Following on from last month's "Carey's Therapy Session", Castlebridge CEO and lead member of our consulting team Carey Lening chat about coal face experience on recent AI/GenAI projects and why the forecast 30% to 40% failure of GenAI proofs of concept isn't a bad thing if it puts focus on AI Literacy, Data Acumen, and fundamentals of data management as enablers for organisations.

(This episode features a Cat Psychologist who was observing the behaviour of our team as part of our health and safety culture).

In this episode of the Talk Data To Me Podcast, Daragh is joined by Carey Lening from our Advisory Services team to talk about the wonderful world of emerging AI Regulation, ethics in AI, and ethics in AI expert advisory.

And cats. Cats feature in here somewhere too (it is Carey after all).

Cover art for this episode generated by Dall-E.

Related content on Carey's personal blog can be found here.

In this episode, Daragh is joined by mentor and Emeritus Advisor to Castlebridge (and all round nice guy to chat with), John Ladley.

In this episode, we discuss the much heralded death of Data Governance and find that, much like an elderly Jedi knight, if you strike Data Governance down, it might just become more important than you can possibly imagine.

(Muppet-ised episode art courtesy of an AI image generator)

To kick off our rebooted Talk Data to Me podcast, Daragh chats with Tony Ellis from Buckinghamshire Council in the UK about their journey as an early adopter of Microsoft CoPilot.

A key theme in the discussion is the importance of fundamental data management disciplines, data nous and acumen in your teams, and figuring out the use cases for these novel technologies.

Ultimately - the more things change, the more things stay the same - it's about the people and the process to ensure that data delivers!

It's been a while but the pace of work slowed enough in June for us to record a new episode of the Talk Data To Me Podcast.

In this episode Daragh, Carey, and Blessing discuss a range of topics from:

Supporting resources for this podcast can be found at https://castlebridge.ie/podcast - just look for this episode!

Back after an extended summer hiatus during which NOTHING happened in the world of #Data, #DataProtection, #Brexit, or #DataGovernance, Daragh is joined by Carey Lening, Eoin Cannon, and Katherine O'Keefe to talk about a range of topics.

Things we touch on in this episode:

Check out our other podcast episodes at https://castlebridge.ie/podcasts

In this episode, Daragh, Peter and Katherine take the news of ransomware attacks and discuss the importance of a data strategy and data literacy for organisations of all sizes.

Topics addressed include data strategy, data literacy, and the value of data to organisations (and to criminals).

Here's some links to blog posts and other resources relevant to the topics covered in this month's podcast:

The resource page for the podcast is here and will be updated with relevant content as we publish it!

In this episode of the Talk Data To Me Podcast, the Castlebridge team talk about the social project that is VACCINE CERTIFICATES.

We discuss the practical, ethical, legal, and fundamental data management issues that these proposed initiatives can raise. Key questions like:

1) Do we need a Database of all the Pricks?

And we only mention "BlockChain" ONCE!!

Joshua Hoshva has a supporting blog post here: castlebridge.ie/2021/04/16/whats-…accine-passports/

In the first episode of Season 2 of the Talk Data To Me Podcast, Daragh O Brien is joined by Katherine O'Keefe (@okeefekat on twitter) and Carey Lening (@privacat on twitter) to discuss:

The resources link for this episode on the Castlebridge website is here. 

Daragh and Joshua from the Castlebridge team are joined this month by Alexander Hanff from our friends in Think Privacy in Sweden.

The topic of the podcast was the challenges in the second wave of tech solutionism for pandemic response. The topics discussed included the use of AI tools for social distancing enforcement, the importance of DPIAs that ACTUALLY follow through on things, and the issues of data quality and data governance that can arise with relatively new technologies with high error rates.

A key question raised is this: if a mix of technologies with varying error rates are combined and sold as a solution for public liability risks in a public health crisis and they fail... who is responsible and liable? And is the social and societal impact worth it if we are just implementing public health theatre when the investment and resources might better be spent on Public Health Doctors and Public Health Informatics?

Note: Alexander gets a bit passionate so there might be some profanity...