The inaugural 2022 Data Activators Award recognizes the top
100 data leaders in the industry at companies including Tesco,
Barclays, and Santander
SAN RAMON, Calif., Feb. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WANdisco®
(LSE: WAND), the LiveData company, along with HotTopics.ht, today
announced the winners of the first-ever Data Activators Award.
Selected for their success in activating data to transform their
organizations, the 100 winners represent a group of proven
innovators and data-first leaders.
Over 250 billion terabytes of data is collected by organizations
globally every day. Executives must be extremely mindful that sound
data practice, management, and governance are now core to their
organization's future. For this award, leaders at enterprises
across industries were evaluated based on their innovative use of
data to unlock business value. Winners in this inclusive and
gender-equal list stood out from the crowd by having established
cultures of data literacy and having enabled strategic uses of AI
and machine learning.
"Most enterprises have more data than they know what to do with.
Data leaders that are systematically using it to their
advantage—turning data into insights and insights into action—are
true pioneers," said WANdisco CEO and Founder David Richards. "WANdisco supported this coveted
award to recognize industry leaders that not only understand the
importance of data today, but also are putting it to work in
remarkable ways. I could not be more proud of this year's winners,
and we can't wait to see how they continue to push their respective
industries forward in the years to come."
The judges chosen to evaluate this year's applicants were a
diverse group of data professionals who know what it takes to be an
industry innovator. The panel included: JoAnn Stonier, Chief Data Officer at Mastercard,
Charles Ewen, Director of Technology
and CIO at Met Office, Nelly Chatue-Diop, President at Tezos, West
Africa Foundation, and others, Vukosi Sambo, Head of Data Solutions
at AfroCentric Group, and Heather
Barnes, Partner, Technology and Digital at Savannah
Group.
This year's winners include Celine Hessiat Le Cotonnec, Chief
Data Innovation Officer at Bank of Singapore, Paul
Ellwood, Director of Data Strategy at Airbnb, Iwao Fusillo, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
at General Motors, and many more. Full list of winners can be seen
here.
"In today's world, company data is critical to every strategic
business decision. Enterprise data leaders are the gatekeepers to
this insight, making it so important to showcase and celebrate
their work," said Philip Randerson,
Founder and CEO at HotTopics.ht. "We're proud to lift up some of
the most innovative minds in the industry to make up our judging
panel, and we are thrilled to announce the winners that they deemed
to be today's top 100 Data Activators."
The 100 Data Activators award winners have been invited to
participate in the exclusive and hybrid CXO Summit on March 16, 2022in London and across the globe, called The
Studio.
About WANdisco
WANdisco is the first and only data activation platform for
accelerating digital transformation at scale. WANdisco makes
infinite data actionable across clouds and enterprises in real
time. WANdisco customers unleash the business value of the cloud
with zero downtime, data loss, or disruption to fuel AI and machine
learning, create new services, and transform businesses. For more
information about WANdisco, visit www.wandisco.com.
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C-level executives with representation from 75% of the Fortune 500.
This highly collaborative community is brought together through
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Future CIO 100s), and our flagship event, The Studio.
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