Speaker Tomas Sanchez Lopez

Tomas Sanchez Lopez
Chief Data Architect, Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Tomas Sanchez Lopez is the Chief Data Architect at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), where he started in mid-2017 to lead the development of the office’s data strategy. Tomas is responsible for delivering a number of data products that form the basis of ONS data management, including reference and master data, metadata and cataloguing, data standardisations and data linking. Prior to the ONS, Tomas worked at Airbus for several years, heading research on data analysis for the Corporate Technology Office. Tomas’ background is in Computer Science, and so he has obtained an Ms.C in the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, a Ph.D in KAIST, South Korea, and a post-doc in Cambridge University, UK in this discipline.
Speaker for following sessions
- Wednesday 12 May 2021
  10:15 - 10:50 FROM DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TO DATA TRANSFORMATION
  
  With the recent publication of the government’s National Data Strategy, it’s now clear that data and information is the number one asset for public sector organisations wishing to drive benefit for citizens. But digital transformation initiatives have too often treated data as an afterthought, meaning lost opportunities to exploit analytics and AI.
  
  In this session we’ll discuss the approaches public sector bodies are taking to ensure that data is at the centre of their broader transformation programmes.