Exploring data technologies using free tools

AGENDA
18.00 – 18:20 Meet & Greet

18:20 - 19:10: Exploring data technologies using free tools, Dom Winsor and Phil Austin

An overview, with demos, of how to develop your data skills using free tools for data manipulation, visualisation and transformation using languages like SQL and Python in the cloud and on your (Windows) laptop.

Bio's

Dom Winsor

Creative and Data Technologist turned Product Manager.

Dom has worked across digital disciplines, primarily in the education and public sector starting out doing visual/interface design and development for web & eLearning products, leading to specialism in data-driven interactive applications, then data collection, analysis, and presentation solutions.

Many of these multi-faceted roles required agile development and delivery skills, which he currently applies to Product Management for large scale data integration platforms.

Dom also helps with local tech community activities, currently including volunteering at a kids code club, helping organise the Data Bristol user group and earlier this year co-organising a Product 'Un-conference'.

Phil Austin
Senior Consultant at Telefónica Tech, Speaker

Phil has spent over 20 years down the data mines, working for household names and total unknowns. He knows a fair bit about BI and data warehousing using SQL Server and Azure. He also takes an interest in testing, query tuning, automation, development lifecycle and what is now known as DevOps, but don’t hold that against him.

Outside of that you might see him hacking around Bristol on a bike, sometimes for charity. If you buy him a drink he might tell you about the time a Nokia executive told him Apple don’t know anything about phones.

19:10 - 19:40 Pizza and Networking

19:40 - 20:30 Q&A Panel Discussion

We had some great feedback from the group previously in the year, So we have taken this onboard and are going to host a Panel of Data Expects covering Data Engineering to Data Products.

The theme is: Developing Data Engineering Capabilities for Yourself and for Your Organisation

James Yarrow will host the Panel with some set questions and live questions from you as the audience via Slido! We will share a link on the day. The Panel will feature the below.

Anna Wykes, Dual Microsoft MVP and Databrick Champion Currently at DataBricks US, Organiser for Data Bristol, Data Summit and more
Naill Langley, Data Engineer and Architect, Blogger and Speaker
Dom Winsor, Data Integration Platform Product Manager, Speaker and Master of Socials for Data Bristol
And hopefully a guest speaker!

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Event sponsors

We would like to thank our generous sponsors for supporting us:
Ovo Energy (www.ovoenergy.com)

Location

The venue is: Ovo Energy, 1 Rivergate Temple Quay,

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Photos

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We will invite people to be included in a group photo/s during the event. Speakers will let you know if it's okay to photograph their presentation (excluding other attendees).
You may see organisers taking photos during the talks. These will be of speakers, if they have agreed to this, and will not include faces of attendees.