Summary
We just wrapped up the final day of DUC2023! Our day began with a welcome and Day 2 recap from Rob Piane, President of Deighton Associates Ltd.. Dr. Gustav Rohde, Zutari, brought us a thought-provoking keynote on managing change. The other morning sessions of Day 3 brought us the dTIMS Experience of the Future with the dTIMS BI and dTIMS RSI presentations. In the afternoon, we learned about ‘The dTIMS Product Roadmap’ from Deighton’s Craig German, Okeys Ononiwu, and Chris Chau. This was followed by an introductory presentation to dTIMS User Groups.
Keynote Highlight
Dr. Gustav Rohde, Zutari, delivered a thought-provoking keynote titled “Managing Change – Fundamental to System Evolution & Digital Transformation,” a presentation that analyzes the human race’s natural tendencies to resist change in any given aspect of their daily lives.
Using experiences from his remarkable career of directing people within the asset management industry, Gustav provided examples and context of this phenomenon from both a philosophical and pragmatic point of view.
Gustav’s presentation continuously asked the question of “was the old way really the best way?” and addressed whether human beings can get in their own way when it comes to innovation.
Gustav concluded his presentation by addressing the future of the asset management industry, reminding us that human beings most important asset is not being the smartest, but the most adaptable.
Dr. Gustav Rohde, former Deputy CEO of Zutari in South Africa, delivering a thought-provoking keynote titled “Managing Change – Fundamental to System Evolution & Digital Transformation”.
Session Highlights
After the keynote, our Day 3 agenda focused on bringing you the dTIMS Experience of the Future!
The dTIMS Experience - dTIMS BI – Deighton’s Gabriel Duarte Luna, Jr Implementation Specialist, introduced us to The Hub in a dTIMS BI product video and product interview. Gabriel explained how Deighton is re-working the dashboarding experience to move from displaying your data to telling you a story about it.
Deighton’s Gabriel Duarte Luna (left) and Menan Nagulendran (right) during the dTIMS BI Q&A session.
The dTIMS Experience of the Future - dTIMS RSI – Dave Penney, Technical Director of Reasearch & Innovation at Deighton Associates Ltd., and Alexandr Sinicyn, Associate Product Manager at Deighton Associates Ltd., introduced us to dTIMS Real Safety intelligence. The presentation began with a dTIMS RSI product interview with Dave, followed by a product video by Alex.
RSI is a safety insight tool that utilizes both geospatial and standard data analytics to offer the user information about the areas where potential high-risk event data occurs. Leveraging crash, near miss, and other telematics data, dTIMS RSI provides the user with the information to discover high-risk areas within a roadway network that may have otherwise been overlooked and utilize that data to mitigate potential risk. dTIMS RSI can prepare, sort, and evaluate a large pool of telematics data allowing the user to save time through automation.
Pavement engineers understand what is happening below a roadway network - dTIMS RSI shows what is happening above.
From left to right, Deighton’s Alexandr Sinicyn, Dave Penney, and Menan Nagulendran during the dTIMS RSI presentation.
dTIMS Product Roadmap – Deighton’s Craig German, Director of Product Experience; Okeys Ononiwu, Director of Product Management; and Chris Chau, VP of Engineering, brought us the “dTIMS Product Roadmap” session. This session provided a look inside the product roadmap process at Deighton. We took a look at what a product roadmap is versus product release. Where do innovations and features originate? How they flow into the process and how are they scheduled? Finally, we explored by product, what has been delivered in 2022 and take a sneak peek into the remainder of 2023 and beyond.
From left to right, Deighton’s Craig German, Okeys Ononiwu, and Chris Chau presenting the “dTIMS Product Roadmap” presentation.
The dTIMS Experience of the Future: dTIMS User Groups - An Introduction – We ended the day with Craig German, Director of Product Experience and Gary Ruck, Director of Business Development as they highlighted the newest opportunity for Deighton clients – the Deighton User Groups. This collaborative opportunity will allow clients from around the world to gather together in an informal setting virtually to discuss trends in asset management, the implementation of dTIMS products, or other topics that directly relate to their day-to-day work.
The Deighton User Groups are still in the pilot phase, and we are looking for your feedback on topics that you believe would suit the Deighton community of Asset Management Professionals. If you have an idea, or would like to be involved in the Deighton User Groups, please click here to let us know.
Thank you to everyone who attended both in-person and virtually. We were excited to share this dTIMS experience with you.
Interested in learning more about any of the dTIMS products featured in these sessions? Book a demo with a member of the Deighton team today to learn more!