The oak-panelled setting of historic Toynbee Hall provided the venue for the 2024 Datactics Summit, which this year carried a theme of ‘Data-Driven Return on Investment.’

Attendees gathered for guest speaker slots covering:

• Danske Bank UK’s Lyndsay Shields presenting a ‘Data Management Playbook’ covering the experiences of beginning with a regulatory-driven change for FSCS compliance, through to broader internal evangelisation on the benefits of better data;

• Datactics’ own data engineer, Eugene Coakley, in a lively discussion on the data driving sport, drawing from his past career as a professional athlete and Olympic rower with Team Ireland;

• and Renfrewshire HSCP’s Bobby McClung explaining how automation and the saving of person-hours or even days in data remediation was having a material impact on the level of care the organsation is now able to deliver to citizens making use of its critical services.

The Datactics Customer Awards in full

In recent months, the team at Datactics has worked to identify notable achievements in data in the past year. Matt Flenley, Head of Marketing at Datactics, presented each with a specific citation, quoted below.

Data Culture Champion of the Year – Lyndsay Shields, Danske Bank UK

“We’re delighted to be presenting Lyndsay with this award. As one of our longest-standing customers, Lyndsay has worked tirelessly to embed a positive data culture at Danske Bank UK. Her work in driving the data team has helped inform and guide data policy at group level, bringing up the standard of data management across Danske Bank.

“Today’s launch of the Playbook serves to showcase the work Lyndsay and her team have put into driving the culture at Danske Bank UK, and the wider culture across Danske Bank.”

Data-Driven Social Impact Award – Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership

“Through targeted use of automation, Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership has been able to make a material difference to the operational costs of local government care provision.

“Joe Deary’s early vision and enthusiasm for the programme, and the drive of the team under and alongside Bobby, has effectively connected data automation to societally-beneficial outcomes.”

Data Strategy Leader of the Year – RBC Brewin Dolphin

“RBC Brewin Dolphin undertook a holistic data review towards the end of 2023, culminating in a set of proposals to create a rationalised data quality estate. The firm twinned data this strategy with technology innovation including being early adopters of ADQ from Datactics. They overcame some sizeable hurdles, notably supporting Datactics in our early stages of deployment. Their commitment to being an ambitious, creative partner makes them stand out.

“At Datactics we’re delighted to be giving the team this award and would also like to thank them for being exemplars of patience in the way they have worked with us this year in particular.”

Datactics Award for Partner of the Year – Solidatus

“Solidatus and Datactics have been partnered for the last two years but it’s really in 2023-2024 that this partnership took off.

“Ever since we jointly supported Maybank, in Malaysia, in their data quality and data lineage programme, we have worked together on joint bids and supported one another in helping customers choose the ‘best of breed’ option in procuring data management technology. We look forward to our next engagements!”

Datactics Data Champion of the Year – NHSBSA

“For all the efforts Tony, Nick and team have made to spread the word about doing more with data, we’d like to recognize NHS Business Services Authority with our Datactics Data Champion of the Year award.

“As well as their advocacy for our platform, applying it to identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiencies across the NHS, the team has regularly presented their work to other Government departments and acted as a reference client on multiple occasions. Their continued commitment to the centrality of data as a business resource is why they’re our final champions this year, the Datactics Data Champion 2024.”

Gallery of Winners

Toasting success at Potter & Reid

The event closed with its traditional visit to Shoreditch hot spot Potter & Reid. Over hand-picked canapés and sparkling drinks, attendees networked and mingled to share in the award winners’ achievements in demonstrating what data-driven culture and return on investment looks like in practice. Keep an eye out for a taster video from this year’s event!

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Read Chloe’s Q&A from the panel session, ‘Challenges and opportunities facing SMEs in the security and public safety sectors’, below:

What made you want to join the forum?

For starters, techUK is always a pleasure to work with – my colleagues and I at Datactics have several contacts at techUK that we speak with regularly and it’s clear that they care about the work they’re doing. It never feels like a courtesy call – you always come away with valuable actions to follow up on. Having had such positive experiences with techUK before, I felt encouraged to join the Security and Public Safety SME forum. Being a part of the Security and Public Safety SME Forum is exciting- you’re in a room full of like-minded people who want to make a difference. 

