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Agenda Sessions - Please tick the sessions you wish to book

Day 1 - Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Festival welcome and opening panel discussion: ARTHUR TURRELL, ONS; with panel from SIR IAN DIAMOND, DAVID HAND, DR LAURA GILBERT Wednesday, April 27, 2022 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Community discovery workshop: JANE CROWE & ALISON WATKINS-SHANAHAN FULL Wednesday, April 27, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:10 PM

Using text analysis to interpret new data: BEN WOLFF, HMRC FULL Wednesday, April 27, 2022 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM

Developing the UK's Covid-19 linked data asset to allow us to investigate pandemic: ALEX BHATTACHARYA, UK Health Security Agency FULL Wednesday, April 27, 2022 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Modelling land use change for Net Zero and environment policy: DANIEL LEWIS, Department for Food, Environment & Rural Affairs FULL Wednesday, April 27, 2022 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The Art of the Possible: LEARNING SPACE FULL Wednesday, April 27, 2022 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Project Delivery in the Data Science Campus: WENDA POWELL & SHARON HILL, ONS Wednesday, April 27, 2022 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Day 2 - Thursday, April 28, 2022

Neurodiversity: Celebrate differences: SOFI NICKSON, SOCIAL SPACE FULL Thursday, April 28, 2022 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to read and assess qualification content documentation: LAURA WILLIAMS, Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education Thursday, April 28, 2022 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

The use of geospatial data in policing town centres: ANDREAS VAROTSIS, Metropolitan Police Service FULL Thursday, April 28, 2022 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

NLP in Healthcare: DAN SCHOFIELD, NHSX/NHS England Thursday, April 28, 2022 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Keynote: DAME WENDY HALL Thursday, April 28, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Meeting data science talent needs across the public sector: DEBBIE COOPER & REBECCA LYNCH, ONS FULL Thursday, April 28, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Why international engagement matters: UK DATA SCIENCE CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL TEAM, ONS Thursday, April 28, 2022 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Data science to drive very early preventative policy making: JO LEE & MALLORY DURRAN, Prime Minister's Office FULL Thursday, April 28, 2022 1:00 PM - 1:40 PM

LEARNING SPACE: Getting started with EDA using R/Python Thursday, April 28, 2022 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Head in the clouds: building cloud computing capability in data science teams: LOUISE UPTON & PETER THOMSON, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy FULL Thursday, April 28, 2022 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Day 3 - Friday, April 29, 2022

Yogalates: SOCIAL SPACE: Jayne Thompsett FULL Friday, April 29, 2022 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Impactful Synthetic Data in Healthcare: JONNY PEARSON, NHSX Friday, April 29, 2022 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Increase your impact: pick the best projects: ADAM BRICKNELL, Department for Transport Friday, April 29, 2022 10:30 AM - 11:10 AM

What I learned as a data scientist joining a public health organisation in a pandemic: HARSHANA LIYANAGE, UK Health Security Agency FULL Friday, April 29, 2022 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Bitesize Presentation Skills Masterclass; JOE WATTS, ONS FULL Friday, April 29, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Altair for data visualization and Streamlit for web applications: CHRIS FOUFOULIDES, Ministry of Justice FULL Friday, April 29, 2022 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Data Collection and Visualisation Dashboards for Monitoring Covid 19 Business Support Grants: ED HEARDMAN, KELSEY SMITH, CAITY RICE & RUDI NARENDRAN, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Friday, April 29, 2022 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Games Night, Codenames: SOCIAL SPACE FULL Friday, April 29, 2022 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

LEARNING SPACE: Case Study Friday, April 29, 2022 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

LEARNING SPACE: Drop-in Clinic Friday, April 29, 2022 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Day 4 - Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Building Careers (not skills) in Analytics and Data Science: STEPHEN SIMPKIN, Essex County Council Tuesday, May 3, 2022 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Building Your Data Science Career - From practitioner to expert: ALISON ADAMS, ONS Tuesday, May 3, 2022 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

How the NHS AI lab ensures the reusability of AI proof of concepts: AMADEUS STEVENSON, NHS AI Lab Tuesday, May 3, 2022 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Creating artificial hospital event records and modelling noise present in real datasets: KENNETH QUAN, NHS Digital Tuesday, May 3, 2022 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Mentoring clinic - How to become a data science mentor: JANE CROWE, ONS Tuesday, May 3, 2022 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

