Hear from nonprofit Google Workspace customers Erika's Lighthouse and Climate Ride, as they share their experiences and best practices for successfully deploying and using Gemini across their teams. They'll discuss their evaluation criteria, rollout strategies, and key success metrics, offering valuable insights for other nonprofits considering AI adoption. Discover how these nonprofits are leveraging AI to drive productivity and efficiency to supercharge their social impact.

We all know that data doesn't speak for itself, but what happens when multiple instruments of measurement contain flaws or gaps that impede our ability to measure what matters on their own? Turning to our intuition and triangulation of what's happening in the broader macro sense can often help explain our understanding of our customers' ever-changing choices, opinions, and actions. Thankfully we had Erika Olson, co-founder of fwd. — which in our opinion is essentially the Freakonomics of marketing consultancies — join Tim, Moe and Val for this discussion to dive into some real-world examples of things that are inherently hard to measure and ways to overcome those challenges. For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.

This session is a practical guide to changing how you operate in response to the Cambrian explosion of AI and LLM technologies. In your future, everyone at the company will have access to an LLM with unfettered access to your data warehouse. Do you feel afraid? The Data team at Hex did too. They'll share how they had to change how they worked to adapt, and what data leaders and practitioners need to be thinking about for their own teams.

Speakers: Amanda Fioritto Senior Analytics Engineer Hex Technologies

Erika Pullum Analytics Engineer Hex Technologies

Read the blog to learn about the latest dbt Cloud features announced at Coalesce, designed to help organizations embrace analytics best practices at scale https://www.getdbt.com/blog/coalesce-2024-product-announcements

We're back, everyone! We'll be having our event IN PERSON this month, though we will try and host a livestream as well!

If you'd like to help out during the event, please let me know and/or join our slack: pydataboston.slack.com

or discord: https://discord.gg/WarDH8rDPz

Please ONLY RSVP if you are able to come in person! Space is limited!

Location TBA, but will likely be near Prudential Center

AGENDA 7:00-7:15: Welcome and intro 7:15-7:50: Session 1 7:50-8:00: Break 800-8:30: Session 2 8:30-9:00: Post-session social

Our Sessions: Session 1: Data science done wrong: how & why and data scientists make mistakes Sometimes data scientists get things very, very wrong. They make poor choices because their focus is too narrow and too low level; they're in love with machine learning to everything else's detriment. In this talk, I'll talk about some projects that went wrong, why they went wrong, and what you can do to be right more often. Speaker bio: Mike Woodward is VP of Data Science at Axio, a cyber risk quantification company. Before that he was VP of Data Science for a cyber security company in New York, and before that Senior Head of Analytics at a Boston fashion industry startup. He has degrees from British and American universities. He previously spoke to PyData Boston on predicting US Presidential elections.

Session 2: Intro to Weaviate open-source vector database Weaviate is an open-source vector database that offers fast and scalable search. Weaviate allows you to store and retrieve data objects based on their semantic properties by indexing them with vector embeddings. In this talk, I will show you how to build a Weaviate application using Python in just a few steps. Speaker bio: Erika Cardenas is a Developer Advocate at Weaviate, an open-source vector database. Her interests are in vector databases, LLM frameworks, and Retrieval Augmented Generation. As a developer advocate, she is passionate about sharing her work with others and bringing them along on the journey!

Get ready to accelerate your data and AI collaboration game with the Databricks product team. Join us as we build the next generation of secure data collaboration capabilities on the lakehouse. Whether you're just starting your data sharing journey or exploring advanced data collaboration features like data cleanrooms, this session is tailor-made for you.

In this demo-packed session, you'll discover what’s new in Delta Sharing including dynamic and materialized views for sharing, sharing other assets such as notebooks, ML models, new Delta Sharing open source connectors for the tools of your choice, and updates to Databricks cleanroom. Learn how lakehouse is the perfect solution for your data and AI collaboration requirements, across clouds, regions and platforms and without any vendor lock-in. Plus, you'll get a peek into our upcoming roadmap. Ask any burning questions you have for our expert product team as they build a collaborative lakehouse for data, analytics and AI.

Talk by: Erika Ehrli, Kelly Albano, and Xiaotong Sun

Connect with us: Website: https://databricks.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/databricks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/databricksinc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/databricksinc

Join us on the 5th of July at 18:00 at the Temedica GmbH Offices for a very special event.🤩

We will be hosting the Product Leaders Gathering in Munich, and we've prepared an insightful panel discussion about how Product-Led Growth can accelerate the success of your products.⚡

Vlad Radu (Product Manager @ Google), Alexandru Dina-Gargala (VP of Product at Temedica), and Viktoria Korzhova (Fractional CPO / VP Product @Product People) will be sharing their extensive knowledge on the matter. Then we will have a casual Q&A and networking time. Don't miss out!

