26 Oct 2022
24 mins

The Gym Group’s Head of Data & AI on the art of building a high-performance data team.

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Ascent’s Chief Data Scientist Rich Pugh & Premal Desai, Head of Data & AI at The Gym Group, discuss the art and science of building a high-performance, empowered, inspired data team.

Premal Desai, The Gym Group’s Head of Data & AI on the art of building a high-performance data team.

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2022-10-25T22:00:00Z

The Gym Group’s Head of Data & AI on the art of building a high-performance data team.

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Data & AI

24 mins

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Ascent’s Chief Data Scientist Rich Pugh & Premal Desai, Head of Data & AI at The Gym Group, got together to discuss the art and science of building a high-performance, empowered, inspired data team.

The Gym Group was founded in 2008 and now has more than 200 gyms across the UK. Since re-opening post-COVID, our ambition has accelerated, and we’re completely focussed on the customer’s holistic health and fitness.

What you’ll take away.

  • How to define the most important data-led technology decisions

  • Awareness of how to approach business strategy and the business questions you want the data to answer for you.

  • Understanding where data transformations stops and technology transformation starts

  • The importance of governance

  • Top tips for managing stakeholder engagement and building high-functioning data teams.

Rich Pugh

Chief Data Scientist

Ascent

As Chief Data Scientist at Ascent, Rich is passionate about delivering pragmatic advice to leading organisations on data-driven transformation and building successful data science teams.

With more than 20 years’ experience helping companies create value from data, Rich has worked across a variety of industries, helping businesses around the world increase profit margins, solve operational challenges and delight their customers.

Rich is a strong believer that there is nothing analytics can’t do and strives to help organisations leverage the power of their data.

Rich Pugh

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