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2024 Leadership and AI Survey Analysis: What Data Leaders Need to Know

Randy Bean

Author, "Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI"

The 2024 data leader survey highlights the impact of Generative AI, increased data and AI investments, and the evolving role of Chief Data Officers.

How Companies Can Drive More Impact with Data

Jan Foo

Senior Director, GTM Operations, ServiceNow

Discover how enterprise data and analytics can boost sales productivity and profitability, answering critical questions to drive higher productivity and manage risk.

A 5-Step Framework to Do Machine Learning Right

Maya Mikhailov

Founder, SAVVI AI

SAVVI AI founder Maya Mikhailov argues for the breakthrough benefits of machine learning – and provides a framework to decide if the right conditions are present.

The Essential Link between Data Literacy and Data Ethics

Luke Stanke

SVP Data Analytics, phData

phData SVP of Analytics Luke Stanke argues that the ability to determine bias in data use is vitally connected to data literacy, and that data literacy has profound implications in successfully navigating data ethics.

If You Want Meaningful Change, Hire Challengers

Ryan den Rooijen

Chief Ecommerce Officer, Chalhoub Group

Be brave enough to hire people who will challenge your business. That’s the recruiting advice of Ryan den Rooijen of luxury retailer Chalhoub Group.

Eva Murray

Five Organizational Impacts of a Strong Data Community

Eva Murray

Eva Murray

Lead Evangelist EMEA, Snowflake

In my experience, people who join data communities almost immediately begin to enjoy their jobs more.

Decentralized Data Governance as a Center of Excellence

Mark Palmer

M&A Advisor, Warburg Pincus

Mark Palmer, Board Advisor at Correlation One, Data Visualization Society, and Talkmap, discusses whether data governance has become too charged a term, and highlights the benefits of decentralized data governance.

Glenn Exton

Seven Ways to Get Moving with a Data Literacy Program

Glenn Exton

Glenn Exton

Head of Customer Business Analytics, NatWest Group

Glenn Exton, RBS International Head of Data Analytics, discusses seven ways data leaders can create momentum to significantly boost data literacy.

Aaron Hillery

Can We Prevent Digital Discrimination?

Aaron Hillery

Allen Hillery

Adjunct Professor, Macaulay Honors College

With the recent formation of the FCC’s new task force on digital discrimination, it’s time as data leaders that we put our own policies in place to bridge the digital divide.

7 Tips for More Effective Data Storytelling

Multiple Contributors

Multiple Authors

Learn how to engage your audience and become a more effective data storyteller with these seven critical tips.

Data Trends in 2024: 5 to Watch

Sadie St. Lawrence

Founder and CEO, Women in Data

Sadie St. Lawrence, Founder/CEO of Women in Data, reviews her picks for 2023’s data trends to watch and offers five that data leaders should watch in 2024.

Nate Mayfield

Data Leadership

Three Pillars of Data Leadership – and Three Aha Moments

Nate Mayfield

Nate Mayfield

Vice President, Strategy & Operations, Applications Service Excellence, Oracle

Not only were people better at absorbing our information, they could really do something with it.

6 Things Slowing Data Integration – and 5 Questions You Should Be Asking

Atif A. Khan

Principal Director, Accenture

High levels of data integration and interoperability mean faster growth. Here are six barriers to integration and five questions you need to ask to help you get there.

Building a Community to Accelerate Data Culture

KT

Senior Product Marketing Manager and Evangelist, Snowflake

These five strategies can help your organization build a community that helps sustain a data-driven culture.

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5 Ways Data Leaders Can Own Their Growth

Aisha Quaintance

VP, RelationalAI; and Chairman, Executive Data Forum, Women In Data

In the nascent world of data leadership it can be hard to see what the future holds for your career path. Following these five tips can help data leaders own their growth.

AI + Data: 5 Ways to Maximize Your Impact

Solomon Kahn

Founder and CEO, Delivery Layer

Data leaders can unlock the true potential of their data and AI initiatives by implementing these five invaluable strategies for maximizing the profound impact of AI within their organization.

Data Leadership

Seven Strategies to Level Up Your Data Talent

Multiple Contributors

Multiple Authors

Data leaders can utilize these seven strategies to close the gap between data leaders and managers in data-driven businesses to maximize the system-wide impact of data.

AI and Data Ethics: What a Data Leader Needs to Know

Rafael Alvarado

Associate Professor, School of Data Science, UVA

As organizations are still trying to understand how best to understand and apply AI, it becomes critically important to address the data ethics of AI and the implications of bias.

Josh Tapley

Data Leadership

Will Chief Data Officers become Chief Data Architects?

Josh Tapley

Josh Tapley

Senior Director, Enterprise Reporting, Altice USA

Comcast’s Josh Tapley posits that the Chief Data Officer of today is unlikely to go away, but may become more like a Chief Data Architect as businesses fully embrace data-driven cultures.

Data Governance Myths Part 2: This Time It’s Personal

Laura Madsen

CEO, Moxy Analytics

Laura Madsen returns to debunk more data governance myths in this thrilling sequel.