Victoria Data Society

🕘 Schedule:

5:00 PM – Registration, networking and pizza
5:30 PM – Data Talk presentation - Beyond Dashboards: Humanizing Data to Align Technical Teams with Business Impact
6:30 PM – Networking

📊 Beyond Dashboards: Humanizing Data to Align Technical Teams with Business Impact

When data initiatives fall short, it’s rarely a failure of technical skill or data quality. Instead, it’s almost always a failure of human alignment. In this interactive session, we'll step off the routine trail of passive requirements gathering to explore how human-centered design, interviewing, and strategic problem reframing can transform data practitioners from passive "order-takers" into strategic co-designers who deliver real organizational impact.

Adam Haigler is a serial entrepreneur who leads cross-functional design sprints, human-centered strategy, and interactive facilitation across business, post-secondary, and public sectors as a Facilitator, Consultant, and Coach at WIELD, where he is the Founder & CEO. He also teaches Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving at Royal Roads University.

🎯 Why Attend?

Whether you're a data leader, analyst, product manager, or simply curious about bridging technical work with business strategy, this session will help you:

• Extract true user needs behind vague stakeholder requests using rapid empathy techniques 🔍
• Reframe complex business problems using How Might We framing before writing code to eliminate wasted engineering effort 🎯
• Run lightweight co-design and feedback protocols that build cross-functional alignment and trust 🛠️
• Connect with fellow data enthusiasts 🤝
• Enjoy great conversations over pizza and refreshments 🍕🥤

💲Cost

• Free for Victoria Data Society members.
• $10 cover charge for non-members (pay at the door).