About International Love Data Week
Love Data Week (LDW) is an international celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine's Day. Established in 2016 as "Love Your Data Week," it quickly grew into an international event where a wide range of organisations celebrate data.
In 2025, the theme of Love Data Week is “Whose data is it anyway?”— a theme that resonates deeply as we focus on business ownership of one of our most important assets: Data!
During this week, we are excited to bring everyone together to celebrate and promote the value of data, information, and artificial intelligence.
Why Love Data Week?
We recognise the pivotal role data plays in our success, driving decision-making, innovation, and growth. International Love Data Week provides us with a platform to explore, share, and learn how we leverage data for excellence in shaping both our present and our future.
We first participated in International Love Data Week in 2023 and it grew in popularity in 2024. Building on the success of International Love Data Week in February 2024, where over 1,600 people engaged in various Data & AI events, we are kicking off our planning for International Love Data Week in February 2025.
This time, we want to go global and get everyone across the Co-op involved and we have an LDW planning committee organising an array of exciting events for our Co-op to attend, learn, and participate in.
Explore Our International Love Data Week Events
Explore, Learn, and Connect Through Our Upcoming Events
Speed Data'ing
Find Your Data & AI Match
A chance to meet experts from four key Data & AI pillars: Information Management, Artificial Intelligence, Data Product & Fonterra Data Platform
Exclusive Leader's Breakfast
Value Stories Across Industries
Join us for an exclusive Leader’s Breakfast, a unique event where you'll have the opportunity to connect with some of New Zealand’s top leaders in the field of AI and Data innovation. This is a rare opportunity to engage with experts and peers and learn how leading organisations are driving extraordinary outcomes through the power of data and AI.
What are people saying about Data & AI?
James Lawrence
GM AI - Centre of Enablement
We'll use AI more and more, helping us all work smarter, everyday.
Mike Trotter
Head of Data & AI Platforms
With stronger data foundations, we have a shared data service everyone at Fonterra can use.
Caroline Wishart
Head of Information Management
We're all working together to manage, share and own our information.