Around the world, massive amounts of data are captured every second. Data has now evolved from being business-critical to life-critical – with the advent of artificial intelligence, machine learning, embedded systems, mobile and IoT.
A truly data-guided business understands the value of data, and works hard to create the necessary culture, technology ecosystem and governance to enable safe experimentation and rapid delivery of solutions. As a leader how do you steer your organisation to drive this change? Join us on 3rd October to learn how you can leverage the power of AI to transform into a data guided organisation.
| 8:30 AM | Registration and Networking Breakfast | |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome and Introduction | Ruth Harrison, Managing Director, ThoughtWorks UK |
| 9:10 AM | Keynote: How Data Changes Everything | Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, University of Oxford |
| 9:40 AM | Applying Continuous Intelligence to your Business | Dave Elliman, Global Head of Technology, ThoughtWorks |
| 10:10 AM | Coffee break | |
| 10:25 AM | Keynote: Creating a Data-Guided Organisation | Kit Collingwood, Deputy Director, Data: Universal Credit at Department for Work and Pensions |
| 10:55 AM | Panel discussion: Embedding AI to evolve Data-Guided Decision-Making | Emer Coleman, Co-op Digital, Mohammad Khodadadi, Babylon, Gavin Littlejohn, FDATA and Mark Brand, ThoughtWorks |
| 11:30 AM | Close and Networking |
Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation,
University of Oxford
Viktor has published several international best-selling books such as “Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data", “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” and “Big Data” and has written many articles on the governance of information. In 1986 he founded Ikarus Software, a company focusing on data security and developed the Virus Utilities, which became the best-selling Austrian software product. He was voted Top-5 Software Entrepreneur in Austria in 1991 and ‘Person of the Year’ in Salzburg in 2000. He is on the boards of foundations and think tanks focusing on the information economy and advises on new economy and information society issues. He is an alumnus of Harvard and London School of Economics and has been featured in New York Times, Wall Street Journals, BBC and others frequently for his work on data governance.
Deputy Director - Data, Universal Credit,
Department for Work & Pensions
Kit works for the Universal Credit programme in the Department for Work and Pensions. She previously worked for the Ministry of Justice, where she was Head of Digital at the Office of the Public Guardian before moving to MoJ’s digital team to lead digital service delivery for HM Courts and Tribunals service. Kit has been successfully leading the One TeamGov Initiative. She is passionate about offering radically improved services to citizens while meeting departmental spending challenges, about increasing digital capability in government, and about joining up policy making with service delivery.
Director of Data & AI Cognition, Babylon Health
Mohammad is an accomplished technologist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of industry experience in building and managing large teams, designing complex big data architectures, and leading high-growth intelligence-driven businesses. His interests include applying artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts to health and biotech and developing cognitive ecosystems capable of contextual deduction from data for actionable suggestions. Mohammad is currently leading the data architecture team at Babylon Health, prior to joining Babylon he was a Co-Founder at Klappo Ltd. which is a semantic platform for ingredients. It enables the development of applications that help people make educated and engaged choices about what they consume.
Technology Engagement Director, Co-op Digital
Emer is an ex Government Digital Service and former Digital Projects Director with City Hall London where she established The London Data Store. She is an experienced digital leader with a background in the public and private sector. Emer is an expert in the field of open data and is the former Chair of the Open Data Governance Board Ireland, where she advised the Irish Government on their open data initiative. She lives in Manchester where she is helping to build The Federation an open community of digital businesses and innovators, built on co-operative values. She is also a Non Executive Director of TransportAPI (the digital platform for Transport).
Chairman, FDATA
Gavin Littlejohn serves as the Chairman of Financial Data and Technology Association www.fdata.org.uk, the Global Open Banking Trade Association, where he successfully led the campaign to have account aggregation added to PSD2 in 2013. Through FDATA, Gavin is a leader in the Open Banking movement and campaigns for common technical standards and a consistent liability models across the globe. Gavin is a fintech entrepreneur with experience in developing innovative solutions to mass market problems and is well known as the Founder of Money Dashboard, where he was serving as a CEO until 2015.
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GERD LEONHARD
Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Author, Strategist and CEO of the Futures Agency
JON RUDOE
Technology and Data Director,
Shop Direct
GARY O'BRIEN
Global Advisory Lead, ThoughtWorks
RUTH HARRISON
Managing Director, ThoughtWorks UK
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