CXO UK Data Summit
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Keynotes · Data · AI · Leadership
DATA LEADERSHIP,
BUT DIFFERENT.
Keynotes about data, AI and the human decisions that determine whether either changes anything.
Book BrendanFormer Head of Data & BIEY / Deloitte alumnusFractional CDOExecutive leadership coach
The argument
Most organisations do not have a data problem.
The data exists. The technology exists. The dashboard exists. And increasingly, the AI exists.
What is usually missing is the leadership required to do something differently with it.
Keynotes
The conversation
your audience needs.
For leaders who are tired of hype, and ready to ask better questions about what is really getting in the way.
01Data Leadership,
Data Leadership,
But Different.
Why organisations keep trying to solve human problems with technology. A practical challenge to the behaviours, ownership and habits that block data-led change.
02The AI Leadership
The AI Leadership
Gap.
Everyone has access to AI. Very few organisations have the judgement, accountability and culture to make good decisions with it.
03The Wrong Problem,
The Wrong Problem,
Brilliantly Solved.
How organisations mistake activity for progress, then spend serious money becoming better at solving the wrong thing.
Why Brendan
Inside the problem.
Not commenting from
the sidelines.
Brendan brings the perspective of a data and technology leader, executive coach and former Big Four accountant. He has held the roles. He knows the pressure to make the transformation work.
01 / PRACTITIONER
Former Head of Data & BI at Pantheon Ventures and Shawbrook Bank
02 / RANGE
20+ years across private markets, banking, media and professional services
03 / NOW
Fractional CDO & AI Strategist at Corbelle
04 / LEADERSHIP
Executive coach, with an MSc in Leadership in progress
The speaker
Experience that changes the conversation.
Brendan Ellis is a data and AI leader, Fractional CDO and former Head of Data & BI. He has spent more than 20 years inside the decisions organisations find hardest: where to invest, what to change, who owns the outcome and why good technology so often fails to alter behaviour.
His keynotes bring practical experience from private markets, banking, media and professional services, with a simple premise: data and AI are rarely technology problems. They are leadership problems wearing a technical costume.
In the room
Practical. Provocative. Built from the work.
No recycled predictions about the future. Just a more useful way to lead through it.
Selected speaking
On the stage.
CXO European Data Summit
Panel moderator, Navigating Career Progression at Executive Level, and podcast host for in-depth delegate discussions.
CXO Data Summit
Interviewer for promotional video interviews with delegates.
North America SuperReturn
The Evolution of Data Governance. Why leadership must change with the introduction of AI.
CDAO UK
Leadership & The Future. The emerging role of leaders in the data industry.
Aztec Art of the Alternative
Data Leadership. What makes great data leadership.
CDO Financial Services Europe Summit
The Future of Leadership. How leaders must evolve in the data industry.
IDC Data Summit
Planning for the (Data) Future. The impact of technology and data from a leadership perspective.
IDC Future of Work
The Future of (Data) Leadership. What leadership of the future will look like.
Microsoft Ignite
The Single Customer View. Lessons from creating the first ever single customer view.
Data Talks
Guardians of the (Data) Galaxy. The role leaders play in protecting a company’s data.
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Tell Brendan about your audience, the room and the question they need to leave thinking about. He will shape the keynote around what matters.