Abstract: 

Despite the promise and opportunities of data science, many organizations are failing to see a return on their investment. The key issue holding organizations back is a lack of good data science management. This manifests in failure to effectively build and manage teams. In this workshop, we will go through a methodological approach for helping managers identify the needs of their organization and build the appropriate team.
We will learn how to:
1 - put in place the appropriate foundational elements
2 - select and recruit the right team
3 - develop and manage that team to success
4 - create pipelines of good data science managers and technical rock stars

Bio: 

Conor Jensen is an experienced Data Science executive with over 15 years working in the analytics space across multiple industries as both a consumer and developer of analytics solutions. He is the founder of Renegade Science, a Data Science strategy and coaching consultancy and works as a Customer Success Team Lead at Dataiku, helping customers make the most of their Data Science platform and guiding them through building teams and processes to be successful. He has worked at multiple Data Science platform startups and has successfully built out analytics functions at two multinational insurance companies. This includes building out data and analytics platforms, Business Intelligence capabilities, and Data Science teams serving both internal and external customers.
Before moving to insurance, Conor was a Weather Forecaster in the US Air Force supporting operations in Southwest Asia. After leaving the military, Conor spent a number of years in store management at Starbucks Coffee while serving as an Emergency Management Technician in the Illinois Air National Guard.
Conor earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.