Blog Archives

04 Mar 2025

Mastering Synthetic Data Generation in Sports Analytics

Being unable to find sufficient data is nothing new for data scientist but it is a particular pain point in the world of Sports Analytics. This is because in my industry, data collection involved physically attaching equipment to athletes and collecting data as they perform, be it in professional football, rugby or any other sport […]

19 Feb 2025

Agent-based models 101

In this introductory talk, we will discuss agent-based models (ABMs) and their use in a business setting. ABMs are used to understand macro behaviours (at the scale of the population) through the lens of micro decisions (i.e. taken by people, households, companies, …). This allows the modeller to incorporate rich detail at the level of […]

11 Feb 2025

Chaos to Clarity: Predictive Dashboards for Smarter Real Estate Decisions

This talk is about empowering real estate professionals to harness advanced analytics tools within Microsoft Fabric to revolutionize decision-making. By leveraging Power BI and Azure Synapse, I will demonstrate how to build predictive dashboards that provide actionable insights into key metrics such as property demand, rental trends, and market growth. What Makes This Valuable: Real […]

07 Feb 2025

Beyond the Button Test: Mastering B2B Experimentation in the Enterprise?

Online experimentation has quickly emerged as a powerful tool in product development. It enables tech and other industries to run large-scale experiments and analyze results in near-real-time. This helps to prevent disasters and offer deep insight into the causal impact of product changes on user behavior. In this session, we’ll discuss, demonstrate, and share code […]

07 Feb 2025

Unmasking Bias in AI: Challenges, Consequences, and Better Practices

Bias in AI systems is a growing concern, with real-world consequences that affect critical areas such as workplace evaluations and healthcare outcomes. In this joint talk, Danishta and Dimitra from Intel will go beyond theoretical discussions and focus on the practical implications of bias, showing how AI tools like ChatGPT and Whisper can unintentionally perpetuate […]

07 Feb 2025

From Theory to Scale: Building Machine Learning Solutions for Complex Optimisation

Join us on Wednesday 19th March at The Trade Desk! An evening of top tech talks, and networking with the community, with food and drinks provided by The Trade Desk. Location: The Trade Desk UK – 10th Floor, Barts Square, One Bartholomew Cl, London EC1A 7BL How do you take machine learning from theory to […]

06 Feb 2025

Building your first LLM app into Production at a traditional industry

This session will delve into the practicalities of building an LLM application within a traditional industry. We’ll cover the entire journey from proof-of-concept to production, including cost estimation, business impact assessment, and valuable lessons learned from using different LLM providers. A key focus will be on the human element: overcoming the challenges of user adoption […]

26 Sep 2024

Conquer Data Complexity with Snowflake

Join us to discover how Snowflake’s unique architecture can help you address and overcome any data challenges from both an engineer and a data scientist perspective. We’ll talk about the features that enable you to address the complexity of your data and get the most out of it. We’ll also have a chance to see […]

05 Sep 2024

Data Management and Warehousing on Google Cloud Platform

This was not recorded. This is a technical session focussed on the Data Management suite of products on Google Cloud Platform including the flagship AlloyDB and Cloud Spanner, and will enable developers to understand the key features of the products and some of the exciting features of vector embeddings, vector search, LLMs, the world of […]