Talk evening - Members talks [in-person & streamed]

## Details

In this hybrid event, we will have an introduction on our sponsor, and 2 very insightful talks for you 🥳

💡 Holger Pannhorst, Balint Badonfai and Bernd Kampe - NLP Challenges in Government Agencies
Introducing the insides from Bundesdruckerei's work in the public area.
Why NLP and Python development when dealing with government agencies? Explore use cases related to text processing and working with documents.

👨‍💻 Holger (he/him) is a data and analytics generalist with a strong focus on data science and machine learning, with more than 12 years experience in this area. He has been building strong and powerful data and analytics teams for various companies for 8 years. After years in the Berlin startup area, he entered the public sector in order to work on more meaningful products and projects.

👨‍💻 Balint (he/him) is a tech lead at Bundesdruckerei with a focus on creating AI-Infused applications. Passionate about solving real-life business problems with data and creating production-level solutions.

👨‍💻 Bernd (he/him) is a data scientist and NLP specialist at Bundesdruckerei, who switched to Python when the Deep Learning boom began. Originally a bioinformatician, he turned computational linguist later and uses his skills to scale up text analysis tasks.
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✨ Frie Preu - Data4Good: Using your Data Science Skills for the Social Good
Present the work of CorrelAid, a Data4Good network with over 2000 data science enthusiasts, some of their Python projects that they have done with nonprofit organizations and sketch out how you can get involved in their network. The focus would be more about the impact of the projects than the technical details.

👩‍💻 Frie (they/them) is a data scientist / low-budget data engineer / coding person / data4gooder from Germany. Since 2020, they have been working as COO for CorrelAid, a Data4Good network of over 2000 data scientists where they're in charge of Data4Good project coordination, developing tools and maintaining the technical infrastructure. Frie has a background in political science and data science and worked in IT consulting for two years. Besides that, they also enjoy being outdoors (hiking, exploring), being indoors (being lazy), taking photos of things and eating good food. They used to be quite active on Twitter, but have retired to mostly retweeting memes and cute animals.

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About our sponsor and host

Jina AI is a commercial open-source software company founded in February 2020. It provides businesses and developers an MLOps platform for building multimodal applications on the cloud, including neural search and creative AI. The company has raised 37.5 million USD backed by top investors such as Canaan Partners, GGV Capital, Yunqi Partners, SAP.io and Mango Capital. The company is headquartered in Berlin, Germany with offices in San Jose, Beijing, and Shenzhen; its distributed team model includes members from all around the world.

Spiced Academy: At SPICED, we're on a mission to kickstart as many tech careers as humanly possible. We seek to challenge students with intensive, practical courses that get them primed for the world.

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📆 Agenda
19h00 Community Announcements
19h10 Introducing our Hosts: Jina AI & Spiced Academy
19h20 NLP Challenges in Government Agencies
20h00 Break
20h05 Data4Good: Using your data science skills for the social good
20h25 Networking and food
21h00 See You Next Time! :D
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• There will be food and drinks (with vegetarian and vegan options)
• 🎥 This hybrid event will be streamed on:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PyLadiesBerlin
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pyladiesberlin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PyLadiesBer
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❗❗ Attention❗❗
To make all in-person attendees feel safe, we ask everyone to be fully vaccinated or recovered (2G) and additionally wear a mask when possible