She Loves Data UK December Drinks-Postponed
#SLDUK #Networking #Data
==UPDATE: EVENT POSTPONED==
In light of the recent U.K Government guidelines and our Venue’s COVID Policy, we will be rescheduling the SLD December Drinks to early 2022.
We’d like to say a big thank you to those who have already registered for the event! As a team and along with our event partners, we are keen to get this back in the calendar as soon as we can, whilst ensuring your COVID safety.
In the meantime, please keep in touch and check out our website for any upcoming virtual events you can participate in. You will be hearing from us very soon…
Have a great Christmas and stay safe!
SAVE THE DATE: Partnering with JDX Consulting and Wiserfunding, The She Loves Data U.K. Chapter are hosting an end of year meet-up to celebrate our Dashboard Foundations Course graduates and more generally to bring our data community together for our final event of 2021. Drinks and nibbles will be provided and we’ll also be running a raffle on the evening with some exciting prizes! So come clink a glass with us to celebrate and network with the She Loves Data community and industry leaders in Data and Technology – we look forward to seeing you there!
Tip: Bring some coins to enter the raffle!!
COVID POLICY:
In light of the rising number of COVID-19 cases globally, we are requiring all registered attendees, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers to provide proof of a negative COVID lateral flow test, taken within 24 hours of arrival to the event.
Upon arrival, please be prepared to present evidence (SMS text or e-mail) of negative lateral flow COVID test ready for verification.
Sponsors
SLD UK Chapter is excited to announce that they’re partnering with JDX Consulting and Wiser Funding for this event.
FAQs
Q. Is it free to join?
A. Yes! Participation is free, but slots are limited, so please register early!
Q. I’m based outside of Singapore. Can I still join?
A. Lucky for London, this is an in-person event and as such is only available for in person attendance in London. Please take note of the required Covid-measures listed above!
Q. Is it only for women?
A. Just like all our She Loves Data #MeetUp events, this programme is open to all genders.
Q. Is this an interactive discussion or just a ‘listen-in’ event?
A. Definitely interactive! Your thoughts, feedback, and questions are most welcome and will be entertained during and at the end of the discussion.
Q. What if something comes up and I need to retract my registration?
A. Please be considerate and let us know if you won’t be able to attend the meetup in advance, so we can offer your place to somebody else.
Contact us and we’ll help you.
The email you need is [email protected].
By registering you understand that the details you provide during the registration process will be collected and used by She Loves Data. Photographs and/or video may be taken at the event. By taking part in this event you grant the event organisers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for publicity and/or marketing purposes. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity materials, social media, and press releases.
The Data Journey: What happens behind the scene
Dec 4, 2021 (Saturday), 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Jakarta Time (WIB)
AGENDA
This session will unveil the first steps to have a career in data in the Indonesian landscape.
We will explore skills we need to learn, how to network and also discuss how women can challenge stereotypes prevalent in the tech world (crazy hours, being reclusive, anti-social etc)
The goal of our session is to be engaging and informative so we hope you will join us!
Speakers
FAQ
Q. Is it free to join?
A. Yes! Participation is free, but slots are limited, so please register early!
Q. I’m based outside of Indonesia. Can I still join?
A. Absolutely! This is an APAC-wide online event. However, we will be exploring the Indonesian Technology and data landscape and will be primarily talking in Bahasa Indonesia.
Q. Is it only for women?
A. Just like our regular She Loves Data #MeetUp events, this online webinar is open to professionals of all genders. #HeLovesData #Zelovesdata too! We will be discussing challenges faced by women so we hope the males can support this discussion.
Q. Is this an interactive discussion or just a ‘listen-in’ webinar?
A. Definitely interactive! Your thoughts, feedback and questions are most welcome and will be entertained during the polling and live Q&A portions at the end of the discussion.
Q. What if something comes up and I need to retract my registration?
A. Please be considerate and let us know if you won’t be able to attend the online meetup a day in advance, so we can offer your place to somebody else.
Contact us and we’ll help you.
The email you need is [email protected].
By registering you understand that the details you provide during the registration process will be collected and used by She Loves Data. Photographs and/or video may be taken at the event. By taking part in this event you grant the event organisers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for publicity and/or marketing purposes. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity materials, social media, and press releases.
