Martin Leijen
Architect Data & Intelligence Lab, Rabobank / Digital Transformation Office

Martin Leijen is the architect for the Data and Intelligence Lab, part of Rabobank’s Digital Transformation Office, where he is challenged to extend the current on-premises lab services to the cloud this year and is the privacy and security officer responsible for the data AI and analytics domain within the bank. From day one, next to introducing innovation with new open source technology, Martin has kept the team highly aware of the privacy and ethics responsibilities that come with the team’s high privilege to process all data available within and outside the bank. He started his career in Rabobank’s IT Operations Department in the Netherlands but soon became interested in the value of data and BI and was involved with the bank’s first big data and advanced analytics experiments. This resulted in an assignment to help setting up a new department, the Data Science and Business Consultancy. In his internal presentations and public speaking opportunities, he tries to motivate people to actively use their intrinsic privacy and ethics awareness in their daily job.