9th May – dunnhumby

9th May – dunnhumby
Women in Data and dunnhumby are pleased to announce an evening of talks from some of dunnhumby’s finest, as well as networking and an interactive session at their offices in Hammersmith, London.

Sessions and Topics
Panel session: Hosted by Denise Day, CIO and Sandra Stanley, Head of Customer Knowledge

The transition from hands-on delivery of work vs. leading and delivery through others. This is particularly pertinent to tech, because tools and trends are changing rapidly and there’s a fear that you could lose touch by stepping back from coding.

Panellists:
Jason Nathan, Managing Director of Data – dunnhumby
Helen Louwrens, Director of Intelligence – Care Quality Commission
Anthea DeSyllas, Chief Solutions Officer – Polymatica
Amritanshu Kumar, Data Science Manager, Customer Knowledge UK & Ireland – dunnhumby

Interactive table session: Enjoy discussion and interaction with your peers in this fun session.

Location and times
When: 18.00 – 20.30 on Thursday, 9 May 2019
Where: 184 Shepherds Bush Rd, Hammersmith, London W6 7NL

Speakers

Location

Speakers

Name: Jason Nathan, Managing Director of Data – dunnhumby

Bio:
As Global Managing Director for Data, Jason leads dunnhumby’s data consultancy and engineering practices, helping clients drive growth by optimising their data assets through creation and execution of cloud-based data strategies which put the customer at the heart of decision making. Since joining dunnhumby in 2005, Jason has held roles such as Global Solutions Director for Category Management, Solutions Director Brazil, and Global Director of Products. Prior to joining dunnhumby, Jason was Space and Category Management Consultant at ACNielsen and has also held AnalystDeveloper roles at both the Royal Mail and Statpro.

Name: Helen Louwrens, Director of Intelligence – Care Quality Commission

Bio:

Helen is a data and analytics leader and is currently Director of Intelligence at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the regulator for health and social care providers in England. Helen leads a large team of analysts to deliver insights into the providers of health and care services enabling CQC to deliver an intelligence-driven approach to regulation. She is driving innovation in the way analysis is undertaken and delivered, and helping lead cultural change in the organisation. Prior to joining CQC, Helen worked at dunnhumby for 16 years, starting out as a graduate and working her way up to the U.K. Leadership team. She is passionate about diversity in the data and analytics sector and is encouraging her young daughters to follow their dreams.

Name: Anthea DeSyllas, Chief Solutions Officer – Polymatica

Bio:

Anthea has a track record of using data to drive business growth, and now works with Polymatica and their users to help them do the same.

Anthea has been helping businesses carve out competitive advantages through data for more than 15 years. By helping organisations understand their data, she’s enhanced customer propositions and experiences to drive organisational progress time and time again. Her experience largely comes from her years with world-leading FMCGs and retailers, although today she takes pleasure in applying her knowledge and experience to new sectors and businesses.

Throughout her career, Anthea has amassed international experience working in the USA and leading teams of data scientists across Europe and Asia. More recently, Anthea’s role as Head of Solutions at dunnhumby saw her working across capabilities spanning from category management and price and promotions at one end of the spectrum to customer analytics and communications and media.

Despite her technical background, Anthea has a natural artistic mindset. She continually proves there is an art to science and that data can be both meaningful and beautiful. Her outlook drives her rare ability to blend the worlds of analytics, data science and commercial business to uncover truly actionable insight.

Name: Amritanshu Kumar, Data Science Manager, Customer Knowledge UK & Ireland – dunnhumby

Bio:

With over 10 years’ experience in building and delivering analytical solutions for retailers and brands in the US, UK and India, Amrit currently leads the Stores and Online Insight teams facing into Tesco UK.

Before moving to the UK in 2015, Amrit spent a significant time helping retailers in the US make smarter business decisions, founded in customer data. He is a strong proponent of ‘getting there faster’ in any conversation by being closer to data and numbers. Outside of work, he likes getting involved in amateur theatre and enjoys cooking.

Educational background: Bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Masters in Operational research

Name: Sandra Stanley, Head of Customer Knowledge UK & Ireland, dunnhumby

Bio:
Customer Insight specialist with nearly 20 years’ experience using data, statistics and insight to drive business strategy and marketing to transform relationships with customers and business success.

As well as spending many years working on a retained relationship with Tesco, Sandie has experience across a wide range of sectors including retail, telecoms, utilities and financial services.

She leads a team of data scientists, analysis and market researchers who use multiple data sources to derive customer understanding and strategies that help businesses improve the whole customer experience.

First class honours degree in Mathematics and MSc in Statistics with Applications in Medicine. Recently recognised in the DataIQ 100 top data & analytics practitioners in the UK.

Name: Denise Day, Chief Information Officer, dunnhumby

Bio:

Throughout my career my focus has been data, data management, technology, and software development. Today I am interim CIO, but I began my technology career four decades ago developing and coding data solutions – this was long before IT was a ‘thing’ or Windows existed commercially.

I am a creative person, who loves learning, and solving complex problems so the pace of evolution within technology and science, the shock of the new, the opportunities this presents has kept the fascination alive for me.

I have never tired of the challenges and changes, and have had such fun writing elegant code, investigating and fixing all kinds of stuff and solving really tough problems. Whilst I no longer ‘officially’ code (I have a raspberry pi at home) my role allows me to think and deliver tactically and strategically and to problem solve every day on a scale I never dreamt of when I started out in 1979.