Agenda
Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 6pm - 9pm
MBN Solutions Office | 112 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 1PN
18.00 - 18.30
Registration
Networking & Refreshments
18.30 - 18.50
Welcome
Welcome / Update on Talent4Point0
Elizabeth Hollinger
Head of Analytics and BI
Aggreko
18.50 - 19.20
The Tech Gender Gap
Ketty Lawrence
Digital Skills Project Manager, Skills Development Scotland
19.20 - 19.40
Code Your Future
Peter Maxwell - AI and Software Developer, mentor at CodeYourFuture
Mohammed Dwina - Software Developer, mentor at CodeYourFuture
How to Improve Diversity in Tech
19.40 - 20.00
Q&A (Audience Questions)
Talent4Point0 Team
20.00 - 20.15
Close
Rob Huggins
Director of Academy and Client Services
MBN Solutions
20.15 - 21.00
Networking & Refreshments
Speakers
It’s our pleasure to introduce…
Elizabeth Hollinger
Elizabeth is the head of Analytics and BI for Aggreko, and leads a team of data engineers, data scientists, analysts and developers who use data to drive value across their global business, She has spent the last 12 years working in a variety of industries, helping them use their data to solve business problems, she has a passion for helping people understand the value of data and loves to communicate complex ideas in a simple way to enable effective insight-driven decision making.
Ketty Lawrence
Ketty is project manager for the Scottish Government funded Digital Skills Investment Programme, and has designed, developed and led a number of initiatives to help close Scotland’s digital skills gap with a particular focus on gender and diversity. Ketty leads delivery of the “Tackling the Technology Gender Gap Together programme”, engaging with public agencies and stakeholders throughout the skills supply pipeline and industry helping to create partnerships on which to drive action forward.
Code Your Future (TBC)
We are a non-profit organisation supporting refugees and disadvantaged individuals with the dream of becoming developers. In their journey of interrupted lives, unfinished studies and integration challenges, many of these individuals yearn to update their tech skills, but lack learning opportunities. We want to change this.
Rob Huggins
As Director of Academy & Client Services at MBN Solutions, Rob has spent his career at the sharp end of Talent Acquisition practice for the Data & Technology sectors. Working as Delivery Partner for The Data Lab's MSc. Placement Programme, Rob designed and deployed the highly successful Employability framework that has seen over 200 aspirant Data practitioners placed into Scottish organisations over the last 3 years. In addition to sitting on The University of Glasgow's School of Maths & Stats Industrial Advisory Board and acting as Talent Lead for DMA Scotland, Rob was recently recognised by Data IQ as one of their most influential Data and Analytics practitioners in UK organisations.