Data: What can it do for you?

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a company in possession of data, must be in want of a lake. But what does it do with that lake? If you just dive in are you going to emerge, glistening and fit, like an anachronistic Mr Darcy? Or are you going to flail and drown in uncertainty? Do you even understand what your data is saying? There are sirens in there, luring you to wrong conclusions and deep water.

At Sydney Technology Leaders, we have sought out three lifeguards who can help you make some sense of it all. Pretty soon you'll be waving, not drowning. Come join us on Feb 16th to hear from our speakers. It will be a online and offline event; our online component will be on Teams at https://teams.live.com/meet/957931252168

Agenda:
6:00 Doors open - networking and food/drinks
6:30 Introductions and some housekeeping
6:35 Time for people to advertise any jobs they have open
6:45 Three speakers doing talks of about 15-20 minutes each
7:45 Q&A panel led by one of the STL organisers directing questions to the speakers
8:15 Finish up - final food/drinks
8:30 Vacate premises

Our Speakers
Jin Foo, Connections: Making Sense of Data
Jin will use an identity resolution problem to introduce challenges faced dealing with real-time digital data, and how we could apply graph networks to connect and make sense of relationships between data points, enabling us to solve for customer identification, segmentation and prediction in real-time.

Kate Carruthers, Data what is it really and what are we doing with it?

Kate will start with the philosophy of data and then explore what data really is, and then discuss some of the issues involved with using data safely. Kate will also show some examples of folks doing data stuff badly.

Simon Rumble, The Ted Lasso guide to becoming data-driven

Being data driven is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, everyone claims to be doing it, nobody really knows quite what it is. Vendors will tell you that if you buy their tool, you'll be data-driven. That's like buying Jira and saying you're Agile.
The cultural change needed to become data-driven are really hard. You don't get it by buying a product. You'll make mistakes. You need help.
What you need is a coach. And maybe some really amazing shortbread.