What are your main hopes and expectations from the forum?

I’ve previously participated in techUK events where senior stakeholders from government departments have led open and honest conversations about gaps in their knowledge. It’s refreshing to see them hold their hands up and say ‘We need help and we want to hear from SMEs’.

I think it would be great to see more of this in the Security and Public Safety SME forum, with people not being afraid to ask for help and demonstrating a desire to make a change.

What are, in your opinion, the main challenges faced by the SME community in the security and public safety sectors?

One of the challenges we face as SMEs is that we have to be deliberate about the work we do. We might see an opportunity that we know we’re a good fit for, but before we can commit, we need to think about it more than just ‘do we fit the technical criteria?’ We need to think about how it’s going to affect wider aspects of the company – Do we have sufficient staffing? Do they need security clearance? What is the delivery timeline?

If we aren’t being intentional, we risk disrupting our current way of working. We have a loyal and happy customer base and an excellent team of engineers, developers, and PMs to manage and support them, but even if a brilliant data quality deal lands on our desk, if it would take an army to deliver it, we may not be able to commit the same resources that a big consultancy firm can and, ultimately, we may have to pass on it.  

Moreover, our expertise lies specifically in data quality. As a leading DQ vendor, we excel in this area. However, if a project requires both data quality and additional data management services, we may not be the most suitable candidate, despite being the best at delivering the data quality component.

What are your top 3 areas of focus that the forum should address?

Ultimately, I think the goal of this forum should be steered by asking the question ‘How do we make people feel safe’?

A big challenge is always going to be striking the balance between tackling the issues that affect people’s safety, whilst navigating those bigger ‘headline’ stories that can have a lasting effect on the public. For instance, if you google ‘Is the UK a safe place to live?’, largely speaking the answers will say that ‘yes, the UK is a very safe place to live’. However, people’s perceptions don’t always align with that. I remember reading an article last year about how public trust in police has fallen to the lowest levels ever, so I think that would be a good place to start.  

From a member’s perspective though, more selfishly, I’d like to get the following out of the forum – 

• Access to more SME opportunities 

• Greater partnership opportunities 

• More insights into procurement and access to the market 

In your opinion, why is networking and collaboration so important? Have you any success stories to share?

Our biggest success in networking and collaboration is having so many customers willing to endorse us and share our joint achievements.

We focus on understanding our customers, learning how they use our product, and listening to their likes and dislikes. This feedback shapes our roadmap and shows customers how much we value their input. This approach not only creates satisfied customers, but also turns them into advocates for our product. They mention us at conferences, in speeches, and in reference requests, and even help other customers with their data management strategies.

For us, networking is about more than just making new contacts; it’s about helping our customers connect and build relationships. Our customers’ advocacy is incredibly valuable because prospective customers like to hear success stories from them, perhaps more than salespeople.

About Datactics

Datactics specialises in data quality solutions for security and public safety. Using advanced data matching, cleansing, and validation, we help law enforcement and public safety agencies manage and analyse large datasets. This ensures critical information is accurate and accessible, improving response times, reducing errors, and protecting communities from threats.

For more information on how we support security and public safety services, visit our GovTech and Policing page, or reach out to us via our contact us page.

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Big data and AI can help make you make better business decisions, automate processes, and optimise costs. That’s why more than 90% of businesses are increasing investments in big data and AI, and CIOs see it as a top priority.

However, AI implementation into widespread production and achieving data-driven leadership remains low and elusive.

At Big Data & AI World, you have the chance to address these challenges with experts who drive success and solution providers that can supercharge your business.

Meet with Datactics and let’s get together to discuss your needs and explore how our technology can help you achieve more!

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Meet with Datactics at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, ‘the world’s most important gathering of Data and Analytics Leaders‘. The agenda and registration can be found here

Network with experts and peers

At Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, attendees have the opportunity to connect with Gartner experts, industry-leading CDAOs and D&A senior leaders. Exchange ideas and experiences with others in similar roles or from similar organizations.

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Datactics will be exhibiting at ‘the world’s leading Data Management Conference‘ FIMA USA in Boston where data management executives – from the biggest buy and sell-side firms, to retail banks and small asset managers – dedicate two days to connect with their peers for new ideas to improve data quality, innovate with data, and deliver value to the business.

