Sophia Rothlauf

Have you ever heard of Metrics Strores? Don’t worry – if you haven’t, it doesn’t mean you’re not up to date. Because this buzzword hasn’t made it to buzzword everywhere. But what is a metrics store?

In the past, they were the unicorns – the data scientists. Today we have teams with very different types of roles working in the fields of data and AI because this is not any more only a topic for IT but also for others. Not an easy job for HR to find the right people for this 🤯!

DATA festival organized a #MeetUp in collaboration with Women in Big Data and Alexander Thamm GmbH. What does that exactly mean and what topics were discussed there? In this newsletter, you’ll get the review.

In this blog post, you can find out why Jan sees good opportunities for Europe in AI development and how medium-sized companies can also benefit from this. At the end of the blog post, you can watch the original interview in German. Enjoy the article!

Women in Big Data (WiBD) is a new partner of DATA festival. Therefore, Katerina Andreeva (Chapter Lead of Women in Big Data in Munich) spoke with DATA festival Marketing and Business Developer Judith about her career path so far. She explains why meeting Women in Big Data was so important for her and why she thinks that now is the best time for women to start a career in Data and AI. Enjoy the interview.

“Diversity in data teams – what is it and what are the benefits?” an exciting question that Dr. Carsten Bange, founder of the DATA festival and CEO at BARC, asked Dr. Lydia Nemec, Head of the AI Accelerator at Carl Zeiss AG, in his Data Culture podcast. In her role, Lydia not only leads a very diverse team of 20 people but is part of the DATA festival committee.