduce credit losses by $AUD1m per month for Australia & New Zealand Bank and using analytics to inform the strategic design of their next day postal delivery network for An Post.

Paul also led the Health Service Executive HealthStat project, to design and implement a performance management regime across Ireland’s 35 hospitals and 26 Local Health Offices.

His talk is entitled “Ensuring the business value of analytics”. It considers both how organizations can better leverage analytics and what analytics professionals need to do to ensure that their message is heard.

David Ferguson

David Ferguson is a principal consultant with SAS Institute where he works with public and private sector organisations advising companies on the value and use of data. With a special interest in corporate sustainability, David's experience spans helping banks utilise predictive analytics to helping hospitals understand the true cost of providing quality care for patients.

With over fifteen years experience working in the Information Technology Sector, David worked in operational implementation of CRM and Workflow Management systems and moved to implementation of operational claims management systems for general and health insurance firms in Ireland, Australia and the United States.

David is a SAS certified modeller in predictive analytics, holds a a postgraduate in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin and is currently studying for his Masters in Data Analytics from the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Chris Pallaris

Chris Pallaris is a Director and Principal Consultant of Zurich based i-Intelligence, leading the company’s training and consulting activities in Europe.

Chris served as Executive Editor and Head of Strategy and Open Source Intelligence at the International Relations and Security Network (ISN), ETH Zurich. He established the ISN’s OSINT unit and coordinated its intelligence-related projects with Swiss and European stakeholders, in addition to serving as the ISN’s Executive Editor where he led the development of the organisation’s news and information services and its global network of partners and correspondents.

Chris serves on the board of the European Open Source Intelligence (EUROSINT) Forum, where he chairs theworking group on best practices in OSINT. He is also a regular speaker at conferences on security and intelligence.

A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Chris has previously worked as an analyst in the Disputes, Analysis and Investigations division of PricewaterhouseCoopers, London, and as a writer, editor and communications consultant.

Pádraig Dalton

Pádraig Dalton holds the position of Director of Statistical Support and Innovation Directorate for the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

As former Head of Labour Market, Social Inclusion and Vital Statistics Division for the CSO, Pádraig developed and implemented the strategy for development of social statistics to meet national and international demands.

Pádraig is a career statistician with the CSO and so brings an in-depth experience of statistical methods, business integration and data development, particularly as it relates to the complexities of public sector data.

Pádraig holds a Masters in Economics from University College Dublin.