Meet with Kieran Seaward, our Head of Sales, at Booth #8 where you can see a live demo and discuss your Data Quality needs.

About FIMA US

Created By The Data Management Community, For The Data Management Community

Financial Information Management (FIMA), launched in 2005 is the leading data management event for financial services in the US. Born as a reference data management event, FIMA has evolved over the years to cover various types of data sets to help the industry remain in compliance with regulations, while shifting toward offensive data management to deliver value to the business. The FIMA USA agenda is built in a year-round research cycle. The trusted advisory board of CDOs and data leaders from financial institutions guide and vet the programming, ensuring it meets the needs of the industry.

Each of the events hosts more than 450 guests from over 145 companies with three days content and 12+ hours of networking. Each year top data management executives share actionable strategies to help comply with regulations and enable the business to grow revenue.

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Meet Datactics at CYBERUK 2023 at the ICC in Belfast, right across from our own Head Quarters!

CYBERUK 2023 is UK’s flagship cyber security event run by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The theme this year is securing an open and resilient digital future. We face unprecedented growth in digital and technological development. This will bring huge benefits to society, but it also has the potential to threaten the national and economic security interests of the UK and other free and open societies.

The event will look to answer some of the most challenging questions facing the international cyber community today:

• What will cyberspace be like in ten years’ time?
• Will we be able to secure it so it remains free, open and democratic?
• Will we have nurtured and grown the talent needed?
• Will we have innovated and built the technologies that underpin our values?
• Will we have predicted and mitigated the risks and vulnerabilities?
• Will we be resilient to the threats?

And what will our counterparts in the future say to us if we don’t act now?

CYBERUK will examine how today’s cyber ecosystem – a sector worth £10 billion to the UK economy – can strengthen, join together and innovate to resist the threats, be ready for the opportunities and keep the UK the safest place to live and work online.

CYBERUK has a reputation for its energy, world-class content, engaging speakers and opportunities to connect.

While applications are closed, you can still join the discussion and watch key sessions on CYBERUK ONLINE, the event’s dedicated YouTube channel.

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Innovate Finance Global Summit returns for its 9th year to the historic Guildhall in the City of London, and will welcome the brightest and best from the financial services and fintech ecosystem to discuss and debate the crucial issues facing the sector now and in years to come. 

The UK continues to be a leader in financial innovation. Its place at the centre of global financial services, with supportive regulation, access to world-class talent, and a rich investment landscape has made it a hotbed of startups and established fintechs. These new and exciting businesses are working to change and evolve the sector for the benefit of consumers and businesses alike.

IFGS 2023, the flagship event of UK FinTech Week, will convene industry leaders ranging from innovators, institutions, regulators to policy-makers, startups and investors to one place for two-days of thought-provoking discussion. The agenda will shine a spotlight on the global fintech ecosystem, with an increased focus on the key areas that are enhancing, empowering and ensuring that fintech and financial services pave the way for economic growth, sustainability, and a financial system that caters for all.

More info on agenda and how to register can be found here. Datactics will be in on the ground so feel free to reach out to Jamie Gordon for a chat!

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Datactics is taking part in the Belfast Winter Series of Business Fives Football Tournament to raise funds for a local charity!

The corporate charity five-a-side football events at Stormont Pavilion offer the opportunity to boost our company culture and develop new and existing relationships whilst supporting charity and you can find out more here.

Datactics will be raising money for the chosen charity: Storehouse Belfast

Storehouse freely provides food, clothing, furniture and basic household goods, to families and individuals throughout Belfast, who are experiencing extreme financial difficulty.

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Unlocking data value for business and compliance insight

Data Management Summit (DMS) London is now in its 13^th year and takes place in person on 30^th March at America Square Conference Centre in London, to explore how data strategy is evolving to drive business outcomes and speed to market in changing times.

As financial institutions strive to meet digital transformation goals and drive closer alignment with the business, keeping up with the latest data management innovations and adoption of cloud, AI and ML technologies that require new approaches and capabilities, is critical for driving innovation and a competitive edge.

Join the leading financial data management conference for sell side and buy side executives in capital markets, to hear from data practitioners and innovators who will share insights into how they are pushing the boundaries with data to deliver value with flexible but resilient data driven strategies.

