Sept 2019 - Meet Amazing Data Women!

Our next HER+Data meetup of 2019 will take place on Tuesday Sept 24th at Zalando with talks from more amazing women who work with data! We’ll have great talks from female data scientists, leaders and women passionate about AI & ML so come along, ask questions and meet other women who love data!

Agenda:
• 18:30- 19:00 Check-in & networking with some light refreshments
• 19:00- 20:00 Lightning talks from speakers and Q&A
• 20:00- 21:00 Networking & wrap-up

Speakers:
Judie Attard (@JudieA) is a Research Fellow at the ADAPT research centre in Trinity College Dublin. In 2018 she was awarded an EDGE Marie Curie fellowship for her research on data value. Prior to moving to Ireland, Judie obtained her PhD from the University of Bonn in Germany, where she focused on value creation and the exploitation of open government data. Judie has extensive experience in research, and worked in 3 renowned research centres in Ireland and Germany. Judie also collaborated on a number of European-funded projects, where she enjoyed working with teams from across Europe. Judie enjoys baking and doing all sorts of crafts in her spare time, particularly card-making.

Niamh O' Conchubhair is a Frontend Engineer at Zalando for just over a year now. She currently works on the customer account pages, trying to improve the user’s journey and experience within Zalando's site. Prior to this, she worked for a digital agency as a full-stack engineer for 4 years on a wide range of projects before deciding to specialise in the front-end. She is also finishing off a MSc in Advanced Software Development from DIT part time. Her final thesis project took a "fashionable" turn when she started working in Zalando and was inspired by what other teams were doing with machine learning.

Talar Ishak is a senior data analyst for the Insights and Planning team of User Operations in Stripe. She previously worked at Google Ireland for 5.5 years. She started as an analyst in the Trust and Safety search team, analyzing data and automating systems to capture spam and abuse and protect users on Search. After that she moved to the Cloud G-Suite team where she worked on several data projects to manage large scale vendor operations and improve our operational efficiency. This experience with outsourcing and making users happy led her to Stripe as they were scaling up their user operations and outsourcing teams. Before joining Google she first did my Bachelor degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a specialization in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Appliances. After that, she went to the London School of Economics to pursue my MSc in Managerial Economics and Game Theory. Her main thesis focus here was on Incentive Systems in different organisations.
Her day to day work today combines elements of both business and data to make strategic decisions in their day to day operations and overall future vision for the team.

Rebecca Mathews is currently the lone wolf in the Sales & Marketing Department at Ward Solutions, Ireland's leading Information Security Company. With a background in advertising she moved to Ireland to pursue her Masters in Digital Marketing. She joined Ward Solutions just before the GDPR storm not knowing what was lying ahead, believe it or not, a marketer took an interest in law for the very first time. The topic of her talk will be 'GDPR- A Marketing Boon or a Bane?'