EPISODE 1: UNTANGLING SPAGHETTI INFRASTRUCTURE
HOW TO GET MORE VALUE OUT OF DATA: THE CRASH-COURSE
UNLOCKING DATA POTENTIAL THROUGH CLOUD AND AI-DRIVEN ANALYTICS
Wednesday 22 Sep 2021 │ 12:00-12:45 BST
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Anthony Smith, Senior Director Enterprise Architecture, Jones Lang LaSalle
Anthony Smith is an IT and Architecture leader with over 20 years' experience across the property industry. He has led architecture and systems development within global enterprises, and is experience in implementing commercial packages and bespoke custom developed solutions. Currently at JLL, he previously worked at King Sturge as a business analyst.
Mohit Joshi, Head of Data Science and Engineering, Collinson Group
A Data evangelist in the field of data science and engineering
Mohit is a Data Science enthusiast with a master’s in operational Research having experience delivering solutions by leveraging Big Data Applications, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Techniques. His broad research interests are in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning with a passion for turning data into products, actionable insights, and meaningful stories. Expertise in domains such as statistical modelling, Cost optimization, linear modelling, and operational Research.
Mohit has over 6 years of experience working in Data Science, Big Data. Data Engineering and analytics field. I have been managing a team of Data Scientists and Data Engineers in the UK and Overseas. His work involved improving products and services for our customers by using advanced analytics, standing up big-data analytical tools, creating and maintaining models, and onboarding compelling new data sets.
Additionally, he has worked in the data governance area, which involves creating a centralized data governance framework and putting together the policies which are to be followed for data security and compliance reasons. Mohit works closely with the Data Protection team to ensure all the policies are in place which has been mandated by regulations.
James Allerton Austin, Senior Director, Cloud Strategy, Oracle EMEA
James is the Technology Product Strategy Lead for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific regions. After 10 years in the Oracle product development organisation, he is now responsible for driving strategy awareness and adoption of Oracle Cloud Platform with the largest enterprises in the region. The Oracle Cloud Platform comprising Core Infrastructure, Cloud native application development, Data management, Integration, Security, Analytics and many other related emerging Cloud technologies.
James is a regular invitee to speak at all levels, from keynote through to deep dive developer events, covering a wide range of subject matter but always focusing on sharing experiences, both inside and outside Oracle from his career. James joined Oracle in 2008 following 9 years at BEA Systems, and has held multiple positions with technical field sales and in the Product Development team, James holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a Master’s degree in Computer Science.
