Mining the Field of Big Data Strategies
More and more organisations understand by now the need for a big data platform, but they have difficulties actually developing and implementing a big data strategy. John Akred, CTO of Silicon Valley Data Science, discusses how companies can become more data-driven companies and how they should develop a big data strategy. Nowadays, the problem is not so much anymore the immaturity of the technology, but more importantly the organisational and cultural issues.
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Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Dr Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker. He is a leading strategic futurist who thinks about how technology changes organisations, society and the metaverse. Dr Van Rijmenam is an international innovation keynote speaker, 5x author and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Datafloq and the author of the book on the metaverse: Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy, detailing what the metaverse is and how organizations and consumers can benefit from the immersive internet. His latest book is Future Visions, which was written in five days in collaboration with AI. Recently, he founded the Futurwise Institute, which focuses on elevating the world’s digital awareness.
