Dee Samra

Global Director of Data & AI Governance Booking.com

Dee is the Director of Data & AI Governance at Booking.com with 10+ years of data experience in the Telco sector she moved to the OTA to evolve data governance to include Artificial Intelligence, as Data and AI governance together are at the core of how organisations can leverage leading and emerging data capabilities to drive innovation. Examples of this internally would include driving cost efficiencies or finding new revenue generating opportunities. Externally this looks more like enhanced customer experiences via personalised recommendations, to protecting against fraud and cyber attacks. Booking.com is also pushing boundaries in offering an AI trip planner to support a more seamless connected trip service and meet customers' ever evolving travel demands. Data and a skilled Data & AI practice is the key to all of these exciting opportunities.

Agenda Day 1

12:45 PM THINK TANK: MASTERING THE MULTIFACETED COMPANY – STRATEGIES TO MANAGE YOUR DATA ACROSS DIVERSE BUSINESS DIVISIONS

Standardisation becomes all the more difficult when considering most travel and hospitality companies have multiple business divisions operating as one enterprise: from caravan parks operating as real estate and ferries acting as tour operators, all the way through to hotels and their restaurant downstairs, different datasets co-exist independently from each other, and often cannot be merged to gain insight over the long-term. Join this continuation of the fireside chat to discuss as a group how companies with multiple offerings for customers can begin to harmonise their data across different systems and business divisions in order to improve decision-making going forward.


- Discover key ways to develop standardised data models, such as data profiling, in order to create a centralised approach across all business divisions

- Explore the possibility of data integration tools and platforms and master data management, how they might benefit your teams, and the key ways to implement them into your business model

- Dive into the importance of cross-divisional collaboration and sharing protocols in order to define common KPIs and align with business objectives across divisions

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Dee.

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