ai
AI is now infrastructure: Why that changes everything
AI is no longer just a clever feature bolted onto apps - it’s fast becoming a core piece of digital infrastructure, as fundamental as electricity, networks and cloud.
future
agentic ai
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
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.
ideas
After 10 Years as a CDO: What I’ve learned about excellent jobs
Back in late 2024, after a decade as Chief Data and Insights Officer at UNSW Sydney, and more than a decade working at UNSW, I decided it was time to leave. It was a big step. It was scary to leave the comfort of a role and place I'
ai
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
ai
AI Changes Everything
I spoke at the Front End of Innovation (FEI) Conference in Boston this week about AI, innovation and the future. This post is part one of a distillation of my thoughts. The very first thing we need to understand is, to misquote Churchill, is that the stage of the development,
data governance
Data governance - the time is now
For many years, since late 2014 to be precise, I have been thinking about and doing data governance. But now with the advent of popular AI it is even more important. It has always been seen as boring stuff and nobody was really that interested. But in recent times – thanks
data
Data Revolution Podcast
Well I’m about to launch a new podcast. It’s going to be all about the intersections between business intelligence, data analytics, AI, privacy, data protection, cyber and information security. As I keep saying data and cyber are the two biggest growth industries that we have now. I have
social computing & social media
I’m on Mastodon what now?
If you’re a Mastodon (aka fediverse) newbie here are some tips about what to do next. (If you’re not already setup on Mastodon here’s a good guide on getting setup over there. There is also a guide to choosing a server here.) First of all, welcome aboard it’s great to have you join our non-commercia
awards
Chat with 2022 winners CDO Magazine Data4Good award
I had a chat with the winners of the inaugural CDO Magazine 2022 Data4Good Award in the Climate Action category. Huge congratulations to Jackie Coates, Katrina Riley, and Fei Tan from Telstra for their achievements. 💐 “In a video interview with Kate Carruthers, Chief Data & Insights Officer at the University
social computing & social media
Advice on building your own ecosystem
The plight of folks who build their online business worlds on the whimsy of a bunch of faceless corporations is on my mind as Twitter appears to be imploding before our eyes. It is very imprudent to build your business or personal brand on a platform that is subject to
social computing & social media
Twitter history
I am watching the realtime destruction of Twitter by Elon Musk with a strange sense of detachment. After all, I knew that one day Twitter would fall, as with any technology company. And I have some thoughts and I’m going to share them… Because many users of Twitter now