Inspire. Educate. Connect.
The Data Science Festival has run it’s free to attend monthly Meetups and annual Festival in London for 4 years. The grassroots community has grown and has connected thousands of people with the help of our team, dedication to free education and hard work. We want to open up the DSF world to our community to make the next step in our DSF evolution. We want to hear your voice, we want to help you foster your leadership and build your community as a DSF Chapter Director in your city. Interested in expanding your network, making friends, being the go-to person for all things data in your city and above all inspiring and growing the Data Science community with epic content? Then we need you! We are looking for the next DSF Global Chapter Directors to run monthly or bi-monthly Meetups in their local city.
Supported by the DSF Events team and with the opportunity to grow the chapter featuring speakers chosen by you what’s not to love. Educate the community and inspire them with ideas. Connect people to create lasting friendship and business connections. Promote your company and yourself as a leader and partner with us today. Fill out our application below and we will be in touch to give you more details, send you the full welcome pack and also to find why you want to be a thought leader in your local community!
Apply to become a Chapter Director

Jessica Willis
London and Bangalore Chapter Director

Adam Tomlin
Manchester Chapter Director

Amy Allum
Lagos Chapter Director

Alessandro Rizzo
Leeds Chapter Director

Soledad Galli
Berlin Chapter Director

Eric Thwaite
Oxford Chapter Director

Fergus Weldon
Bristol Chapter Director

Amin Jamalzadeh
Cambridge Chapter Director
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.

Pablo Jeremias Celis
DUBLIN Chapter Director
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 Loughlan
new york Chapter Director
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 Churchill
Melbourne Chapter Director
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.