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Meet the Expert: Jen Stirrup on Democratizing AI for the Business
If AI is going to be part of everyday life for businesses and citizens alike, it needs to be accessible. So how should organizations move toward AI maturity? And what steps can businesses take to democratize AI while meeting the challenges they’ll encounter along the way?
In this Meet the Expert, AI and business intelligence leader Jen Stirrup walks you through a number of different challenges and considerations for the democratization of AI for business—along with approaches for overcoming them. Find out what AI means for the industry, for people’s careers, and for their training opportunities as you explore aspects of AI that you may not have considered yet.
How AI Happens
Healthy data culture and practices are essential for modern businesses. They promote informed decision-making, efficiency, innovation, and accountability while helping organizations stay competitive and adaptable in a data-driven world. In this episode, we tackle the age-old struggle many companies face: how to unleash the potential of data while overcoming the hurdles that stand in the way of building a truly healthy data culture. To help us navigate this topic is Jennifer Stirrup, a distinguished expert in artificial intelligence, business intelligence, big data, and data visualization solutions.
How to effectively run your business in 2022
In the 60 minutes of this panel discussion, you will have an understanding of security, mobility, and manageability and how they impact the world we work in, which is constantly evolving.
Have you imagined what it would be like to have four experts talking about the way to run your business with efficiency? Four industry experts Jennifer Stirrup, Bill Mew, Ian Moyse, and Jane Frankland. Let’s have a look at their respective roles and responsibilities with various organisations.
Jennifer talks about the multiple biases and how business leaders need to recognise and care for them while helping their team members. We also discussed cloud mobility solutions.
Blackberry Cylance: How the Power of AI Can Prevent Security Threats
Security threats are inevitable within organisations. Therefore, our security systems must be adequate enough to prevent them. Above all, we must work with these systems to ensure our businesses stay focused. Artificial intelligence (AI) is surfacing as a means to achieve these goals. In this episode of Data Transforming Business, Jen Stirrup, Director at Data Relish, speaks with Brian Robison, Chief Evangelist at Blackberry Cylance. Firstly, Brian introduces how Blackberry Cylance utilises AI to eliminate security distractions. In particular, he discusses the AI ‘brain’ and how it can predict and determine whether a file is ‘bad’. Further to this, Brian demonstrates the direct and indirect benefits of AI solutions and the end-user impact. Brian also discusses the risks associated with AI, emphasising that humans are responsible for the intent behind it.
AI Delivery Challenges & Opportunities
The talk focused on AI Leadership and Delivery. We discuss aspects of data challenges and opportunities for SME organisations. We highlight the importance of understanding your data and the concept of no regrets projects. Jen has an amazing list of industry awards and a thought leader in the space of data and analytics.
Interview with Jennifer Stirrup
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Panel Discussion: The Road to a Data-Driven Business
Join Jenn Stirrup (Director, DataRelish), Gordon Tredgold (CEO & Founder, Leadership Principles LLC), Joanna Schloss (Data Expert) and Lyndsay Wise (Solution Director, Information Builders) as they discuss what it takes to take a business from needing analytics to leveraging analytics successfully.
Big Squid: Moving from Data Warehousing Towards Customer-Centred Analytics and AI
An increasing desire is surfacing among organisations to transition from business intelligence to predictive analytics and AI. However, some companies are unsure how to make that jump. Nevertheless, with customer centricity becoming more important than ever, organisations need to get ahead in the AI game for a quicker route to insights.
Joining us in this episode of Data Transforming Business is Chris Knoch, CEO at Big Squid, to lend his expertise on the matter. Speaking with Jen Stirrup, Director at Data Relish, Chris shares his advice on how to start a new analytics initiative. Chris also outlines the potential challenges of making this journey. Furthermore, he details how to gauge whether companies are ‘getting it right’. Chris then goes on to discuss overcoming ‘analytics paralysis’.
Immuta: Reconciling and Balancing Business Needs for Data
Reconciling and balancing business needs for data with IT and governance requirements on security and privacy are pressing matters in the data space. Data privacy and enforcement must work together, but at the speed of the business. Thus, there are a number of considerations for achieving this and heightening protection.
Here to lend their expertise on the matter are Steven Touw, Co-Founder and CTO, and Andrew Burt, Chief Privacy Officer and Legal Engineer, both at Immuta. Firstly, they explore the guardianship of data falling to IT, governance, and security. Then, the conversation steers into the challenges faced in helping data scientists, data owners, and governance teams work together. They also delve into the pressing topic of compliance with frameworks such as CCPA. Steven and Andrew also guide organisations through how to keep up when managing a variety of frameworks.
Aerospike: Real-Time Data Races to the Cloud
Predictions indicate that within three years, 75% of all databases will be in the cloud. As this becomes the new norm, companies worldwide are racing to get in on the cloud-based action. However, the need to be in the cloud is manifesting as an aggressive endeavour for many organisations. As well as this, real-time data has also risen to the surface as a necessity. These factors are certain to affect every industry.
