Data, Disruption and Visualisation

Dan Cobley

Originally an oil exploration engineer and marketer, Dan became head of Google UK – with responsibility for $5bn revenue. He’s now focused on founding and investing in fintech, with the aim of disrupting financial services. In his speeches Dan shows how Google use technology in the search for transformative solutions to major problems whilst also considering the next sector to be disruptive and lessons in rapid growth and innovation.

David McCandless

The man who created Information Is Beautiful and Knowledge Is Beautiful sees his role as ‘information design’ and data-journalism. He uses design to raise impact while meticulously retaining statistical rigour. To David “data is not the new oil, but the new soil.” In presentations he shows how to tell stories with big data sets by transforming them into simple diagrams that tease out previously unseen patterns and make powerful connections.