18. Data in action with Lisa Palmer from Splunk

Lisa Palmer is the chief technical advisor of Splunk, the popular data platform designed to remove barriers between data and action. Besides working for Splunk, she is a university professor, a podcast host, and an author. She spent years at Microsoft, Gartner, and Teradata, building up her unique perspective on data and technology-related business opportunities. In this episode, Lisa shares her most exciting insights and data stories around tackling real-life problems with data, including wildfires and F1 racing, how privacy-enhancing technologies like homomorphic encryption and synthetic data can be used for social good, why we need truly complete datasets to address biases, the role synthetic data plays in ethical AI and bias mitigation, how to increase diversity, especially in tech and how to think about data opportunities in times of disruption and opportunity. Check out the transcript for this episode and all previous episodes of the Data Democratization Podcast at our website!