Dan Jeavons leads the 160-strong, multi-award-winning Data Science Centre of Excellence team at Shell. Recognised as one of the top 50 data leaders in the UK, Dan and the team is tasked with keeping Shell at the forefront of digital. What’s coming in digital (and energy) in the next 24 months that you should know about? How has the pandemic helped/hindered digital? What should businesses be doing now to keep ahead?

ABOUT DAN (@dannyjeavs)

A significant contributor to Shell’s digital strategy, Dan has delivered over $1bln in cost reductions, production increases and additional customer margins. He was part of the team which developed the Shell.ai brand which is now externally recognised, and the work of his team and their impact has been recently publicized in mainstream journals like Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. He has also developed effective technology partnerships with a number of start-up companies leading to Shell investment and is a board observer for Kespry.

Previously with Accenture, Dan joined Shell in 2008 and is passionate about big data, data science and AI (a recurring theme throughout his career), a hybrid to boot, Dan also has extensive experience in business process redesign, business transformation and change.