Business of Data Newsletter, Inside: July Thought Leader of the Month & Data Culture, Awards!

July is here; things are looking super exciting here at the Business of Data!

We have our Global Business of Data Festival taking place next week on the 13 & 14th of July. Just before that, we have our deadline for our North American Business of Data Award nominations, on the 11th of July. If you've not submitted your nominations, make sure to get them in soon!

Let's kick off July with a bang by announcing our Thought Leader of the Month.

Thought Leader of the Month: July

This month we are awarding our Thought Leader of the Month to Dara Meath, Divisional Chief Information Officer, Digital/Ecomm for Connair LLC.

Dara has over twenty-five years of experience in creating robust IT architecture and infrastructures.  She has been passionately working on IT development and business integration while managing costs and risk across all industries. 

She is especially focused on strategic direction & managing partners to ensure technology alignment and business productivity.

Dara recently joined the Corinium team at the Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Spring event in San Francisco where she joined a panel discussion exploring post-pandemic transformations and the imperative need to sharpen one's focus on data and digital for a successful business strategy. Dara is also speaking at this summer's Global Business of Data Festival, which is taking place next week! You can register for free to watch Dara's interview, here.

Business of Data Podcast

In last week’s episode of the Business of Data podcast, host Catherine King is joined live on stage at DataCon Africa by Lazola Nadamase, Head of Data Insights & MI at Absa Group to discuss how data leaders can help to drive mature data cultures in their organizations.

Listen to the episode now!

Don't forget to use our hashtag on social when posting #BoDPod

North American Business of Data Awards

Time is ticking... The deadline for the nomination stage of the North American Business of Data Awards is fast approaching. You have until the 11th of July to submit your entries into our 13 categories.

To view all the award information, and to nominate, please visit our award website here.

We are so excited to celebrate the amazing talent that the Data & Analytics community has to offer. Remember, we will be all meeting in person to celebrate, at the Business of Data Award Gala in October, it will be an event you won't want to miss!

That's everything for this week!

Many Thanks,

Corinium Content Team