Global Top 50 Value Driven Visionaries in Data & AI
Edosa Odaro
AI & Data | Author, Investor, Advisor | LinkedIn Top Voice | Board Advisor | Keynote Speaker
Hello from Dubai!
I promised to share my list of value driven visionaries with you - so here it is!
My Top 50 list of Data & AI's most valuable experts!
They are…
🤖 AI Leaders
🤖 Data Strategists
🤖 AI & Data Innovators
🤖 Data & AI Senior Executives
This post is not for everyone, but if you are one of those who agrees that we just don't know it all, then you should absolutely love this!
I believe, that one of the BEST things you can do to advance your career is to learn from Data & AI's Top Visionaries
So, if you’re really serious about advancing your career and enhancing your business, then this will be a great enabler…
Additionally, over the coming days and weeks, I will share more insights about their incredible work and little know facts about why they absolutely standout on a global stage.
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In the meantime, here is the FULL list!
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Anima Anandkumar
Bren Professor, Caltech
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/anima-anandkumar
Fun Link: PROFILE - Nvidia Blog
“What we’ve seen so far is AI already making a huge impact in specific domains on specific modelling tasks. By combining data and domain knowledge across multiple domains, I think we will be able to create a foundation model for science that will have a huge impact.”
Ian Goodfellow
Research Scientist, Deep Mind
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/ian-goodfellow
"While, as human beings, we know it’s not reasonable to extrapolate linearly forever, the machine hasn’t figured that out yet."
Alex Sidgreaves
Chief Data Officer, Zurich Insurance
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/alexsidgreaves
Fun Link: LIST - Women to Watch in Data
"Data fluency is one of the four pillars of our data strategy, highlighting its continued importance in our organisation over the next strategic cycle.”
Andrew Hill
Chief Data Officer, Unilever
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/hillandy
“Data with Purpose Delivers.”
Pelonomi Moiloa
Co-Founder and CEO, Lelapa AI
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/pelonomi-moiloa
“African names get butchered quite badly, to the point of nonrecognition. So that’s something I’m excited about because there’s such a big meaning behind names.”
Eileen Vidrine
Chief Data Officer, US Department of the Air Force
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/eileen-vidrine
"Foster relationships to accelerate change.”
Dina Machuve
Co-founder and CTO, DevData Analytics
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/dina-machuve
Fun Link: RESOURCES - Git Hub
“AI has a very crucial role to increase the productivity of agriculture in Africa. We see machine learning playing a critical role in developing low-cost solutions for crop disease detection and smart tools for weed identification, and classification and smart agriculture.”
Jim Oliver
VP and Chief Analytics Officer, eBay
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/jimoliver
Aimee Smith
Director of Data, Metropolitan Police Service
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/aimee-smith
Fun Link: PODCAST - The Power of Prediction
“Data is the second most critical asset that policing holds outside of its people, which is, of course, its number one.”
Sanjeevan Bala
Group Chief Data and AI Officer, ITV
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/sanjeevanbala
Fun Link: ANNOUNCEMENT - Bakkavor - NED
“Constantly re-imagine the future by looking outside your organisation for ideas.”
Vipin Gopal
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/vipin-gopal
Fun Link: MIT Sloan - Management Review
"Healthcare is a different kind of rocket science. In the world of rockets and the like, you can model the underlying physics to a high level of precision. However, healthcare involves many variables, including human physiology and behaviour, which are not well understood. These nuances create interesting challenges. And we break down complexities in manageable ways to answer questions.”
Zohra Slim
Co-founder, Instadeep
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/zohra
Fun Link: Feeling the Mediterranean
"The most important thing is to give women the confidence that they can do it. I mentor a lot of start-ups. I always tell them you can do this if you put your head to ignore what everyone else is telling you.”
Loretta Franks
VP, Global Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Kellanova
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/loretta-franks
Fun Link: INTERVIEW - Glass Hammer
“If you can see it, you can be it”.
