Driven by Data: The Podcast

In Episode 38 of Season 2, on Driven By Data, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by, Eva Murry, Lead Evangelist for EMEA Region at Snowflake, where they discuss why you don't need to be technical to achieve in Data Analytics which includes:

• How people from outside the Data industry can position themselves as the desired candidate, in today's competitive market
• Reasons someone would want to start in the Data Analytics community
• The importance of networking
• Where you can go to find valuable resources
• How data democratisation leads to a truly data-driven business
• The role Data Literacy plays in data democratisation
• How "non-data/technical" people drive us forward in these areas
• The benefit of data communities and organisations planning to develop in this space
• Why leaders should invest in data collaboration
• Tips on how organisations create a true data culture

In Episode 37 of Season 2, on Driven By Data,  Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Consulting Partner for Mesh-AI, Sean Robertson, where they discuss the difficulties of Productionising Machine Learning, which includes:

• The Mesh-AI story
• Reasons why so many organisations struggle to get ML into production
• Discussion around whether sector matters
• Specifics that need to be considered with regards to Data Management
• The non-technical components that must be respected
• Identifying when an organisation is ready for ML
• Differences in what companies are doing or not doing, which determines their success
• An idea to what ML looks like over the next 3-5 years

In Episode 36 of Season 2, on Driven By Data, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by, Major George McCrea, Chief of Staff & Captain Luke Parker, Senior Technical Officer at the National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence, where they discuss data-driven decisions that can be life or death which includes:

• Reasons they believe they were listed in this years Data IQ 100
• Cases where the work they have done with Data played a crucial role, including COVID, Adventure Training, HADR and Carbon Sequestration
• How they constitute the concept of value as a non-commercial organisation
• Exploring how combining people, process and technology differs from the commercial world and in the forces
• How investment in people is continually encouraged and pushed forward in the forces
• How, as a team, they justify investment in their area of the forces
• An insight into their future

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In Episode 35 of Season 2, on Driven By Data,  Kyle Winterbottom is joined by former CDO of Virgin Media O2, Eddie Short, where they discuss how to make your data your competitive advantage, which includes:

• What companies that are winning with data are doing that others aren’t
• The role of Data in Digital Transformation
• The relationship between the CDO and the CIO
• Where the CDO should report
• Why most organisations still think Data & Analytics is IT
• How ordinary businesses start to try and compete with the likes of Amazon
• What constitutes being a Data-Driven business
• Getting data recognised by the business as an asset 
• Why good customer experience is a pre-requisite and what truly makes the difference

In Episode 34 of Season 2, on Driven By Data, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by, Dione Rayside, CRM Director at Engine UK, where they discuss how organisations can compete, grow and win by being customer-focused, which includes:

• Her unique career path from HR to Sales to Data/CRM Leader and why she used to be embarrassed about it, but what it’s given her
• Why an interest in people is key to success
• The importance of allyship in succeeding as a “diverse” individual in Data & Analytics
• How Engine Transformation are walking the walk with Diversity & Inclusion and the award they recently won for that
• Why customers now see a "brand" and not "products"
• The importance of a seamless digital experience and not hard to do business with
• How customers' wants, needs and desires have changed
• How you tie CRM back to the wider organisation
• How organisations best utilise CRM/Data to compete, grow and win
• What the companies that are succeeding with customer data are doing that the ones who aren’t, don’t
• The reality of 1:1 personalisation
• The importance of communication packs to deepen customer relationships

In Episode 33 of Season 2, on Driven By Data, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by, Founder of Designing Analytics, Brian O'Neil where they discuss the impact of the design on analytics which includes:

• Why nobody really wants your team’s data science and analytics…even if they ask for it
• The #1 non-technical hurdle to achieving business value with data and why teams continue to fail
• What data science and data product teams can learn from software product teams about building useful, usable, high-value digital solutions
• How data product teams and leaders can leverage design to become innovation partners to their internal stakeholders
• Why design is not just about UX and data viz when it comes to data products
• The 3 types of people data product teams need to be considering when creating solutions
• How to turn raw data into a valuable data product or intelligence application
• The designer vs. data practitioner approaches to changing users’ behaviour and why data literacy may not be the issue
• The roles and skills missing from most enterprise data science and analytics teams
• Approaching data products from the last mile
• Design V  Design Thinking
• Why are teams so often creating technically right, effectively wrong data products?

In Episode 32 of Season 2, on Driven By Data, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by, Machine Learning Engineering Lead, Andy McMahon where they discuss demystifying MLOPs which includes:

• What is MLOps
• What constitutes value
• Who should “do” MLOps
• How do you know you're doing it well
• When should it be implemented
• Why are companies getting it wrong
• The misconceptions about MLOps
• Successful case studies that have proved the tangible value
• How organisations and business leaders deal with the ever-changing tech/data/analytics landscape

In Episode 31 of Season 2, on Driven By Data, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by, CEO at Herman Heyns where they discuss why most organizations struggle to maximise their data opportunity which includes:

• What’s the biggest obstacle/challenge for organisations trying to realise value through the use of Data & Analytics?
• Why the gap between the data we have and the data we need so big
• The solutions that are available to combat this
• Why so many organisations start at the wrong place
• How we tackle this problem
• Why Data Offices have struggled to close this gap

In Episode 30 of Season 2, on Driven By Data, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Steve Neat, GM EMEA at Alation, where they discuss the resurgence of Data Management, which includes:

• Why we are seeing a resurgence in organisations focusing on Data Management over the last 12 months
• How new tools coming to market are driving organisations to focus on their data management
• The role data plays in businesses today
• How businesses successfully create a data culture
• How Alation is helping organisations on this journey