Laila Faridoon: Digital Transformation, Data Analytics in Decision Making, Women In Leadership Roles | Big Data Talks #11

Welcome to our next episode of Big Data Talks, in which we have conversations with Industry Experts about the way in which data, machine learning and artificial intelligence are changing the way we live. My name is Jan-Willem Middelburg, and I will be your host today. I am the author of the Enterprise Big Data Framework, which is hosting this series of Big Data Talks. You can always watch back the recording of this discussion on YouTube, the Big Data Framework Website, and the podcasting platform on Apple Podcasts.

I am extremely pleased to be joined today by Ms Laila Faridoon who is a passionate Emirati Speaker, Author and a leading professional advisor in digital & business transformation with more than 19 years of experience with Dubai Government (Executive Director of Chairman Office in RTA for the past 13 years). She is the founder of Looking Forward Consultancy, a professional career mentor and spiritual coach for self and career growth. She has also been chosen in 2019 as an ambassador of a goodwill by the League of Arab Organization.

Laila main objectives in life is to leverage science and technology for the good of humanity and recently has conducted research about the impact of Big Data Analytics on Decision Making in the government. And this will of course be the topic or our conversation today. Welcome, Laila.