Heather Wentworth is the Chief Data Officer of Accelerant, an MGA-enabling insurtech focused on improving how risk is exchanged across the insurance ecosystem. She is passionate about delivering innovative solutions and business models that improve business outcomes and drive revenue growth. She was nominated as one of the top 100 Insurance Innovators of 2022 by Lightico.
Datacast Episode 122: The Evolution of Data Visualization, Scaling Data Culture, and The Future of Data Transformation with Gabi Steele
Gabi Steele is the co-founder and co-CEO of Preql, a no-code data transformation tool that empowers business users to model and manage their own metrics. She is also the co-founder of Data Culture, a data engineering and visualization consultancy. Previously Gabi led data visualization engineering at WeWork and worked on data storytelling at the Washington Post.
Datacast Episode 106: Advancing AI Adoption with Dania Meira
Dânia Meira has been a senior expert and mathematician in the data field since 2012, with a Data Science career in Berlin startups where her work focused on ML for predictive analytics. She is also an experienced teacher and mentor. Dânia is the Director of #datalift and a Founding Member of the AI Guild.
Datacast Episode 96: Data Science Training and The Power of Education with Merav Yuravlivker
Merav Yuravlivker is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Society. With over ten years of experience in instructional design, training, and teaching, she started her career teaching elementary special education in NYC public schools through the Teach for America program. She went on to join the International Baccalaureate Organization, where she developed deep expertise in online training, assessments, and recruitment. She also taught as a Kaplan GRE instructor, where she ranked as one of their top 10% instructors based on student surveys.
Merav found her passion for education and knew that she wanted to make an impact on an even larger scale. She recognized the importance of data literacy and began her data journey by learning how to program and design best practices for students during her free time. Six months later, she left her full-time job to focus on building Data Society along with her co-founders. Over the past seven years, she and her team have developed customized, industry-tailored data science training solutions that educate, equip and empower an organization’s workforce to achieve its goals and expand its impact.
Datacast Episode 74: The Next Generation of Business Intelligence with Cindi Howson
Cindi Howson, the Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot, is an analytics and Business Intelligence expert with more than 20 years of experience and a flair for bridging business needs with technology.
Cindi was previously the Vice President in data and analytics at Gartner, where she was the lead author of the Analytics and BI Magic Quadrant. Additionally, she led the data and analytics maturity model, as well as research initiatives in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search, and augmented analytics.
Prior to this, she was the founder of BI Scorecard, a contributor to Information Week, and the author of several books, including (1) Successful Business Intelligence: Unlock the Value of BI & Big Data and (2) SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0: The Complete Reference. She has an MBA from Rice University and a BA from the University of Maryland.