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Author: Ruth Kearney
Founder and Chair of Nightingale HQ
Steph Locke is Founder and Chair of Nightingale HQ and she advised on the strategic direction of the company. Data Scientist, Author turned Entrepreneur, Steph Locke is passionate about helping business use their data more effectively through AI. She believes the adoption of low/no-code tools are helping many more businesses digitally transform and investing in the right tooling is a much bigger performance enabler than many businesses think. Steph is a contributor on the Focus Group Artificial Intelligence (AI) run by the European DIGITAL SME Alliance, and she sits on several industry steering groups and boards. She is also one of 4 people in the world to be recognised by Microsoft as a MVPs (Most Valued Professional) in both Data Platform and Artificial Intelligence.
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