Clement Delangue
Co-Founder and CEO, Hugging Face
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/clementdelangue
Fun Link: TIME MAGAZINE - Feature Post
“It is risky to have the power of AI concentrated in the hands of a few.”
Boitumelo Makgoba
Co-Founder and CTO, Hippocampus Education
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/boitumelo-makgoba
Fun Link: FEATURE POST - Building Foundations
“I have faith in the transformative potential of AI to reshape the world. The crucial question is, who is driving the evolution of AI? It holds immense significance to involve a diverse array of students and upcoming leaders in the advancement of AI.”
Kendle Sims
VP and Chief Data Officer, Penn State Health
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/kendle
Ray Richardson
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Emirates NBD
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/ray-richardson
James Manyika
SVP, Google-Alphabet
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/jamesmanyika
Fun Link: Wikipedia.Org-futureOfwork-JamesManyika
“AI presents an opportunity for Zimbabwe's development. AI can be used to address many of Africa's challenges, such as poverty, disease, and food insecurity. For example, AI can be used to develop new agricultural techniques, improve healthcare delivery, and create new jobs. Instead of taking away jobs, AI is actually increasing opportunities in Africa.”
Richard Lowe
Group Chief Data Officer, United Overseas Bank (UOB)
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/lowe-richard
Fun Link: ANNOUNCEMENT - IBF Awards
“Data is the rails on which the digital economy runs.”
Jeremy Howard
Entrepreneur, Educator
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/howardjeremy
Fun Link: Wikipedia.org/wiki/JeremyHoward
"The world of machine learning has become very empirical…the difference between theory and practice is so huge.”
Andrew Bonnici
Vice President, Product, Platforms and Data, IGT PlayDigital
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/andrew-bonnici-mt
Fun Link: ANNOUNCEMENT - Senior Appointment
“I love a good challenge and am willing to disrupt the status quo.”
Richard Mathenge
Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer, Techworker Community Africa
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/richard-mathenge
Fun Link: Podcast - The Humans in the Machine
“It was our obligation to reach out to Parliament,” because the human workers behind AI "are being treated as trash."
Ming Tang
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/ming-tang
Fun Link: Blog Posts by Ming Tang
“Data should be treated as a product - data needs to be accessible, trustworthy, privacy-preserving, secure, inter-operable and audited.”
Omar Sultan Al Olama
Ministry of State for AI
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/omar-sultan-alolama
Fun Link: Wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Al_Olama
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“We must adopt a rational, simple and measured approach towards AI regulation.”
Dr. Humaid Al Shamsi
Head of the Smart Training and Scenario Design, Abu Dhabi Police
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/humaid-alshamsi-ai
Andrew Curry
CDO, ExxonMobil
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/andrew-curry
“Once you use your supply of oil, it is exhausted. Data is very different. The more that you use it, the more valuable it becomes. Data is a resource. You can turn that data into an asset. It can also become a liability if neglected or misused.”
Aravind Jagannathan
VP and CDO, Freddie Mac
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/aravind-jagannathan
“A CDO’s Main Responsibility Is Empowering the Business.”
Arno Huhn
Managing Director Data and AI, Schwarz Group
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/arno-huhn
Adel Al Tamimi
Director of Digital Products and Solution Management, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/adelaltamim
Sarah Barr Miller
Director of Data and Automation, British Airways
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/sarahb
“My vision is to create the next era in data and analytics. To modernise, decentralise, unlock the benefits of the cloud, remove obsolescence, to upskill the team, and to reduce the time it takes to deliver value from data.”
Ranil Boteju
Group Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Lloyds Banking Group
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/ranilboteju
“Key to developing a meaningful data culture is a high level of data literacy”.
Guy Johnson
Global CDO, Belron
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/guy-johnson
“Data leadership is about identifying the opportunity of data for the organisation to either improve the customer journey or make the business better at how it executes.”
Jeff McMillan
Head of Firmwide AI, Morgan Stanley
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/jeff-mcmillan
Fun Link: INTERVIEW - the hope for the obsolete
“It's really trying to create the tools, the infrastructure, and the culture to help people make better choices.”
