Sat down on Friday afternoon with Gillian Docherty OBE - former colleague of mine from IBM - on The Third Half, a ‘Wee Dram’ with my mate Steve O’Donnell.
Gillian is currently Chief Commercial Officer at the University of Strathclyde, Chair of CodeBase, and formerly CEO of The Data Lab - all of that after 22 years at IBM.
It was a very down to earth, honest discussion. Free of any buzzword bingo. Just an honest chat about data, AI, innovation, Scottish industry, scaleups, startups, nuclear energy - and very much Gillian’s amazing career progression.
It’s not often you’ll hear a conversation that goes from Greenock to Portsmouth to nuclear energy to Simple Minds - and of course, our staple of cheese.
On the top is a wee clip of Gillian talking about AI. There’ll be plenty more coming from this fascinating, insightful conversation over the coming weeks, here on The Third Half on Substack.
And while you’re waiting for the next A Wee Dram episode with Gillian Docherty to drop, you can catch another brilliant conversation with Trevor Hatton here:
https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/tth-a-wee-dram-episode-3-guest-trevor
Plenty to get stuck into.
Hope you enjoy.
