Data + Women Zurich

About us

Data + Women is an initiative launched some years ago by the Tableau community for the Tableau Community. This initiative exists in different cities across the World. It was launched in Zurich in October 2019 by Annabelle Rincon ( who leads the Tableau Center of Excellence Lead at Vontobel) and Olivia Sliz (who is a Data Scientist in Credit Suisse).T he 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.

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Meet the team :


- Olivia Sliz
- Annabelle Rincon


Our events:

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!!
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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