Kate Carruthers, Chief Data & Insights Officer at the University of New South Wales joins us for an episode that discusses the results of a survey shared by She Loves Data across their community regarding women's expectations about their careers, given the challenges of the past year. To start us off, Kate shares how her change-ready attitude has allowed her to seize new opportunities and learn new things. Though it might be intimidating, she encourages others to step up and say ‘yes’ to cha...
Dec 08, 2020•55 min
We are joined by Celine Le Cotonnec, Chief Data & Innovation Officer at Bank of Singapore and Shameek Kundu, Chief Data Officer at Standard Chartered Bank. They share with us their perspective on what the function and goal of the Chief Data Officer is. From Shameek’s experience, the function of the Chief Data Officer role varies by industry, maturity of the organization with respect to data and sometimes even by geographic location. Celine refers to a study that shows a successful data trans...
Dec 01, 2020•54 min
In this episode we have Figen Ulgen, Head of Data & Analytics at Woolworths NZ and Angela Kim, Head of Analytics & AI at Teachers Health joining us for a conversation around soft skills and their relevance in the world of data. Figen gives soft skills the same importance as technical skills, given that both of them are necessary for individuals to reach success. Soft skills may come naturally for some people, but even those who struggle can learn them. It may not come automatically, but ...
Nov 24, 2020•52 min
On our 7th episode we are joined by two very talented women, Siew Choo Soh, Managing Director & Group Head of Consumer Banking and Big Data/AI Technology at DBS Bank and Terisa Roberts, Director and Global Lead: Risk Modelling and Decisioning at SAS. Siew Choo shares with us DBS’s mindset around innovation. For them, the use of technology does not equate to innovation. They don’t have a designated innovation department, just a small innovation team whose job is not to innovate, it’s rather h...
Nov 17, 2020•44 min
In this episode we have Vidyarth Eluppai Srivatsan, Director of Marketing Technology at The Coca-Cola Company and Pavel Bulowski, Chief Marketing Officer at Meiro and Co-Founder of She Loves Data. Vidyarth describes the Director of Marketing Technology position as a bridge between the roles of Chief Data Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Officer. It’s about going across the marketing, digital or technology to bridge the knowledge gaps and come up with both the strategy and e...
Nov 10, 2020•54 min
With AI determining many system-led decisions, from who gets a job, a loan or business opportunity, the need to ensure diversity and inclusivity in the creation of algorithmic rules becomes more important. In our fifth episode, we have Glenda Crisp, Chief Data Officer at National Australia Bank. She started her career in tech as a programmer in a bank in Canada and then went on to get an MBA. Before being recruited by NAB, she worked at TD Bank in Toronto. As the Chief Data Officer at National A...
Nov 05, 2020•56 min
In this episode, we have Virginia Wheway Vice President of Data & Analytics at Koala and Jan Sheppard, Chief Data Officer at the Tertiary Education Commission in New Zealand. Diversity is a broad area, and it includes gender, age, ethnicity, etc. Fostering diversity in an organization starts with the recruiting and hiring process.To make sure you hire the right people for the job you need to establish what you need or want for that role before you start recruiting, and then take out all your...
Oct 27, 2020•58 min
When lockdowns started, people around the world, especially women, found themselves juggling with their personal and professional lives. In this episode we have Kathryn Gulifa, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Worksafe Victoria, and Stuti Sharma, Director of Data Science at Visa who share with us the challenges they faced while trying to cope with the new normal. Stuart Garland, Director at Talent Insights Group gives us the recruiters’ perspective on the covid impact and tells us employees...
Oct 20, 2020•48 min
Anu Madgavkar is a partner at McKinsey Global Institute and she’s done important research on Covid-19’s effect on gender inequality and the future of women at work. Anu talks about the diversity dividend and the compelling statistics supporting it. A study from +1000 companies around the world, found that organizations in the top quartile in terms of diversity in C-suite executives are 25% more likely to outperform in terms of profitability and long-term value creation. This holds true for gende...
Oct 13, 2020•49 min
Data Futurology podcast host, Felipe Flores interviews She Loves Data co-founders Jana Marlé-Zizková and Pavel Bulowski, who share how they found a philanthropic niche in data literacy while pushing for more diverse and inclusive workforces. What started as a data workshop for a roomful of friends and friends of friends, has grown into a 21k+ community in 14 (and growing) city chapters around the world. Listen to inspiring stories from them and their members. Jana and Pavel both have abundant ex...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Dr. Alex Antic is the Head of Data Science at the Software Innovation Institute. He has 17+ years of experience across different industries including Federal and State government, Insurance, Asset Management, Banking (Investment and Retail), Consulting and Academia. Alex has recently been recognised as one of the Top 10 Analytics Leaders in Australia by IAPA (Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia). He describes the early days of his career as a time for personal growth and honing in ...
Sep 21, 2020•58 min•Season 3Ep. 136
We have Khalifeh Al Jadda, Director of Data Science at Home Depot. Khalifeh has solid knowledge in large scale machine learning and data mining techniques. He tells us how in retail some businesses are still running manually, without the use of automation tools, so the job of data science leaders is to educate business partners and show them by example and with data the value that data science and artificial intelligence can deliver to their organizations. Later on, he explains their workflow is...
Sep 15, 2020•56 min•Season 3Ep. 135
In the 6th episode of our “Bitesize Insights for Data Driven Leaders” Series, we have Carlos Rivero, Chief Data Officer at Commonwealth of Virginia. Carlos started college wanting to become a civil engineer to help with his father’s business, but later on gravitated towards environmental engineering and ecology given that he lived in Miami and was a witness to the environmental impact on their local marine ecology. Thanks to the advice of one of his professors and mentor, he chose science over e...
Sep 07, 2020•28 min•Season 3Ep. 134
In the 5th episode of our “Bitesize Insights for Data Driven Leaders” Series, we have our first ever live audience episode with Elisa Koch. She is the Head of Data and Analytics at the AFL - Australian Football League. Elisa spent 10 years working for Avon Cosmetics, mostly in Latin America. That’s where she had her first encounter with marketing analytics and she fell in love with data once she discovered the link it has with customer behavior. Elisa shares her take on data translators and how ...
Aug 18, 2020•34 min•Season 3Ep. 133
In episode 4 of our “Bitesize Insights for Data-Driven Leaders” Series, Jeanne Holm is the Chief Data Officer at her hometown, the City of Los Angeles. She works at the cross-section of civic innovation, open data, and education, addressing issues ranging from homelessness to digital equity technology innovation, data and analytics, and public-private partnerships. As CDO, Jeanne focuses on taking data, like the number of people trained in the city’s workforce centers or how sustainable their pr...
Aug 10, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 132
Steve Monaghan is the Chief Digital Officer at Riyad Bank. He has a series of investments in banking and insurance using AI and new technologies in order to improve efficiency. He started out as a commercial pilot working 22 hours a day, running the aviation company during the day and flying at night. His first contact with data came when he started using spreadsheets to automate tasks and accelerate the time in which he got them done. His career then moved from flying into technology. For Steve...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 131
Christopher is the Global Head of Health Economics & Outcomes Research at Abbvie, an adjunct professor at NYU Graduate School of Public Service and active board member of several influential organizations. He has received numerous recognitions in the past. In 2019 he was named a Top 100 Innovator in Data Analytics, in 2018 an Emerging Pharma Leader and in 2017 he was a Top 40 Under 40 in Minority Health Honoree by the National Minority Quality Forum Christopher explains how, in his eyes, all...
Jul 27, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 130
Steve is an investor, a partner at TEN13, and you may also know him as one of the sharks from the show Shark Tank in Australia. His journey in entrepreneurship and investments began over 25 years ago when he started his first company in the telecommunications area. He sold his second business in 2010 and went on to become an investor. Currently, he has an existing portfolio of over 30 companies. He was Queensland Chief Entrepreneur for three years, he does mentorships and is also a qualified pil...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 129
Felipe Flores es director de data science con casi 20 años de experiencia. Felipe ha trabajado en ingeniería de datos / almacenamiento, reportes, inteligencia empresarial, análisis, data science, machine learning e inteligencia artificial. Actualmente es el Director de Data Science en la empresa de Inteligencia Artificial, Honeysuckle Health. Mientras que Day es una experta en data science. Durante 15 años, ha colaborado con corporativos internacionales como Colgate, Gillette, P&G, Walmart y...
Jul 18, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Elliot Smith is the CEO and founder of Maxwell Plus. A visionary company that has been using machine learning and artificial intelligence to help treat and diagnose patients with prostate cancer. The way they bring in the data, help analyze it and help people along their journey is fascinating and makes them leaders in this specific field. Elliot is very passionate about helping others find diseases at a point where they can be treated. To know where things are, if they should be treated and how...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 127
In episode 2 of our “Bitesize Insights for Data Driven Leaders” Series, Adam Bonnifield is a VP of Artificial Intelligence at Airbus. He is a former Chief Product Officer (Census) at the U.S. Department of Commerce and Co-Founder of Spinnakr and Giv.to. Adam lives and breathes online engagement - he ran digital strategy for political campaigns since he was in college, breaking Congressional fundraising records. After graduating from Cambridge University, he was awarded the Tsuzuki Fellowship to ...
