{"id":1654,"date":"2017-12-11T01:01:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T01:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/?page_id=1654"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:50:45","slug":"biog-gavin-starks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/overview\/biog-gavin-starks\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u00a3100Ms in measurable impact (including $137M in four years at the ODI<\/a>), and helping to stimulate $multi-billion markets* through the development of regulated instruments such as the Open Banking Standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harnessing the power of people and machines (our ‘collective intelligence’), our Dgen Constellation<\/a> projects include the internationalisation of Open Finance, national data strategies, and making data work harder to deliver net-zero via IcebreakerOne.org<\/a> (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<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best,
Gavin (founder)
* Open Banking Market Size to Reach $43.51 Billion by 2026 at 24.4% CAGR<\/a>, and $123.7B by 2031<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gavin helps unlock data-enabled value at sector, national and international scale. He<\/span> has created over a dozen companies, employing 100\u2019s of people, and delivering $100M\u2019s 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.<\/span> He currently runs data governance organisation ib1.org<\/a> to accelerate our Net Zero Future. Connect via dgen.net<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Photos<\/strong> for conferences\/events (click through for large version)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interview <\/strong>(examples)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019 Gavin was selected for a Longplayer Conversation<\/a> at the British Library, introduced by Sophie Fiennes and Michael Morris, with Jem Finer, founder of Longplayer.org<\/a>. Previous conversations included Sir David Attenborough, James Lovelock, Laurie Anderson and Brian Eno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n