Agenda: 18:00 - 18:30: 🚀 Arrival, Drinks, and Networking 18:00 - 19:00: 🎯 Panel and Roundtable discussion with Vlad Radu (Product Manager @ Google), Alexandru Dina-Gargala (VP of Product at Temedica), and Viktoria Korzhova (Fractional CPO / VP Product @Product People) 19:00 - 20:00: 🍻 Casual Q&A and Networking.

📍Location: Temedica GmbH, Erika-Mann-Straße 21, 80636 München, Germany

Grab your seat, we have limited capacity!

Salesforce and other CRMs are the beating heart of sales and go-to-market operations. When CRMs are in conflict with the data warehouse as competing sources of truth or separate silos everyone loses.

Join Erika and Sean as they shares how Hex's Data and RevOps functions have partnered to integrate data into Salesforce to prevent data silos, empower their sales reps, and understand their performance—and how Hex's learning lessons can be applied to your own org.

Check the slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LKo_FdESDpVDYwYWXUirAKu5Jy3hs_nOHVY10lwUdj4/edit?usp=sharing

Coalesce 2023 is coming! Register for free at https://coalesce.getdbt.com/.

Conheça as vagas do Grupo Boticário: https://bit.ly/GrupoBoticarioVagas

Como que o maior grupo de beleza do mundo utiliza dados no dia dia? Já imaginou o desafio de democratizar dados para milhares de pessoas de um grupo que existe a décadas? E como que AI e Machine Learning é aplicado na indústria da beleza? Isso e muito mais a gente conversa nesse papo sensacional com o pessoal do Grupo Boticário. Mariana Oliveira (Data Product Owner), Erika Cipriano (Analista de BI e Analytics) e Antonio Junior (Data Scientist) compartilham com a gente um pouco do dia a dia deles nesse papo bem descontraído.

Acesse nosso post do Medium pra ter acesso as referências do episódio: https://medium.com/data-hackers/trabalhando-com-dados-no-grupo-botic%C3%A1rio-data-hackers-podcast-43-9279a6e73815

In this podcast, Erika from Proteus International talks about the state of leadership today. She sheds light on data-driven leaders and leaders leading the organizations to the future. She suggests some key insights, tactical steps, and some stories to help understand today's leaders' fabric leading tomorrow's organizations.

Timeline: 0:28 Erica's journey? 7:15 Advice to emerging leaders. 12:13 Adapting to change. 15:15 Tackling unconscious bias. 17:05 Evolution of leadership. 22:26 Taking the road not taken. 27:30 Expectations of leaders towards his/her business. 32:24 Investing in people or technology? 37:46 Getting the right feedback. 43:40 Example unbiased leadership. 51:20 Women in a leadership role. 57:48 Erica's secret for success.

Erika's Book: Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future by Erika Andersen https://amzn.to/2L2DI01

Erika's Recommended Read: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins https://amzn.to/2JhswYG Dan Pink Books https://amzn.to/2Nc0X5s

Podcast Link: https://futureofdata.org/preparing-the-leaders-for-datadriven-future-erikaandersen/

Erika's BIO: Erika Andersen is the founding partner of Proteus, a coaching, consulting, and training firm that focuses on leader readiness. Over the past 30 years, Erika has developed a reputation for creating approaches to learning and business-building tailored to her clients’ challenges, goals, and culture. She and her colleagues at Proteus focus uniquely on helping leaders at all levels get ready and stay ready to meet whatever the future might bring.

Much of her recent work has focused on organizational visioning and strategy, executive coaching, management, and leadership development. In these capacities, she serves as consultant and advisor to the CEOs and/or top executives of several corporations, including NBCUniversal, Facebook, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, GE, Hulu, and Madison Square Garden.

She also shares her insights about managing people and creating successful businesses by speaking to corporations, non-profit groups, and national associations. Her books and learning guides have been translated into Spanish, Turkish, German, French, Russian, and Chinese. She has contributed to and been quoted in various national publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and The New York Times. Erika is also one of the most popular leadership bloggers at Forbes.com.

She is the author of Be Bad First—Get Good at Things FAST to Stay Ready for the Future (Bibliomotion, 2016), Leading So People Will Follow (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Being Strategic: Plan for Success; Outthink Your Competitors; Stay Ahead of Change (St. Martin’s Press, May 2009), and Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers (Portfolio, 2006), and the author and host of the Proteus Leader Show a regular podcast that offers quick, practical support for leaders and managers.

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