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Turning data into dollars - Philip O'Donnell

This episode features an interview with Philip O’Donnell, Group SVP of Data Platforms at the Adecco Group, the world’s leading talent advisory and solutions company. Philip has 13 years of experience in data analytics leadership and strategy consulting across a variety of industries. Prior to the Adecco Group, Philip served as Director of Data Science at Lee Hecht Harrison. On this episode, Philip discusses managing data at a big enterprise, how to prevent business decisions based on bad data, and turning data into dollars.

New Report Provides Insights Into The Practices Of The Most Data-Savvy Companies

How are today’s most technologically savvy companies using data and what benefits are they realizing? The answers are revealed in Snowflake’s recently published report, “How to Win in The Data Economy,” which collects responses from 250 IT leaders and 750 business leaders across various industries. In this “Data Cloud Now” interview with host Ryan Green, Snowflake’s Principle Data Strategist, Jennifer Belissent, walks through some of the highlights of the report.

How to improve risk management and resiliency - Kelly Hereid

This episode features an interview with Dr. Kelly Hereid, Director of Catastrophe R&D at Liberty Mutual Insurance in the Corporate Enterprise Risk Management Group. Prior to Liberty Mutual, Kelly was a research scientist at Chubb in their primary side natural catastrophe unit. She has a Ph.D. in geological sciences from the University of Texas – Austin, focusing on climate science. On this episode, Kelly talks about using historical data to create catastrophe models, taking a strategic standpoint to invest in resiliency, and reducing vulnerability to changing hazards.

Keboola and Snowflake Inspire Companies To Simplify Their Data Architecture

In this episode of “Data Cloud Now,” host Ryan Green chats with Pavel Dolezal and Petr Hunka of Keboola about a new wave of interest among businesses to take advantage of the latest developments in Snowflake and Keboola technologies to simplify their data architectures. “People are now more interested in changing the whole company to be data driven, changing business processes with AI, instead of changing just one part,” says Dolezal, “And Snowflake has definitely changed how the game is played.”

Happy birthday, Testlio

On a gloomy Friday evening ten years ago, two young Estonian entrepreneurs with a dream sat in a dimly lit flat in London, trying to come up with a name for their future company that would improve the way software testing is done. The AngelHack hackathon was starting the next day and the couple was planning to to pitch their idea there. A bit before midnight, the goal of choosing the company name was reached - Testlio was officially registered and our founders Kristel and Marko Kruustük were ready to take on one of the biggest and rewarding journeys of their life - creating a globally distributed company that powers networked testing to enable human possibilities.

Transforming Business Through The Power Of Data

Srini Nachinarkiniar, Accenture's Global Snowflake Practice Lead, sees every business as a data business. In this interview with Data Cloud Now host Ryan Green, Trini expands on this philosophy and discusses its three core principles: That data provides a strategic core, the importance of building an intelligent data foundation, and finding the right talent to establish a data culture.