Kate Platonova (Past Speaker)

Kate is an advocate of the power and value of data and strives to increase the data centricity of organisations. She has seventeen years of experience in the global financial services industry working in data-related roles spanning application development, data analysis and data architecture.

Most recently, she has rebuilt the data architecture capability globally for HSBC. Focusing on defining and publishing a clear and executable strategy, enforcing a strong governance model to ensure effective and consistent implementation and hiring key personnel to execute. Kate is an ambassador for diversity and believes anyone with an aptitude can master data technologies and a diverse talent pool drives innovation.