TrueNorth: The Python People Podcast

Dilraj is Head of Data and Analytics for Brompton, a highly renowned british Bike manufacturer. Prior to Brompton, Dilraj has had an illustrious career in data, having performed Senior leadership positions for companies like GSK. 

In this episode, Dilraj talks to me about many things including his leadership style, how you go about partnering with and engaging the business in to achieve optimum buy-in for Data Science initiatives, and how a company can effectively build a diverse and inclusive culture, to name a few. A truly great episode!

Join me this week as I am joined by the fantastic Cornelia Schaurecker, a leading data and AI authority with extensive experience in helping major international brands choose the right AI use cases, build and whenever appropriate scale them at pace.

In this episode, Cornelia and I discuss her approach to creating and scaling these use cases and what resources and strategies she employs to successfully execute these initiatives. A highly insightful episode.

Giancarlo is a highly experience Engineering and AI Leader. This week, we discuss many interesting topics such as drift theory in machine learning models, and how to recognise and rectify it. As well as discussing Giancarlo's experiences managing heterogeneous Data Science and Machine Learning teams.

Peter Voss is one of the most eminent thought leaders in the world of CognitiveAI today. His long and rich background in this field has made him a revered authority on the subject. Peter has dedicated his career to realising AGI 'Artificial General Intelligence'. He is even responsible for coining the term AGI alongside others in 2002.

In this episode, Peter and I discuss how close we are to actually creating AGI and how the CognitiveAI approach is viewed in relation to the GenerativeAI approach in the business and academic world today. Peter shares his incredibly insightful knowledge on these matters, including how he predicts the future of AI will look. A must listen episode!

Callum is the Head of Data Products for M&S food. In this episode, Callum talks us through his interesting route into Data Leadership and what it takes to structure a Data division for success.

In this episode, we speak to Gerardo Lemus, Head of Data Science for LanternAI. Lantern is a pioneering platform that enables GPs to unlock the power of private equity data and accelerate their route to insight. We discuss Gerardo's career path as a data leader and whats next for Lantern.

Mike Holmes is a highly respected data and analytics leader, specialising in predictive modelling and credit risk management. Mike has taken Senior Data Leadership positions for companies such as Provenir and Kriya (Formerly MarketFinance). Over his career, he's embedded over 60 models, enterprise-wide, which have made millions of decisions across over £70bn of assets.

In this episode, Mike and I discuss his journey as Data leader thus far and his key learns along the way.

Kraig is a highly respected Data and Technology leader, currently Chief Data Scientist at InsurTech company, Concirrus. In this episode we discuss Kraig's incredibly interesting background and story of how he got into tech and explore his approach to tech leadership.

Matt is a highly revered tech leader, having taken senior data positions in companies such as Elsevier. He then went on to establish his own tech start-up. In this episode Matt and I discuss the rise of generative AI and large language models, and their implications for business and society.

Dmitri is the Director of AI at Connex One, in this episode we discuss his approach to Data Leadership.