About

Analytics and AI are automating the technical craft that data professionals built their credibility on: writing queries and pipelines, building dashboards, producing analysis. At the same time, CEOs and CFOs increasingly judge data leaders on commercial outcomes and strategic influence, not delivery output. This session explores what that shift means for anyone leading a data or analytics function over the next two to three years: which parts of the job AI is genuinely taking on, where a data leader’s value is moving, and the skills that turn analytics and AI into decisions the business acts on. Expect a clear, practical view of how to reposition yourself and your team as the layer that drives the business rather than serves it.

Takeaways

• A clear map of which parts of the analytics and AI workflow are being automated, and where your value as a leader moves as that happens.
• How to reframe your team’s work around revenue, cost and risk so it holds up under ROI scrutiny from the CEO and CFO.
• The human skills that decide who leads an AI-heavy data function, and how to build them across the team, not just in yourself.
• A practical way to position your team as the layer that turns analytics and AI into decisions, so you drive the business rather than serve it.