Director of Data Governance and Architecture at the Financial Times

AI has brought us to an interesting point. As we leverage this new technology, we need to balance our ambitions with mitigating potential risk via well-thought-out governance. An incredibly valuable byproduct of the emergence of AI is the increased awareness of the importance of establishing robust and reliable foundational data capabilities. I’m looking forward to helping advance our organizational culture around data, part of which will be to challenge the perception that governance is just about compliance. In fact, it’s core to value generation because it’s intrinsically linked to the data value chain.

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Mark Beckwith is the Director of Data Governance and Architecture at the Financial Times, having joined the business in 2012. Prior to this he was the Head of Database Marketing at Domestic and General and has worked extensively in data and analytics for...