Topics will include:

• How to achieve successful data transformation for long term business value
• How to capitalise on data migration to the cloud
• How to enable data democratisation with trusted data products (featuring Datactics’ Head of Product, Luca Rovesti)
• Managing UK-EU regulatory divergence and meeting requirements across multiple regulatory regimes – the data management response
• The power of automation – how to  leverage automation and ML to progress your data analytics capability and get value from unstructured data
• Implementing data fabric for business value creation
• How to set up a robust ESG data framework for compliance and business insight

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Hello and thank you for inviting us to take part in this session today. I am here representing Datactics, a Belfast-based software and services company specialising in AI-enabled data quality solutions.

Our platform is measuring and improving data quality in major global financial firms including ING in the Netherlands; and Neuberger Berman in New York, as well as to automatically classify and standardise crime reporting throughout the UK’s police forces in a major nationwide data quality improvement programme.

As a firm in software, we know our coffee! And I know that Belgium does too. For instance, I read in my preparation that the Port of Antwerp is the world’s largest coffee handler, typically stocking enough coffee beans at any one time to make at least six cups for every human being on the planet. Or to keep Dave and our DevOps team going for about six months.

You might be like me, the kind of person who needs those six cups to really get the day going! In the UK, the coffee brand Costa ran a campaign recently to show the amazing things people had planned for later in their day… such as this guy, who was getting ready to show off his truly amazing new trousers… but first, they’d need a coffee. And that coffee would be Costa.

For us, it’s the same thing with smart cities and data. There are so many exciting initiatives in the Smart Cities ecosystem which are the equivalent of those fantastic gold trousers, but unless they’re built on good data, it’ll be like trying to start your day without a coffee. Definitely do your exciting initiatives, but first, Datactics.

This mission has been named “Data at the Heart of Smart Cities”, and this is why I’m delighted to have been invited to take part today.

The big dreams of smart cities need big data to be delivered. And performing analytics on that data requires a huge amount of standardisation and cleaning, a task often left to data scientists.

That’s why at Datactics we like to say – don’t build your smart city on dumb data!

Take for example the recent announcement of the Climate Neutrality project, an exciting venture for the four cities in Belgium selected by the European Commission. The ability to measure the reduction of CO2, mitigating factors and innovations applied to achieve climate neutrality will ultimately come down to a lot of data – across buildings, energy, transport, waste management and investment plans.

The Smart City organisers will have to be able to measure that the data is valid, complete, timely, unique or not duplicated, consistent and accurate. These are standard definitions of data quality that the Datactics platform is pre-configured to measure and report.

Our software connects, typically via API or JSON file, to a wide array of old data silos and systems as well as more modern platforms. We profile, cleanse, standardise and de-duplicate data, and measure it to those industry dimensions I mentioned before.

It’s all performed in a no-code environment, aimed to support non-coders, at data scientists rather than at coders, and integrates with dashboarding systems like Microsoft’s PowerBI to help business users understand where data is failing, how to fix it, and then connecting into our remediation clinic to fix the broken data elements.

Then through embedding AI in our platform, we can suggest rules that might apply to data elements based on what’s in the data itself.

The platform can handle data in any context, as long as it’s structured or semi-structured.

Typically, we’re installed within a client’s private cloud, rather than being offered as software-as-a-service. This is usually down to the type of data being collected and used and aiding compliance with data protection regulations.

In this instance, we would work with the municipal authorities to sit across the data stores and sources and provide a consistent, standardised view of all data enabling analytics, data preparation for AI and ML, for a wide range of smart cities use cases.

We’re already working in the UK public sector on crime reporting and in supply chain procurement for the National Health Service.

We’d welcome the opportunity to explore your smart city initiatives, and see how we can become your indispensable partner for your data quality and smart cities ambitions.

But first, Datactics.

Thank you.

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Big Data & AI World returns 2 – 3 March 2022, bringing together data and AI innovators, technologists, and business leaders, to help make data-driven decisions and intelligently shape their business.

At Big Data & AI World you’ll be surrounded by opportunities to get expert advice on how to unlock the full potential of data and AI. Our speakers and exhibitors will be there to inspire you with the newest services and solutions to help you capitalise on your data assets.

