MetaDAMA - Data Management in the Nordics

«AI will be so important in transforming health care as we know it today." Join us as we sit down with Elisabeth M.J. Klaussen from DoMore Diagnostics, who are on a mission to transform cancer diagnostics with artificial intelligence to improve patient care and make drug development more effective. With a rich background in quality assurance and R&D within Pharma, Biotech, and MedTech, El...

«Don’t make it hard to understand for the business. Make it simple and clear.» Get new perspectives on Data Governance with Valentina Niklasson from Volvo Penta as she talks about certain patterns, stages in the acceptance of Quality Management or Lean, that Data has to go through. Her rich experience in making Data Governance business-centric emerges, showcasing how you can get an organization en...

«Dataen i seg selv gir ikke verdi. Hvordan vi bruker den, som er der vi kan hente ut gevinster.» / «Data has no inherent value. How we use it is where we can extract profits.» Embark on an exploration of what a data-driven Police Force can be, with Claes Lyth Walsø from Politiets IT enhet (The Norwegian Police Forces IT unit). We explore the profound impact of 'Algo-cracy', where algorit...

«If you want to run an efficient company by using data, you need to understand what your processes look like, you need to understand your data, you need to understand how this is all tied together.» Join us as we unravel the complexities of data management with Olof Granberg, an expert in the realm of data with a rich experience spanning nearly two decades. Throughout our conversation, Olaf offers...

«A lawyer has to be compliant. An advice from a lawyer should be fault free. Therefore it is so difficult to just do something. It is not in their DNA." Unlock the secrets to the legal sector's digital transformation with our latest guest, Peter van Dam, Chief Digital Officer at Simonsen Vogt and Wiig. We promise you a journey into the innovative realm where data management and artificia...

«We are going to treat our data at the highest level, making sure that we can use it as a competitive advantage. Then it’s a strategic choice.» Unlock the strategic potential that lies at the heart of Data and AI with our latest discussion featuring Anna Carolina Wiklund from IKEA. Embark on a thought-provoking journey with us as we dissect the significance of robust strategies in shaping digital...

"We believe that by making data more accessible, the city will become more transparent and accountable to the people that we serve." In our latest MetaDAMA episode, we're joined by Inga Ros Gunnarsdottir, the Chief Data Officer (CDO) of the City of Reykjavik, who's at the forefront of a transformation towards data-driven innovation of inclusion and accessibility. She walks us t...

«Companies are already wanting to position themselves ahead of the legislation, because they see the value of actually adaption best practices early on and not waiting for enforcement.» Prepare to dive into the risk-based approach of legislation for artificial intelligence with the insights of Laiz Batista Tellefsen from PwC Norway, who brings her expertise in AI from a legal perspective to our la...

«The journey Software development went through during the last 10 years, working towards DevOps and agile development, is something that we can really benefit from in the data space.» Uncover the synergy between agile software development and data management as we sit down with Alexandra Diem, head of Cloud Analytics and MLOps at Gjensidige, who bridges the gap between these two dynamic fields. In...

«I took the time to actually go through all of my notes, all of the training courses, all of the things that I looked at over the past 30 years of work. And I thought, I want to give myself a reference book. Wherever I go, I have this single thing that will have enough information to remind me of stuff I need to consider. This is now my book of Patterns." Get ready to have your perspectives o...

«Sentralt I dette med å skape verdi er tverrfaglighet og involvere hele bedriften, ikke bare et lite Data Science miljø.» / «Central to creating value is multidisciplinarity and involving the entire company, not just a small Data Science environment.» Prepare for a journey into the landscape of data strategy with seasoned Data Scientist, Heidi Dahl from Posten Bring, one of the largest logistics o...

«A combination of strong buy in from top-management and strong flow of change agents (…) is a requirement for succeeding.» Eager to unlock the secrets behind building a trustful relationship with AI systems? I am sitting down with Ieva Martinkenaite, head of Telenor's Research and Innovation department to shed light on the interplay of accountability, ethics and AI technology. Through her rol...

