Boston, Mass and Paris, France, February 17, 2026 – Huwise, the leading provider of data product marketplace solutions, today launched Data Voices, a global community bringing together more than 60 women and men committed to driving data and AI transformation. Chief Data & Analytics Officers (CDAOs), Heads of Innovation and AI, as well as consultants, researchers, and journalists have all joined the community, sharing their best practices and vision to foster new ways of working within organizations that make data a strategic driver of value creation.
Data Voices: the first global community of tomorrow’s data leaders and experts
With Data Voices, Huwise is bringing together more than 60 influential figures who are involved on an ongoing basis in designing, governing, sharing, and leveraging data within organizations to improve the day-to-day experience of all employees.
Coming from a wide range of industries and countries, they demonstrate the data world’s diversity of backgrounds, models, and experiences. By uniting their voices and showcasing concrete, proven approaches, the aim is to accelerate the shift from a world drowning in data, to one where data is truly useful, accessible, and creates value, serving business needs and AI.
Data Voices is a global community that aims to:
- Create a single entry point and reference source for organizations looking to structure, accelerate, or evolve their data and AI initiatives.
- Highlight leaders, Chief Data Officers (CDOs), and data & AI experts whose work demonstrates that data is a strategic asset serving business operations, decisionmaking, and enabling powerful, reliable AI.
- Inspire and unite the global data community by sharing career paths, best practices, and beliefs around the strategic use of data.
- Demonstrate the essential role of modern data leaders and champions—women and men capable of turning data complexity into actionable decisions, building bridges between technology, business, governance, and culture, and making data a driver for sustainable impact that combines economic performance, compliance, trust, and responsibility.
“Today, we have reached a crossroads. Data can no longer be seen as just a technical or compliance-driven topic. It must become a strategic driver for value creation, serving business teams, decision-making, and AI. This is the vision behind Data Voices—to bring together and amplify the voices of those who are successfully shaping business-driven data strategies and are driving change within organizations. Many silos still hinder value creation from data. The data leaders joining us are building connections between technology, business, governance, and culture that break these barriers down. The Data Voices community will help, inspire, and connect leaders who are able to deliver real transformation and new ways of working within organizations through data.”
A community designed to showcase the key role of data and AI leaders in driving organizational transformation
Huwise has selected more than 60 international figures across Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
Each Data Voice is highlighted with a detailed profile, showcasing their career path and exploring their vision, inspirations, and recommendations.
Coming from a wide variety of sectors (banking and insurance, media and communications, technology, industry, transportation, retail, energy, healthcare, government ministries, and local authorities), these Data Voices are grouped into three main categories:
- Data leaders, including CDAOs/CDOs and Heads of Data responsible for governance, innovation, data management, and data sharing
- Advisory leaders, innovative, experienced consultants from consulting or technology firms
- Thought leaders, such as journalists, authors, and independent consultants, sharing their perspectives
“For me, taking part in Data Voices 2026 is a unique opportunity to contribute to a vital movement to make data and AI truly useful, practical, and accessible for organizations. I am convinced that data transformation is not limited to technology; above all, it relies on clearly defined use cases, strong governance, and a collective ability to work differently. Data Voices highlights women and men who, like me, are driven by an ambition to make data a lever for sustainable performance and innovation. I am proud to bring my operational perspective to it—one focused on value creation and customer experience. Inspiring, sharing, and above all advancing the responsible and strategic use of data is what motivates me around this initiative, and I am delighted to contribute to the shift towards a truly data-driven future.”
“Data Voices is a wonderful initiative that showcases the diversity within the growing data community. This variety of profiles and experiences is crucial to enabling a healthy debate, strong ethics, and a commitment to transparency to the world of data. We all work to bring meaning and value to data, and all of us have significant ethical responsibilities around data at a time when its use by algorithms and AI is raising fundamental questions.”
“My core conviction as a data leader is that data only creates value when it’s usable, trustworthy, and connected to real decisions.”
“Data only matters when it changes something in the real world. I am obsessed with turning raw information into clear insight that helps people make better decisions, faster and with confidence.”
“Data leaders play a crucial role: they act as drivers of organizational transformation, turning data into a source of differentiated performance without compromising trust.”
Meet our first experts
Data Voices 2026
About Huwise
Huwise helps data leaders transform their data into a source of knowledge, innovation, and performance.
We design a SaaS data product marketplace solution tailored to business teams and nonexpert users, making data accessible, actionable, and value-generating. With Huwise, organizations provide employees and partners with secure, self-service access to their data products through a single platform.
In just a few weeks, we can deploy any type of data product marketplace, whether internal or external.
Today, more than 350 clients across 25 countries rely on Huwise to accelerate their data initiatives, with over 3,000 platforms already deployed worldwide. Backed by 14 years of expertise in data management, we deliver tailored support to address the business use cases of our clients.
For more information
Chris Measures
PR for Huwise
chris@measuresconsulting.com
+44 7976 535147
