Sarah Rench is the Global Data, AI and Industry Solutions Director at Avanade and has experience building various data systems across the full data lifecycle and specializes in; Data quality systems using machine learning for UK, European and Global regulations, Data governance and Risk management frameworks, MLOps, DevOps, Cloud Migration (using Microsoft and Databricks technologies) & Data and AI Security. She’s also the Avanade LGBT+ Executive Sponsor and has run and spoken at various LGBTQ+ & Diversity, Equity and Inclusion events globally, including recently at an Inclusion and Diversity Rally at UK Parliament.

She’s one of the award-winning Data Leaders & LGBTQ+ Leaders in the UK and represented the UK speaking at an AI conference for the Department of Trade in South Korea. Recently she was awarded the Top 100 Yahoo Finance Outstanding LGBTQ+ Role Model Exec List and has been one of the UK Top 100 Most Influential Women in Tech list from 2019 onwards. She is also one of the Top 10 Inspirational Role Models for British LGBTQ+ awards 2022.

Previously, she worked for EY and IPsoft leading in delivering ‘intelligent automation’ & Data and AI solutions and was EY’s advisory board member of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI APPG). She actively encourages women and other minority groups to get into AI and STEM through her work on the executive boards of DevelopHer, previously in Cass Global Women's Leaders Programme, which provides scholarships to women to do MBAs and Masters degrees, and through running events and training through Avanade’s Employee Networks including; Women’s ERG, Prism (LGBTQ+) network and Beyond (BAME and multicultural network).