In Episode 15 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Paul Evangelista, Chief Data Officer at United States Military Academy at West Point, where they discuss how the armed forces are using Data & Analytics to drive innovation, which includes;

• The role of Data in the current US Military Academy
• How Data has played a role in the military since the early 1900’s
• The maturity journey of Data and Analytics in the US military
• The trackers used to measure adoption and usage of Data & Systems
• What the success metrics look like in that environment
• The importance of empowering leaders at all levels
• The importance of culture and executive support
• Why becoming 'data-centric' is second on the priority list of the US Army
• How the armed forces innovate
• Examples of how Data was used in the World Wars
• Why the US Government is hiring leaders from the world’s biggest tech players
• How the US military has a culture of innovation of change
• The role of data on the war in Ukraine
• How they calculate ROI in their field
• Why we need to focus on decision literacy not data literacy
• The gap that exists in the D&A industry

In Episode 49 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Karen Jean-Francois, Analytics Manager at Cardlytics, where they discuss how people can craft the career they want in Data & Analytics, her humbling career journey so far and how she overcame imposter syndrome, which includes;

• Moving from the Caribbean to Paris to London
• Her struggles of living away from home & her family
• The transition from performing at the European Championships into the world of Data
• Why she hosts the Women In Data Podcast
• How she was awarded the 20 in Data & Technology 2020
• Why she struggled to find her place & voice
• The importance of role models and networking on her career
• How she joined Cardlytics as the only female in the team
• Why she had a huge case of Imposter Syndrome and how she overcame it
• How she realised it was all in her own mind
• Why it prevented her from being promoted despite knowing she was doing great work
• The importance of opening up about Imposter Syndrome
• Why company culture is so important to deal with Imposter Syndrome
• How to go from diagnosis to action (to start addressing the problem)
• The journey from introvert with imposter syndrome to winning industry awards and podcast host
• The technical V commercial debate
• How she almost quit Data & Analytics to become a pastry chef
• That she realized that she had so far let others decide what my career would look like
• The importance of owning your own career and defining what you want it to be
• Her top questions for crafting your career:

1. Where are you at today?
2. Where would you like to be and why?
3. What's stopping you from getting there?
4. How are you going to overcome these blockers?

In Episode 16 of Season 3, of Driven By Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Benny (Clive) Benford, Chief Data Officer, Formerly of Jaguar LandRover (JLR), where they discuss the journey to realising £500m in commercial value through data and analytics, which includes;

• The journey of building a Data & Analytics function at JLR
• How they unlocked and realised £500m worth of commercial benefit and value
• How to ensure the data team is consistently delivering value
• The importance of having a process of engagement
• How to prioritise the workload and the value the potential return of each project
• How to allocate/attribute value
• The mission statement of creating £1m of value per team member, per year
• Transforming decision-making across an entire enterprise
• Why it’s important for senior data leadership needs to wait for the right career opportunity
• Why the conditions are so important to success
• Why most business users/leaders don’t view data as something that can provide “value”
• Making the business case for large-scale investment
• Why you need to agree on the value before you commit to any project
• The impact of the hype in Data & Analytics
• Why there are so many instances where organisations are tech-first and value-last
• Who’s to blame for a lack of ROI
• Why it’s so important to have a range of skills and not just data/technical skills
• Why over 1/3 of the team didn’t have a technical skillset
• Why everyone underestimates the level of change required to deliver value
• The importance of a communication strategy and how to utilise it well
• How they quantified that if they could deliver all projects, there would be £1.2b of value
• The importance of your people knowing why they’re doing the work
• How they built an apprenticeship programme of 700 people (15-17% of all data apprentices in UK)
• Where the responsibility of the data team ends
• Why it’s better to start without the big infrastructure project
• Why they received funding to invest in people but had the technology budget cut