LEARNING SPACE: First meeting with Machine Learning Tuesday, May 3, 2022 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Games Night, Gartic phone: SOCIAL SPACE Tuesday, May 3, 2022 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Day 5 - Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Gaming session, Star Wars the Old Republic: SOCIAL SPACE Wednesday, May 4, 2022 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Using Burning Glass data to answer the department’s ‘burning’ questions: ADRIAN HAM and CONNOR BYRNE, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Wednesday, May 4, 2022 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Academic session: DEBBIE COOPER, REBECCA LYNCH, ONS. DR SAM KAMPERIS AND DR MUHAMMAD YOUNAS, OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY; DR PADRAIG CORCORAN AND DR ANDREAS ARTEMIOU, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY. FULL Wednesday, May 4, 2022 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Make your Python simulation 300 times faster!: ADAM BRICKNELL, Department for Transport FULL Wednesday, May 4, 2022 11:30 AM - 12:10 PM

SOCIAL SPACE: A Celebration of Eid: ALL BELIEFS Wednesday, May 4, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Under the bonnet of Hackney Council’s data platform: ANNA GIBSON, DARO CLARK, LISA STIDLE & SANDRINE BALLEY - Hackney Council Wednesday, May 4, 2022 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM

LEARNING SPACE: How to plan and scope a data science project Wednesday, May 4, 2022 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Who Owns What Where? - Performing Geospatial Vector data analysis at scale to test the potential of Defra’s new analytics platform: ELLEN KENDRICK Wednesday, May 4, 2022 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

SOCIAL SPACE: What role does data science have in the social sector?: LISA CARPENTER Wednesday, May 4, 2022 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Innovating collaboration to innovate responsibly: ALEX HUTCHISON, Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF Wednesday, May 4, 2022 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Community Discovery workshop: JANE CROWE & ALISON WATKINS-SHANAHAN 2 Wednesday, May 4, 2022 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Day 6 - Thursday, May 5, 2022

SOCIAL SPACE: Breakfast networking and coffee Thursday, May 5, 2022 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Making an international impact with data science: JOSEPH CRISPELL, TIM HARRIS & JEROEN MINDEMAN, ONS Thursday, May 5, 2022 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Automated scoring of responses to reading test items using neural networks: KATE JOHNSON, Department for Education Thursday, May 5, 2022 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Comedy Writing for Great Communication: ALISON PRITCHARD, ONS FULL Thursday, May 5, 2022 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Case Study - Office for National Statistics (ONS) experimental faster indicator: traffic activity, extracted from traffic cameras: LEARNING SPACE Thursday, May 5, 2022 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Bitesize Presentation Skills Masterclass; JOE WATTS, ONS (2) Thursday, May 5, 2022 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Data science drop-in clinic: LEARNING SPACE FULL Thursday, May 5, 2022 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Building a data led organisation from the bottom up: STEVEN GARRETT, Sport England Thursday, May 5, 2022 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Process mining to gain new insights about the operation of the Windrush Compensation Scheme: BEN COLEMAN, National Audit Office Thursday, May 5, 2022 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

RAP in NHS Digital: How Data Science teams can build capability across organisations: ALISTAIR JONES & CONNOR QUINN, NHS Digital Thursday, May 5, 2022 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Making fake data generators for open source data science projects: JENNIFER HALL, NHS AI Lab Thursday, May 5, 2022 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Day 7 - Friday, May 6, 2022

SOCIAL SPACE: Virtual Walk with photo inspiration (5) Friday, May 6, 2022 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

How DCMS uses cloud computing and interdisciplinary methods to provide a new evidence base for understanding access to culture in a levelling up and geo-socio-economic context: NIALL GOULDING, Department for Culture, Media and Sport Friday, May 6, 2022 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

The Future of Data Science for Public Good, Keynote: KIRSTINE DALE Friday, May 6, 2022 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Data Science in transport: ADAM BRICKNELL, Department for Transport (2) Friday, May 6, 2022 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Data Science in transport: ADAM BRICKNELL, Department for Transport Friday, May 6, 2022 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

LEARNING SPACE: Technical tutorial (advanced) Friday, May 6, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Piloting the Results and Evidence eXchange across the FCDO - making collecting and analysing data easier across results programmes: ROBBIE SINGER, ONS Friday, May 6, 2022 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Collecting, combining and analysing multiple datasets – the challenges: BENJAMIN YOUNG-LONGSTAFF, Norfolk Office for Data & Analytics (NODA) Friday, May 6, 2022 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Distributed geospatial computing in Spark: DANIEL LEWIS, Department for Food, Environment & Rural Affairs Friday, May 6, 2022 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

