DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Grand Prix: NatWest Group data and analytics
The NatWest Group data academy not only provides formal learning development across data science, data engineering, decisioning, ethics and governance, performance and insights, it is also yielding outputs from up-skilled workers that are providing business benefits. Open to incumbent practitioners and across the bank, it has already trained nearly 600 practitioners and over 4,000 non-data colleagues.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Best data story or data visualisation: JLL global KPI project
As a global business, JLL has multi-million dollar accounts with KPIs that need to be reported monthly. This involves aggregation of multiple data sources to ensure metrics roll up from site to country to region to global level. Using KPIs to direct the business has put business intelligence right at the heart of the organisation.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Most effective stakeholder engagement: Vodafone Covid-19 big data and AI response tool
When the Covid-19 pandemic started to impact on society globally, the Vodafone big data and AI team focused its resources onto emerging use cases, like epidemiology and financial inclusion. These have helped to inform government and institutions in their crisis planning in multiple countries.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Best development programme: NatWest Group data and analytics
The NatWest Group data academy not only provides formal learning development across data science, data engineering, decisioning, ethics and governance, performance and insights, it is also yielding outputs from up-skilled workers that are providing business benefits. Open to incumbent practitioners and across the bank, it has already trained nearly 600 practitioners and over 4,000 non-data colleagues.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Most innovative use of AI: Merkle and Spirit Energy – predictive analytics for operations
Processing gas leads to the generation of carbon dioxide which can lead to a trip or shutdown of the plant, costing Spirit Energy £3.6 million annually. Merkle applied artificial intelligence to sensor data to create a predictive model, giving plant operators valuable early warning of problems.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Best place to work in data: Aviva customer science team
Described as a “new muscle” for Aviva, the customer science team delivers commercial impact through using data to understand customers better and make appropriate recommendations. It has a diverse team and an enabling work culture that attracts high levels of candidates and strong retention levels.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – New talent: Vlad Jiman, Pets at Home
Vlad Jiman has the crucial ability to form and lead high-performing teams within a short space of time, even when facing talent shortages, geographic distance and budgetary constraints. This is evidenced through his roles at The Hut Group (THG) and now at Pets at Home where he is group head of analytics platform and data engineering aged just 28.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Best privacy enhancing solution: Instinctive BI – Project gold: De-identification solution
Lacking adherence to data protection legislation, a financial services institution engaged Instinctive BI to develop a programme to address the risks and mitigate the client’s exposure. Its solution delivered a comprehensive set of core assets and re-engineered key processes to minimise and control the capture, use and storage of personally identifiable information.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Privacy and trust champion: J Cromack, MyLife Digital
J firmly believes that human-centric data which has been authenticated by trusted individuals is a must-have for positive outcomes. To back up this view, in 2014 he co-founded MyLife Digital, a human-centric organisation putting individuals at the heart of their information.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Best use of data by a not-for-profit organisation: Open University OUAnalyse
OUAnalyse is one of the very few analytics systems available that has been tested, applied and rolled out, and has shown, through systematic evaluation, to improve student learning at a large scale. It has been developed to predict whether students would submit their next assignment and presents the outcomes to teachers.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – The Professor Derek Holder Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr Sachiko Scheuing
Having started her career as a marketing database analyst, Sachiko switched into data protection at the end of the 1990s. She has been Acxiom’s European privacy officer since 2005 and has also been co-chair of FEDMA since 2014, bringing a clear understanding of both the needs of analysts and the demands of data protection regulation to her work and her lobbying.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Breakthrough with data: quantLab
Marketing of pharmaceuticals is labour-intensive and expensive, creating an opportunity for optimisation and incremental revenues. Combing prescription and open source data, quantLab built an AI-driven engagement recommendation engine that has yielded billion-dollar improvements in sales force performance.
DataIQ Awards 2020 winner – Transformation with data (client): Samsung Europe
As a brand, Samsung loves to take big innovative leaps for its customers. In 2019, its data and analytics functions needed to take a similar big leap, with a consolidation of data and digital resources. Aligned with the slogan, #DoWhatYouCant, new values and ways of working were introduced that have transformed the company’s data maturity.
DataIQ Awards 2019 winner – Data-driven product or service of the year (Data Enabler): BlueVenn
Using the CDP, non-technical marketers can analyse billions of data points in milliseconds and within hours of going live on the platform. Connectivity with key martech solutions means batch data loading can be scheduled with automated deduplication, cleansing and transformation. This combination of unified data, embedded analytics and campaign management has been transformational for many […]
DataIQ Awards 2019 winner – Automation and algorithm effectiveness: GoCo Group
The new service was built from the ground-up in-house using the GoCo group data platform, algorithms and an event-based architecture. This queues up events and message for each separate business system to drive automated communications – each of the sub-systems will evolve independently over time. To support this, the Azure Cloud-based group data platform incorporates […]
DataIQ Awards 2019 winner – Digital and data champion: Kinnari Ladha, global head of analytics and business intelligence, TUI
With a first-class honours degree in Mathematics and Computing, Kinnari began her career as a SAS and SQL programmer, specialising in predictive modelling and customer segmentation. From there, she progressed into the realm of business intelligence where her ability to bring data to life through data visualisation and story telling has resonated strongly. This has […]
DataIQ Awards 2019 winner – Best data and analytics team (Data Titan): Channel 4 data science team
Team working and effectiveness are essential and based around three core values: continuous improvement, “doing what you say you’re going to do”, and supporting each other. Lean techniques have been adopted, such as routine post-event wash-ups to understand and learn from anything that went wrong. Changes are adopted via this mechanism, rather than just through […]
DataIQ Awards 2019 winner – Grand Prix: Anita Fernqvist, chief data officer, Zurich Insurance UK
With her leadership, this situation has completely turned around, creating a passion for data from the top down and a motivated team delivering transformative outputs. Anita has acted as a change agent through careful listening at grassroots-level, translating needs into the language of the business with a focus on positive impacts. A data strategy, roadmap […]
DataIQ Awards 2019 winner – Best data and analytics team (Data Enabler): Merkle Aquila – Stop the Traffik team
Stop the Traffik (STT), a global charity pioneering the cause of intelligence-led prevention of human trafficking, was identified as the right partner for this pro-bono initiative. Despite the time pressure of working around existing client obligations and dispersed locations, a strong team ethos and careful communication ensured this challenge was met and overcome. A key […]
DataIQ Awards 2019 winner – Most innovative use of AI: Channel 4 contextual moments
To create the solution, human tagging was applied to a large labelled data set representing every item within a cross-section of Channel 4’s content. A score between 1 and 5 was applied for prominence and positivity on-screen. This labelled set of what valuable contextual moments look like in the broadcast stream was then used to […]