Ahead of the Pack

How data and machine learning are coming together in the cloud to accelerate business agility

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Enterprises are looking for ways to capitalize on data to improve business agility. Innovations in cloud, analytics, and machine learning are the accelerants behind these opportunities. Join host Tim Crawford for compelling discussions with industry experts on how enterprises are leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning in the cloud to rethink how they do business with data-driven transformation.
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Episode 6: From data literacy to data proficiency
Episode 6
Friday, 21 August, 2020

There’s a lot of talk about data literacy in the enterprise. Ishit Vachhrajani, Enterprise Strategist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the former Global CTO at A+E Networks, prefers the term “data proficiency.” “It’s not just about being data-aware or being data-informed, but really developing proficiency to put that data to use, and do that at scale,” Vachhrajani told Tim Crawford in Episode 6 of the Ahead of the Pack podcast. Data proficiency should apply across the enterprise, beginning with the C-suite and extending beyond the roles that traditionally deal with data, he said. But the challenge for many organizations is infusing this mindset.