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Well it’s a big question, but certainly one Chris Yiu of the Policy Exchange thinks the answer to is “Yes” Big Data can save the UK Government £33bn per year. I’ve just attended a Policy Exchange event which EMC Greenplum co-hosted with Francis Maude at the Policy Exchange where The Cabinet Minister, Chris and James Petter, the EMC MD, all discussed how this could be achieved. One important recommendation was that the Government should adopt a Code for Responsible Analytics. Something Greenplum fully supports.
Whilst at the event I bumped into Hetan Shah, the Executive Director, of the Royal Statistical Society, see the picture attached. Hetan was chairing the discussion. I thought about asking to be elected to the Society then remembered that I’d probably only be there to make up the numbers! Instead we discussed the next Data Science Hackathon we are organising with Data Science London and EMI on July 21st and the new data science exam we have just released.
Chris is a keen horseman who travels to County Meath in Ireland to join Cross Country Chases. That is up to 300 horses and riders travelling at speed over ditches ("drains" in Ireland) and hedges across the countryside for 10 miles. He developed his taste for chasing while he was EMC's Ireland Country Manager. So taking on exciting challenges is part of his make up so when EMC asked if he would he lead the UKI Greenplum business he "jumped" at the opportunity. He seemed perfectly suited for the role which combines his experience of business transformation, Artificial Intelligence and 11 years EMC tenure. In previous roles he has lead EMC's consulting organization and also the overall UK&I Services business. Chris has a First Class degree in Computing and Information Technology specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. His career began as a database designer and he was awarded Chartered Engineer and Chartered Information Systems Practitioner four years later by the BCS and Engineering Council.
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