Ever wonder what happens when data strategy, quality, and trust meet up for a drink? (Spoiler: It’s not a data disaster!) Join Cher Fox, President and Chief Data Officer of Fox Consulting, and Kamal Maheshwari, Co-founder of Decube, for a lively fireside chat where we'll dive into how these three friends — data strategy, quality, and trust — join forces to whip your data initiatives into shape. Whether you’re trying to prevent your next AI, ML, data science, or advanced analytics project from turning into a horror story or just tired of data surprises, this chat will reveal how this trio can help you avoid a hangover and serve up a formula for success. Drinks optional, insights mandatory.

Key Takeaways:

• A clear understanding of the relationship between data strategy, data quality, and data trust
• Solutions for the biggest challenges in maintaining data quality in today's high data volume and velocity environments
• How data professionals can effectively communicate the importance of data strategy, quality, and trust to non-technical leadership and stakeholders
• What emerging trends organizations should be preparing for
• The first 3 steps an organization should implement when starting to build out its data capabilities

Speaker: Cher Fox

Cher Fox is a data leader who's been solving the data puzzle for over 35 years. As the President, Founder and CDO of Fox Consulting, she advises organizations to proactively define and optimize their processes and enhance quality standards to resolve their most painful data insight issues. Her decades of deep practitioner experience in data and analytics specializes in crafting and executing secure strategic roadmaps for global companies' complex analytics, data, data science, marketing, AI and ML solutions. Additionally, Cher guides senior leaders on confidently leveraging their existing software assets to overcome their technology challenges, facilitating better experiences in making data-driven business decisions while also resulting in significant time and cost savings on maintenance and support. She is a host for the InsightJam.com The Jam Session podcast and has spoken at 40+ international conferences and events. Cher is known for championing process excellence, empowering organizations to embrace change, and unlocking the full potential of their data assets.

Speaker: Kamal Maheshwari

Kamal is a co-founder at Decube, the first unified Data Trust platform. Kamal is an entrepreneur by nature, a salesperson by passion, and a technologist by profession. He has a passion for solving problems faced by customers, improving processes for repeatability, and delivering value to the bottom line. Kamal has demonstrated success in multiple roles through all product life cycle phases and sales processes. Kamal has been in the roles of Co-founder, field CTO, strategic architect, and customer advocate for many years. His interests and focus are on customer success, value-based selling, and technology leadership and evangelism. With his experience and cultural background, Kamal has also improved the efficiency of on/off-shore teams.