ai
AI adoption is a people problem, not a technology problem
AI isn’t magic. It’s change management (and people). Ignore that at your peril.
technology
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
ai
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
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
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
civil society
Chat GPT changes everything (and some of it is bad)
The world has been on the brink of revolutionary technological change for a while now and Chat GPT and related generative AI technologies might just have tipped us over into a brave new world. Ordinary folks are starting to see the power and possibilities with AI. We are about to
awards
Careers are strange things
Last night was surprising. I was at the Women Leading Tech awards in Sydney at the lovely new International Convention Centre. And I got an award. A lifetime achievement award. Which proves that if you hang around doing stuff long enough in the one industry eventually folks get to know
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
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
awards
2022 Top 100 Global Leaders in Data & Analytics
It is a great honour to be named by Corinium as one of the 2022 Top 100 Global Leaders in Data & Analytics. As I have noted previously my team are the ones who do all the hard work to bring the ideas and strategies into reality. A huge thank-you
speaking
Building a High Performing Analytics Team
Presentation at the BI Techfest Online 28 September 2021 https://techfestivals.com/bi/ This presentation mostly covers organisational and change management associated with building a high performing business intelligence and data analytics team.
speaking
EDUTECH: Data Protection for Higher Education
Gave a talk on Data Protection for Higher Education at EDUTECH 2021 today. Here is a link to download the slides.