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James May, Chief Data Officer, St. James’s Place

Over the last two decades I developed a passion for large-scale strategy and problem solving in the data and technology space, and for creating environments where entrepreneurial spirit and creative thinking are celebrated. I am a data, technology, and change leader experienced at identifying, delivering, and supporting new technologies that help businesses achieve their […]

Gavin Goodland, Chief Data Officer, National Grid

[…] work long without people talking about silos, so it seems there are plenty of opportunities to continue this trend. My career has been to become a digital technology leader with a global track record of driving transformational change in energy, government, and service sectors. I am skilled in designing technology strategies, leading digital product […]

Steve Janoo, Chief Data Analytics Officer, Diageo Plc

My career has been one of delivering rapid growth, and business results by leveraging the latest digital technology and data capabilities. I have more than 20 years’ experience shaping strategy and driving business transformation across the end-to-end value chain in global organisations. I am shaping the future of Diageo through data, analytics, insights, and […]

Luke Pearce, Chief Data Officer, Santander UK

I began my technology career on a graduate training scheme converting from a background in languages to a software engineer specialising in Oracle applications. After roles in manufacturing and pharmaceuticals, I became more involved in data design and eventually moved into data warehousing and business intelligence. As infrastructure and storage capacity advanced, my foundation […]
DataIQ member Destination Canada hosted an exclusive network session.

Winning with AI: Destination Canada’s revolutionary AI data collective

[…] the tourism industry. Implementing change Whenever an organisation sets out to implement a new technological transformation, the data leaders must examine existing issues with legacy technology and platforms and understand where they want to ultimately end up. Destination Canada’s data team recognised that traditional data products and dashboards were not keeping pace […]

2024 DataIQ Awards – Transformation with Data and AI (Brand): EDF

[…] transformation EDF UK had ambitions for years to use data, analytics and AI to become a customer-centric organisation and help Britain achieve Net Zero. However, a legacy technology stack that was restricted the team. Last year, the vision of ICE (Intelligent Customer Engine) was formed with three core principles: simplicity, progress over perfection and […]

2024 DataIQ Awards – Grand Prix: EDF

[…] transformation EDF UK had ambitions for years to use data, analytics and AI to become a customer-centric organisation and help Britain achieve Net Zero. However, a legacy technology stack that was restricted the team. Last year, the vision of ICE (Intelligent Customer Engine) was formed with three core principles: simplicity, progress over perfection and […]

2024 DataIQ Awards – Data-Enabling Solution of the Year (Brand): Burberry

[…] and AI-generated captions, enhancing product discovery and SEO. This strategic innovation streamlines operations and accelerates market readiness and sets new industry standards, showcasing Burberry’s commitment to combining technology with fashion. Merging fashion and tech Burberry has harnessed the power of data and AI to innovate the product launch process, transforming the way the […]

2024 DataIQ Awards – Best Place to Work in Data (Brand): Specsavers Optical Stores

[…] The leadership team prioritise welfare and happiness through great benefits and a positive, supportive culture where data professionals are offered remote working, experience and training in cutting-edge technology, and career mobility across the data community. Creating a data community The GD team, alongside business analytics teams, at Specsavers are driving a data transformation […]

2024 DataIQ Awards – Best Data Graduate Employer: Sigma Labs

[…] success. After an initial training period, the leadership team embed the graduates into enterprise businesses on a two-year programme, providing invaluable commercial experience working in data and technology teams. Furthermore, this model allows clients to hire consultants permanently, providing career opportunities that may not have been available without Sigma Labs. The 16-week programme gives […]
DEI is an essential part of success and needs to be embraced.

The decline of DEI in data in 2024: The bell tolls for thee

[…] female talent,” Ali challenged. This crisis reaches all the way to tech, too. “The tech sector is facing a debilitating talent crisis (The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) estimates a shortfall of over 173,000 workers in the UK STEM sector),” says Ali. On course for AI catastrophe Diversity of thought leads to […]
AI Awards 2024 - Grand Prix – Ally Financial

AI Awards 2024 – Grand Prix: Ally Financial

[…] into one warehouse, and updating network security. The shift from having disparate locations for data and applications to a consistent strategy where everything is centralized, allowed the technology organization to operate smoothly and embraced an internal AI revolution. “Ally’s development of a proprietary, scalable, and secure platform for enterprise-wide usage of artificial intelligence, including […]
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The 11 Core Functionalities of a Successful Data Strategy

[…] complexity of achieving a customer experience that matches or exceeds ever-increasing expectations grows by the day. The foundation upon which all experiences are built, no matter the technology or team, is data. In a sea of point solutions with overlapping and disparate capabilities, it’s essential to have a unified data foundation with certain critical […]
A keynote speech at the 2024 DataIQ 100 Summit.

Essential learnings from the DataIQ 100 Summit

[…] doing so, they tied emotional responses to business outcomes, and are using this data to inform the future of their content strategy. Being able to scale the technology hinges on setting up strong foundations to scale first and getting all the data engineering and management in order, which NBCU did with the support of […]

How to get a slice of the PIE

[…] is that when you add personal to information, the value starts to really accelerate,” said Ruff. He explained the underlying platform for self-sovereign identities – distributed ledger technology, similar to the blockchain technology behind Bitcoin. The technology allows self-sovereign identities to be technically possible as it breaks up identification data into small pieces (“blocks”) […]