When Data Disagrees: Proving Value in Business Decision-Making

Ilya Vladimirskiy is a fractional and interim Chief Data Officer, founder of Lab IV, and former Director of Data at Ada Health. He helps organisations build data teams and platforms that improve decisions and deliver meaningful business impact. With more than 20 years of engineering experience and a decade in leadership, Ilya has worked across data products, business intelligence, governance, data platforms and stakeholder management. At Ada Health, he led four cross-functional teams of more than 25 people, supporting internal and external stakeholders to make better use of data. Ilya is particularly interested in what happens when evidence challenges a preferred narrative, and how leaders can create the conditions for uncomfortable data to be heard. His work explores the gap between collecting data, building dashboards and actually changing decisions.

Ed Dieterle is the founder of Education Research Partners, where he leads studies of chronic absenteeism, post-pandemic academic recovery, and teaching and learning with AI for public school districts, independent school networks, and family foundations. He also serves as Chief Learning Scientist at Kovexa, supporting AI governance and applied research services to universities.

Jessica Van Antoine is the founder of Phoenix Functional Health, where she helps female founders optimize the energy, focus, and capacity their businesses depend on. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience in the health and wellness industry, she looks at the body as a connected system and translates functional health data into clear, practical priorities - so clients can stop guessing and make the smallest changes that matter most, in the right order.

Cati Brinker works with ambitious leaders whose lives and leadership have become overly dependent on their personal output. Her approach combines executive coaching, nervous system regulation, and operational design to help clients discern what is actually theirs to carry, make clearer decisions, build stronger boundaries, and create the internal and operational structure required to sustain their ambition without self-sacrifice.

Mike Simmons is a revenue and go-to-market strategist, revenue leader and speaker who helps organisations replace commercial confusion with clarity and execution. Through Catalyst, he works with revenue leaders, sales teams and GTM executives on strategy, operating systems, sales effectiveness and leadership. With more than 30 years’ experience across operations, sales, customer success and leadership, Mike has worked with organisations ranging from early-stage teams to businesses with $250M in revenue and has supported more than 100 clients. His approach combines practical diagnosis, collaborative whiteboard work and clear next steps that teams can act on.