«How well are we rigged in Norway to handle this?» What a fantastic talk -  With so much happening in Norway in autumn 2023, I brought on Alex Moltzau for a chat in AI policy and Norway. Alex Moltzau is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Consortium (Nora.ai), and one of the most outspoken experts on AI policy and ethics in Norway. Throughout the last years, there has...

«I think that having a very good framework, where you can put all ML and AI in, makes it much easier, much more clear. (Jeg tror det å ha et veldig bra rammeverk, der du kan putte all ML og AI inn i, det gjør at du får det mye lettere, mye mer oversiktlig.)» Frende Forsikring, a Norwegian Insurance Company has build up a team of 6 people that work with Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intellig...

«There should be very little reason to say: Hey, I need a human to look these operational things for me. They are all defined as code.» Lars Albertsson has a long career in Data and Software Engineering, including Google and Spotify. Lars is on a mission to spread the superpowers of working with data, with the vision to: «Enable companies outside of the absolute technical elite to work with data w...

«How do you develop good procedures around testing or how do you drive experimentation in a product or business setting?» Carl Johan Rising works as Director of Data at Too Good To Go, a marketplace that enables food businesses to sell their surplus food instead of throwing it in the bin. We talked about how to form a product team, and how to rethink the role of Data Scientists in your team, shape...

«We (DAMA) have a role to play, (…) develop the Data Management profession ultimately for the benefit of the society.» It is good to be back with Season 3 of MetaDAMA, and as always, we start with a DAMA-focused episode. Nino Letteriello is one of Europes most influential data leaders, president of DAMA Italy and Coordinator for the DAMA EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa). Nino started his...

«Sometimes, you look at the problem and think it’s valuable, you spend a lot of time on it, and then you find out that this is really a NO!» Ida Haugland and I talked about the importance of Data in Shipping, about a concrete examples for success through digitalization and mainly about the focus on Product Management. Ida works as Principle Product Manager at Omny. At the time of recording Ida was...

«How can we consolidate data and describe it in a standardized way?» Scientific Data management has some unique challenges, but also provides multiple learnings for other sectors. We focused on Data Storage and Operations as a knowledge area in DMBok. A topic that is often viewed as basic, often not in focus, but is a fundamental part of data operations. I talked to Nicolai Jørgensen at NMBU - Nor...

"It's about taking a step back to ask yourself: Should we even have a data-driven system for this?" («Det handler om å ta et steg tilbake for å spørre seg: Skal vi i det hele tatt ha et data-drevent system på dette her?») We finish season 2 with a though-provoking episode, to maybe start som debate about data-driven public administration. Lisa Reutter is PostDoc at the University of...

«When technology evolves really fast, also the skills you need to hire for evolve really fast.» Within a rapidly changing environment, fueled by technology and great ideas, it can be hard to define a stable career path. So I brought in an expert on developing companies and building legacies. Pedram Birounvand has a background in quantum physics, data engineering, experience from Spotify and moved...

«Infants with guns!» Are we mature enough to track, collect and handle data responsibly, according to ethical standards? I talked with Director of Data Innovation at IIH Nordic Steen Rasmussen about the Business impact of Data Ethics. Here are my key take aways: If were track, collect, and keep all data for any random opportunistic purpose, we put your companies at risk. This includes a «commercia...

«There is a fundamental conflict between the essence of fashion and Machine Learning.»  Fashion is always about change, innovation and identity. Whilst ML is good at making predictions based on historical patterns on those things, not change. How do those go together? I had a fantastic chat with Celine Xu, who is Head Data Scientist at H&M Group, with a mixed background from Applied Mathematic...

«MLOps is a set of practices that bring people, process and platform together into a stream-aligned process to manage End-2-End Machine Learning lifecycles.» MLOps is taken about a lot, so I asked an expert what we are actually talking about. Xiaopeng Li is AI business lead at Microsoft for the Western European market, located in Oslo. Xiaopeng is a passionate influencer in the field of Data and A...

«The real value in changing the status quo and getting more women to the forefront, is by having women share about the important work that they do, and not just talk about their gender as a topic.» This episode was recorded right before Christmas, when I had the pleasure to chat with Alexandra Gunderson and Sheri Shamlou. Alexandra inspired by a Women in Data dinner in New York, took it upon her t...