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Big Data LDN 2024

2024-09-18 – 2024-09-19 Big Data LDN/Paris

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Great British Data Founders Panel

2024-09-18
Face To Face

Meet some of the most prominent UK data founders and delve into what it takes to start a high-growth business in the data space. With the panel collective expertise covering SaaS, M&A, professional services, advisory, product companies and everything in between, this is an event not to miss. This panel is a true celebration of the UK entrepreneurial talent - you will learn about the founders’ personal journeys, their experience of significantly scaling and growing their businesses and the role that their tenacity, perseverance and determination to build something new and different have played in it. 

The panel will also be joined by a special panel guest Richard Shaw, who will share the investors outlook and the insight about the eco-system out there available to support new generation of data founders on their journey.

Featured panelists:

• Chris Tabb, co-founder and CCO, LEIT Data

• Anna Sutton, co-founder and CEO, Data Refinery, exited co-founder of Data Shed (acquired by Hippo Digital in 2023)

• Chelsea Wilkinson, co-founder and CEO, Data Diligence

• Rowena Humby, co-founder and CEO, Starcount

• Richard Shaw, Partner, Growth Capital Partners

• Guy Fighel, Venture Partner and Head of Data Program - Hetz Ventures

The panel will be hosted by Svetlana Tarnagurskaja, co-founder and CEO of The Dot Collective.

The Inevitable Shift to Modern Data Lake Architecture

2024-09-18
Face To Face

In the next five years, we are poised to witness a significant transformation towards modern data lake architecture across industries. This shift is driven by an urgent need for a unified, flexible, and scalable data management solution. Such a solution must address the challenges of siloed data environments and the increasing complexity of data sources while balancing the benefits of data mesh principles with centralized governance and semantic consistency.

In this talk, we will cover latest trends and benefits in this field, as well as usage of open formats like Iceberg, lower costs of data movement, & multiple engines to support different workloads that ultimately helps in getting into a single source of truth.