Data Culture Club London Event
- Tuesday, 30 September 2025
- The Swan, Bankside, London
- 5.30pm - 8.00pm
Join the Data Culture Club's 4th London event!
The Data Culture Club brings together pioneering professionals across the world who are shaping their organisations’ attitude to data. In a discipline that is relatively new, it gives members an opportunity to explore new ideas, share insights, and support one another on what can be a challenging journey. We believe the key to developing best practice is simple: sharing what we know.
Our quarterly London events allow us to get together in person to hear fresh perspectives from industry leaders, engage in open discussions and enjoy some convivial networking. We’re delighted to be holding our next event on 30 September at the beautiful Swan restaurant at Shakespeare’s Globe. Expect to walk away with bold ideas, practical takeaways, and a spark of inspiration to ignite change in your own organisation!
AGENDA
This time we’re mixing up the format a little – we’ll have a theme for the evening and start with a candid fireside chat with a couple of leading voices followed by room-wide Q&A; then after a quick break we’ll delve more deeply into some of the issues with an interactive roundtable discussion.
And the theme? Well, we’ve been thinking about communication – how to get people excited about data, and how colleagues can best present their insights – so we’re leaning into our wonderful theatre location to explore Storytelling in Data Culture. Data isn’t just numbers, it’s narratives. The strongest data cultures aren’t built on dashboards alone, but on stories that resonate, inspire and drive decision-making at every level. But how best to get a message across to a diverse audience with different needs, concerns and learning styles? How can we add emotion to dry facts – and how can we measure if it’s working?
Come and be inspired to use storytelling as a tool to transform how your organisation thinks about, shares and acts on data.
5.30pm Arrival + welcome refreshments
6.15pm Fireside Chat, followed by group Q&A
7.00pm Break + refreshments
7.20pm Roundtable Discussions, followed by sharing of key findings
8.00pm Networking + refreshments
OUR SPEAKERS
Andy Cotgreave is a leader in the field of data communication and literacy.
Andy has over 20 years’ experience in data analytics, including 15 years at Tableau. In that time he has helped thousands of people improve their data skills, and been a keen spotter of new trends in the industry, recently focusing on the impact AI will have on data analytics.
He is co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards and Dashboards That Deliver. He writes the How To Speak Data newsletter and co-hosts Chart Chat, a monthly video series about data communication.
Keep in touch with Andy by subscribing to his newsletter and follow him on LinkedIn.
Susanne’s career spans Big 4 consultancy, academia and boardrooms across multiple sectors.
As the author of the bestselling book, ‘ChangeStories®: How to have powerful conversations, tell inspiring stories and build engagement for transformation’ and the host of the Top 40 Apple UK Business and Management podcast by the same name, she is on a mission to help leaders and change professionals show up through the stories they tell.
With a PhD in Organisational Change and Storytelling and a reputation for sparking honest, practical conversations, Susanne brings both experience and empathy to the table. Her work is rooted in helping people find the clarity, confidence and language to lead in the moments that matter.
LOCATION
The Swan is located on London’s bankside, by the iconic Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. This event will be held in The Balcony Room, a penthouse private dining room with a stunning balcony overlooking the River Thames and central London skyline.
HOW TO GET THERE
The Swan at Shakespeare’s Globe
21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London SE1 9DT
(5-10 minutes walk from Blackfriars or London Bridge station)
aBOUT DATA CULTURE CLUB
In our work helping organisations with their data, we meet many pioneering people – but we reckon those who focus on Data Culture deserve a little extra support and encouragement!
It’s still an evolving discipline: everyone seems to have a slightly different definition of what Data Culture means, it doesn’t feature much in industry best practice, and many companies don’t yet have dedicated teams to drive it forward.
So in 2024 we created an exclusive community online to bring together Data Culture professionals who are leading the way in changing their organisation’s attitude to data (whether they have ‘culture’ in their job title or not), to discuss the latest developments, ask questions and offer advice.
Our Roundtable events
We’ve got members in the group from all over the world, but we always wanted to get people together in person where practical, so we’ve started holding roundtable events in London once a quarter.
We had our first get-together in October 2024, with about 20 of us meeting up in a smart bar overlooking the Thames where we discussed the nature of ‘culture’, and how AI might affect it.
In February 2025 we held our second event in an old Livery Hall in the City of London, with Steve and Selena helping us think about Data Literacy programs, and how best to engage with People/HR teams.
Our third outing was at the beautiful Old Sessions House in Clerkenwell in June 2025, where Josh & Tiffany guided us through AI Literacy, and Carly had us debating Data Culture skills.
They’ve all been wonderful evenings full of warmth and laughter, with fascinating insights shared in both the discussions and the informal conversations in the breaks, and a great mix of perspectives from different organisations and industries. We look forward to the next one!
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