Professor Andy Neely, Co-Founder, Anmut
What impact has the pandemic had on demand from your clients? The last two years of the pandemic have drastically altered our clients’ needs. In year one, the acceleration of data transformation focused Anmut on helping clients quickly measure data’s value and improve the fitness-for-purpose of priority data assets, often prior to the uptake of […]
Robert Bond, Partner, Bristows
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Data and analytics are important for law firms, not only to understand client needs and expectations but also to appreciate the changing attitudes of staff to remote working and working from home. At Bristows, we have worked hard to […]
Christine Foster, Cco, The Alan Turing Institute
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? This is our mission – to make great leaps in data science and artificial intelligence research in order to change the world for the better. Research excellence is the foundation of the Institute: the sharpest minds from the data science […]
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 McDougall, Deputy Commissioner – Regulatory Innovation and Technology, Information Commissioner’s Office
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The Covid-19 crisis has accelerated the growth of data-enabled services, such as increased working from home, virtual medical consultations and online shopping. It has also meant more attention on using data to track health outcomes. High data protection standards […]
Diana Akanho, Senior Insight Manager, Tech Nation
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? At Tech Nation, we have developed a data strategy that is not only focused on collecting data, but also on generating knowledge and insights in order to produce meaningful reports, supporting all business decisions. Data supports us, by keeping […]
Gillian Docherty, Chief Executive Officer, The Data Lab
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The Data Lab is Scotland’s innovation centre for data science and artificial intelligence. Our mission is to help Scotland maximise the value of data and lead the world to a data-powered future. So our main role is to help […]
Jeni Tennison, Vice President and Chief Strategy Adviser, The Open Data Institute
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The Open Data Institute (ODI) mostly focuses on helping other organisations to embed better data practices and to take a wider view of its potential. So while we help organisations to use data in business planning, policy-making and to […]
Jillian Ney, Founder, The Social Intelligence Lab
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? At The Social Intelligence Lab, we help other organisations to plan, create, and deliver successful social data programmes. When we start working with clients, we tend to find that social data is being predominantly used tactically rather than strategically, […]
Kevin Telford, Global Economic Observatory Leader, Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence vision is safely to unlock the value, values and potential of customer data to improve lives through data and analytics. Our purpose is delivered through data, analytics, enabling tech and capable colleagues, […]
Liz Brandt, Chief Executive Officer, Ctrl-Shift
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Since its inception 11 years ago as a purpose-based organisation, Ctrl-Shift has developed playbooks and methodologies that enable businesses to create sustainable market positions founded on the ethical use of personal data. Developing opportunities to create wholly new value […]
Chris Tomlinson, Founder and Director, Data Science Foundation
Path to power My career started when I completed the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s programme, being awarded an MA in public relations and communications and becoming a chartered marketer. Over the years I have tried to use my skills where possible to develop initiatives that either support good causes or have a positive impact in […]
Robin Huggins, Director of Academy, MBN
Path to power I entered the data industry 20 years ago, originally as a recruiter. Since then, I’ve spent my time wearing two overlapping hats. As client services director for MBN Solutions, I work with a portfolio of international organisations, assisting them to become the go-to destinations for the very best in data and technology. […]
Sarah Pearce, Partner, Paul Hastings LLP
Path to power Following completion of an English law degree at Kings College and a French law degree at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, I started my legal career at Simmons & Simmons and then moved to technology-focused roles at other UK and US law firms. Significantly, during this period I was seconded to Yahoo, gaining […]
Zoe Webster, Director of AI and Data Economy, Innovate UK
Path to power I developed an interest in artificial intelligence (AI) in childhood after reading Isaac Asimov books. I completed a BEng in computer science and followed that with a MSc in intelligent systems to learn about other disciplines relevant to AI, especially philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology. In 2000, I joined […]
Katie Hevey, Practice Lead – Data and Analytics, Leathwaite
Path to power I have been partnering with industry leaders for over seven years, helping to build careers of senior executives while providing advice on talent strategies to shape new data businesses and support the build-out of data functions. My career has been driven by a passion to understand the technical and business skills required […]
Lyndsay Wise, Director of Market Intelligence, Information Builders
Path to power After graduating, I knew I wanted to be a business/systems analyst to help organisations gain more value from their data and create more efficient business processes to support outcomes. I transitioned to an industry analyst and consultant, which provided me with more insight into the data challenges organisations face and the limitations […]
Nigel Shadbolt, Principal, Jesus College, Cambridge
Path to power I joined the department of AI at the University of Edinburgh in 1978 as a PhD student and then went on to establish the AI Group at the Department of Psychology, at the University Nottingham in 1983. It was here that I led the first commercial spin-off, a rule based system for […]
Alex Hutchison, Programme Director, Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF
Path to power After starting my career in the insurance industry, I then spent 11 years in the finance function of RBS. Initially I worked on system implementations and transformation programmes, but latterly I shifted my focus to data management and governance. Regulatory pressure for banks to demonstrate their understanding and control of the data […]
Chris Combemale, Chief Executive, Data & Marketing Association
Path to power Prior to leading an industry trade association, my career spanned agency, brand and technology companies starting with Young & Rubicam in New York in 1982. My 12 years at Y&R included five years in Asia from 1989, initially as regional account director for DY&R and then as general of Wunderman Hong Kong, […]