This weekly newsletter provides updates on data, analytics and AI topics including a discussion on centralization vs decentralization of data, insights from a survey on data and analytics priorities, an overview of hyper-automation and its projected market size, an upcoming Gartner data and analytics summit, tips for effective vendor briefings, an upcoming data cloud summit, a challenge to explain your data role in under 60 seconds, recognition of an employee, awareness of World Backup Day, and a request to follow the weekly blog.