Jul 09, 2020•41 min•Season 3Ep. 126
David is the Senior Advisor for Data and Artificial Intelligence at UnionBank Philippines . Concurrently David is an external advisor to Singapore's Corrupt Investigation Practices Bureau (CPIB) in the capacity of Senior Advisor (Artificial Intelligence) and to Singapore's Central Provident Fund Board (CPF) in the capacity of Senior Advisor (Data Science). David loves the idea of programming logic. We have the ability to use information as mechanisms to assist us on a day-to-day basis. So, David...
Jul 06, 2020•55 min•Season 3Ep. 125
Dan Costanza, Chief Data Scientist at Citi, joins me for the first episode in the new “Bitesize Insights for Data Driven Leaders” Series. Dan opens the show by explaining how he got interested in data. After graduating from college, Dan went into an investment banking role. Eventually, he received an exciting project that got him started down the data path. Dan says as someone who didn’t study computer science in school, it has been a heavy lift trying to get those technical skills up to par. Du...
Jul 03, 2020•30 min•Season 3Ep. 124
Michelle is Head of Enterprise Data Governance at ANZ Bank. In this role, Michelle is responsible for Data Governance strategy across the group, ANZ Data Privacy and Ethics framework, Enterprise Metadata Management, Data Risk and a Centre of Excellence for Data Quality. Michelle has over 25 years of experience in the world of Data and utilizes that knowledge to help foster organized and sustainable large scale analytical environments for commercial success. Michelle has a particular interest in ...
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 123
DialogCONNECTION was founded in 2008 by our Director and Lead Consultant, Dr. Maria Aretoulaki. Maria has been designing Speech IVRs and Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) since 1996, long before Voice Assistants, but also before telephone self-service was mainstream. She got into Voice through a Post-Doc in Spoken Dialogue Management for Speech recognition applications, after having got a PhD and an MSc in NLP and Machine Learning and a BA (Hons) in Linguistics & English. In this episode, Dr. Mar...
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 122
Craig Rowlands is the Senior Executive Information Management at Medibank. Craig’s role is to provide thought leadership, aligned with expertise in delivering pragmatic business focus information management solutions whilst leading improvements in the data landscape. Whilst at Medibank, Craig has transitioned Medibank from a legacy data management team to a cloud first data capability based on a DevOps methodology to provide Medibank with the right technology, process and people to achieve its l...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 121
Catherine Havasi's dream and mission are to give computers the ability to think about the world more like a person and less like a machine. Equally important is putting this innovation into practice in a way that effects real business outcomes and transforms our everyday lives. Catherine has twenty years of experience in directing and doing cutting edge research, operationalizing it, and using it to drive real results. In this episode, Catherine explains how she started in the data world. Read t...
Jun 19, 2020•42 min•Season 3Ep. 120
Dr. AnnMaria has a proven track record in founding successful businesses. 7 Generation Games is her fourth company and a spin-off of her consulting firm, The Julia Group. She was previously the president of R&R Consulting and Vice President of Spirit Lake Consulting, Inc. and is also currently CEO of the Julia Group. Both the Julia Group and Spirit Lake Consulting went on to generate over $1 million in contracts. She has authored grants that have received tens of millions of dollars in fundi...
Jun 16, 2020•48 min•Season 3Ep. 119
#1 in our new Innovation and Entrepreneurship Series, Andrew is an Ophthalmologist (Eye Surgeon) and Associate Professor in International Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has worked and researched in over twenty countries, including two years living in Kenya, where he led a significant eye disease study and the development and testing of Peek. In this episode, Andrew reveals his own story and how he found out about his poor vision. When Andrew got glasses, h...
Jun 12, 2020•41 min•Season 3Ep. 118
Max Métral is a self-motivated professional with a successful track record in data science and analytics cross-functional roles for worldwide organizations. In this episode, Max dives deep into his background and how he found his interest in data. Read this full episode summary on our website: #117 Driving commercial opportunities with Max Métral – Senior Analytics Manager Enjoy the show!...
Jun 09, 2020•46 min•Season 3Ep. 117
