Meet Amazing Data Women - Celebrating 1 year of HER+Data MCR events!

This group is for women who work with and love data. Our goal is to bring together women who work in data or who would like work in data - to support one another, share experiences and talk data - big or small! Whether you’re a student just embarking on a career or a seasoned data professional, this group is for you. We want to connect and inspire amazing data women with diverse expertise and experience.

Join us Thursday, September 6th to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of our first event and hear more great talks from female data analysts, scientists and advocates so come along, ask questions and meet other women who love data!

Agenda:
• 18:30- 19:00 Networking with pizza & drinks
• 19:00- 20:30 Lightning talks from our women in data speakers and Q&A
• 20:30- 21:00 Networking & wrap-up

Speakers:
• Zandra Moore (https://twitter.com/zandramoore), CEO and Co-Founder of Panintelligence, has over 20 years’ experience of working with a range of technology partners and solutions. Zandra’s passion and enthusiasm for enabling business and public-sector managers to drive performance through data insights and analytics is highly infectious. Prior to working for Panintelligence, Zandra ran her own software solutions consultancy business and has founded a range of B2B networking organisations, including LeanIn Leeds – a network of over 220 professional women. Zandra was recently recognised as the female CEO of the Year in the English Women’s Awards, North.

• Kirsty Devlin (https://twitter.com/Kirstydevlin1) is a passionate technologist, self-taught developer, and a vocal advocate for increasing diversity and BAME representation in tech. She recognises technology and the community around it to be a powerful tool in promoting social mobility and she invests much of her time and energy outside of her work to ensure that opportunities are available to those minority groups and individuals who have been historically under-represented in and underserved by technology. Co-Founder of Women Who Keynote, she has big ambitions to develop it into the biggest database of technical female speakers in the world.

• Karen Church (https://twitter.com/karenchurch) is a data science leader who loves building great teams and using data to uncover insights, drive decision making and inform product innovation. As Director of Product Analytics & Data Science at Intercom, Karen leads a team of product analysts, data engineers and data scientists across Dublin and London who help Intercom design, develop and measure the success of its products. Prior to Intercom she spent ~8 years in industrial research labs - Yahoo in the US and Telefonica in Spain - conducting a range of research at the intersection of mobile human-computer interaction (HCI) and data science. Karen is a huge advocate for women in technology and believes in the power of strong female role models. She founded HER+Data in Dublin, Ireland in May 2017, a community support, connect and elevate women in data. She is also Women in Data Science (WiDS) Ambassador Dublin.

Thank you to our sponsors Evolution (https://www.evolutionjobs.com/uk/), for kindly supporting our events & to Intechnica (https://intechnica.com/ & https://twitter.com/intechnica) for hosting us! Intechnica provide independent technology advisory for corporate finance, private equity and in-portfolio companies from current practitioners experienced in agile working. They have a growing team of Data Scientists who work to translate business problems into machine learning solutions.

A reminder that our events are open to anyone who identifies as a woman :)

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