UN Global Platform // Mark Craddock // Co-Founder & CTO, Global Certification and Training Ltd // MLOps Meetup #42

MLOps community meetup #42! Last Wednesday, we talked to Mark Craddock, Co-Founder & CTO, Global Certification and Training Ltd (GCATI), about UN Global Platform.

// Abstract:
Building a global big data platform for the UN. Streaming 600,000,000+ records / day into the platform. The strategy developed using Wardley Maps and the Platform Design Toolkit.

// Bio:
Mark contributed to the Cloud First policy for the UK Public sector and was one of the founding architects for the UK Governments G-Cloud programme. Mark developed the initial CloudStore which enabled the UK Public Sector to procure cloud services from over 2,500 suppliers. The UK Public Sector has now purchased over £6.3Bn of cloud services, with £3.6Bn from Small to Medium Enterprises in the UK.

Mark lead the development of the United Nations Global Platform. A multi-cloud platform for capacity building within the national statistics offices in the use of Big Data and its integration with administrative sources, geospatial information, traditional survey and census data.
Mark is now building a non-profit training and certification organization.

// Final thoughts
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