Our 2024 Conference Programme Includes

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AI, Machine Learning & Advanced Analytics
  1. Navigating the AI Journey with IBM
    This panel session highlights IBM’s comprehensive approach to assisting clients in their AI journey. Discover how IBM’s expertise, cutting-edge tools, and tailored strategies empower businesses to unl ...
  2. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the way we support individuals with accessibility needs, particularly those in the neurodivergent community. In my talk, I will discuss how access to AI ...
  3. Large Language Model Applications: From POC to Production at Compare the Market
    Large Language Models (LLMs), such as those powering ChatGPT, provide enormous potential to unlock efficiencies and increase productivity within every business - if used correctly. Join Compare the Ma ...
  4. Transformative BI powered by generative AI
    To stay competitive in the current economy, businesses need to use data democratization to gain insights through BI and analytics. Breaking data silos, deriving 360° insights, blending data across bus ...
  5. Unveiling the Vital Role of Ethics in AI Conversations
    The AI wave is sweeping organizations, propelling them to integrate AI into daily operations and backend processes. Undoubtedly, this technology promises transformation on an unprecedented scale. Yet, ...
  6. GenAI revolutionizing the knowledge industry: knowledge management, content creation, translation, publication
    Pangeanic has developed custom LLMs for private use to revolutionize the way knowledge is managed, shared and translated by organizations with GenAI. Manuel will recap on how old algorithms where clev ...
  7. Explore the principles and applications of responsible AI, delving into the ethical considerations and best practices that guide the development, deployment, and impact of artificial intelligence. Thi ...
  8. Join us for an insightful discussion on the intersection of artificial intelligence and electoral interference, delving into the landscape of information warfare, particularly from Sweden to Ukraine t ...
  9. Join us for a deep dive into the transformative power of ML platform engineering and its profound influence on traditional industries, including the world of publishing. In this session, we'll explore ...
  10. Compactif AI: Extreme Compression of LLMs and AI Models
    In the current context of generative AI, the compression and optimization of the consumption and associated costs of this type of models is key. CompactifAI is a tool based on Tensor Networks that all ...
Big Data & AI World Keynote Theatre
  1. Unlock your creativity (and data) with Generative AI
    Are you tired of the hype around data being the new oil? It's time to shift the narrative and embrace the true potential of data. Imagine a world where data is not just a commodity but a catalyst for ...
  2. Data liquidity: Driving Insight using ML and GenAI
    Data is a competitive advantage asset. What are the Data Management strategies that ensure Data Liquidity from Asset to Insight in a world of data proliferation and variety.
  3. While a lot of public perception of AI focuses on people losing their jobs, Lee sees a very different future in store; one of human insights augmented by AI. Rather than putting hundred of millions of ...
  4. Bentley Motors & Data Literacy Academy: How to Build a Business-Wide Data Literacy Programme
    Bentley Motors’ Chief Data Officer, Dr Andy Moore, and Greg Freeman, CEO of Data Literacy Academy, will walk you through how they’ve built one of the UK’s highest impact data literacy and culture prog ...
  5. Unlocking Creativity with Generative AI and watsonx
    Explore the transformative potential of Generative AI and IBM's watsonx. Join us as we examine real-life use cases, delve into innovative applications, discuss ethical considerations, and learn how th ...
  6. Empowering Developers through Open-Source AI
    In this session, Stanford University Professor Kunle Olukotun will explain why empowering developers is critical for advancing AI. He predicts an increase in the number of open- source models, democra ...
  7. Government agencies make critical optimization decisions every day to reduce risk and cost, while accelerating delivery of mission capabilities. AI/ML technologies are beginning to play an important r ...
  8. How to Build an End-to-End Platform Ready for AI, Sustainably and Securely
    While a lot of public perception of AI focusses on people losing their jobs, Lee sees a very different future in store; one of human insights augmented by AI. Rather than putting hundred of millions o ...
  9. Discover the fast-evolving realm of AI regulation. Unveil existing global frameworks, evaluate their efficacy, and delve into upcoming rules. Join us to explore the hurdles in shaping impactful AI leg ...
Customer Experience & Customer Data
  1. Better data, smarter actions, greater performance.  Join us as we explore the recent successes of Coca-Cola Europacific Partner’s Data in Action program.  This session will highlight the critical impo ...
  2. The Rising Role of Data: How MongoDB supercharged growth within existing customer accounts
    In this session, Ale Dimitriu, Senior Manager of Marketing Operations at MongoDB, will discuss MongoDB's approach to addressing a critical issue: developers were not fully aware of MongoDB's extensive ...
  3. Most of us want to get to the gym and work out more often than we do. Unfortunately, building and maintaining a gym habit is hard and many good intentions fall to the challenges of everyday life. How ...
  4. Bringing AI Everywhere – from edge to cloud. How Intel and HPE are delivering AI with a responsible AI lens.
    AI is transforming how we work and live every day. However, there is a lot of complexity from which frameworks/technologies to use, managing TCO, through to managing security and privacy. In this sess ...