David-Stephane Fala
CDO, Allianz Partners
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/davidfala
Fun Link: INTERVIEW - Exploiting Dark Data...
“The future belongs to companies that can anticipate trends, weak signals, and disruptions, by rethinking their business model and organisation and embrace the data-driven culture.”
Jorge Balestra
Global Head Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) and Platforms, Kraft Heinz
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/jorgebalestra
“Technology is simple – it's only 1’s and 0’s combined in a multitude of ways – ALWAYS focus on the people that enable and are affected by the changes brought to them.”
Benjamin Rogojan
Owner and Data Consultant, Seattle Data Guy
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/benjaminrogojan
Fun Link: BLOG POSTS - medium.com - SeattleDataGuy
“We live in a data world that wants to move fast.”
Sheila Jordan
Chief Digital Technology Officer, Honeywell
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/jordansheila
“Usually there’s a technology that disrupts how we live, work and play every five to 10 years . . . I believe generative AI is that technology.”
Greg Coquillo
Product Management, Gates and Media Automation, Amazon
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/greg-coquillo
Fun Link: PODCAST - The Artist of Data Science
“Let your curiosity be your driver."
Kim Macaulay
Senior VP, Chief Information & Data Officer, International Air Transport Association (IATA)
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/macaulaykim
“By mixing the new and existing data, we can deliver value-added data products and services to cater to the ‘new ways of working.”
Geoffrey Everest Hinton
Computer Scientist and Cognitive Psychologist, Google, University of Toronto
Wikipedia Profile: Wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton
Britannica Profile: Britannica.com/biography/Geoffrey-Hinton
“I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”
Lidia Fonseca
EVP, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Pfizer
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/fonseca
“AI and other digital technologies are bringing extraordinary changes to the healthcare industry.”
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
UPMC Computer Science Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/ruslan-salakhutdinov
“In academia, I feel like you have more freedom to work on long-term problems. At the same time, the research you do in industry is also very exciting because, in many cases, you can impact millions of users if you develop a core AI technology.”
Rakesh Srinivasan
Chief Data and Analytics Officer and Head of Consumer Technology, Petco
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/rakeshsr
Fun Link: WEBINAR - Data for Engagement and Growth
“I’m a big believer in not building multi-year plans when you’re in a quick transformation journey. It’s important to start scrappy and start seeing results.”
Kyle Winterbottom
Founder and CEO, Orbition Group
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/kylewinterbottom
“Developing a strong community of professionals and looking for ways to constantly add value to them with the sole purpose of driving our industry forward - plus, always delivering.”
Rob Smedley
VP of Data Technology, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/rsmedley
“Data drives everything that happens at Disney parks."
Cindi Howson
Chief Data Strategy Officer, ThoughtSpot
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/biscorecard
“Data can be used to make the world a better place and to solve real problems.”
Christina Stathopoulos
Founder, Dare to Data
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/christinastathopoulos
“I see big data and advanced analytics as the single field that will transform all aspects of life as we know it over the next decades, as big data is poised to push machine learning and artificial intelligence to their full potential and to improve people’s lives.”
Hartnell Ndungi
CDO, Absa Bank Kenya
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/hartnellndungi
“Make Data Fun.”
Johanna Hutchinson
CDO, BAE Systems
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/johanna-hutchinson
Fun Link: The Data Driven World
“I still see a lot of prototypes going around – new platforms, new technologies, new capabilities – but actually if you look at the back-end you’ll still find a huge legacy estate.”
Dr. Mark Nasila
CDAO, FNB South Africa
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/dr-mark-nasila
“AI’s impact goes deeper, with potential benefits in medicine, education, and solving complex scientific problems.”
🔥 Who are your topmost Data and AI visionaries? What do you admire most about them?
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3moThis is premium resource for free to learn as a data and AI enthusiast. Thanks for sharing. You are a real Value-Driven Visionary. Your name must be one of these.
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