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Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Really excited to join Venture Beat today for the webinar: “AI-powered location: A step closer to the future?” This isn’t my first foray into the spatial and mapping world. In fact, I’ve been a big fan of maps since my days in Africa where my map of th…
A few years ago, I met with an incumbent telecom provider in Europe, and they came across as from “the old country.” I asked about their data strategy, and they were horrified at the thought of doing anything other than secure and protect their data as…
Organization are slow to change but technology changes quickly. If you leave the organization as is many won’t catch up with the change, and the technology maturity gap will widen between them over time. I saw this described in breakout panel at Strata Data in New York a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, the speaker left […]
Thomas Edison once said, “The value of an idea is in the using of it.” Today (many of) those “ideas” are data and the insights derived from them, and it remains true that their value is in how they are used. Simply put, data + use = value. Insights-driven companies use these data-derived insights in […]
Last week I presented a webinar “A New Age for Smart Cities” as part of Philips’ Lighting University. Many cities have invested in new lighting initiatives replacing traditional lights with LED solutions including remote management capabilities. But the talk last week stressed the need for these initiatives to be part of a broader strategy. It […]
We know that the data economy is going to be huge. Data fuels innovation, and having that unique data point (or “alt data”) brings incremental value and competitive advantage. Demand for data is exploding. More and more companies are interested in jumping on that train and selling their data. But how? In an upcoming webinar, […]
Data leadership is proliferating. More than ½ of companies now have a chief data officer (CDO), and an almost equal number have a chief analytics officer (CAO). Many of those without these data leaders report plans to appoint one in the near future. Yet we’ve heard that data leadership roles today are not what they used […]
The pace of change in data and analytics technology has accelerated. Technologies quickly move from university research projects into new commercial products and services. Many tech organizations scramble to keep up. Successful insights service providers see academic collaboration as a competitive differentiator. And, that collaboration goes well beyond setting up a booth at a jobs fair. […]