In light of this, Jen Stirrup speaks with Bill Odell and Lenley Hensarling, CMO and CSO at Aerospike respectively, to find out their thoughts on the matter. In particular, they detail the main challenges enterprises face in their data transformation journey. Furthermore, they lend their expertise in distinguishing between hybrid and multi-cloud. As well as this, they outline the roadmap companies on their data transformation journey should take.
Is Excel damaging your company? Richard talks with Jen Stirrup about how Excel gets used far too much in businesses and for too many things. Jen talks about the lack of data integrity in Excel and how it’s easy to make small mistakes that can damage data – and give you little to no methods to detect the damage! While Excel can often be a starting point for a new business opportunity, as soon as it becomes essential, it’s time to pivot to tools that can protect data quality more effectively! Don’t let your company be the next news story about a flawed spreadsheet!
Data is eating the world and every industry is impacted.
In most modern businesses, customer and employee activities create a plethora of data points and information that can be analysed and interpreted to make better decisions for the business and its customers.
Unfortunately, this sounds a lot easier than it is. Despite the huge mountains of data being created, many organisations struggle to get their business intelligence to serve them in the best way. This is not due to a shortage of reports and dashboard floating around – in many cases there are too many ways to get an answer to the same question.
So, why are so many organisations lacking good BI and what should they do about it?
I recently spoke to Jen Stirrup to get an answer to this question and many more relating to producing and consuming business intelligence effectively.
When Jen Stirrup speaks, she speaks softly. The meaning of her words, however, speak loudly! Jen is CEO of Data Relish, a UK-based consultancy that delivers real business value by solving all manner of business challenges using data. You don’t earn the nickname the Data Whisperer without knowing a great deal about Business Intelligence and AI, and Jen certainly knows not only those topics but SO much more!
This week Jen Stirrup, founder of Data Relish joins Allison Hartsoe in the Accelerator. If you don’t know Jen’s work in the AI space, you should. She is an advocate for human-centered artificial intelligence which is better explained as augmented intelligence. The question we explore this week is how can AI augment our own roles such that we behave more intelligently in customer interactions.
Data is one of the most valuable assets of any organization. Good data allows companies to make the most of AI and data science but to benefit from data, a strong data foundation needs to be established.
The aim of a data foundation for AI and data science is to provide trustworthy data to facilitate the proactive use of AI and data science for decision-making. For businesses, this means competitive advantage and driving organizational excellence.
Join this session to learn how your organization can ramp up success by building a strong data analytics foundation. In this session, you will learn:
The importance of a solid data foundation
Understanding the data that you have and the data you need
The building blocks of your data foundation
How to make your data foundation stronger
Solving complex problems
How to measure success by setting up baselines, benchmarks, and goals to keep moving forward.
Whoever owns the world of technology will have an impact on the direction of society. What are they doing about it? What immediate, short-term, medium and long-term steps can they take in order to make ethics part of the organisational DNA?
The aim is to compare and contrast ethical toolkits for adopting fairness and ethical standpoints in Artificial Intelligence Projects.
What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution and what issues are these ethical toolkits trying to address? What does ethics mean to different organisations?
Do they take the UN Sustainable Development Goals into account, and if not, why not? How do they choose which UN Goal to support (if any)?
This project will investigate the rate of adoption of ethical frameworks in organisations. Are they part of an organisation’s goals, and if not, why not?
It will analyse the extent to which ethics frameworks are adopted and attempt to explain any differences found. Do existing ethics frameworks include the business goals, and if not, why not? Are the goals considered optional, relevant or unachievable? Or worse, a marketing opportunity?
Dissertation to be concerned with technology companies, who have a dilemma between the potential to raise the bottom line through Artificial Intelligence versus the potential harm these initiatives can do.
The subject will be analysed from the perspective of open source technologies and initiatives as a focus in order to reduce difficulties in accessing proprietary software or information.
Intersectionality focuses on different elements of a person’s identity and how this can be discriminated against, which has negative outcomes for everybody. This is an important topic for preparing new leaders in the workplace and it is crucial for people’s careers.
Is your data your organizational North Star or a Death Star.
Jen Stirrup talks about navigating better decisions with your data.
Jen Stirrup, CEO & Founder of Data Relish shares her expert opinion on- What are some best practices for organizations to adopt to create more inclusive workplaces. She also answers how are diversity and inclusion important in the AI and tech world
This episode of the Microsoft Spotlight podcast features Jen Stirrup, CEO, and Founder of Data Relish. Jen talks to our hosts about her life growing up in technology, having learned to code from a young age! Other topics include work as a speaker, the effects of social media, being a single parent, and also a little bit of martial arts!
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