Alan W. Brown is a professor in digital economy, an experienced business executive and a strategic advisor. He has spent more than thirty years in the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom driving large-scale software-driven programmes with commercial high-tech companies, leading R&D teams, building state-of-the-art solutions and improving software product delivery approaches. He has written several books on enterprise software delivery and digital transformation. He is a fellow of the British Computer Society and recently completed his role as a fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI.