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Decoding the EU AI Act with White & Case and D3M Labs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2696\ufe0f With White & Case LLP and D3M Labs, I had the opportunity to dive deep into the legal and economic implications of the EU AI Act \ud83e\udd16\ud83d\udcbc \u2013 and reflect on how companies can develop risk-aware, innovative AI systems while meeting regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m thrilled to have my own copy of the EU AI Act Handbook!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog is a summary of my reflections: The AI Inflection Point: Generative AI and the New Era of Regulation and Resilience – The Data-Driven Decision Making Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CDAO Germany Conference in Munich<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83c\udfa4 Highlights:
\ud83d\udcac Expert Ask-Me-Anything on data strategy & cyber-resilience in regulated industries, public, big corporate and scaleups.
\ud83d\udcc8 Presentation: Profitable AI \u2013 how to make AI investments actually drive business growth.
\ud83d\ude4f Thanks to everyone who joined the conversation. Let\u2019s keep pushing boundaries and building smarter, safer, and more profitable futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Aspen Institute, German American Trade and Tech Conference, Panel Sky High Stakes: The Future of Aerospace and Transport <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Press participated on a panel at the Aspen Institute’s signature conference in Berlin in June, 2025, discussing the technologies that will share the future of aerospace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the blog: The Resiliency Imperative: Redefining Digitalization in a Post-Velocity World – The Data-Driven Decision Making Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elizabeth Press from D3M Labs, Profitable AI MOOC at OpenHPI, the Hasso Plattner Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Profitable AI | openHPI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This free online course is supported by the AI Service Center Berlin Brandenburg and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elizabeth Press from D3M Labs, ROI on Digital<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83c\udfa5 The full video of my talk about Profitable AI at AI Services @ HPI<\/a> | Hasso Plattner Institute<\/a> is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc49Here‘ the link to the full video:
https:\/\/lnkd.in\/e76PKxPA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shared insights on monetizing AI and advancing Germany’s market dynamism in a digital world, drawing from my 10 years in Berlin’s Tech Scene as a data practitioner and director, and 20 years of digitalization experience in Frankfurt, Sweden, Dubai and the USA. Despite the AI hype, German companies struggle to operationalize AI for profitable growth. The focus of the talk: AI profitability, business cases, and productization \u2013 often overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is the Future of AI Development & Deployment?<\/a> At Spiced Academy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udd2e Generative AI is going to change the world\u2026.\ud83d\udd2euntil you take some practicalities into account. We had a great time talking about the \u201eFuture of the Development and Deployment of AI,\u201c organized by D3M Labs and hosted by SPICED Academy with Elizabeth Press, M. Murat Ardag, Ph.D. and Samantha Edds. M. Murat Ardag, Ph.D, a Data Scientist and Political Psychologist, presented his study utilizing the Stack Overflow 2023 Annual Developer Survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the pursuit of supercharged growth, Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) emerge as the ultimate game-changer. \ud83c\udf1f However, the path to success in this race often encounters bumps when it comes to collaboration between marketing and data teams. \ud83d\udee4\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join Matt Lewis<\/a> from RudderStack<\/a> and Elizabeth Press<\/a> from D3M Labs<\/a>, together with Monika Vo<\/a>, Head of Marketing, and Matt Mitchell<\/a>, Data & Analytics Leader, to discuss how data and marketing can come together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the full conversation: https:\/\/youtu.be\/W89ybojxyXA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a Head of Data? Mafalda Johannsen<\/a> from Wonderway<\/a> talked with Elizabeth Press<\/a> from D3M Labs<\/a>, Vladimir Lagutinskiy<\/a> and Igor Mazor<\/a> about their daily work lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the Link to the full conversation: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hxd0b85OP7M<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why have businesses been losing so much money on data? Lack of human-centricity, lack of business sense on many levels are two main root causes. Sam Knowles<\/a> from Data Malarkey talked with Elizabeth Press<\/a> from D3M Labs<\/a> about what we can do better to realize the potential of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to the interview on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cData Malarkey – the podcast about using data smarter\u201d. Every fortnight on Apple (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3YIh7I7<\/a>), Spotify (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3JafOfg<\/a>), and Google podcasts (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3JafXzk<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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„Am I adding value? Am I relevant, or is data a silo unto itself?“ Are THE key questions the data industry should be asking.

