Paul Bratcher

Hi, I guess you are wondering what all this is about? Or click curious?

It took me a long time in my professinal (engineering based) career to acknowledge that underneath the process and design activity was a creative. As the world of technology has evolved, and the role of content creation becomes ever more common, and maybe valued, I decided to connect my creative endeavours to my professional profile.

I am a fine art and landscape photographer, digital artist and content… Show more

Hi, I guess you are wondering what all this is about? Or click curious?

It took me a long time in my professinal (engineering based) career to acknowledge that underneath the process and design activity was a creative. As the world of technology has evolved, and the role of content creation becomes ever more common, and maybe valued, I decided to connect my creative endeavours to my professional profile.

I am a fine art and landscape photographer, digital artist and content creator. As a fine art photographer I have had a number of exhibitions over the years. As a digital artist I am exploring the use of algorithmic and AI Generated art, which I consider to be a fascinating new digital tool set.

I am active on a number of web3 (NFT) market places.

You can find further details, including physical prints, and the occasional other created item from my studio and workshop at the link below.

www.zal4dw.art

Feel free to join my collectors club over there, for the usual discount offers, promotions and occasional news.

Creativity is a part of everyones wellbeing, and I encourage you to also let your creative side blossom.

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“Make the future better not faster”. I enjoyed speaking to the future leaders of fashion and the creative industries in a far reach and informative day, ‘AI Symposium for Fashion’.

A great day and interesting people to meet and share time with.

It was my great pleasure to present the AI Retail Masterclass at the 2024 Retail NEC Spring fair. A great event, and a great audience with a number of thought proviking questions!

We covered,

Introducing AI, and its impact on work, and specifically retail
How to look at the changes with a growth mindset
How and which technologies are going to make a difference on Retail.

Here is what some people kindly provided as feedback

"Excellent. Really informative, lots… Show more

It was my great pleasure to present the AI Retail Masterclass at the 2024 Retail NEC Spring fair. A great event, and a great audience with a number of thought proviking questions!

We covered,

Introducing AI, and its impact on work, and specifically retail
How to look at the changes with a growth mindset
How and which technologies are going to make a difference on Retail.

Here is what some people kindly provided as feedback

"Excellent. Really informative, lots of information but delivered very well and easy to understand! Very pleased I came to watch"

“Everything about it was great. Enlightening. Loved it!” Show less

I had the pleasure of being a guest on Isar's Podcast, a thought provoking set of questions to address, how to get going on AI in enteprise. Isars podcast is one of my regular listens on the commute.

https://multiplai.ai/episodes/28-the-ai-playbook-a-proven-framework-for-implementing-ai-to-boost-productivity-and-profits-with-paul-bratcher-a-technology-implementation-expert-with-20-years-of-experience/

Presenting on the topic of AI (as of april 2023!), and how its impact could affect software delivery and agile delivery professionals.

#AI, #Agile, #SoftwareEngineering, #Speaker, #keynote

I had the absolutely pleasure of attending and being a breakfast speaker with EPAM at the World Retail Congress 2023.

An event packed with luminaries from the retail space and thought leaders.

Our breakfast conversation was about protecting margin, thriving and adapting to a world with a headwind of constant change.

My specialist contribution covered the key emerging challenges of AI in retail.

The summary points?

1) it is a change, we all have experience… Show more

I had the absolutely pleasure of attending and being a breakfast speaker with EPAM at the World Retail Congress 2023.

An event packed with luminaries from the retail space and thought leaders.

Our breakfast conversation was about protecting margin, thriving and adapting to a world with a headwind of constant change.

My specialist contribution covered the key emerging challenges of AI in retail.

The summary points?

1) it is a change, we all have experience of change management. Don’t forget the lessons of the last 15 years of digital transformation
2) AI will have a broader impact than we can all conceive now, it is on a pace of change that’s not been seen since the launch of the app economy
3) Data. It’s all about the data.
4) Start now (get help now if you don’t feel able to star now, get in touch !)
5) the change is not just a technical challenge remember and focus on the impacted people and customer experience, the tech will sort itself if you do.

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A four-year £30m programme to completely redevelop the eCommerce Digital and multi-channel platform for Screwfix, radically overhauling the aged systems to generate a sustained competitive edge and enter into new market sectors.

KEY BUSINESS OUTCOMES DELIVERED

A new scalable website, based on the ATG Commerce platform, with an underlying micro service business architecture, supporting over £200m in sales

Integrated in-store tilling system, and all training material… Show more

A four-year £30m programme to completely redevelop the eCommerce Digital and multi-channel platform for Screwfix, radically overhauling the aged systems to generate a sustained competitive edge and enter into new market sectors.

KEY BUSINESS OUTCOMES DELIVERED

A new scalable website, based on the ATG Commerce platform, with an underlying micro service business architecture, supporting over £200m in sales

Integrated in-store tilling system, and all training material, designed, developed and deployed in over 250 stores

Deep integration into the mid and back office to allow a real-time nationwide view of stock and customer

Integrated and automatic product and experience personalisation on a per customer level which is consistent at both in-store and online purchasing

Introduction of agile working methods, enabling the use of rapid software development tools and offshore resources

The platform is still considered the best in class for multichannel B2B/C customers, currently supporting over 600 stores and £1,500m of sales.

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