Meet Amazing Data Women & Panel: Challenges Women Face

At this event, we’ll have a panel discussion around the theme of the challenges women in digital/tech face in these male-dominated fields from amazing women working in this space, 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 Panel discussion and Q&A
• 20:30- 21:00 Networking & wrap-up

Panellists:
• Zainab Peera (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zainabpeera/) is Head of Settlements - New Acquiring Platform (NAP) at Worldpay. Zainab was born in Tanzania, grew up in Sweden and moved to UK at the age of 19. Graduated from MMU in Marketing Management. Started her career within marketing industry and then worked in several industries including Healthcare, Oil and Gas and financial acquiring. Zainab Currently oversees a state of the art project within her sector at Worldpay delivering a separation programme from RBS. During this time Zainab successfully completed her Masters within International Payments Ecosystem from Middlesex University, London. Outside of work Zainab enjoys socialising with family and friends and a passion for travel.

• Melissa Hermitt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissahermitt/) is Operations Director at Dept Agency. Mel is an experienced digital professional who has 10 years’ experience working in the sector in a variety of roles including Digital Marketing, Client Services, Project Management and most recently Operations. Mel has extensive experience working with senior and C-level stakeholders, managing large scale international projects and programs of work across many industries (including regulated industries for gambling and tobacco) and driving operational efficiency. In her role as Operations Director at Dept, Mel oversees project delivery, operational excellence and capacity management. Mel is passionate about empowering teams to make decisions and championing the profile of women in the digital arena.

• Bethan Blakeley (https://twitter.com/HoneycombBethan) is Director at Honeycomb. Bethan has been working in market research and analytics for almost a decade, with the overarching goal of bringing the two closer together. In 2018 she co-founded Honeycomb Analytics, an agency that exists to do exactly that: bring together WHAT customers do with WHY they do it. She is an advocate of utilising existing data and fusing different sources to give a clearer idea of context. This involves using data that is publicly available, existing business data and insight, and primary research.

• Leanne Fitzpatrick (https://twitter.com/LK_Fitzpatrick) is Head of Data at Hello Soda. Leanne is a passionate data leader with experience developing, implementing and growing a data science and analytics function, and is an advocate of data science in production. Leanne is an Advisory Panel board member at the University of Sheffield Information School, was shortlisted for Young Leader of the Year in the Women in IT 2018 awards, and more recently is a finalist for the Women in Identity awards. She enjoys great food, drink and music, is a keen American Football fan and is attempting to get into golf.

Thank you to our sponsors Evolution (https://www.evolutionjobs.com/uk/) for kindly supporting our events & to Dept Agency (https://www.deptagency.com/en-gb/office/manchester/) for hosting us! *Note the venue of the meetup is e3creative, Queens House, Queen St, Manchester, M2 5HT

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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