Talk Data To Me (The Castlebridge Podcast‪)‬ Castlebridge

In this episode, Daragh is joined by mentor and Emeritus Advisor to Castlebridge (and all round nice guy to chat with), John Ladley.

In this episode, we discuss the much heralded death of Data Governance and find that, much like an elderly Jedi knight, if you strike Data Governance down, it might just become more important than you can possibly imagine.

(Muppet-ised episode art courtesy of an AI image generator)

To kick off our rebooted Talk Data to Me podcast, Daragh chats with Tony Ellis from Buckinghamshire Council in the UK about their journey as an early adopter of Microsoft CoPilot.

A key theme in the discussion is the importance of fundamental data management disciplines, data nous and acumen in your teams, and figuring out the use cases for these novel technologies.

Ultimately - the more things change, the more things stay the same - it's about the people and the process to ensure that data delivers!

It's been a while but the pace of work slowed enough in June for us to record a new episode of the Talk Data To Me Podcast.

In this episode Daragh, Carey, and Blessing discuss a range of topics from:


Things we learned at conferences in May and early June
Interesting challenges ahead arising from Regulatory decisions
Coming attractions in the Data Protection and Data Governance tools market
The coming convergence of disciplines - and the need to breakdown silos.

Supporting resources for this podcast can be found at https://castlebridge.ie/podcast - just look for this episode!

Back after an extended summer hiatus during which NOTHING happened in the world of #Data, #DataProtection, #Brexit, or #DataGovernance, Daragh is joined by Carey Lening, Eoin Cannon, and Katherine O'Keefe to talk about a range of topics.

Things we touch on in this episode:


The WhatsApp DPC fine decision (and the pros and cons of where we now find ourselves)
The UK's bizarre approach to making and breaking deals on things that are central to a chunk of their economy.
The difference between digital literacy, data literacy, and knowing how to get stuff done with data.

Check out our other podcast episodes at https://castlebridge.ie/podcasts

In this episode, Daragh, Peter and Katherine take the news of ransomware attacks and discuss the importance of a data strategy and data literacy for organisations of all sizes.

Topics addressed include data strategy, data literacy, and the value of data to organisations (and to criminals).

Useful Resources
Here's some links to blog posts and other resources relevant to the topics covered in this month's podcast:


The Infonomics of Ransomware (blog post)
Management Literacy is Data Literacy (blog post)
Data Driven Business - Get your foundations right (blog post)

The resource page for the podcast is here and will be updated with relevant content as we publish it!

In this episode of the Talk Data To Me Podcast, the Castlebridge team talk about the social project that is VACCINE CERTIFICATES.

We discuss the practical, ethical, legal, and fundamental data management issues that these proposed initiatives can raise. Key questions like:

1) Do we need a Database of all the Pricks?
2) What are the conditions for terminating the Tagging of the Jabbed?
3) What safeguards will be rolled out to prevent these technologies being used to discriminate against left handed ginger people?

And we only mention "BlockChain" ONCE!!

Joshua Hoshva has a supporting blog post here: castlebridge.ie/2021/04/16/whats-…accine-passports/