Agentic AI: The Six Biggest Deployment Challenges
Exclusive DataIQ peer insights reveal the six biggest practical challenges in deploying agentic AI — from governance gaps and cost volatility to skills shortages and organisational redesign.
Making Data Products Stick: Driving Adoption, Speed and Value in Mature Organisations
Data product adoption across mature organisations continues to be a bottleneck, despite strong investment. DataIQ clients came together to examine their successes.
Submissions open for the 2026 DataIQ Awards
The 2026 DataIQ Awards, the data and AI industry’s premier celebration of excellence, is open for submissions with an Early Bird deadline offer.
DataIQ to reveal the 2026 DataIQ 100 Europe live, celebrating the most influential leaders in data and AI
Who is moving the needle across data and AI this year? On 4 February, the industry finds out. Join your peers for the live unveiling of the 2026 DataIQ 100 Europe, the definitive ranking of the leaders shaping the future of data and AI.
Building a Business Case for AI
Ofgem’s Chris Gullick challenges the fantasy of ready-made AI value, arguing that the business case is more of a political, cultural, and organisational project than a document to pitch.
Scaling AI Use Cases into Enterprise Products
Dan Taffler, winner of the Data & AI Leader of the Year Europe 2025, hosted an exclusive DataIQ masterclass examining the practical realities of scaling an AI proof-of-concept from experimentation to a business-critical enterprise product inside a major UK media organisation.
The Data-Confident Enterprise: Empowering Colleagues to Enhance Operations
National Grid is building a data-confident enterprise by scaling AI, embedding fluency, and federating ownership across 30,000 employees to power the energy transition.
Building Trust to Enhance the Role of Data in the Economy
The ONS shared their insightful experiences and lessons with data errors, issues, and managing trust at the DataIQ World Congress.
From Siloed to Event-Driven Care: How Data and AI Are Reshaping NHS Patient Journeys
NHS England is rebuilding the data and digital infrastructure behind patient journeys, creating the conditions for safe, scalable, and clinically meaningful use of AI.
Designing AI for Adoption: From Pilots to Products
Why do so many AI pilots stall? Mastercard’s Mara Pometti believes the issue isn’t merely technical, it’s experiential. AI scales only when there is adoption, and adoption is powered by experience. If interactions with AI feel cranky, irrelevant, or misaligned with users’ expectations, engagement collapses and pilots die — and even the smartest model can’t recover a broken experience.
The CEO’s Lens: Unlocking Business Transformation Through the Chief Data Officer
Data and AI leaders must stop chasing pilots and start shaping enterprise agency. This was the challenge set by Accenture’s Matt Prebble during DataIQ’s World Congress where he positioned the CDO as the CEO’s multiplier for execution and trust.
The winners of the 2025 DataIQ Awards showcase the best of the data and AI industry
The 2025 DataIQ Awards have shone a spotlight on those making the difference in the data and AI industry, the pinnacle of leadership, and the emerging talent.
DataIQ World Congress Day 2 Highlights: Action Trumps Ambition
The CEO’s Lens: Unlocking Business Transformation Through the Chief Data Officer Speaker: Matt Prebble, Accenture United Kingdom, Ireland & Africa The morning opened with a CEO’s perspective on data leadership as an engine of agency, challenging delegates to see the CDO as the CEO’s execution multiplier: a role that converts insight into organisational intent. Key […]
DataIQ World Congress Day 1 Highlights: Connection, Collaboration and Accountability
Day 1 of the DataIQ World Congress provided incredible insights into the inner workings of the world of data and AI leadership with impressing keynote speeches and panel discussions.
Final call: Nominations for the 2026 DataIQ 100 Europe will close on 7 November
The countdown is on. Nominations for the 2026 DataIQ 100 Europe – the data and AI industry’s definitive power list – will close at midnight on Thursday 7 November.
Shaping the Next Era: The Evolution of Data Leadership for the AI-First Future
On Wednesday, 22 October 2025, we proudly unveiled the DataIQ 30 Africa – a defining milestone in the evolution of global data and AI leadership. For the first time, Africa’s most influential data and AI leaders have been recognised in a dedicated programme, revealed at the DataIQ 30 Africa Reveal in Johannesburg. Delivered in partnership […]
10 Tips to Successfully Migrate to Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric is gathering momentum across enterprise data teams, with leaders seeking best practices for migration. Those with experience are clear that migrating successfully isn’t just about technical setup but about designing new habits, ownership models and governance from day one.
Myth versus Reality of Technical Data Lineage
The path to robust data lineage is still uphill and strewn with pitfalls. DataIQ recently bought together leaders from mature organisations to exchange best practices on the topic, revealing a wealth common myths and practical advice on how to to meaningfully advance with technical data lineage.
1.9 Years: What Short CDO Tenure Says About Your Organisation
Our latest report reveals that the average tenure of a Chief Data Officer in Europe is 1.9 years. In other words, the role designed to lead data and AI transformation across people, culture, and technology is gone in less than two years. What does that mean for your organisation?
Stop Explaining Agentic AI — Start Implementing It
Scaling agentic AI and proving its worth with successful implementation is the challenge being faced by data and AI leaders as curiosity wanes.