Hello,
Data is a foundational part of our economy, society and environment: we live in a data-enabled world. We also face vast societal challenges where, combined, machines and humans can work harder to help us make better decisions. This requires the coordination of multidisciplinary teams across private, public and third sectors.
I’ve spent decades helping to make our data infrastructure useful for everyone: creating and leading for- and non-profit businesses, bringing together the web, finance, policy, data, science, the environment, art and media. This has led to the creation of dozens of companies, the employment of 100’s of people, and £100Ms in measurable impact (including $137M in four years at the ODI), and helping to stimulate $multi-billion markets* through the development of regulated instruments such as the Open Banking Standard.
Working together, we (Dgen) have tackled complex challenges ranging from climate change to government transparency; digital supply chains to open banking; open energy to data art. We’ve worked across scales, from multinational corporations to microscopic charities, bringing the same skills and passion to each. We help countries, markets and organisations design for our data-enabled, connected future.
Harnessing the power of people and machines (our ‘collective intelligence’), our Dgen Constellation projects include the internationalisation of Open Finance, national data strategies, and making data work harder to deliver net-zero via IcebreakerOne.org (which launched at Davos in 2020 and delivered over $5M in innovation funding in its first year of operation). We create positive impact@web-scale.
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Best,
Gavin (founder)
* Open Banking Market Size to Reach $43.51 Billion by 2026 at 24.4% CAGR, and $123.7B by 2031
Speaking/events: https://dgen.net/0/overview/public-speaking/
Biography
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| Gavin helps unlock data-enabled value at sector, national and international scale. He has created over a dozen companies, employing 100’s of people, and delivering $100M’s in measurable impact. He co-chaired the development of the Open Banking Standard, co-chaired the UK Smart Data Council, and was founding CEO of the Open Data Institute. He has mentored, chaired, and been a director of over 40 organisations across diverse sectors. He currently runs data governance organisation ib1.org to accelerate our Net Zero Future. Connect via dgen.net. |
Photos for conferences/events (click through for large version)
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Interview (examples)
In 2019 Gavin was selected for a Longplayer Conversation at the British Library, introduced by Sophie Fiennes and Michael Morris, with Jem Finer, founder of Longplayer.org. Previous conversations included Sir David Attenborough, James Lovelock, Laurie Anderson and Brian Eno.
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ODI Podcast: The Data Decade, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Open Data Institute.
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Verge: How the Web of Data is Changing Business, Government…and Lives
Active roles
Commercial
- founder, CEO, Icebreaker One
- chairman — Demand Logic, automating energy efficiency in buildings
- founder — Dgen, a federated network of experts creating impact@web-scale
- mentor — private individual entrepreneurs, regularly invited to startup and incubation programmes
- regularly invited speaker at innovation, data, startup, web, and cleantech/environmental events and conferences
Non-commercial
- co-chair — UK Smart Data Council
- advisory board — ScaleUp Institute, helping create the conditions to support 28,000+ ScaleUps
- trustee — Longplayer Trust, helping to sustain a 1,000-year music performance
- trustee — Cenfri, an independent African economic impact agency
- co-founder, chair, member — Hermitage Community Moorings, the first official licensed residential harbour development on the Thames in the last century
- regular speaker at arts, science, music and tech events
For more details, previous roles and academic background, please see page 2.