DAVE WILLIAMSON
ABZENA
DAVE WILLIAMSON
TITLE: CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
COMAPNY: ABZENA LOCATION: USA
Dave Williamson is the Chief Information Officer of Abzena. Dave was previously Senior Director of Informatics for Illumina where he was responsible for the data analytics and data science Center of Excellence across Global Quality and Operations.
Prior to joining Illumina, Dave was Director, Information Technology at Biogen, a biotechnology company, where he and his team were responsible for the strategic technology planning, digital transformation initiatives and day-to-day operations for the manufacturing, engineering and quality functions. Dave served as Senior Director of Quality and Operation systems for Nycomed from 2009 until 2011.
Dave currently serves on the Board of Advisors for Technology Executive Club. like AI and machine learning – we don’ t have to,” Dave says.“ It can sift through all of it much, much quicker than people ever could. Using solutions from our partners also helps us connect into these data sources and makes it easier for the experts to connect to the data and then start using it in whatever queries and investigations that they’ re undertaking.”
Abzena partners with Savant Labs and Atomicwork, among others, to enrich its use of technology and ensure processes are as simple and effective as possible.
For example, Savant Labs – a company that uses AI to help analysts automate data access and preparation – provides Abzena with a modern, cloud-based data management platform that provides the agility and accessibility to effectively leverage its data to drive its scientific research and business operations. Savant Labs’ ability to connect to various data sources, Dave says, empowers Abzena’ s experts to easily access, prepare and utilise data in their queries and investigations.
“ It enables us to easily connect to data sources, pull that data in, combine it, manipulate it in whichever way we want and then use that to view our analytics or data science AI, ML solutions,” Dave details.“ It’ s a cloud-based tool that enables us to connect to diverse data sources that fuels the analytics dashboards.”
The lightweight nature of the solution enables real-time adjustments to data connections based on specific needs, unlike traditional methods requiring pre-defined architectures. abzena. com 9