Gillian Docherty

thumb|Gillian_Docherty_at_UK_Data_Service_Data_Impact_2016 Gillian Docherty is a British computer scientist. She is Chief Commercial Officer at the University of Strathclyde and President of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. From 2015 to 2022 she was the CEO of The Data Lab, the Scottish innovation centre for data science and artificial intelligence. Quotes time, money and lives” had been saved and would “continue to inform our decisions as we tackle some of the most challenging issues of our day ensuring a fair recovery from the pandemic and a just transition towards achieving our net-zero ambitions AI is a huge opportunity for Scotland and for our businesses Organisations across all sectors – hospitality, engineering, financial services, tourism, healthcare – will all be users and adopters of technology. they can improve productivity because they have more automated decision-making. Ultimately, we’re trying to make sure that we drive the economic successes that technology can bring. From a societal perspective this will create opportunities and jobs There will be a huge amount of upskilling and reskilling – it’s about providing opportunities to learn and grow and develop in those new skills. It’s really important for us as a nation, for our citizens, for our children, that we get this right. Gillian Docherty explains on the impacts of AI Predominantly at the start, there were a lot of organizations that were progressive in their thinking. Scotland has a very significant financial services sector and fintech sector, and those organizations understood that they needed to use data. And I think the public awareness of the impact of data has increased significantly across those seven years. We’ve seen throughout that time the expansive use from the tech giants, their use of data in the solutions that they build. And the impact of that has become much more prevalent in society. speaking about the challenges of AI External links Category:Living people Category:Businesswomen from England