Signature Program: Intermediate SQL
#Data #Intermediate #SQL
Nov 27, 2021 (Saturday), 10:30 AM to 01:00 PM Singapore Time
Agenda
Improve your understanding on intermediate functionality, and usage of SQL
-> Get a deeper understanding on datatypes
-> Learn the order of execution for SQL Commands
-> Understand how to manage, update and change a table in a database
-> View, join and combine related data across multiple tables
-> Get ready for the next advanced course!
FAQ
Q. Is it free to join?
A. Yes! Participation is free, but slots are limited, so please register early!
Q. I’m based outside of APAC. Can I still join?
A. Absolutely! This is a worldwide online event. You can join from any part of the world.
Q. Is it only for women?
A. The online webinar is an inclusive event and open to all genders. #HeLovesData #zelovesdata too!
Do you have any other questions?
Please contact us and we’ll help you: [email protected]
By registering you understand that the details you provide during the registration process will be collected and used by She Loves Data. Photographs and/or videos may be taken at the event. By taking part in this event you grant the event organisers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for publicity and/or marketing purposes. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity materials, social media, and press releases.
Consider Data Careers in Healthcare: Advancing Health Care with Inclusive Clinical Trials and AI
Find out the skills required to be part of this growing industry. Learn the AI technologies being used in healthcare. Join us in this free discussion and global networking session.
Middle East Chapter Launch at AI EVERYTHING x GITEX 2021
Middle East Chapter Launch at AI EVERYTHING x GITEX 2021
She Loves Data is coming to the Middle East!
This October 19, we are officially opening our Middle East Chapter in Dubai through a live, in-person launch event – “Women in Data and AI by She Loves Data” , at the AI Everything x GITEX Tech Summit 2021, the world’s largest global AI conference.
Visit us at Sheikh Rashid Hall, Dubai World Trade Centre on October 19 (Tuesday), 2 to 5 pm to meet our She Loves Data Co-Founders Jana Marle Zizkova and Pavel Bulowski, as well as our new Chapter Co-Leads Begum Saygecelti and Komal Kaundal, and their ME volunteering team.
Find out more and register for the conference here: https://www.ai-everything.com/she-loves
#conference #MiddleEast #womenintech #womenindata
No data background yet? No worries
Article by: Emma Foster | 02:00pm August 16 2021
Meggy Chung, Westpac’s general manager of data platforms, has a multi-pronged approach to addressing the data skills shortage. (Supplied)
If you’re already proficient when it comes to working with data, you’ll know your skills are in hot demand.
But even if you’re not, doors to data-related jobs are swinging wide open.
It’s a phenomenon spurred by companies the world over attempting to keep pace with the digitisation of everyday interactions, propelled into warp speed since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.
“It’s a super exciting time, but it’s become a huge issue to find the right skill set,” says Jana Marlé-Zizková, chief executive and co-founder of the global data training community, She Loves Data.
“COVID has sped up in an extreme way not only how people consume, but how they communicate, search, interact – where digitalisation is playing an enormous role. Organisations are needing to adapt, not just their hiring processes but to support the constant upskilling of their people in working with data.”
It’s a challenge Meggy Chung knows well.
Since joining Westpac as general manager of the bank’s data platforms in February last year just as the pandemic began, Chung saw competition for talent heat up even more as skilled migration to Australia ground to a halt.
“Even when borders open, Australia will still have a skills shortage, more so than other parts of the world,” says Chung, who joined the bank from Singapore where she spent six years with Citibank, most recently leading its data services team.
In fact, research by Deloitte Access Economics and RMIT has found Australia needs 156,000 new technology workers in the five years to 2025 to ensure economic growth is not harmed. Globally, Korn Ferry has estimated the shortage of tech workers will represent $8.5 trillion in lost annual revenue in the decade to 2030.
Chung, who previously also worked in the UK at Barclays and Accenture, is taking a multi-pronged approach to tackle the challenge of augmenting her team to deliver on the bank’s growing pipeline of data-led projects, which she estimates will require up to 200 people over the next two years.
