Ozgur Dogan, President of Solutions and Service Lines, Blend
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? Talent shortage will continue to be a big challenge. There is a persistent difficulty in finding skilled professionals in the fields of data science and engineering. Data explosion […]
Kayvaun Rowshankish, Senior Partner, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
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 world continues to face a tough economic climate, however there are exciting innovations that will unlock significant value across industries, including generative AI (genAI), digital twins, and […]
Paul Moxon, Senior Vice President Data Architectures and Chief Evangelist, Denodo Technologies
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 would paraphrase the realtor mantra of “location, location, location,” and say that the biggest challenge for every organization in the coming year is going to be “AI, […]
Satyen Sangani, CEO and Co-Founder, Alation
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 there are two big challenges in data, and I see both as massive opportunities in the industry. First, I think that many institutions got caught up […]
Tripti Sethi, Executive, NA Data and AI Lead, 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? We are living in an AI-first world today given the huge impact genAI has had over our industry in the last couple of years. Every organization today needs to […]
Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer, ThoughtSpot
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? GenAI has the potential to unlock incredible business value and human creativity. But this potential is only available to organizations who have invested in a solid data foundation, […]
Vivek Gupta, Founder and CEO, Softsensor.ai
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? Today, the generative AI (genAI) and large language models have opened the board’s attention to previously unseen possibilities. While most of these out-of-the-box models give an impressive answer […]
John K Thompson, Global Head, AI, EY
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 most significant challenge in data at this point is to communicate that the new tools available make all data available for active use; we no longer have […]
Wendy Batchelder, Chief Data Officer, Salesforce
How are you developing the data literacy of your organization, including the skills of your data teams and of your business stakeholders? We have internal training programs built for users internally and externally to learn data literacy concepts.
Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-Founder, Databricks
Assia Abada, Global Senior Vice President Innovation and Data Science Strategy, Choreograph
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? Choreograph is the data and technology arm of WPP. Its data maturity is in the high end of the spectrum. It procures solutions anchored in data and powered by machine learning and AI. Tell us about the data and analytics resources you are […]
Benjamin Arnulf, Senior Director, Product Strategy, Analytics, Oracle
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? The organization is totally mature and advanced in terms of data maturity. We are using, descriptive analytics, diagnostic analytics, predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics to analyze our product. Tell us about the data and analytics resources you are responsible for I’m currently responsible […]
Philip Dutton, CEO and Founder, Solidatus
What key skills or attributes do you consider have contributed to your success in your current role? I believe the most important attribute that contributes to success in a leadership role and in data is openness. In an environment that is constantly changing there is no space for ego or definitive resolve. The ability to […]
Bret Greenstein, Partner, Data, Analytics and AI, PwC
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? Our organization is highly mature. Not only are we fully modernized on cloud native data architectures, but we have robust data governance, integration of third party data, a comprehensive data catalog and marketplace and we are advanced in our use of analytics and […]
Prachi Priya, Chief Data Officer, Team One – Publicis Groupe
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? We are on a journey to becoming a data-driven agency, with many success stories about how we have used data to derive customer insights, drive business value and our focus now is on amplifying the scale and impact. We are doing this through advancing […]
Carol Kim, Executive Director, Global Chief Data Office, IBM
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? I believe we are defined and managed and are working towards optimizing. Tell us about the data and analytics resources you are responsible for IBM’s global chief data office has 700+ employees worldwide.
Sriram Anand, Phd, Global Delivery Lead, Data and AI, Accenture
What key skills or attributes do you consider have contributed to your success in your current role? I consider myself a technology architect and practitioner and I like to deep dive into problems to be an effective leader and mentor. What level of data maturity do you typically encounter across your client base and […]
Cassie Kozyrkov, Chief Decision Scientist, Google
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? As the place that pioneered so many fundamental innovations that data professionals take for granted these days, from MapReduce to transformers, Google might be described as pushing the envelope on data.
Chad Engelgau, CEO, Acxiom
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? As industry leaders in data management, we’re exceptionally good but always want to get better. What’s next? Reducing bias in datasets and algorithms, adding more AI and privacy-enhancing technologies, increasing efficiencies and effectiveness while focusing on improving outcomes for everyone. Data maturation is never […]
Vijoy Basu, Senior Director, Data and Analytics, Cognizant
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? We have benchmarked as per Gartner’s D&A maturity framework and we are at below levels: Level 3 for create and maintain semantic models, visual dashboards and advanced analytics models. Level 4 for create and maintain enterprise reports. Our aim is to be at level 4 […]