Speakers

It’s our pleasure to introduce…

Ivan McKee MSP

Ivan's career has involved a number of senior roles in manufacturing and business, managing companies in the UK as well as Poland, Finland, Croatia and Bosnia. Early in his career, Ivan spent two years with VSO in Bangladesh. He is currently a trustee of the charity CEI, which supports education and health projects in Bangladesh. Ivan has been MSP for Glasgow Provan since May 2016. Brought up in Glasgow, he studied at the University of Strathclyde and the University of Newcastle.

Elizabeth Hollinger

Elizabeth is the head of Analytics and BI for Aggreko, and leads a team of data engineers, data scientists, analysts and developers who use data to drive value across their global business, She has spent the last 12 years working in a variety of industries, helping them use their data to solve business problems, she has a passion for helping people understand the value of data and loves to communicate complex ideas in a simple way to enable effective insight-driven decision making.

Damian Anderson

After overcoming many obstacles, Damien is working towards a future that he would like to see through his PhD studies. His work is focused on the development of new AI techniques in video games which may give us a glimpse into what the future of AI holds.

Rob Huggins

As Director of Academy & Client Services at MBN Solutions, Rob has spent his career at the sharp end of Talent Acquisition practice for the Data & Technology sectors. Working as Delivery Partner for The Data Lab's MSc. Placement Programme, Rob designed and deployed the highly successful Employability framework that has seen over 200 aspirant Data practitioners placed into Scottish organisations over the last 3 years. In addition to sitting on The University of Glasgow's School of Maths & Stats Industrial Advisory Board and acting as Talent Lead for DMA Scotland, Rob was recently recognised by Data IQ as one of their most influential Data and Analytics practitioners in UK organisations.

Agenda

Thursday 3rd October 2019, 6pm - 9pm
MBN Solutions Office | 112 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 1PN

18.00 - 18.30

Registration

Networking & Refreshments

 18.30 - 18.40

Welcome

Ivan McKee MSP
Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation
Scottish Government

 18.40 - 18.50

Intro to Talent4Point0

Elizabeth Hollinger
Head of Analytics and BI
Aggreko

 18.50 - 19.35

My Journey

Damian Anderson
PhD Student
University of Strathclyde

 19.35 - 20.10

Q&A (Online + Audience Questions)

Talent4Point0 Team

 20.10 - 20.15

Close

Rob Huggins
Director of Academy and Client Services
MBN Solutions

 20.15 - 21.00

Networking & Refreshments