“A project like the Data Science Festival is one of the most important things that the data community actually needs.”

It helps from a recruitment perspective, we have candidates that have successfully joined from previous festivals. It’s a really nice way for all of us to feel connected to something fun, exciting, interesting and learn more as we’re doing it.

It’s important for sponsors to come to events like this because we get to meet a very diverse new breed of people coming onto the market. There are lots of new talent, new skills, returners and people who have taken a career break from work. We also get to have a diverse portfolio of people applying to the roles that we have open right now.

“Great variety of speakers, huge variety of companies and different industries and enjoyed seeing how they are implementing some of the machine learning algorithms. Great to get some inspiration.”