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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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.
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 […]
Dan Adams, Senior Vice President, Data Strategy and Operations, Precisely
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? As a fast-growing business that has made six acquisitions in the past three years alone, the reality is that we are in different stages for various parts of our operations. We’re fortunate to be able to leverage Precisely’s solutions and data integrity best practice […]
David Sweenor, Senior Director, Portfolio Marketing, Alteryx
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? Being the analytics automation company, Alteryx is quite sophisticated with data and analytics. Out of a 5-point scale, we’re probably a high 3 or close to a 4. The average maturity score across all companies is a 2.2 so that’s a great score. […]
Debanjan Saha, CEO, DataRobot
What key skills or attributes do you consider have contributed to your success in your current role? Thinking big and taking risks. One of the core values of DataRobot is to ’dream big’, meaning we are always forward-looking. In my career, I have always striven to be resilient, no matter the situation. Curiosity and […]
Dr Paul Pallath, Vice President, Applied AI Practice, Searce Inc
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? In my new role as vice president of applied AI practice at Searce, my dedication is to guide our clients in achieving intelligent, impactful and innovative business outcomes through the use of data and artificial intelligence. We collaborate with businesses at different levels of […]
Jennifer Agnes, Managing Director, Cynozure Group US
What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey? As a small consultancy we can ensure that we are data guided from the start and consistently make data part of our culture. Of course, one of our core services is to help other companies, including public, private and non-profits, make progress on their […]
Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-Founder, Databricks
