Fireside Chat with Ben Clinch: How AI is changing the way we think about data management

Beyond the hype and the marketing AI is changing the way we view data management both from a need for broader scoped, more accurate data sets to opportunities in automation that can accelerate value and reduce risk. But among the promise there is an abundance of "marketecture", AI being added to everything and a lot of disillusionment in its application. How to determine when it is good for a purpose and not for others? How can we apply critical thinking and common patterns to see when it is likely to work for us and help us avoid moving from data silos to insight silos? In this engaging fireside chat we cut through the unsubstantiated hype to the modalities that provide real value and controversially we discuss common thought traps (that even Nobel prize winners and leading journalists are falling into) and how to avoid them. Ben Clinch is a sought after public speaker and thought leader in data and AI. He is a voracious learner, hoovering up books, research papers and meeting with specialists in numerous fields with the sole aim of learning, applying and sharing the knowledge to help others succeed. Ben is a partner at Ortecha and has a passion for helping organisations thrive with their data, built upon practitioner experience having held numerous senior roles in architecture and business in some of the world’s largest financial and telecommunication institutions over his 25 year career. As an active member of the data community, Ben leads an AI Community of Practice and is the lead trainer on several industry wide best practice frameworks.