Greig Cowan
Head of Data Science for Data Innovation at NatWest Group
Greig Cowan is Head of Data Science for NatWest Group, a leading commercial and retail bank in the UK. He has led the transformation of how the organisation builds and delivers machine learning and data-led solutions to the organisation and the cloud infrastructure that powers them. Greig has a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Glasgow and prior to joining NatWest spent over a decade as an academic researcher in high-energy particle physics, working as a member of the LHCb collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
Watch live: March 8, 2023 | 1:40 – 2:10 pm ET
How to Build and Scale AI/ML Adoption in the Financial Services Industry
NatWest group is one of the UK’s leading banks, serving over 19 million customers. In this talk Greig Cowan will highlight many of the challenges that NatWest faced regarding the creation of AI/ML-led solutions that are needed to unlock business value from our data. He will discuss NatWest’s approach to tackling these challenges during the past few years to create a modern cloud-based development and deployment platform that allows us to innovate more quickly, create more personalised experiences for our customers and maintaining focus on the enhanced risks that come with building and operating AI/ML-driven products.