LEAD WITH DATA Podcast

Lavinia Gordon is an experienced Data Leader who has forged her career from a medical science background to a Data and Analytics leader across the healthcare industry. Having had 20 years experience and significant healthcare acumen, she has been influential in driving strategy and decision making across some well known organisations. Lavinia is particularly passionate about data ethics, data strategy and the uplift of data literacy across organisations.

In this episode we dive into her career coming from a medical background to leadership roles in a broader data and analytics role.

We talk about:

• Transferable skills that can be bought across
• The different approaches or processes could be adopted by having these skills
• Why people from a medical science background thrive in data
• Future developments in health and data

Episode 3 S2 – Scaling ML from Zero to 100 Machine Learning – Your organisation is ready but how do you get started and how do you successfully scale automation across your organisation?

It was an absolute pleasure to have Sandhya Iyer on the podcast to share her experience and views on how to scale a ML function from Zero to 100.

Sandhya is a well-respected Data leader and an active participant of the Data professional’s community in Australia. She is a Keynote speaker who has been voted amongst the Top 5 Analytics leaders in Australia by IAPA.

Sandhya is passionate about introducing Technology and STEAM to the young female population and is a director and volunteer of an organisation called GO GIRL, GO FOR IT. They bring together roles models from the IT professions to excite and engage female students from Grade 5 to Year 12 by introducing them to the vast range of global, lucrative and varied career options in IT.

In todays discussion we cover:

•             How you get started with ML in an organisation that is new to ML.

•             The process of scaling and taking ML to the next level

•             The factors you need to consider to enable growth & adoption of ML.

We can all agree that mobiles have become one of most widely used pieces of technology given that it is literally at our finger tips. In todays episode I talk to Lexi Sydow who is the Head of Insights for data.ai (formerly App Annie) who are a company that combines consumer and market data to provide insights that are powered by AI.

This is a really interesting discussion as Lexi provides some stats and insights into:

• What makes the Australian mobile market unique? 
• Why mobile? And why a data-fueled mobile strategy? 
• How have our habits changed during 
• Are there any demographic differences we should note of? 
• How does this data help businesses grow their top line? 

Definitely one to listen to whether you are in data or not.

As we kick off Season 2, I was delighted to have Dr Sarah Dods joins me to talk about her passion for Data Science and AI.

Sarah has built her career at the cutting edge of new technologies, with a deep passion for realising economic and social outcomes from technology advances; bridging the gap between invention, market opportunities, and implementable solutions to create value that makes a difference. She is a fan of life-long learning, a driver of diversity, and an incurable optimist. 

In this episode we cover:

• How Data and Data science has become it's own industry
• Data V's Technology
• How does Data science and analytics in companies vary.
• How Data science can contribute to business value and ROI.
• Navigating challenges and driving in driving Data Science in organisations.

By background, Dr Sarah Dods is a PhD qualified Physicist/Electrical Engineer with 20+ years of STEM-focused roles.  Her career spans Australia’s “deep-tech” innovation system, and includes industrial R&D, and a stint in academia solving problems in the NBN before it existed, co-founding a Silicon Valley spin-out.  She has led CSIRO research programs focused on helping our Health embrace Digital, and the Digital Economy, and was responsible for implementing CSIRO’s entrepreneurship program.  On the consulting side, she has run her own firm, as well as leading the data science practice at Arq Group.  Her corporate experience includes leadership roles with Telstra Health, Australia Post and AGL.

Joined by Cam Currie from Jugo Advisory, in this episode we discuss data transformation leadership and the emergence of data observability. Cam is a senior strategy and data transformation leader. He has a track record over 20+ years of setting strategic direction, transforming businesses, and delivering outstanding results, executing across large complex environments. Energised by leading strategic and data execution conversations, Cam joins the dots across senior executives and technology professionals to ensure a faster path to business and customer success.

Sandeep is experienced data, information and analytics professional adept in driving transformational change for organisations, leveraging good data management principles and industry best practices. An influential leader with the ability to develop business strategies to engage senior stakeholders and drive positive change in business outcomes. In this episode he shares his views on what data governance is and how you can use Data Governance to build a strong Data Culture.

• How to get buy in to roll out a data governance program
• Where should data governance sit and whose ownership is it
• How to define a data driven culture and strategies
• How to link data governance to data analytics practices
• What key skillsets are essential to build your career and succeed in a data governance role

Darshil is an experienced data professional in developing and executing a use-case driven enterprise-wide Data Strategy aligned to the Business Strategy. Darshil has practical experience in all phases of

Information Management like Big Data, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Data Quality, Data Governance, establishing data operations starting from conceptualization to implementation.

He is passionate about driving strategic outcomes through data and AI/ML at the scale, empowering people and businesses with deeply relevant communication and recommendations. Darshil is advocate of ‘data literacy for all’ which helps organizations to truly become a data driven organization.

In this episode we cover:

• Why is data literacy becoming more important?
• How to build a data literate culture?
• The challenges faced in rolling out data literacy
• Can technology help build data literacy? 
• Does the new ML & AI play a role?

Dhivian Govender is the Chief Data, Analytics and Strategy Officer at Recoveriescorp, overseeing the strategy around how data and analytics is used to effectively and efficiently engage with customers.

With over 20 years of experience in the data and analytics space he has a passion for turning data science and analytical findings into actionable insight and building and growing successful teams.

He started his career hands on as an information analyst, progressing into data science/modelling roles and thereafter into management and executive management positions.

Outside of work, Dhivian enjoys spending time with his 3 and 5 year old sons.

We have Jonas Christensen on the show today, he is an international keynote speaker on data science and analytics leadership, a postgraduate educator and advisor in the field of data science and machine learning, co-author of ‘Demystifying AI for the Enterprise: A Playbook for Business Value and Digital Transformation’ and host of the Leaders of Analytics podcast.

He holds a Masters of International Finance and a Masters of Accounting from Deakin University as well as a Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.

Jonas is passionate about what data science and AI can do for the world of business and beyond. He believes data science and AI will be as revolutionary to the way we do business and interact with each other as IT and personal computing has been over the past 40 years.

Cam Towt is the Founder and Director of Tiio which has a proud alliance partnership with Robinson Ryan. Cam has built a career in the data and analytics industry over the last 20 years starting out as a data analytics practitioner.

He went on to forge a successful leadership career in developing data management, governance and risk management capability working for companies such as GE, Australia Post and AGL. He is a published psychology researcher and has led community partnerships and cultural change initiatives around mental health and gender equality. 

Cam's professional interests are centred around the intersection of the law, ethics, the use of data, and the rights of humans. Cam's goal is to be an influential industry leader in the data governance, ethics and risk field in Australia, and help others develop their data management careers and achieve success.