The Analytics Dinner took place on 14 March 2018 at the Mews of Mayfair. It was held in partnership with Cheetah Digital, with the goal of discussing and understanding what makes a successful analytics strategy.

Coal, oil, gas, mining; these industries have long been dominated by a few massive players. The price of their product is so volatile, and the barriers to entry so high, that they are very difficult to break into. These are highly regulated industries with deep impact to global economy, so many different angles need to be covered before change occurs.

Calling all disruptors… Propelled by innovation, members rarely have time to digest the change which they fuel. To understand the whirlwind from above, look no further: Nimbus Ninety is pleased to announce the release of its magazine, Chief Disruptor.

The Data and Infrastructure Dinner took place at Searcys at The Gherkin on 5 December 2017. It was a chance for members to network, and discuss data infrastructure challenges and solutions.

The digital factory dinner took place at Rosewood, London, on the 16th November. It was a chance for executives from brands including consumer goods, high street banks, and software companies, to talk over dinner and drinks about the challenges they faced and some of the solutions they might implement.

This interactive dinner took place at Searcys at The Gherkin on the 8th November. It was a dinner for industry leaders from backgrounds such as finance, retail, media and the public sector. The dinner was conducted in partnership with Optimizely.

Christmas approaches: Amazon Echo was Amazon’s most bought product over the 2016 Christmas period, and stakeholders will be watching anxiously to see if they’re still selling as the novelty wears off. Creative Strategies found that 22% of early adopters used their Amazon Echo less over time.[1] But businesses should also watch. Just as screen-based computers and mobiles have changed how they must present themselves, voice, in its infancy, could too.

The collapse of distance is perhaps the most politicised technological trend. Travel is now brief; communication, instant. Economic globalisation has too many consequences for wealth and its distribution to list; and over the 1990s, immigration to the UK increased substantially.1 Technologies such as real-time translate earphones, or global freelance marketplaces enabled by smart contracts, will soon be implemented.

Leadership was on the news as I went to meet Julian Tranter, the MD of Environmental Services at Kier Group. There are few companies less like his than Uber, the flashy and scandal-prone private hire company. Uber has had a bad year: the CEO resigned in June.1

The forthcoming ‘right to be forgotten’ aims to change a world in which everything is remembered. Currently, clicking through the internet is like wading through deep snow. It is visible exactly where you have been.