Speaker profile

Colin Bird brings more than three decades of experience helping organisations turn complex data landscapes into strategic advantage. As a senior leader across data engineering, data strategy and AI, he has guided enterprise transformation programmes in retail, logistics, utilities, rail, gaming and life sciences, leading teams through platform modernisation, legacy decommissioning, large-scale migration and governance at pace. Known for connecting technical ambition with commercial outcomes, Colin has delivered major initiatives across Databricks, Snowflake, Exasol, Talend, Fivetran, DBT and cloud data platforms — reducing cost, improving delivery performance and enabling organisations to unlock greater value from their data and AI capability.