PyData Leeds: Leeds Digital Festival '24

PyData Leeds: Leeds Digital Festival ’24

PyData Leeds, for the second time, is coming to Leeds Digital Festival!

Date: Tuesday 17th September 2024
Time: 18:00
Location: Hippo Event Space, 26 Aire St, Leeds, LS1 4HT (At the back of Brew Society)

PyData is a global meet-up of Data and Software Engineering enthusiasts who want to connect, network and learn. Leeds has a thriving and growing eco-system of technology businesses and people. The Digital Festival is an open, collaborative celebration of digital culture in all its forms. A perfect match, right?

Agenda

17:30: Networking and Refreshments

18:00: Welcome & Icebreaker

18:15: Speaker 1 - Suze Hawkins (Senior Data Scientist at Hippo), ‘Do you need AI, or do you need a reporting dashboard?’

Giving a realistic account of the challenges of data science delivery and how to overcome them, this talk will explain how AI and ML projects differ in their design to typical engineering projects, and practical solutions to make the most of a proof of concept. Maybe you’re a business leader wondering why you’ve still not seen a finished AI product, a delivery manager confused about why data exploration is spilling into another sprint, or even a data scientist looking for group therapy - this is an honest account of problems you can see along the way and pragmatic steps you can take to ease the pain. It also raises the question: is a complex AI product going to solve the business problem, or is there a more simple solution to try first?

18:45: James Spence (Engineering Manager at Smoothwall by Qoria), ‘Qoria: Unlocking Potential - Creating a safer online for children’

Qoria is a global technology company, dedicated to keeping children safe and well in their digital lives. This talk will explore our mission, an overview of our most impactful services and how we get value from our data to support 24 million (and counting) children across the world to be safer online.

19:30: Wrap-up & Drinks in Brew Society

If you have been before, we look forward to seeing you again and if you're coming along for the first time, we're excited to meet you and for you to join the Leeds PyData Community.

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PyData Leeds is a strictly professional event, as such professional behaviour is expected.

PyData Leeds is a chapter of PyData, an educational program of NumFOCUS and thus abides by the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct - https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html