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Session abstract:
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Data Science has experienced a decade of growth and continues to be one of the fastest growing occupations globally. Navigating the opportunities available for both people and organisations is challenging in a fast moving landscape. Our expert panellists will focus on unlocking the Data Science opportunity using their unique journeys into data science to highlight the importance of identifying and developing talent, varied career paths, a business-goal focus, and keeping up to date with the latest developments.
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Mikel Fernandes – Mikel is a Data Scientist who has been working at Digitas for 2 years. He has completed a level 4 apprenticeship in Data Analysis and is now working on a level 5+6 degree apprenticeship. Before he joined Digitas he worked for a computing education provider, and in his spare time teaches kids STEM subjects on a voluntary basis.
Leila Seith Hassan – Throughout out her career, Leila has worked in large creative agencies and niche data consultancies in Australia, the USA, and Europe. Her analytics experience covers a wide variety of clients including American Express, Vodafone, IBM, British Airways and Nestlé. As Head of Data Science and Analytics for Digitas UK, Leila is responsible for driving connected experiences powered by analytics and data science. To do this, her team combines methods that are tried and tested such as statistics, web, social and media analytics, data visualisation and data strategy with new techniques made possible with enhanced technology such as Machine and Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing and Image Recognition
Divya Rana – Divya is a Data Scientist for Digitas UK, who has worked on projects such as leveraging XGBoost models to predict future covid scenarios for hotel brands, and building an nlp based tool to monitor brand safety for advertisers.