David Bloxham<\/a>, CEO of GCS Recruitment Specialists<\/a> and Elizabeth Press<\/a> from D3M Labs<\/a> chatted about getting more value out of data, growing D3M Labs as a data blog and a data community, as well as other key topics in data. Thanks Betty Lu<\/a> for making this happen.

Some topics covered:
– Improving financial ROI on data: Both the benefit and cost side of the equation.
– What running a data blog looks like behind the scenes.
– Data privacy and information security as part of a maturing data industry.
– Social impact of over-hiring, especially for newcomers to the Berlin Tech ecosystem.
– Vendor management culture should become more long-term and strategic, away from short-sighted purchasing of the favorite tool of the moment.
– Will ChatGPT bring about a revolution on the scale of the Gutenberg printing press? ( Thanks David Bloxham<\/a> and Betty Lu<\/a> for the historical analogy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the FULL episode:
\ud83d\udcfa Youtube – https:\/\/lnkd.in\/ewhv8z6M<\/a>
\ud83c\udfa7 Podcast – https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eNzQ9mSk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Izza Zulkifli<\/a> from THRYVE<\/a> talked with me about my career and data blogging for the latest episode of TechXpert TV.
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Check out the YouTube video here – https:\/\/youtu.be\/kZciihb9Hzs<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Some main points:
– D3M Labs<\/a> is a community about getting value out of data. Getting a higher ROI out of data will create opportunities and financial stability for data professionals, as well as for companies.
– There are not a lot of female data bloggers out there. One reason for the dearth of women blogging about data is that even if women live in a free society that promotes gender equality, women might not want to be perceived as aggressive and pushy by being outspoken on social media. Too bad, because there are lots of women with great ideas about data.
– How you use technology, speed of innovation are two key elements of competitive uses of technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data Mesh \u2013 How to prevent it from turning into a money draining mess \u2013 A podcast<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

 Elizabeth Press<\/a>  Februar 16, 2023  Leave a Commenton Data Mesh \u2013 How to prevent it from turning into a money draining mess \u2013 A podcast<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elizabeth Press<\/a>, D3M Labs <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vincenzo Porpiglia<\/a>, P + L Data Recruitment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can listen to the podcast on Spotify here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live event<\/a> with Elizabeth Press and Peter Schroeter from Harnham <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are Data leaders not talking enough about how to use data to generate a strategic advantage, profits, cashflows and a higher valuation that links concretely to data?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data is a top point in almost every C-Suite agenda, however, most companies are far from being fully data-driven. Lots of investments are being made in cloud technology or analytical headcount however, not enough focus is being put on actual value added to the business, long-term data quality, governance and integrated solutions end-to-end \u2013 how are organizations dealing with this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join Harnham\u2019s Peter Schroeter and D3M Lab\u2019s Elizabeth Press, for a LinkedIn LIVE focused on the connection between data and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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D3M Labs‘ first LinkedIn Live event.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you build your company’s first data team? Joing us on Dec 1st, 2pm CET, 8am EST to hear what an economist and a computer scientiest have to say. From first hire to how much it costs, <\/a>Elizabeth Press<\/a> from <\/a>D3M Labs<\/a> and <\/a>Irina Ioana Brudaru<\/a> will present learnings from their own experiences, as well as greenfield veterans who walked the walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rework Enterprise AI Summit in Berlin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a decade of hype, why is operationalizing AI on an industrial scale and bringing AI-innovation to market so hard? It’s time to move beyond artisanal AI and treat AI like the product it is. Listen to my podcast with RE\u2022WORK<\/a> on Women in AI. „Beyond the algorithm: The realities of operationalising AI.“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Here are the links:
https:\/\/lnkd.in\/ezt_iJuB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hosted a panel discussion on „What is the future of AI Adoption?<\/a>“ together with Balavivek Sivanantham<\/a>, Technical Lead\/Machine Learning Engineer at Bayer<\/a> and Asma Zgolli<\/a>, Machine Learning Engineer at Centa AG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ZUMA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data strategy creates the most value when it is part of the corporate strategy. How can a data team work in partnership with stakeholders to build a data roadmap that brings development to the data professionals and commercial success to the company?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks Matt Brady<\/a> from ZUMA<\/a> for inviting me on Data for Good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are links to the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spotify
