Ethical considerations for customer facing Machine Learning systems

Ewan will be talking about the ethical considerations we take when implementing customer facing ML systems, or systems that interact with customer data. This is an increasingly important topic for our industry. This will be a talk from the practitioner’s point of view, covering topics including:

• Why ethics is an important topic for data scientists working in industry, and an essential problem for our companies.
• How this focus makes us do the correct things with our data. From the way that we log data, through to optimising towards the correct metrics.
• How to communicate the importance of ethical data to your company, and how to map it to your company values.

About the speaker

Ewan has been working professionally with numbers and computers for the past 12 years. During the past 5 years at Skyscanner he’s seen the data team grow from 2 analysts based in Edinburgh, to a global team of 25+ data scientists making global impact.