Amin works as a senior data science manager at Booking.com (started as a Research data scientist in 2015) where he leads an analytic team to build scalable analytic data-driven solutions in order to drive performance and improve the profitability of online advertising channels. Amin has put his focus on e-commerce problems since his PhD at Durham University utilising advanced quantitative
methods based on clickstream data. In the past six years, he has developed an award-winning analytic engine using predictive models and algorithmic optimisation routines for paid search advertising media such as Google and Bing. His main interest recently is in high-performance computing machine learning methods with the goal of extracting meaningful and actionable insight from big data and creating analytic engines.

Originally from Argentina, Pablo moved to Ireland 10 years ago and since then has been developing his career in the area of Data Analytics. In college, Pablo gained experience doing research in the Labor markets of Argentina. He worked as a member of an Analytics team in the area of Human resources, developing statistical models in the Telco Industry. Later he worked as Data Analyst in the Insurance industry and currently, he is working in the Fintech Arena in the implementation of a Business intelligence platform. Pablo holds a Bachelors’s degree in Economics, a Post Grad in Finance and a Higher Diploma in Fintech. Pablo is a regular member of many data Science Meetups and conferences in Dublin and London.

 David is the founder of Data Idols and the Data Science Festival. He has spent years as a contract database administrator, delivering projects for some of the UK’s leading companies. During his time as a contractor, much of his work was sourced through recruitment agencies, it was a painful process. He could never shake the feeling that things could be better, that adding IT knowledge to the recruitment process would lead to a hiring Utopia.  At Data Idols, he now uses his unique background across hands on tech and hiring, to help organisations apply Data Engineering and Data Science techniques to improve the delivery of data projects, through consulting, recruitment, training and events.

Courtney has recently joined DSF as the Melbourne chapter director. She has been working in recruitment for over 2 years now and works at the DSF sister company Data Idols specialising in bespoke data science and engineering recruitment. She is building out an engaged audience from scratch but is up for the challenge. Tying all the threads of data recruitment, live and virtual events together she hopes to create a thriving community with thought provoking speakers to connect companies and candidates together.