Besides throwing her hiring net wider to include talent in non-banking industries, she says her priorities are to rebalance her team so the majority of roles are held by permanent staff rather than vendors, build internal capability so those staff step into the more advanced data roles, and promote the idea that working in data doesn’t always mean you need a data degree.
“I have yet to speak to someone who can’t find a way into data,” she says.
“You can have an operational background, a risk background, work in reporting, analytics, marketing technology, or project delivery – they are all skills you can leverage. If people want to get into data, then chances are I will have a role somewhere.”
To help this mindset shift, Chung has spearheaded a set of initiatives, some aligned closely with her fervent commitment to getting more women into the male-dominated domain.
She’s set up “Data Gals”, an employee-led “tribe” to inspire more women across the bank to make a career shift; and partnered with global organisations with a similar mission, such as She Loves Data, a group Chung first partnered with in 2018 when at Citibank in Singapore.
New data education programs are also being rolled out for bank staff, including “tech talks” for general managers and a four-part series for interested members of the bank’s employee “clubs”, such as the 3000-plus members of under 35s professional development group The Youth Network, covering everything from how to use tools like Tableau to what the future holds for machine learning.
And to increase the bottom-up pipeline of highly sought advanced analytics skills, Chung is dialing up the bank’s focus on university graduates, adding a new data-specific stream to the bank’s existing graduate program, complementing other initiatives such as Westpac’s Young Technologist scholarship program.
“We want these graduates, not just because they come out with data skills, but because the younger generation sees data differently,” Chung says. “They intuitively know more about how and why data can be used by people and what the possibilities are.”
But, Microsoft digital advisor, Ashton Bridge, says it’s tough to interest younger people into data-centric careers – and convince them they can do the job.
“It’s all about painting a picture for what careers really look like, even if you haven’t obtained those hard technical skills, like coding,” says Bridge, who will be part of a data panel later this week for Westpac staff.
Bridge’s path to Microsoft is a case in point.
Having started her career as a laboratory assistant, working on autopsies in a hospital morgue, with aspirations to become a coroner, she says she shifted to tech after a project to overhaul the lab’s pathology IT system, and never looked back.
“I’m not a deep technical expert; I rely on people with that expertise,” Bridge says.
“My job is to bridge the gap between them and the business I’m advising to help solve their business problems. I found out I could apply my knowledge and experience into the tech world, and learn on the job, without following the traditional university path.”
Marlé-Zizková says organisations like She Loves Data play an important role in building potential candidates’ “competence, confidence and leadership” – across both soft skills (like project management) and hard skills (like coding and statistical modeling) – through a series of education workshops and webinars. Since founding the not-for-profit in Singapore in 2016, she says more than 14,000 women have taken part in training in 17 countries, including Australia.
The group also connects job-ready candidates with opportunities through “recruitment fairs”, virtual events where hiring managers showcase roles while candidates showcase their skills – a mechanism Chung says Westpac soon plans to adopt as part of its partnership with She Loves Data.
Chung says these initiatives go much deeper than simply recruiting talent for her data platforms area.
“We are on a mission to transform Westpac into a data driven organisation,” she says.
“And to do so, the whole of Westpac needs to become more data literate, so that people, for example, those in operational roles, can imagine and use data differently to improve their everyday work.”
She Loves Data London Chapter networking event
#shelovesdata #london #londonnetworking
A chance to meet the growing SLD London Chapter community to network and hear from speakers from the data industry and She Loves Data to discuss hot topics in data in an informal and relaxed roundtable event.
Speakers
Larice Stielow is a senior economist in PwC UK’s Strategy& consulting practice. She is passionate about using economic analysis to support and influence policy and spending decisions that improve peoples’ lives. She works extensively in government policy, infrastructure and transport, aid, trade and investment, skills and employment, and sustainability. Larice is the lead author of PwC’s Women in Work 2021 Index, which measures the OECD’s progress towards gender equality in work, and discusses the impact of COVID-19 on women’s employment outcomes. pwc.co.uk/womeninwork
Niamh Kingsley is a Data and Technology Manager at JDX Consulting, currently studying a masters in Neuroscience at King’s College London. Both Niamh’s professional and academic career has been no short of the ordinary, from reading a Bachelor’s degree in International Politics, to her extensive qualifications in Python, Swift, GitLab and many others, Niamh is a shining example of how to break into the data industry in style! As a frequent content contributor to ‘Towards Data Science’ publications, Niamh is passionate about understanding the depths and limitations of AI in both the natural and technological world. She is an avid gamer and has formed a series of panels in her career, including most recent Multiverse’s Women in Tech: Developing the Leaders of the Future.
