Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited and Chairman of Big Data LDN, the largest data and analytics conference in Europe. As an independent analyst and consultant, he specialises in data management, business intelligence, machine learning, AI, and big data. With over 40 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies, spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Formerly he was Principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model,  and Chief Architect at Teradata on the Teradata DBMS.