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DataIQ Awards 2020 - Grand Prix: NatWest Group data and analytics

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

The NatWest Group data academy not only provides formal learning development across data science, data engineering, decisioning, ethics and governance, performance and insights, it is also yielding outputs from up-skilled workers that are providing business benefits. Open to incumbent practitioners and across the bank, it has already trained nearly 600 practitioners and over 4,000 non-data colleagues.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Most innovative use of AI: Merkle and Spirit Energy - predictive analytics for operations

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

Processing gas leads to the generation of carbon dioxide which can lead to a trip or shutdown of the plant, costing Spirit Energy £3.6 million annually. Merkle applied artificial intelligence to sensor data to create a predictive model, giving plant operators valuable early warning of problems.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - The Professor Derek Holder Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr Sachiko Scheuing

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

Having started her career as a marketing database analyst, Sachiko switched into data protection at the end of the 1990s. She has been Acxiom’s European privacy officer since 2005 and has also been co-chair of FEDMA since 2014, bringing a clear understanding of both the needs of analysts and the demands of data protection regulation to her work and her lobbying.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Data for good champion: Jamie Barnard, Unilever

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

Trust in digital channels has been declining. As a digital media lawyer, Jamie Barnard felt a strong sense of responsibility to address this challenge. Working with the World Federation of Advertisers, its transparency advisory board was rebranded as the WFA data ethics board, and his report, “The rise of morality in technology,” became the world’s first guide on data ethics for brands.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Breakthrough with data: quantLab

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

Marketing of pharmaceuticals is labour-intensive and expensive, creating an opportunity for optimisation and incremental revenues. Combing prescription and open source data, quantLab built an AI-driven engagement recommendation engine that has yielded billion-dollar improvements in sales force performance.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Best place to work in data: Aviva customer science team

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

Described as a “new muscle” for Aviva, the customer science team delivers commercial impact through using data to understand customers better and make appropriate recommendations. It has a diverse team and an enabling work culture that attracts high levels of candidates and strong retention levels.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Best development programme: NatWest Group data and analytics

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

The NatWest Group data academy not only provides formal learning development across data science, data engineering, decisioning, ethics and governance, performance and insights, it is also yielding outputs from up-skilled workers that are providing business benefits. Open to incumbent practitioners and across the bank, it has already trained nearly 600 practitioners and over 4,000 non-data colleagues.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Best data story or data visualisation: JLL global KPI project

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

As a global business, JLL has multi-million dollar accounts with KPIs that need to be reported monthly. This involves aggregation of multiple data sources to ensure metrics roll up from site to country to region to global level. Using KPIs to direct the business has put business intelligence right at the heart of the organisation.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Most effective stakeholder engagement: Vodafone Covid-19 big data and AI response tool

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

When the Covid-19 pandemic started to impact on society globally, the Vodafone big data and AI team focused its resources onto emerging use cases, like epidemiology and financial inclusion. These have helped to inform government and institutions in their crisis planning in multiple countries.

DataIQ Awards 2020 - Transformation with data (client): Samsung Europe

30 Sep 2020by David Reed

As a brand, Samsung loves to take big innovative leaps for its customers. In 2019, its data and analytics functions needed to take a similar big leap, with a consolidation of data and digital resources. Aligned with the slogan, #DoWhatYouCant, new values and ways of working were introduced that have transformed the company’s data maturity.

Market Insight

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