Noaman Mangera is an Analytics Consultant at Bizatory who shares a strong passion for data. His day-to-day role has exposed him to the intricacies of data analytics, from cleaning, analysing and visualising data in a way that can communicate the most compelling stories using software such as SQL, Tableau and Python to name a few. Noaman frequently demonstrates his knowledge and understanding in this field by writing about the current trends in data visualisation, business analytics and machine learning for LinkedIn and is passionate about teaching others and sharing his own experiences of dealing with data.
Prerna Goel is not only a highly recognised leader and gamechanger in the payments technology industry and has taken on a number of senior positions in her career, she is also the She Loves Data London Chapter founder and lead. Prerna would love to discuss all things She Loves Data and how you can benefit from the organisation. It will also be a great opportunity to discuss and ask questions about her career, particularly as a female in the industry. The London Chapter is really excited to meet its community, register now and we look forward to meeting you in person to discuss all things data
Sponsors
SLD London Chapter is excited to announce that Tibco Software is a proud supporter of this event.
FAQs
Q. Is it free to join?
A. Yes! Participation is free, but slots are limited, so please register early!
Q. I’m based outside of Singapore. Can I still join?
A. Lucky for London, they are getting to run their first in person event and as such is only available for in person attendance in London.
Q. Is it only for women?
A. Just like all our She Loves Data #MeetUp events, this programme is open to all professional men and women. #HeLovesData too!
Q. Is this an interactive discussion or just a ‘listen-in’ event?
A. Definitely interactive! Your thoughts, feedback, and questions are most welcome and will be entertained during and at the end of the discussion.
Q. What if something comes up and I need to retract my registration?
A. Please be considerate and let us know if you won’t be able to attend the meetup in advance, so we can offer your place to somebody else.
Contact us and we’ll help you.
The email you need is [email protected].
By registering you understand that the details you provide during the registration process will be collected and used by She Loves Data. Photographs and/or video may be taken at the event. By taking part in this event you grant the event organisers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for publicity and/or marketing purposes. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity materials, social media, and press releases.
Data analytics enabled by AI/ML: Unlocking the future of customer experience
#Data #Beginner #AI
August 18 2021 (Wednesday), 11:30 to 13:00 London time, 12:30 – 14:00 Prague time, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Singapore Time
Artificial Intelligence will assist retailers in making better revenue forecasts in the future by providing better customer service, and retargeting customers who have left.
In this webinar, you will learn the importance of customer analytics, how this technology changes both the way people live and shop, and the way they connect with the world.
You can use this knowledge to run a business and apply AI in your business to improve customer experience and create personalization and product recommendations.
Topics we’ll go through during this webinar:
What Machine Learning is?
What counts as Artificial Intelligence?
Unlocking Data-Driven AI customer experience.
How do you collect data?
How do you analyze social media data?
Uses of Customer Analytics.
Used Cases of Customer Analytics.
This webinar is designed for beginners and people with basic knowledge of AI/ML.
Speakers
FAQ
Q. Is it free to join?
A. Yes! Participation is free, but slots are limited, so please register early!
Q. I’m based outside of Prague. Can I still join?
A. Absolutely! This is a world wide online event. You can join from any part of the world.
Q. Is it only for women?
A. The online webinar is an inclusive event and open to all genders. #HeLovesData #zelovesdata too! But the content for this specific workshop is designed for women as of now.
Do you have any other question? Please contact us and we’ll help you: [email protected]
By registering you understand that the details you provide during the registration process will be collected and used by She Loves Data. Photographs and/or video may be taken at the event. By taking part in this event you grant the event organisers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for publicity and/or marketing purposes. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity materials, social media, and press releases.
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Sign up now for this FREE webinar on Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning applications!
Intro to Data 1: Data Foundation
Sign up now for this FREE She Loves Data Signature Event. Learn the foundation of data analytics. Prior programming knowledge not required!
