Speakers

Robert Clifford

Rob is the Head of Digital and Data for BAE Systems Maritime and Land Sector; responsible for producing the organisations data strategy and leading the digitisation of the Maritime business. Rob took up his post in April 2021 following a 2 year consulting position as Head of Digital Policy and Strategy in the Royal Navy. Prior to joining BAE Systems, Rob spent 16 years in the civil service in a variety of senior digital transformation and data policy roles, advising Ministers on data sharing, analytics, and information rights.

Marla Nelson

Hassan Khalid

Hassan is currently a Senior MLOps Engineer in the AI Engineering team at AstraZeneca. Before that, he has served in various ML and DS roles at GSK. Hassan is particularly skilled at using machine learning to detect, and resolve problems across the pharmaceutical pipeline;specifically, drug discovery and development. Hassan’s current work focuses on bringing innovative ways to drive efficiency in data quality and integrity, governance, and ML practices using reusable frameworks.

Jodine Russell

Dr Jodine Russell is currently a Principle Data Manager at AIRBUS Defence and Space, where she coordinates the Data & Document Management team for the design of Satellites. She has worked in both the Automotive and Defence sectors for the last 10 years. Dr Jodine believes in well organised lean processes, that capitalise on simplification and hold a PhD titled “Calorimetric studies of Supramolecular and Enzyme Complexes”.

Phil Ware

Beth Smith is a programme manager with over 20 years of engineering experience in the Defence industry. She has worked across all phases of the engineering lifecycle with a particular emphasis on software and systems engineering. Beth is keen to benefit from the insights provided by data and driving those benefits into her product portfolio as well as grow the digital skillset required to deliver.

Sil Sehra

Sil is a seasoned IT professional with vast experience of leading, managing IT functions and delivering digital transformational change across different sectors. Passionate about data and the unlocking the value it brings to the business.

Karl Hart

Beth Smith

Beth Smith is a programme manager with over 20 years of engineering experience in the Defence industry. She has worked across all phases of the engineering lifecycle with a particular emphasis on software and systems engineering. Beth is keen to benefit from the insights provided by data and driving those benefits into her product portfolio as well as grow the digital skillset required to deliver.

Niall Buswel

Niall is a data professional with experience in both the public and private sectors. His main areas of interest are data governance, data quality and data management. Niall is all too familiar with complex data environments, where his focus is ensuring that data is accurate, reliable, and accessible to support data-driven decision making.

Hugo Chester

Hugo’s background is product development of automotive manufacturing equipment, he has spent several years doing software development, and in the previous year he has managed data infrastructure projects such as implementing a data gathering process from getting devices connected to the cloud, identifying what data to pass to the data lake, and then dashboarding this data in a useful way to generate insight into how to improve Atlas Copco products and identify what questions they can put to a data science team to start building their ML models. Additionally, Hugo is currently in the process of working with external partners to implement a digital twin of one of Atlas Copco projects using the data gathered by the data lake as the soft real-time connection.