Meet Amazing Data Women

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.

At this event, we’ll have more great talks from female data analysts, scientists and researchers 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:
• Areeb Alowisheq (https://www.linkedin.com/in/areeb-alowisheq/) is a CS Assistant Professor at Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University in Saudi Arabia. Her Ph.D. focused on Semantic Web Services expression and matching and she completed it in 2014 at the University of Southampton. Her current research interests lie in Applied Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, focusing on the Arabic language.

• Kathryn Smith (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-smith1976/) is a Senior Data Architect for Sopra Steria. Originally graduating with an Hons degree in mathematics and statistics and nearly having a masters in statistics Kathryn has worked with data for over 20 years. Passionate about data handling, quality and preparation to ensure insights and analytics are accurate and meaningful Kathryn has worked across a multitude of sectors, including manufacturing, insurance, retail, HE, financial services and pensions prior to joining Sopra Steria. Kathryn is zealous about respectful use and handling of data, automation, streamlining and golden sources, in whatever infrastructure that may be, just please let it only be one!

• Lauren Rodgers (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-rodgers-413677109/) is a Data Scientist at Peak. I love data and the power it can leverage in business, which motivated me to do my Masters in Data Science at the University of Sheffield. My previous and current roles have allowed me to work with a variety of data, and build machine learning models. The thing I love about Data Science is that at its core sits mathematics, as well as the hundreds of different algorithms to choose from. There are constantly new algorithms in development, so you really have to stay on your feet or ideally stay ahead of the game.

Thank you to our sponsors Evolution (https://www.evolutionjobs.com/uk/) for kindly supporting our events & to Peak (https://peak.ai/) for hosting us!

A reminder that our events are open to anyone who identifies as a woman and by registering for this event you agree to abide by our Code of Conduct (https://www.meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/pages/28013678/Code_of_Conduct/).

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