Data
+ Women is an initiative launched some years ago by the Tableau
community for the Tableau Community. (Tableau is a Leading Visuals
Analytics
tool in the market) This initiative exists in different cities across
the World. It was launched in Zurich and for the first time in
Switzerland by Annabelle Rincon ( Tableau Center of Excellence Lead at
Vontobel) and Olivia Sliz (Data Scientist in Credit
Suisse).The aim of DATA + WOMEN is to create a community of
women data practitioners to share ideas, support each other and discuss
ways to harness the full potential of data. Any women can come and share
her knowledge and experiences on stage, it is
a safe environment to talk about failures, success and learn from each
other. The topics are quite diverse and go from personal experiences,
professional projects, hand-on or technical lectures, we do not speak
always about Visual Analytics/ Tableau.
Data +Women Zurich
We have launched a new meetup group Data+Women in Zurich on october 2019, and we meet for the second time last week in Vontobel.
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!
The Team D+W :
Olivia Sliz and Annabelle Rincon
Follow us :
- in twitter on D+W Zurich
- @Tableau Community page : click
- register to our next event here : Hub Page
- in our Linkedin Accounts : Olivia Annabelle
