Debbie Botha

Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard

Inaugural member of the Digital Data Design Institute Industry Council at Harvard Business School. Providing guidance and expertise as we move forward cutting-edge research in the space of AI and digital technologies.

Industry Council Member

Ai 101

AI 101 focuses on Data, Analytics and AI coaching to like-minded groups of people to increase business value.  We have given coaching sessions to Boards of Directors, C-Suites, Teachers to date with great practical outcomes.

Co-Founder and CEO, AI 101

Thousand Faces

Founding Board Member

Dalebrook Media

Inspire, Educate and Connect Data, Analytics and AI Leaders in the Middle East

Co-Founder and Managing Director, ME

Women in AI

Fostering a formidable community where there is massive opportunity for the women and men in AI, and the partners, working together.  It will increase the numbers and eminence of women in AI in the educational institutions, and pave the way for successful careers in Governments, Startups, Industry Companies, Vendors and other institutions.

Chief Partnership Officer

Actively involved in the Worldwide Non-Profit Organization Women in AI, with a wonderful team of ladies in the Leadership team representing UAE.

Women in AI Ambassador for UAE

Debbie creates and maintains strong, trusted client relationships at all levels within the client's business. She designs solution recommendations for her clients applying her broad technical skills, industry knowledge and business acumen expertise. These recommendations leverage IBM technologies, architectures, integrated solutions and offerings to solve the client's business challenges and deliver value.

Executive Information Architect, Client Technical Architect, Global Markets, Middle East

Part of the Strategic Client Engagement team, within IBM Analytics Group CTO.

Executive Information Architect, Strategic Client Engagement

As part of the IBM Analytics Group CTO, Strategic Client Engagement, our team works across global geo's to strengthen the AG CTO Office's bond with local clients and IBM teams

Executive Information Architect

Senior Consultant, Global Business Services, Business Analytics & Optimisation

Senior Managing Consultant

Discovery Health

Member of the Technical Steering Committee of Discovery Group, BI Architect of Discovery Health responsible for Maturity, Strategy, Information Architecture, Implementation Methodology and Mentoring the Delivery of a New Data Warehouse and BI Reports and Dashboards.

BI Architect

T-Systems

Senior Business Analyst and Architect at Eskom BICC

Senior Consultant

Business Intelligence Solution Architecture, Data Modeling, ETL design and development, Financial Intelligence, Activity Based Management, Strategic Performance Management, Data Quality, Forensic Audits

Principal Consultant

QINFO Solutions

Solution Architect and Project Manager for SAS projects at eBucks

Solutions Architect and Project Manager

Member of the D^3 Institute Industry Council at Harvard Business School, Dalebrook Media Middle East Managing Director

I have directly managed data and AI teams form small 3 person teams to large 30+ person teams throughout my career.  As a consultant, I managed more than 10 large and complex data, analytics and AI projects from strategy to successful implementation, including assembling multinational teams of experts to ensure success.  As manager in Industry Organizations, I managed 3 large data and AI teams to successfully foster data value driven organizations.  I leverage my deep understanding of the successes and challenges of Data, Analytics and AI Leaders to help elevate the impact of these Leaders in Industry Organizations and help them grow in their careers.  

 I am passionate about producing small and intimate to large and complex events from agenda, speakers, audience,  partners, sponsors, logistics, and promotions to execution.  In the last 2 years I have produced  12 intimate executive luxury experiences, 5 large and complex events and  7 virtual events.

I have extensive experience in giving coaching to executives, large corporate audiences and architects.  I use design thinking and experiential learning techniques and love engaging the audience.  I hold workshops with C-suite executives to develop a Data and AI Strategy to execute the Business Strategy.   I hold roundtables to facilitate executives, and relevant stakeholders discuss hot topics, challenges and successes to help them learn from each other. 

I help others grow in their careers by mentoring, teaching and speaking at Events, and developing communities like Women in AI with 40K members in 150 Countries.  On the Board of Directors I formed a team of 20 executives, driving partnerships for WAI across the globe.  I inspire, educate and connect my community of 130+ CDAOs in the Middle East.

I am a Digital, Data and AI Coach on being data and AI value driven in a very practical way.  I help companies develop and implement Chief Data, Analytics & AI Offices with Data and AI Strategies, operating models, teams and Architectures.  I help Organizations to implement Data and AI Literacy programs across the organization.

While at IBM (2013 to 2021), I had several leadership roles.  I was an Executive Information Architect, a Client Technical Lead in UAE, was in the Worldwide Client Engagement Team reporting to the Global Analytics CTO and before that a Senior Managing Consultant in South Africa.

🔥Wow, just wow! What impressed me most about Datalytics Dubai last week, was that our brilliant busy UAE Data, Analytics and AI Leaders engaged full steam in a packed room from start to finish.

🎯As one of the younger Leaders told me: “The sessions served as a masterclass in everything Data and AI for me”! That is what Datalytics is all about – for the community, by the community and with the community – a platform to grow and shine.

💎Our fantastic Master of Ceremony Shailesh Jain kept us captivated and engaged throughout the day.

❤️‍🔥 Our Table Discussion facilitators discussed absolutely relevant topics: Shehla Tanveer, Omar Aboutaleb, Busisiwe Tshabalala-Phenye  (MBA, CMDP), Rewin Koul, Waseem Akram Syed, Harpreet K. Dev (AI Governance and Risk Management), Mani Abedini, PhD., and Ghanashyama Mahanty, PhD.

🎯Peter Allan analysed the data from the 82+ responses of our “Impact of Data, Analytics and AI Leaders” survey and produced and shared the brilliant Datalytics edition of the insights.

💎Our Platinum sponsors and their speakers truly engaged the audience – Mustafa Aydogdu of Snowflake, Arsalan Sheikh of Capgemini Data and AI, Tony TAWK of MongoDB and Joe Aoun of APGAR. You made your keynotes memorable!

❤️‍🔥 Our esteemed panellists Dirk Jungnickel, Sohail S. Gyan Prakash Srivastava, Dr.Yoonus Ahammed, Gopi Maren and Dhiman D. made sure that the audience, their peers join in the discussions. Karl Fischer 🇺🇦 of our Gold Sponsor DVT group expertly moderated his panel.

🎯 Our Leaders who gave brilliant lightning talks were Phillip Badenhorst, Busisiwe Tshabalala-Phenye  (MBA, CMDP), Kashish Suri, Ezzeddine Jradi and Abd El-Rahman Moawad.

🔥Huge thank you to each and every Leader who shared their thought leadership and engaged throughout the day. You are truly a force to be reckoned with.

❤️‍🔥Proudly Dalebrook Media Middle East, Craig Steward

Thank you for the amazing photos Manna van der Bergh

Member of the D^3 Institute Industry Council at Harvard Business School, Dalebrook Media Middle East Managing Director, Co-Founder and CEO, AI101

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