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Driving Data Governance and Data Products at ING Bank France

In this episode of Data+AI Battlescars, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Unravel Data’s CDO, speaks with Samir Boualla, CDO at ING Bank France, one of the largest banks in the world. They cover his battlescars in Driving Data Governance Across Business Teams and Building Data Products. At ING Bank France, Samir is the Chief Data Officer. He’s responsible for several teams that govern, develop, and manage data infrastructure and data assets to deliver value to the business.

What Data Is Behind This Metric?

We all know data is the new oil. Both data and oil are valuable resources and share a common quality; if unprocessed they cannot be used. Data and oil have to be broken down and built up again to create true value for the business. There is, however, one key difference. Whereas oil is tangible, data is not. This means that the flow of low-quality oil is traceable and will be noticed in the production process. But, what happens if there is a bad data flow in your organization?

Is Data-First AI the Next Big Thing?

We are roughly a decade removed from the beginnings of the modern machine learning (ML) platform, inspired largely by the growing ecosystem of open-source Python-based technologies for data scientists. It’s a good time for us to reflect back upon the progress that has been made, highlight the major problems enterprises have with existing ML platforms, and discuss what the next generation of platforms will be like.