Mining the Field of Big Data Strategies
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, a world-leading futurist and global AI keynote speaker who helps leaders decide what AI, and the technologies that follow it, mean for their business. He speaks to leadership teams at their retreats and to conference audiences worldwide, and his WAVE framework gives them a way of deciding that they keep using long after he has left the room. His Intelligence Age Scorecard measures how ready an organization is across the four WAVE pillars.
He holds a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney, is a Certified Speaking Professional and Global Speaking Fellow, and ranks among the world’s top futurists on the Global Gurus list (#1 in 2025, #3 in 2026). Salesforce named him one of its 16 leading AI voices. He has written six books, most recently Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change, writes the Synthetic Minds newsletter on Substack, and founded Futurwise. Talk to his digital twin on WhatsApp: +1 (830) 463-6967.