https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eUrty2QC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data for Good Youtube Channel
https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eA5bA4CD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analytics Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DataOps w\/ Elizabeth Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That „quick question“ over Slack? Yeah, that’s probably not the highest value your analytics team can deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this episode I talk with Elizabeth Press (Head of Business Intelligence at Gymondo) about using DataOps to make analytics work more efficient, reliable and valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key takeaways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. With DataOps, we want to move away from „quick questions“ over Slack and piles of ad-hoc requests or self-inflicted „emergencies“. It all starts with gaining an overview of our tasks and projects (for example with a Kanban board) and establishing healthy communication patterns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. We can use product thinking or design thinking to understand customer needs and context. The task of the data or analytics team is then to design good solutions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. It’s important to measure the quality of our work as data or analytics team. How much value are we delivering, how much are we held back by fixing broken systems?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Analysts are the face of the data organization. Their strength is in understanding the data, the customer needs and context, and then telling effective stories to drive better decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Production & above summary from Valentin Umbach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    36. TDWI Roundtable Berlin – 12.05.2022, 19:00<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    In den Schlagzeilen mag es hei\u00dfen, dass Daten das neue \u00d6l sind, aber in Wahrheit sind Adhocracy und dienstlichkeit gro\u00dfe Hindernisse f\u00fcr die Implementierung einer Data Strategy. Beim TDWI-Roundtable habe ich einen Impuls aus meiner Erfahrung in Startups weitergegeben.

    Headlines might say that data is the new oil, but adhocracy adhocracy and servitude often obsticales to implementing a data strategy. I shared an impulse from my experience in various startups at the TDWI roundtable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    AI Guild \/ DataLift<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    DataLift #6 Attribution Modelling at Lingoda<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Use case in production: \u201dRevenue and Cost Attribution Modelling and Spark Automation“ Presented by Elizabeth Press, Head of Business Intelligence, Lingoda GmbH Moderated by David Jenkins, Principal AI Consultant, eXXcellent solutions Lingoda\u2019s BI team designed and implemented an end-to-end marketing analytics solution that includes multi-touch marketing attribution models with diverse weighting schemes running as Spark ETLs designed around the AWS EMR managed service, a company-wide taxonomy, as well as a data quality and model stability monitoring system to enable automated granular insights and reporting according to both channel and geographical dimensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Co-author of \u201c24 Digital Innovations in Digital Communications<\/a>\u201d, chapter \u201cThe Rise of AI,\u201d planned publishing date Summer 2019, Radboud University, BISPublishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Co-author of  \u201c<\/a>FinTech:Accounts <\/a>of Disruption from Sweden and Beyond,\u201d<\/a> chapter \u201eVenture capital\u2019s role in the success of the Swedish FinTech industry,\u201d<\/a> a project of the Stockholm School of Economics and The Internet Foundation in Sweden, Published March, 2018, Routledge. Named by BookAuthority as one of the Top 60 Best FinTech Books of All Time.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    D3M Labs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    GLG<\/strong>, Data strategy, Industry 4.0 market overview and strategy, and BI & AI use case coaching for Fortune 500 executives and investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    European Venture Markets<\/strong>, Syndication partner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Questions to ask when considering the impact of smart manufacturing on your company <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Communications Director, Quadriga Media,<\/strong> syndication partner, I was on the Jury at the 2019 Digital Communications Awards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Monetising your customer insight<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Partners with whom D3M Labs co-ran workshops for starts, small businesses and intrapreneurs, as well as syndicated thought leadership. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Dataconomy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Data-as-a-Service lessons from the company that was right about Trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Creating your Data-as-a-Service customer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Turning Big Data disillusionment into opportunity with Data-as-a-Service products<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Betahaus <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Meet Elizabeth Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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