One of the highlights of the DataOps Unleashed 2022 virtual conference was a roundtable panel discussion on building versus buying when it comes to your data stack. Build versus buy is a question for all layers of the enterprise infrastructure stack. But in the last five years — even in just the last year alone — it’s hard to think of a part of IT that has seen more dramatic change than that of the modern data stack.

The pandemic changed our healthcare behaviors. Planned hospital and doctor visits were reduced while telemedicine, for physical and mental health, increased. As healthcare providers and insurers/payers worked through mass amounts of new data, our health insurance practice was there to help.

Construction is a vast and complex industry. As such, the simpler and more streamlined your processes are, the better. Complicated, manual tasks hamper construction professionals’ ability to conduct business by slowing down efficiency and productivity. Despite the obvious benefits of modern automated workflows, a survey conducted by McKinsey Global Institute found construction is the second slowest adopter of digitization.

Data holds incredible untapped potential for Australian organisations across industries, regardless of individual business goals, and all organisations are at different points in their data transformation journey with some achieving success faster than others. To be successful, the use of data insights must become a central lifeforce throughout an organisation and not just reside within the confines of the IT team. More importantly, effective data strategies don’t stand still.

You’ve heard the saying “if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life,” right? Well, I hate to say it, but that’s me. I never dreamed that I would wind up in a field that combined all of my interests, but somehow that happened. Through my research at the MIT Media Lab I get to apply my legal and social sciences background to human-robot interaction. Which yes, does mean that I mostly get to play with robots all day.