Everyone's talking about data and AI, but analytics is the way you can repeat and operationalise the resulting insights and embed them in your business. How is analytics changing when anyone can "vibe code" a dashboard? How can we separate fact from fiction in how AI can benefit analytics? Join us for an hour of straight-talking expert conversation and actionable guidance on why analytics isn't going anywhere (but it is transforming), what AI genuinely changes, and why the fundamentals of good data governance are the key to unlocking sustainable benefit from your investment in AI and analytics. 

Sponsored by: Accton

Glen Armashula: Accton: Head of Growth

Glen helps organisations build trusted, scalable analytics ecosystems that support confident decision-making in the age of AI. With more than 30 years of experience spanning IT, business development, and strategic management, he has guided organisations in transforming increasingly complex data environments into reliable business insight.

A serial entrepreneur and founder of five companies, Glen has led initiatives in data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytics governance across multiple industries. Today, as AI makes it possible for anyone to “vibe code” a dashboard, his focus has sharpened: analytics still depends on people agreeing what business terms and metrics actually mean, and which definitions become the organisational standard. AI can accelerate analytics, but those decisions still belong to people, not models.

At Accton, Glen and his team developed Insight Hub, a multi-platform analytics portal that brings together reports, dashboards, metrics, and business terminology into a unified environment. The platform helps organisations reduce analytics fragmentation, establish consistent definitions across BI tools, and create the governance foundation that enables both people and AI to work from the same trusted understanding of business data

 Ben Clinch: DAMA UK Committee Member

Ben is, at heart, a curious problem-solver who happens to have spent 26 years immersed in data management, knowledge graphs and business and data architecture. He has worked across some of the largest multi-national organisations, but what really drives him is the people side of it all, helping teams make sense of their data and showing them how to put good data management into practice at scale.

He is a voracious learner, forever hoovering up books and research papers and seeking out specialists across all sorts of fields, always with the same goal in mind, to learn something, apply it, and pass it on so that others can succeed. That same enthusiasm shows up when he speaks, where he has a knack for turning complex ideas into something genuinely relatable. As a committee member and advocate for DAMA UK, Ben is a firm believer in raising the bar for data governance and bringing as many people along with him as he can.

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