In case you missed our last #datapluswomen#Meetup with Verena Tschudi on how to speak up, use the link to view the recording. link This time it was all about how to boost your #selfconfidence and put aside your fear of speaking in front of strangers. Verena shared her insights on how to fight this fear and feel better about ourselves. Verena offers the LEVEL ME UP! coaching program for women who want to experience success & fulfillment (in German). You can find more information : verenatschudi.com/coaching On June 2nd, we have a Global Data+Women event with speakers from all over the world, such as Olivia Duane Adams, Elissa Fink, Keila Guimarães, Emily Kund, and more! RSVP here
31 March 2021 - Climate Science
We have a great session about Climate Science with: - Eirini Boleti, demonstrated how data and models facilitate our understanding of climate dynamics - Evgenia Tsianou spoke about the importance of communication strategies
11 February 2021 - Data Journalism
We have joined forces with the Netherlands for a retrospective of what happened in the #datajournalism field in 2020. Our awesome panelists were :
Hassel Fallas, Data analysis and information visualisation consultant, La Data Cuenta
Valentina Romei, Economics reporter at the Financial Times
10 December 2020 - Christmas Special
Agathe Laville, from Barry Callebaut explained What does it feels like working as a commodities analyst in a chocolate company? The presentation focused on her very personal experience. How she got there, what this function means and what she mostly learned and retained so far. To be able to look forward, it starts by knowing where we come from . Jennifer Dawes & Dinushki De Livera, from Unifund, presented their latest data collaborative project based on Christmas Recipes
18 November 2020 - Special Movember
Neil Richards, from JLL gave an excellent talk about the importance to "Celebrate the unnecessary In these times of disputed votes and global pandemics, there have never been so many serious and important data visualisations in the public eye. But for other projects, if you just want a complete break from viruses and election maps, how analytical does your viz really need to be, is it really necessary?
Joshua Preston from Georgia Tech talked about how to " Tell good stories with Tableau" What is data storytelling? It means a lot of different things to different people. Tableau has in many ways freed data enthusiasts to explore this question and unleashed a wave of creative expression where design and data meet in exciting ways. We’ll explore together one approach to finding your inner storyteller with Tableau. First time having only men speakers... and they were fantastic!
September 2020 - Virtual Event with Dr. Sara Fabrikant Professor of Geography, University of Zürich Dr. Clio Andris Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech and Dr. Sarah Battersby, Lead Research Staff, Tableau
Our speakers were fantastic and we warmly recommend to listen to the recording!! If you like the topic and would like to learn more about it, you can find some articles below.
June 2020 - Virtual Event with Elissa Fink CMO Advisor, Marketing Mentor and Former CMO of Tableau, Marianne Eerens Senior Analyst & Data Visualist at SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions and Fiona Sizeland, Lead Analyst Business Insights & Analytics at Dyson.
April 2020 - Our First Virtual Event with Alison Tierney Global Vice President EMEA at Snowflake, Bianka Swierczynska Data Analyst at LeShop Migros Group and Nynke van Miltenburg, Consultant Employee Insights at Willis Towers Watson.
The event has been recorded :)
23 January 2020 - The future of Analytics at Vontobel with Libby Duane Adams Co-founder and CCO at Alteryx, Caroline Knöri Head Corporate Human Resources at Vontobel and Anaig Marechal, Software Engineer at Microsoft.
More than 100 women and men attended the second Data + Women event last Thursday in the auditorium at Vontobel to get inspired by different female speakers working with and around data from various industries. The event was kicked-off by a dialogue between Libby Duane Adams, Co-founder and CCO at Alteryx, and Caroline Knöri, Head Corporate Human Resources at Vontobel.
Libby and Caroline were discussing about the modern analytics journey that is taking place in their organizations and how it has transformed the role so far. Also diversity was a big topic, stating what initiatives are already in place at Vontobel and Alteryx and what can be done to further support women in tech roles. Giving advice on having a successful career by Libby and Caroline, the audience was being told to “not being scared of taking risks” and “pursuing a role which you really enjoy”.
During the second part, Anaig Marechal, Software Engineer at Microsoft, presented her Machine Learning project “AI for Good” at Microsoft for which she analyzes children’s eye movements using data science to assess reading troubles showing how data science can be used to help disabled people in general. This was followed by a networking apéro to further exchange ideas, share career expertise and just to get to know each other. We received excellent feedbacks from people attending the events and the ones who didn’t but heard so positive comments that they do not want to miss the next one!
03 October 2019 - Data + Women Zürich at Credit Suisse with Homa Siddiqui - Head of Digital Transformation & Product Labs, Crédit Suisse Linn Bieske - Analytics Consultant, McKinsey and Marianne Buck - Sales Consultants, Tableau