The Data Science Education Interest Group brings together a breadth of organisations, spanning academic, industry, learned societies and professional bodies to address the skills challenges in data science and AI, and to identify good practices for education and skills provision.

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Join us for the Interest Group's first event: a thrilling series of lightning talks which will cover a range of new projects at the Turing and beyond.

Lightning talk seminars have been an excellent way to connect with other researchers, spark collaborations and provide space for further discussions.

This event will take place on 2 March at 14.00.

Agenda

The agenda will be as follows:

2:00 - Welcome
2:05 - Lightning talk on the Enrichment Scheme (Turing)
2:10 - Lightning talk on the Post Doctoral Enrichment Awards (Turing)
2:15 - Lightning talk on Degree Accreditation and Chartership of Individuals (Alliance for Data Science Professionals)
2:20 - Lightning talk on Data Study Groups and Turing Internship Network (Turing)
2:25 - Lightning talk on the Online Learning Platform (Turing)
2:30 - Lightning talk on Industry and Academic collaboration (National Innovation Centre for Data)
2:35 - Lightning talk on Data Skills Taskforce (Turing)
2:40 - Lightning talk on the Data Science and AI Educators' Programme (Turing)
2:45 - Breakout rooms
2:55 - Round up and thank you

The breakout rooms will provide the opportunity to meet other members of the group, network and discuss the above projects, including ways to engage with these.

Who can attend

We welcome all attendees with an interest in Data Science Education. If you are not yet a member of the group, please sign up here before registering for this event so that we can keep you up to date with further events and information.

More information on the Data Science Education Interest Group can also be found here.

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