We are looking forward to attending this event to hear from top Data professionals.

Register here.

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Exclusively designed for the cutting-edge data & analytics leader, focused on aligning data strategy with digital transformation, leveraging data analytics to increase business value and spearheading a data-driven culture that utilises data as an engine for growth.

• Network face-to-face safely and securely, and share knowledge with forward-thinking leaders from some of the most recognisable brands in the world.
• Hear how your peers are accelerating business transformation towards a data-driven culture.
• Refine your strategy to employ cutting-edge technologies such as AI and ML to provide increased business value.

Run in accordance with official government and local authority guidance, as well as venue and location-specific regulations. Registrants will be asked to acknowledge and accept adherence to our COVID-19 policy as well as upon arrival onsite.

We are looking forward to exhibiting at this event, please come and visit our stand.

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Security & Policing, the official Government global security event, returns as a live event for its 40th anniversary between 15‐17 March 2022 at the Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Hosted by the Home Office’s Joint Security & Resilience Centre (JSaRC), the 2022 event promises to be our most content-rich and feature-packed show yet. Focussed on providing innovative and integrated ways to deliver security solutions across government, industry, and academia, Security & Policing will once again offer a world‐class opportunity to meet, network, and discuss the latest advances in delivering national security and resilience with UK suppliers, UK Government officials and senior decision-makers across law enforcement and security from the UK and overseas.

We have been present at The Official UK Government Global Security Event for the last two years and we are planning on being there this year too!

We are looking forward to sharing our data quality tooling designed with people, entity, and asset data automation in mind.

It will also be brilliant to be back in-person to catch up with everyone in this space.

You can register for the event here.

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We are delighted to be involved with AI Con this year again. This year, Courtney Lewis, Presales Engineer, and Daniel Browne, Machine Learning Engineer will be discussing Machine Learning Augmentation.

The north’s premier conference on artificial intelligence, AI Con returns to face-to-face business this year with a hybrid event on Friday 3 December.

As the adoption of AI expands into all areas of our lives, and the business and societal opportunities and challenges become ever more apparent, this ground-breaking conference addresses core issues of the technology for a range of audiences: general, business and specialist.

The event, which is now in its third year, brings together world-leading technology professionals and business leaders to examine how AI is changing our world and the opportunities and challenges that presents.

In-person attendance will take place at Titanic Belfast and will feature some of the top figures in the field, with other leading professionals streaming in from across the globe.

The themes from this year’s event, which hosted 450 attendees in its first year and 800 at the virtual event last year, include:

– Applied AI: Targeted primarily at a general audience, Applied AI looks at existing, mature technology that can be deployed today and examines case studies on where these are adding value and inspiration for people and their organisations to start their own AI investigations.

Chaired by Kathryn Harkin of Allstate NI, Rachael Bland of Kainos, and Sam Beni of Tech Nation

– Business of AI: Designed for a business audience, Business of AI looks at how AI can challenge existing business models, create entirely new ones and debates what “AI Startups” need to know in this burgeoning space.

Chaired by Alexandra Mousavizadeh of Tortoise Media and Tom Gray of Kainos.

Attendees are asked to note that strict Covid precautions will be in operation at the in-person event which will be limited to 200 people. Attendees must be double vaccinated and proof of vaccination will be required for entry.

The full programme is available online here.

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We are looking forward to being in-person at Fintech Talents with Invest Northern Ireland.

Please join us at the Brewery (Moorgate/Shoreditch) on 15th/16th November and find out why Northern Ireland is a uniquely exciting place for #FinTech and let us tell you what our self-service platform offering can do for you.

We are delighted to be attending alongside The Robot Exchange, RegTick, Vox Financial Partners, and Vertical Structure as well as FintechNI. We would love to meet you at some point over the two day festival and talk all things innovation! We would also love to articulate how we have helped other clients in their digital transformation journey.  

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The role of data remains ever important. Each one of us – as producers, stewards and/or consumers of data – has a responsibility to instill best data management practices and ensure that data is useful, truthful and accessible. 

Join us for our annual DataVision 2021 series. This event series is online and timed for our members and non-members alike to attend from major global regions.  

Register for the DataVision 2021 Conference:

Open to all – both Members and Non-Members

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