Driven by Data | The Newsletter, Edition 16

Happy Tuesday, folks! It's been a great month here at Orbition, we've had fun right up to the final week; celebrating the launch of the fourth cohort of the Driven by Data Mentorship - adding over 50 new data leaders to our programme! And there is no evidence we're going to slow down in July either...

Let's dive into this week's edition.

Driven by Data | The Podcast

In Episode 34 of Season 3, of?Driven By Data: The Podcast , host Kyle Winterbottom was joined by?Steven Pimblett , Chief Data Officer at?The Very Group .

Together they discussed how to move data from a cost centre to a value creator, which includes a transformation journey that has been ongoing for over a century, why some D&A teams are still seen as a cost centre and not a value-creating function and why demonstrating value creation is a primary responsibility of a Data Leader/CDO.

Listen to this week's episode, here.

Driven by Data | The Roundtable

Next week we'll be in London for our next in-person roundtable! We're very excited to see so many of our amazing UK community members.

5th July | 4pm BST | London, UK

We have 3 spaces remaining, if you'd like to join us please register here.

THIS WEEK! Making Cents of Data, a FinServ Data Series

Data is the lifeblood of many financial service firms, both little and large, but it is being utilised to its full potential? Ethan Simpkin sits down with three data leaders to discuss the biggest challenges and opportunities they see with their data, specifically in the financial service industry. Join us to learn more!

Guests include:

• Antonio Neto , Head of Data, Qapital
• Dan Power , Former MD Data Governance, 美国道富银行
• Kathleen Bayles , Senior Director, Business Intelligence, Happy Money

Pop Culture Predicting the Future We're Already in? Weekly Insight

This week's insight blog is brought to you by, Natalia Kurasinski !

As a fan of the dystopian series ‘Black Mirror’ where there have been episodes that have involved characters living through their past through VR, a big focus on the hype of true crime documentaries, and the futuristic science episode where you have the opportunity to boost your social media score, I did think when are we going to see an episode based on Data & AI??

I felt like the 2023 series seemed to be the best time for it with the likes of AI and ChatGPT seemingly taking over and then the last episode I watched ‘Joan is Awful’ (highly recommend) had me thinking for hours…?

‘What if I came home from work one night and there’s a new series of my life on the TV for all my peers, family and colleagues to watch?’?

WARNING: SPOILER?ALERT

This episode focuses on ‘Streamberry’ (AKA Netflix) and shows the ability of streaming services to collect users’ data that allows them to monitor their viewers. Now we all have those conversations where we believe that phones can hear us speaking, our laptop cameras could get hacked into and ‘Joan is Awful’ presents how future writers could be replaced by AI-generated showings of human lives.?

Now if you’re anything like me, this sends shivers down my spine!?

For a streaming website to take pretty much all of your data, including your IP address, GPS coordinates, and visual and audio data, to me I’d see this as a breach.?

Shortly after watching this episode, I got speaking with a friend of mine that is involved in the filming industry and she let me know that writers were going on strike due to artificial intelligence potentially becoming a major concern for writers as they could get replaced by ChatGPT in the future. With the current climate, this could lead to more job cuts and some of the most famous writers in the world having their material to be used as training data for AI systems.?

More on this in Thursday's full blog.

That's everything for this week so let's jump to the weekly data joke!

Why did the data scientist bring a penguin to the office?

Because they heard they were great at clustering!

Thanks!

Orbition Content Team