  5. The Role of AI in Creating a Personalised User Experience in Retail Banking, with Nationwide and IBM
    This fireside chat will cover a number of different challenges that banks and financial institutions have to overcome when using AI for personalisation.  During this session Nationwide’s guest speaker ...
  6. Using Real-Time Public Data for Competitive Advantage in E-Commerce
    Oxylabs is a trusted partner for over 1,000 businesses worldwide, enabling large-scale public data acquisition by providing advanced scraping solutions, proxies, and datasets. In this session, we aim ...
  7. Social Media drives many opportunities but also challenges, particularly around Data & Regulations and Security. Today's presentation analyses the context: macro trends & social media landscape identi ...
  8. Commercial Insurance: Data Rich, Information Poor
    In today's commercial insurance landscape, data has become the cornerstone of decision-making processes. Insurers are inundated with vast amounts of data from various sources. However, amidst this abu ...
  9. How Landsbankinn de-siloed a legacy data landscape on their path to data democratisation
    Landsbankinn, the largest financial services institution in Iceland, implemented a Data Mesh strategy to enable their domains to produce their own products, to be consumed later by the business users ...
Data Strategy & Decision Intelligence
  1. Data is a complex entity and leaders struggle with how to manage and treat the effects of data growth. The problem for many is that the roles and processes within organisations have yet to evolve to m ...
  2. 'Data Frenzy to data freedom: How Centralised Data Powers Innovation
    In today’s data-rich environment, companies face the challenge of centralising large volumes of diverse data to drive insights and operational efficiency. Without a comprehensive data centralisation s ...
  3. In spite of the GenAI hype, a shocking 85% still struggle to get tangible value from Data, AI, and GenAI. This session will explore why this is happening and provide practical strategies for overcomin ...
  4. MongoDB for Generative AI-Powered Apps
    MongoDB Atlas unifies operational, analytical, and generative AI data services to streamline building AI-enriched applications. Learn how you can accelerate the delivery of production scale and safe A ...
  5. Data is the second most valuable asset within most companies. Yet how successful are we at realising the benefits of data, for our customers, partners and colleagues? This session doesn’t have all the ...
  6. Data Literacy in Practice: Real-World Strategies and Success Stories
    Data literacy is more than just a buzzword; it's the cornerstone of informed decision-making in today's data-driven world. Join our panel of experts as they share their first-hand experiences and succ ...
  7. RightData: Leveraging Data Products and Internal Data Marketplace
    In today's digital landscape, organisations value data as a strategic asset driving innovation, informed decision-making, and business growth. Despite its potential, the transition from raw data to ac ...
  8. Data Governance was previously seen by many at the FT as all stick and no carrot, and all about "compliance" and "GDPR". Now we have teams coming knocking on our door for our help. I'll describe how w ...
  9. Cultivating a workforce and culture that values data-driven insights and continuous upskilling at Gallagher
    Every organisation is facing retention challenges and fighting the war for talent, especially data teams (and data skills for the broader business). But you might be looking in the wrong place for sol ...
  10. How to build trust in your data and AI-powered intelligence in the most risk averse environments
    Practical advice for data practitioners to build trust in your data and AI-powered intelligence. Sequentum applies tried-and-true strategies from decades of operating large-scale, automated, data-driv ...
  11. The rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence have generated immense excitement and, equally, a fair share of hype. This talk aims to move beyond the sensational headlines and explore the realisti ...
AI, Machine Learning & Advanced Analytics
  1. AI Governance: How to Implement Generative AI for Business Responsibly
    The impact of the speed, scope and scale of interest and adoption of generative AI has grown to unprecedented levels. These models bring enormous potential in increasing productivity and performance t ...
  2. Leverage the data economy to accelerate business innovation
    The promise of Data, AI and Analytics is undeniable.  But most companies, irrespective of size and scale, struggle with the challenge of having data in silos. They have a lot of great data, but they c ...
  3. In an increasingly multicultural and globalised world, understanding cultural identity has never been more vital. With more than 200,000 years of human evolution, our capacity for culture has thrived ...
  4. In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, offering organizations unprecedented opportunities for innovation, efficiency, and g ...
  5. During the presentation I'd like to: Define MLOps and its importance in streamlining ML model lifecycle. Discuss MLOps' role in aligning model development with operational management. Highlight key co ...
  6. Implementing AI Translation for Business optimisation and Efficiency
    Explore the transformative impact of AI translation on businesses in this session showcasing Baker McKenzie's success with AI-powered machine translation. Gain insights into their tailored strategies ...
  7. Explore the transformative potential of Generative AI (GenAI) in a business-focused discussion. This session goes beyond technicalities, delving into how GenAI accelerates industry transformation with ...
  8. Composition of Experts: A Modular Approach to Scaling AI Models
    This session, led by Anton McGonnell, Head of Software Products at SambaNova Systems, presents an in-depth exploration of the Composition of Experts approach in AI, and in particular the benefits to i ...
  9. The pandemic boom in ecommerce turned out to be a blip; since then, the market has been in decline and IMRG, the UK’s online retail association, is forecasting 0% growth for 2024. The year has not sta ...
