Your data will never be clean and it will never be perfect. So how do we create meaningful models anyway? As Dr. Katia Walsh puts it, data leaders are facing a “tsunami of data.” But that tsunami shouldn’t stop you from testing, iterating, and moving quickly. Dr. Walsh is the Chief Global Strategy and AI Officer at Levi Strauss & Co. and today she shares how her team has leveraged a mindset of “think big, start small, scale fast” to create cutting-edge data models and digital capabilities quickly. 

Tune in to learn:

• (4:22) Why every business is a data business and how building out new digital and AI capabilities is about improving the 3Cs (connections, commerce, and creation.)
• (8:21) How Levi Strauss & Co. leverages data to create custom experiences no matter where a customer engages with them. As Katia says, “It’s not business; it’s personal.”
• (18:43) Why Katia’s motto is “think big, start small, scale fast.”
• (19:43) What do when you don’t have perfect data (and why you will never truly have perfect data).
• (27:55) Where to look for your organization’s next data leader - it’s not where you think.
• (30:36) How Levi Strauss & Co. is using bootcamps to increase data literacy at every level of the organization.

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• Levis.com

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