Introduction
As part of London Data Week, The Alan Turing Institute's People in Data project and the London Office of Technology & Innovation (LOTI) are co-organising an event called Empowering People in Data. This event will be hybrid (central London and online) and aims to draws together a broad range of organisations from across London and beyond that consider using data as critical to their success and realise the need to enable more people to work in data focused careers.
About the event
The event will be divided into two separate but related workshops:
The morning workshop, run by Sam Nutt from LOTI, will focus on sharing and mapping approaches from across London to developing data and AI skills, revealing how and where different organisations or sectors might work together to better create and deliver their skills. We know skills don’t stay within an organisation or a sector, but often move across sectors within a geography like London, so we want to start thinking on that city-wide level. The workshop will start with some lightning presentations sharing different work on data and AI skills, before participants discuss and share in small groups and together as a collective their work and possible opportunities, challenges and goals for the future.
The afternoon workshop, run by Emma Karoune and the People in Data team from The Alan Turing Institute, will focus on the data professionals workforce. The People in Data project aims to convene an open community of data professionals, which promotes a culture that values and prioritises data and recognises people that work in data roles as essential to any organisation. In this workshop, we will start with a diverse panel of speakers who will talk about their experience of working in data - the highs, the lows and the in-betweens. They will touch on the need for capacity building in this community and highlight some of the current challenges of working in data. It will then be time for you - the community of people gathered - to tell us more about your experiences - we will have small group discussions about: Who are the People in Data?, What skills and competency work, or training development have you done in this area or know of?, What are the main challenges of working in a data focused role?
We will end the day with a social networking hour to promote collaboration between this diverse range of attendees.
Target audience for this event:
- People who work in data focused roles - data professionals.
- Representatives from organisations that use data and especially are addressing the need for upskilling in this area.
- Anyone that is interested in a career working with data.
Cost:
The event is free to attend in person or online.
Types of attendance:
Attendance can in person or online
You can attend for the full day, or morning or afternoon only.
Agenda
Brief overview of our agenda (times in London time/UTC+1):
- 9.30 - 10.00 - Venue opens and coffee
- 10.00 - 12.30 - A Place-based approach to data and AI skills in London workshop
- 12.30 - 13.30 - Lunch break
- 13.30 - 16.00 - People in Data Workshop
- 16.00 - 17.00 - Networking
Register now
We have limited in-person numbers, and so for those that have expressed an interest to attend using our form above, we will send out invites to register by mid June and also open up registration for online attendees.