The Integrated Data Service: enabling faster and wider collaborative analysis for the public good: JAMES HARTLEY-BINNS, ONS Friday, May 6, 2022 2:00 PM - 2:40 PM

Developing data analytics skills with the help of R-shiny: VYARA APOSTOLOVA, National Audit Office Friday, May 6, 2022 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Day 8 - Monday, May 9, 2022

SOCIAL SPACE: Virtual Walk with photo inspiration Monday, May 9, 2022 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Pipelines, Dashboards & Network Analysis: JHENIELLE FRANCIS, Ministry of Justice Monday, May 9, 2022 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM

How the MoJ has used tools including R, R Shiny, Python and Airflow to create automated data cleaning pipelines, interactive service reports, dashboards and perform network analysis: JHENIELLE FRANCIS, Ministry of Justice Monday, May 9, 2022 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM

‘What is Data Science and how can it help you?’ – HACKATHON Session 1 of 2 Data Science Festival/Analysis in Government Month Collaboration FULL Monday, May 9, 2022 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Validating AI Algorithms: DOMINIC CUSHNAN, NHS AI Lab Monday, May 9, 2022 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Supporting our audit work with R Shiny visualisations: JAMES GJERTSEN, National Audit Office FULL Monday, May 9, 2022 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Neurodiversity: Celebrate differences: SOFI NICKSON, SOCIAL SPACE 2 FULL Monday, May 9, 2022 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Keynote: TOM SMITH, Department for Housing & Levelling Up Monday, May 9, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Comedy Writing for Great Communication: ALISON PRITCHARD, ONS 2 FULL Monday, May 9, 2022 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Gaming Session, SOCIAL SPACE Monday, May 9, 2022 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

How and why we have improved Natural Language Processing capability in BEIS: AMY ANDREWS, LOUISE UPTON & STEVE AHERNE - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Monday, May 9, 2022 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Community Discovery workshop: JANE CROWE & ALISON WATKINS-SHANAHAN 3 FULL Monday, May 9, 2022 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

ePMA Autocoding: JONNY LAIDLER, NHS DIGITAL Monday, May 9, 2022 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

LEARNING SPACE: How to work effectively with Data Scientists Monday, May 9, 2022 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Day 9 - Tuesday, May 10, 2022

SOCIAL SPACE: Breakfast networking and coffee (2) Tuesday, May 10, 2022 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Mental Health Awareness: SOCIAL SPACE FULL Tuesday, May 10, 2022 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Building a new data asset using existing data: EFROSINI SETAKIS, NHS Digital Tuesday, May 10, 2022 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Stimulating geospatial innovation and identify solutions to major transport challenges: ALASDAIR KYLE, Geospatial Commission Tuesday, May 10, 2022 10:30 AM - 11:10 AM

Data Science Skills - learning opportunities: ALISON ADAMS, ONS FULL Tuesday, May 10, 2022 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

LEARNING SPACE: Next steps for increasing Data Science Capability for you and your organisation Tuesday, May 10, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

‘What is Data Science and how can it help you?’ – HACKATHON Session 2 of 2 Data Science Festival/Analysis in Government Month Collaboration FULL Tuesday, May 10, 2022 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Identifying themes in audit reports using text network analysis: LAUREN PETRIE, Government Internal Audit Agency Tuesday, May 10, 2022 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

An alternative way of analysing political discourse in the House of Commons: AMELIA NOONAN, NHS Digital Tuesday, May 10, 2022 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Head in the clouds: Workshop to discuss building cloud computing capability teams in data science teams: LOUISE UPTON & PETER THOMSON, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy FULL Tuesday, May 10, 2022 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Connecting academic research to NHS operations: JONNY PEARSON, NHSX Tuesday, May 10, 2022 4:00 PM - 4:40 PM

Day 10 - Wednesday, May 11, 2022

SOCIAL SPACE: Virtual Walk with photo inspiration (3) Wednesday, May 11, 2022 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM

How the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) is making use of consumer data for public good: ED MANLEY,ALEX SINGLTEON, FRAN PONTIN & MARK GREEN University of Leeds FULL Wednesday, May 11, 2022 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Freaky Friday: What would our world look like if we woke up one day and our senior decision makers all had Batchelor Degrees in Data Science and our data and analysis teams all had accountability for multi-million-pound public service organisations? NICOLA MALLETT & TOM ALDWORTH, Essex County Council Wednesday, May 11, 2022 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Keynote - Closing Session Wednesday, May 11, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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