VMWare's Stephen Harris on navigating imperfect data

Today’s guest is Stephen Harris, the CDO of VMware. Stephen has more than 20 years in the data, analytics, and professional services fields.

He and Cindi discuss growth, diversity in tech, being a change agent within your organization, bias in AI, data for good, the talent gap, data fluency, and more!

Key Takeaways:

• The importance of understanding the role of data and its potential impact when there is an absence of fact or misinterpretation of data.
• How Stephen and his team at VMware are using data to navigate the current COVID-19 coronavirus crisis -- internally and externally.
• What a flawed facial recognition demo tells us about AI and the risk of bias at scale.

More About Stephen:

Stephen Harris is the CDO and VP Head of Enterprise Data & Analytics of VMware, reporting directly to the company's CFO. His team takes a customer-centric approach to evolving VMware's data and analytic insight capabilities; these capabilities are anchored around four strategic pillars of execution to drive business outcomes.

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