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Robbie Priddle, Head of Data Enablement, Specsavers, and Kate Jones, Head of Data Product and Strategy, Coventry Building Society, at the 2024 DataIQ 100 Summit.

How to win adoption of your data

[…] to examine building more data culture and raising the floor in terms of maturity for how we use data across the organisation. Some of it is very technology focused – how to use our platform, how to upscale, how to best use our tools and technologies. But also, around how do we do community […]

2024 DataIQ Awards – Breakthrough with Data or AI (Brand): Lebara

[…] now active online versus 40% pre-transformation. Churn has reduced by up to 15% and Lebara now has a market leading Trust Pilot score. Lebara deployed a state-of-the-art technology stack, enabling targeted campaigns, natural language processing, and an AI driven customer experience. These changes created a 5.3% uplift in active customers, generating nearly €500,000 in […]
The DataIQ AI Maturity Assessment gives DataIQ members exclusive access to assess the readiness of their AI functions and receive recommendations to reach the next level.

New AI Maturity Assessment available for DataIQ members

[…] The survey is separated into six segments that follow the formulation of the DataIQ Way and the esteemed DataIQ Advisory Board: Culture & Literacy; Leadership & Vision; Technology & Tools; Data Quality; Strategic Approach; and Governance & Controls. Respondents are asked to rate their level of agreement with statements, from strongly disagree to strongly […]

IoT set to accelerate disruption of car insurance sector

[…] questions asked. That move would leave insurers out in the cold as there would be no need to insure vehicles anymore. Therefore, insurers will have to adopt technology if they want to move forward, Walker said. “Technology is a key part of the future and, if they don’t embrace it, they will die,” he […]
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Don’t let data clichés hold back progress

[…] data archipelago as an April Fool’s joke. In my definition, the archipelago’s myriad islands were devices and the water the connecting network links. Within months, a well-known technology vendor launched a video marketing campaign on a data archipelago concept. The never-ending big data era The biggest cliché in our industry has become the term […]
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Teradata’s Reema Poddar on taking risks and learning

Reema Poddar of Teradata heads up the company’s technology and innovation office and looks after the information security. She tells Toni Sekinah about the women she admired in the technology and business worlds, what she does to make sure the customer comes first and how she encourages diversity in her organisation.
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Start here: Now implement your data strategy

[…] So where do you start? You need a plan! First, you need to develop your plan. Your data strategy impacts right across your organisation, embracing your data, technology, people and processes. Your plan needs to cover all these areas: Policies and processes: You’ve most likely included your data principles in the data strategy which […]
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How analysts are changing football

[…] coaches and players, Bielsa’s meticulous approach was stifled and the Argentines were sent packing in the group stage. The acceleration came later in the 2000s when player-tracking technology was developed. The technology is now widely available in different software packages. It uses pitch side cameras and GPS-tracker vests to output thousands of data points […]
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Oliver Smith – Telefónica’s healthcare moonshot and dreaming big

[…] scope? Of course. Alpha is Europe’s first “moonshot factory”. That means we’re an innovation facility that tries to solve big societal problems by using breakthrough research and technology. We were created by Telefónica in 2016 and I lead on strategy for our health moonshot. A health moonshot sounds like you have in view a […]
Zoe Webster

Zoe Webster, Director of AI and Data Economy, Innovate UK

[…] applications, including retail, security and health, in which many of the data challenges are incredibly similar. Later, I moved on to work at the newly-formed Technology Strategy Board, a government agency charged with accelerating business innovation (it is now called Innovate UK and is part of UK Research & Innovation). During […]
Vlad Kaltenieks

Vlad Kaltenieks, Global Director of Data, Analytics and Digital, William Hill

[…] strategy on how to win with modern data, analytics and digital capabilities in a highly competitive digital space. This strategy has been executed through a massive technology transformation programme, changing 90% of the stack in just one year, in order to lay strong foundations and hence pave a way to seize opportunities to […]
Vijay Sharma

Vijay Sharma, Vice President and Senior Partner, IBM Global Business Services

[…] bring the complete enterprise together, connected with data, driven with consistent insights and intelligence. Data is changing at pace which is very exciting. Data and technology are changing business, the economy and society – what do you see as the biggest opportunity emerging from this? The biggest opportunity as I see is […]
Vicky Brock

Vicky Brock, Chief Executive, Vistalworks

Path to power I am a serial entrepreneur and CEO, and recently co-founded my fifth data technology start-up, Vistalworks, which develops software tools and analytics to detect illicit trade and protect consumers from fake, banned and dangerous goods online. I also founded Clear Returns, which produced analytics software to understand and reduce the […]
Steven Piket

Steven Piket, Head of Data and Analytics, Western Europe, Avon

[…] a new way of working. Planned activities remained on track throughout the year, however, my methods to achieve them were adjusted, with a much higher reliance on technology. Virtual communication channels were key to developing new relationships, whilst implementing targeted forums to identify and drive improvements. Avon was adapting at pace with data […]
Simon Hayter

Simon Hayter, Head of Data, Knight Frank

[…] of data and this focus will only increase. As technologies improve with the ability to scale out more efficiently, data capabilities will naturally increase. Data and technology are changing business, the economy and society – what do you see as the biggest opportunity emerging from this? Seeing the developments over the past few […]
Sherin Mathew

Sherin Mathew, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, AI Tech North

[…] in the North and the uncertainty and bad press about AI. I launched AI Tech North in early 2018 with the purpose to democratise data and AI technology. We have run over 100 sessions, reaching over 10,000 technologists, leaders, and enthusiasts over the past couple of years. Its special because it truly aligns […]
Sarah Pearce

Sarah Pearce, Partner, Paul Hastings LLP

[…] 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 invaluable experience of the real-world challenges facing technology […]
Rebecca Salsbury

Rebecca Salsbury, Deputy Director of Platform, BBC

[…] personal and classroom computing). My early roles combined my love of developing (and teaching) people of all ages with an interest in and curiosity about the role that technology can have in learning and getting on in the world. I began my career in media and consumer electronics companies, in roles which blended technology […]
Noam Zeigerson

Noam Zeigerson, Chief Data Officer, Tandem Bank

Path to power I have over 17 years’ experience in data and analytics, during which time I have been the founder and chief technology officer of Aimee Soft and executive vice-president of data and analytics at Bank Hapoalim, one of Israel’s largest banks. While there I built a greenfield data lake to minimise […]