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Addressing the gender gap in STEM industries

21 Jan 2020by Lucy Desai

The problem with stereotypes is that they linger. There isn’t an informed individual on the planet who would argue that STEM industries (science, technology, engineering and maths) ought to be male-dominated, and yet, these sectors remain imbalanced towards male representation. This is partly down to the aforementioned stereotype that these sectors ought to be “man’s work”.

Lyndsay Weir – Keeping quiet as a female leader

17 Jan 2020by David Reed

Lyndsay Weir is global data and analytics manager at Nestlé. At the Women in Data conference in November, she was named as one of the new list of female industry role models, the 20 in Data and Tech. She told DataIQ how being a female leader and role model can be done in a quiet way.

Analytics and insight Data science Leadership Organisation and culture Skills

Bhagya Reddy – Engineering inspiration in data

09 Jan 2020by David Reed

Bhagya Reddy is principal data engineer at QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company. At the Women in Data conference in November, she was named as one of the new list of female industry role models, the 20 in Data and Tech. She told DataIQ what it means to her and shared her views on the sector.

Data science Leadership Skills

European AI labs link up to exploit synergies

18 Dec 2019by Toni Sekinah

The Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE), a research network was set up to facilitate collaboration between European labs. Toni Sekinah spoke to Professor Holger Hoos about Europe’s competitive advantage in AI, and how the network can help mitigate the negative effects of AI.

Skills Technology

Can small businesses and start-ups benefit from AI too?

13 Dec 2019by Toni Sekinah

Small businesses and start-up can get in on the AI action that may seem to be the domain of the tech giants. This was the view of DataJavelin’s Philip Rooney who made this claim to a room full of entrepreneurs and small business owners at a workshop. Toni Sekinah reports.

Data science Skills Strategy Technology

Teradata’s Reema Poddar on taking risks and learning

14 Nov 2019by Toni Sekinah

Reema Poddar of Teradata heads up the company’s technology and innovation office and looks after the information security. She tells Toni Sekinah about the women she admired in the technology and business worlds, what she does to make sure the customer comes first and how she encourages diversity in her organisation.

Analytics and insight Leadership Skills Technology

Data privacy, security concerns are barriers to data use says report

12 Nov 2019by Toni Sekinah

Concerns about data privacy and data security are top obstacles to effective use of data and analytics. This is finding of a report by Microstrategy of 500 data professionals across five countries. Toni Sekinah reports.

Analytics and insight Skills Technology

Is the tech sector too cool for school? How to close the data science skills gap

06 Nov 2019by Natalie Cramp

Many of the roles in our sector did not exist ten or even five years’ ago. So, how do we expect young people to understand them? And how do we expect teachers to inspire, engage and excite young people about the opportunities? Natalie Cramp of Profusion suggests a solution.

Organisation and culture Skills

New chair for digital skills college

05 Nov 2019by Toni Sekinah

At the beginning of November, IT veteran Tiffany Hall took on the role of chair of Ada, National College for Digital Skills. She tells Toni Sekinah how she hopes to support the college, which is helping more diverse groups of students enter the STEM sector, as it enters its second phase.

Leadership Skills

Data scientists - time to brace for impact

29 Oct 2019by David Reed

We are stardust, we are golden. But data scientists could soon be finding themselves ushered out of the garden they have been enjoying for the last five years. The reason? In a down economy, companies look to cut out expensive overheads and replace them with the very automation they have been asking this function to build. David Reed explains.

Analytics and insight Data science Skills

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10 Enterprise Analytics Trends to Watch in 2019Sponsored by MicroStrategy

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