Matthew Bernath is CEO of Sidekick Lab, helping enterprises figure out what data they actually own, and founder of Alternata, a data monetisation company. He built ShopriteX’s Data Ecosystems team, led data analytics at Rand Merchant Bank, and structured multi-billion-rand project finance deals. Matthew is also an insufferable coffee snob who will judge your instant granules more harshly than your data architecture.
Session Overview
The Unaudited Asset
Every enterprise knows its cash position to the cent. Stock gets counted, debtors get aged and somewhere an auditor is verifying a stationery cupboard in Bloemfontein. But ask what data the company holds and you get a shrug and, if you’re lucky, an architecture diagram from 2020.
Nobody audits the asset the annual report calls “our most valuable”. The bill shows up elsewhere in AI that doesn’t work, migrations that overrun, duplicate systems, data bought twice and projects scoped on guesswork. This talk makes the case for treating your data estate like a balance sheet: count it, value it, and make someone accountable for it.
Three Tangible Learnings
Learning 1: Why the data estate is the only material asset on the balance sheet with no valuatio and what that gap costs.
Learning 2: How to run a practical data audit way you would for any other asset class.
Learning 3: How to spot the early warning signs of an uncounted estate in your own organisation.
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Matthew Bernath is CEO of Sidekick Lab, helping enterprises figure out what data they actually own, and founder of Alternata, a data monetisation company. He built ShopriteX’s Data Ecosystems team, led data analytics at Rand Merchant Bank, and structured multi-billion-rand project finance deals. Matthew is also an insufferable coffee snob who will judge your instant granules more harshly than your data architecture.
