Brady Gadberry, Senior Vice President and Head of Data Products, Acxiom
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 will see continued uncertainty within the adtech ecosystem regarding cookie deprecation and the resulting impact on addressability and measurement. Even though Google continues to kick the removal […]
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 […]
Samuel Martinez, Managing Director USA, SDG 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? In the year ahead, data privacy and security will be crucial due to evolving regulations and increasing public concerns. Organizations must ensure compliance while maintaining robust data protection […]
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 […]
Carl Gerber, Chief Data Officer (Audit), KPMG LLP
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 a member of KPMG’s Data Citizens with Purpose, Women Leaders in Data and AI (WLDA@KPMG), and the Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (CDOIQ) Symposium initiatives, we […]
Venkatesh G Rao, Senior Managing Director – North America Data and AI lead, Accenture
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 needs for data across structured, unstructured and synthetic will become more pronounced, and modern data platforms will play a much larger critical role in enabling the AI […]
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 […]
Courtney Trudeau, Senior Vice President, Technology Consulting Lead, Merkle
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 advise our clients to focus on not only their first-party data strategy but also a modern data infrastructure to support and access it. In 2024 I believe […]
Douglas B Laney, Innovation Fellow, Data and Analytics Strategy, West Monroe
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 primary upcoming challenges this year revolve around achieving and managing the exponential growth of data and data usage, particularly with artificial intelligence (AI) apps, while ensuring privacy […]
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 […]
Juan Tello, Chief Data Officer, Deloitte
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? With all the technological advancements and modernization across the data value chain the biggest challenge is looking holistically across all data types (structure and unstructured) bringing together to […]
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 […]
Nancy Morgan, CEO, Ellis Morgan Enterprises
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? Challenges include the continued need for trustworthy data as a key enabler for all aspects of running an organization, creating business value, and powering AI solutions. Organizations are […]
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, […]
Paul Pallath, Vice President Applied AI Practice, Searce Inc
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 the AI landscape undergoes a significant transformation, there is a widespread desire to integrate generative AI (genAI) into business operations. However, the foundation of successful AI outcomes […]
Ritesh Aggarwal, Analytics Practice Head – Americas, WNS Global Services
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? Challenges include domain orientation in analytics needs, evolving data products structural stacks managing data complexity from exponential growth in data volume, variety, valency, value and velocity, requiring robust […]
Al Pasha, President, DataEvolve.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? Data is growing exponentially, and the world expects to have 147 Zettabytes of data in 2024. To benefit from this exponential data growth, we need to use artificial […]
Sachin Rajpal, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, CoreLogic
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 prioritize the development of data literacy across our organization, recognizing its pivotal role in driving innovation and value creation. Our approach encompasses training programs for internal and […]
Alan Jacobson, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Alteryx
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? There is incredible pressure within organizations to use the latest large language model and generative AI (genAI) technologies to gain competitive advantage, yet many do not fully understand […]