Sara Gardner is Chief Technology Officer for Hitachi Insight Group. She collaborates with engineering, research, strategy and business teams across the Hitachi group of companies to drive both Internet of Things and Big Data technology strategy.
Prior to her current role, Sara was a founding executive of the US IoT business unit and has been with Hitachi for 5 years. Overall she has close to 30 years of experience in the Tech industry working primarily in data management and analytics. Her expertise includes Big Data, IoT, Data Warehousing, Analytics, Storage and Cloud. Prior to HDS she held Product Management, Strategy and Product Marketing leadership positions at Oracle, HP and Ingres.
She holds a Computer Science degree from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom.
Analytics + Data
Railways on Track for Digital Transformation
The internet of things (IoT) is beginning to transform railroads, despite the industry's longstanding conservatism. The amount of data trains generate is measured in “brontobytes” (millions of times more than a petabyte). It's full steam ahead on all fronts for analytics and increased efficiency. It will all make a real–if hard to notice–difference in our economy.
How Vast an Internet of Things?
As the IoT connects more and more, business and industry will reshape products and services to create a more intuitive and efficient world. What are the wildest ideas that may emerge? Where will the benefits appear? Is there anywhere the IoT can’t reach?
Conferences
Techonomy 17
“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted.
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Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
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Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
