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 […]
Martin Paver, CEO, Projecting Success
What impact has the pandemic had on your role? Huge. We launched our Project Data Academy four weeks before lockdown started. Many of our primary learning and development focal points were furloughed. Consultancy fell off a cliff as organisations protected their cashflow. Our community events all stopped and we transitioned them online. We have had […]
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 […]
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 […]
Professor David Ford, Professor of Informatics, Swansea University
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? As a research organisation, Swansea University, and especially its Population Data Science group, are committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in the UK by conducting research, the findings from which can inform policy and improve practice. […]
Dr Emma Gordon, Director, Administrative Data Research UK
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? I lead the Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) programme at the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC). ADR UK was set up in 2018 to test a new model for working with government to open up access to […]
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 […]
Gareth Parkes, Head of Data, Sir Robert McAlpine
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Sir Robert McAlpine (SRM) is a construction company delivering complex projects for a living: from roads to hospitals, offices to accommodation, and many iconic buildings. We are proudly building Britain’s future heritage. Project data analytics is only at […]
Rony Arafin, Chief Operating Officer, AphA CIC
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (AphA) is an organisation dedicated to providing development and networking opportunities to analysts working in the health and social care sectors. It aims to raise the profile of healthcare analysts, providing a professional support […]
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 […]
Sherin Mathew, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, AI Tech North
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? As the founder of AI Tech North and Innovation Exchange, I am proud that our purpose has always been to make the revolutionary world of data and AI accessible to the wider business community. We directly impact corporate […]
Giselle Cory, Executive Director, DataKind UK
Path to power Giselle oversees the running of DataKind UK, empowering its community of volunteers in their use of data for social good. Giselle has spent over a decade working in social change organisations, from government (Cabinet Office and Treasury) to national charities and think tanks. Highlights so far include being a leading contributor […]
Sholthana Begum, Head of Regtech and Data Innovation, Bank of England
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? The Future of Finance report identified how financial systems might change over the next decade. The bank recognises that a new economy, a new world and new demographics demand a new financial system. To this end, based on our […]
Helen Crooks, Chief Data Officer, Ofgem
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? Reaching net zero carbon emissions in the UK by 2050 requires a revolution in the energy system, affecting how we generate, distribute and use energy. These changes can only be achieved through the dynamic use of data across not […]
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 […]
Ian Shepherd, Owner, Moving Tribes
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? I’m lucky enough to be a non-exec of a retail business and co-founder of a data-oriented start-up, so I get to see the role of data and analytics in organisations from multiple perspectives. What is increasingly clear is that […]
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 […]
Jennifer LaPlante, Executive Director, DeepSense
How is your organisation using data and analytics to support the corporate vision and purpose? DeepSense supports ocean sector companies with resources, software and computing power to complete AI and machine learning applied academic projects. These projects develop commercially useful predictive machine learning models, analytical prototypes or proof of concepts to optimise or grow […]
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, […]