  10. AI Strategy Manual for CTOs - A Corporate Journey to Production
    During this session we provide a practical guide on how to design, build, deploy and scale sophisticated applications powered by AI. Common questions and mistakes are presented together with a clear p ...
Big Data & AI World Keynote Theatre
  1. Leveraging LLM advantage in the Enterprise
    GenAI offers significant advantage that can both enrich and deliver presentation customer engagement excellence. How can LLMs be safely deployed to deliver business value in the Enterprise?
  2. The NHS has access to some of the richest and most comprehensive data in the world. How do we leverage the value of this? In this session we will be looking at some of the considerations in developing ...
  3. Generative AI - the Current State and the Road Ahead
    Discover the latest trends in generative AI and innovative ways data and AI teams are harnessing the technology I to solve real-world problems. Learn about what is coming next, the most impactful use ...
  4. Extreme weather has been named by the World Economic Forum as one of the biggest global risks for 2024 at 66% ahead of cyber-attacks which is 39%. Climate data importance is now at the very heart of m ...
  5. Join us for a panel discussion that delves into the challenges faced by individuals from marginalised groups in the tech industry and explores strategies to overcome these barriers. Our esteemed panel ...
  6. Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a Chief Data Officer? Join Tony in this session as he unveils the intricacies of his journey, and gain valuable insights into the hurdles he overcame, the on ...
  7. Do you want to learn how AI is revolutionising our industries? KK brings a practitioner’s lens to exploring how AI and GenAI are reshaping the consumer goods industry. Covering market trends, challeng ...
  8. Debates about AI, robotics and automation stealing people’s jobs have been rumbling on for over a decade. But fears about their impact on work have suddenly become a lot more serious with the rise of ...
Customer Experience & Customer Data
  1. In this session, Shiren Patel (Innovation Technology Consultant and Interim Head of the Digital Research Environment) and Dr. Pavithra Rajendran (Senior Data Scientist and NLP Technical Lead) from Gre ...
  2. Advancing MongoDB's Data Activation With Twilio Segment: Behind the Scenes
    Join us for a deep dive into MongoDB’s data activation and customer profile enrichment journey with Twilio Segment, the leading customer data platform (CDP), featuring insights from Ale Dimitriu, Seni ...
  3. Data is everywhere but how much of it is communicated effectively? Lots of work goes into the curation of data sets only for it to fall at the last hurdle as the key insights are lost through poor vis ...
  4. From Data Trails to Action Plans: Fueling Personalised Self-service Experiences with new Innovation
    In the modern support landscape, customer journeys have evolved into intricate webs, weaving through various channels and touchpoints, starting from initial discovery to final purchase. Beyond the poi ...
  5. Drive action and change the piece of the world that matters to you. Tech is always logical, tech is consistent, but people are not. Leading the transformation of technology, process and culture starts ...
  6. Discover the essential elements of crafting effective chatbots for superior customer experiences, and explore natural language understanding, story development, and entity management using the powerfu ...
  7. Data democratization is the best way to get value from data. Organizations are democratizing access to data in various ways including Self Service Analytics, Self Service AI/ML, and Data Mesh. However ...
Data Strategy & Decision Intelligence
  1. The Bank of England is currently going through a major transformation in Data and Analytics and its Chief Data Officer, James Benford, will be speaking about the Bank’s refreshed Data Strategy. He wil ...
  2. Using MariaDB’s Big Data capabilities to create new Medication
    Pharmaceutical companies have long relied on a costly and time-consuming trial-and-error process to discover new drugs. However, Dompé Farmaceutici is leading the way in developing new medication for ...
  3. Acquiring and developing talent to drive forward an effective data strategy
  4. Navigating the Gen-AI Frontier: Revolutionising Data Strategies for Business Success
    In this presentation, we delve into the compelling intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and data management, emphasising the critical need for businesses to adapt and enhance their strategies. ...
  5. Many established businesses, particularly large businesses, face an enormous challenge: how to transition to a data-focused operating model with a large and heavily entrenched workforce and asset base ...
  6. When evaluating the performance of a model, accuracy is usually the primary consideration. However, in business applications, speed is also a crucial factor. Even if you have the best model available, ...
  7. Quantum Inspired: The path to Quantum Computing
    In the rapidly evolving field of quantum computing, bridging the gap between theoretical advancements and practical applications remains a significant challenge. As we anticipate the maturation of qua ...
  8. Severe rainfall can have an adverse impact on the network, resulting in cancelled and delayed train services. The speed restrictions that are imposed in response to such heavy rainfall were defined as ...
  9. Data Governance 3.0: Aligning Data Governance with the Objectives of the Modern Business
    Explore what it takes to ensure that your data governance program has a direct and demonstrable impact on the strategic goals of the business. Learn how innovative approaches are making data governanc ...
  10. This session will explore the fundamental shift between Head of/Director of Data roles and the Chief Data Officer role, what to prioritise in your first 100 days as a CDO and how to set yourself up fo ...
  11. Decoding AI's impact on Data Governance
    The dawn of AI heralds a seismic shift in data governance dynamics. The potential is colossal—enabling enterprises to wield mastery over data availability, utility, and fortification. From intuitively ...

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