Data is changing: static to flowing Data is no longer a static by-product; it is a flowing asset that powers automation and AI. When it is poorly governed, AI amplifies the problems - so managing data and its risks is now a strategic imperative.
AI Agents Are Here: How Memory, Emergence, and Governance Will Make or Break the Agent Era The Agent Era Isn’t Coming. It's here and it’s Already Messy. I spent an interesting evening at an agentic AI meetup with old friends Mark Pesce and John Allsop in the wilds of Waterloo in a brewery the other night. It really got me thinking about
Data Governance needs a rebrand I have long thought that data governance has a brand problem. Inside many organizations it still sounds like control, cost, and constraint, not value. Even when the underlying work is critical, the label “data governance” often lands with executives as bureaucracy: steering committees, policies, and standards that slow things down.
Agentic AI: How Voice-Driven Agents Are Changing the Way We Use Apps I spoke at the Front End of Innovation (FEI) Conference in Boston back in June 2024 about AI, innovation and the future. I have been thinking a lot about this topic in the time since 2024 and now in early 2026. The future direction of Artificial Intelligence is not just
What NEDs need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Expert Systems By Kate Carruthers & Kobi Leins "What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." - Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of the first chatbot, 1964 What is AI? ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is a term that
AI and autonomous everything I spoke at the Front End of Innovation (FEI) Conference in Boston the week of 10 June about AI, innovation and the future. This post is part of a distillation of my thoughts. The future direction of Artificial Intelligence is not just AI in and of itself. It is as
Directors care about ESG now! Was delighted to be on a panel, chaired by the amazing Gladwin Mendez, at the Corinium Global Intelligence Chief Data and Analytics Officer conference on 8 May 2024. Our panel discussed ESG: What’s measured is managed. Nowadays relevant, timely and accurate data is critical to drive an organization'