XX+Data Kickoff - Meet Amazing Data Women!

To kickoff our community some amazing women who work with data will share their inspiring career stories with us. Our speakers will show that there are multiple paths and diverse backgrounds that lead to a career in data. We’ll have talks from female data scientists, data leaders, and women passionate about data visualization and data journalism 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 our women in data speakers and Q&A
• 20:00- 21:00 Networking & wrap-up

Speakers:

Niamh Kirk (https://twitter.com/NiamhKirk), Media researcher working on a PhD in the field of journalism, culture and migration. Media analyst and multimedia journalist. Founder The Media Editor blog (https://twitter.com/TheMediaEd) and contributor with The Institute for Future Media and Journalism (@FujoMedia (https://twitter.com/FuJoMedia)).

Flora Devlin (https://twitter.com/flordev), Product Analyst @Intercom (https://twitter.com/intercom), who helps product teams use their data effectively and understand it thoughtfully. A background in Maths & Economics, Flora is passionate about strategy and loves all things related to travel.

Martina Naughton (https://twitter.com/mobstina), Data Scientist @ZalandoTech (https://twitter.com/ZalandoTech) with over 10 years across industrial and academic research. Martina has a Computer Science background, is passionate about machine learning and data mining, and is a big travel and sports enthusiast!

Karen Church (https://twitter.com/karenchurch), heads up Product Analytics @Intercom (https://twitter.com/intercom). Her prior life was spent as a Senior Research Scientist & Research Manager in Yahoo & Telefonica across the US and Spain. Karen loves the more human and creative sides of data and is a self confessed foodie.