Margaret Wagner, President, EMEA, Merkle
Carolyn Stebbings, Chief Operating and Inclusion Officer, RAPP
What challenges do you see for data in the year ahead that will have an impact on your clients and on the industry as a whole? Artificial intelligence (AI) – specifically generative AI (genAI) – remains top of the agenda in 2024 for everyone on the planet. Not only because it is all-pervasive in […]
J Cromack, Chief Growth Officer, The Salocin Group
What challenges do you see for data in the year ahead that will have an impact on your clients and on the industry as a whole? The meaning of artificial intelligence (AI); it is such an overused acronym and the one thing it is not is artificial! But AI helps you grow, so it […]
Will Lowe, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Transform
What challenges do you see for data in the year ahead that will have an impact on your clients and on the industry as a whole? I think 2024 is a great opportunity for data, driven by the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and the desire for all organisations to unlock the benefits. We […]
Jason Foster, Chief Executive Officer, Cynozure
What challenges do you see for data in the year ahead that will have an impact on your clients and on the industry as a whole? As artificial intelligence (AI) has gone mainstream, it poses both threats and opportunities to the data profession and strategies. The opportunities come in the pace in which businesses […]
Lauren Walker, Chief Client Solutions Officer, Annalect
What challenges do you see for data in the year ahead that will have an impact on your clients and on the industry as a whole? One of the biggest challenges this year will be tempering the excitement and potential of generative AI (genAI). Unfortunately, by February 2024, we had seen many unintended or […]
Alan Grogan, Global Lead For Intelligent Data Platforms, Avanade
What challenges do you see for data in the year ahead that will have an impact on your clients and on the industry as a whole? Our research shows nearly all (94%) organisations are increasing digital investments due to generative artificial intelligence (AI), but inconsistencies emerge when it comes to how those digital investments […]
Rich Pugh, Chief Data Scientist, Ascent
What key skills or attributes do you consider have contributed to your success in this role? I use my mathematical background, mixed with my experience building and running a company, to envisage new business models based on the potential of data and analytics What level of data maturity do you typically encounter across your […]
Craig Suckling, Worldwide Head of Data Strategy, Amazon Web Services
What key skills or attributes do you consider have contributed to your success in this role? Staying customer obsessed, challenging myself to think big, and striving to create services that start small but scale fast. Being customer obsessed is about starting with the most important challenges customers are facing, and using that to guide where […]
Payal Jain, Managing Director, JCURV
What impact has the pandemic had on demand from your clients? During the pandemic, the demand for data went through the roof for organisations. We have all witnessed a real sense of business-level transformation with data at the heart of many organisations’ responses. This helped CDOs think big and secure investment while the exec and […]
Toby Sykes, Head of Data, Altruistiq
What impact has the pandemic had on your role? From a team perspective, I can say that the pandemic has had a positive impact. As an early stage start-up, we have incredible access to a much broader market now that remote working is more normal. We are a remote-first company and our data and application […]
Dr Moez Draief, Vice President Analytics, Capgemini Invent
What impact has the pandemic had on demand from your clients? The pandemic has accelerated the journey of my clients to reinvent themselves by being more digital and nimbler and focusing on purpose. More concretely, the pandemic has accelerated their data modernisation by moving to the cloud with the various challenges of data localisation, cost […]
Andy Cotgreave, Data Evangelist, Tableau
What impact has the pandemic had on demand from your clients? Data has become more vital to Tableau’s customers. Businesses need to be more flexible and more agile than ever before. They need to be able to ask and answer new questions every day. Old school solutions based on dead-end dashboards no longer suffice. […]
Di Mayze, Global Head of Data and AI, WPP
What impact has the pandemic had on demand from your clients? It is more important than ever for brands to be able to understand and empathise with their customers, to be relevant and trustworthy and our approach to creative transformation has been a key part of this. From a data point of view, it […]
Nick Jewell, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Alteryx
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Alteryx is leading the charge in analytic process automation (APA) which delivers end-to-end automation of analytics, machine learning and data science processes to help support customers on their mission to accelerate digital transformation. We’re using data and analytics to […]
Phil Douty, Managing Director, Intent HQ EMEA, LATAM & APAC
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? We’re a machine learning platform and AI company that extracts signal from complex data and so it’s no surprise that we analyse every bit of data we can to measure our efficacy and progress. We use a semi-quarter cadence […]
David Bloch, Director – Data Science Strategy, Domino Data Lab
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Domino is the open, industrial strength platform for organisations that have large teams of code-first data scientists. It provides centralised data science infrastructure that lets data scientists run their existing workloads in one place. We take their existing work […]
Philipp Diesinger, Partner, Boston Consulting Group
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Data and analytics are key for informed decision-making; they enable predictive analytics to foresee future trends and events. They are also key to measure the impact of initiatives implemented in the past to then evaluate their efficiency and effectiveness. […]
David Walters, Digital Investment Manager, MSIF
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Data and analytics is becoming ever more important when making private equity investment decisions. Increasingly our sector is turning to platforms and datasets that are automating some of the investment processes, albeit these platforms are unlikely to ever replace […]
Simon Walker, Managing Partner, Kubrick Group
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Every decision we make, from what new practices we develop and which new industry sector we should focus on to where in the US should we launch our office, is decided through analysing the data. We are very […]