Ian Ozsvald
Ian is a Chief Data Scientist, founder of the RebelAI leadership community, has co-founded and built the annual PyDataLondon conference raising $100k+ annually for the open source movement along with the associated 14,000+ member monthly meetup. Using data science he's helped clients find $2M in recoverable fraud, created the core IP which opened funding rounds for automated recruitment start-ups and diagnosed how major media companies can better supply recommendations to viewers. He gives conference talks internationally often as keynote speaker and is the author of the bestselling O'Reilly book High Performance Python (3rd edition). He has over 26 years of experience as a senior data science leader, trainer and team coach. For fun he's walked by his high-energy Springer Spaniel, surfs the Cornish coast and drinks fine coffee. Past talks and articles can be found at:
Sessions
This talk is for leaders who want new techniques to improve their success rates. In the last 15 months I've built a private data science peer mentorship group where we discuss rebellious ideas that improve our ability to make meaningful change in organisations of all sizes.
As a leader you've no doubt had trouble defining new projects (perhaps you've been asked - "add ChatGPT!"), getting buy-in, building support, defining defensible metrics and milestones, hiring, developing your team, dealing with conflict, avoiding overload and ultimately delivering valuable projects that are adopted by the business. I'll share advice across all of these areas based on 25 years of personal experience and the topics we've discussed in my leadership community.
You'll walk away with new ideas, perspectives and references that ought to change how to work with your team and organisation.
A self-organised workshop for data leaders to discuss the opportunity and challenges they face with their peers. This is the 9th iteration at a PyData conference. Questions are raised and answered by attendees, it is facilitated by Ian Ozsvald (PyDataLondon co-founder). You are encouraged to carry on talking to fellow leaders after this session, Ian will give out badges to help with this.
The format is based on the Breakout discussions that Ian uses in his private RebelAI leadership group, you're welcome and encouraged to copy and use it in your own organisations. Typical attendance is 60+ leaders.
The 2022 session using a different format ("Executives at PyData" as it was known) was written up, you can see it here: https://numfocus.medium.com/executives-at-pydata-global-2022-193cbc2d3f3b