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Presentations by Peter Bloomfield and Mark Shilton on Digital Catapult & Zero to Data Science at a Start Up.
Peter Bloomfield is the AI/Machine learning policy & engagement manager at the Digital Catapult in London. He will be talking about the Machine Intelligence Garage programme, run by the Digital Catapult. The MI Garage programme provides AI and machine learning startups with access to computational resources to help them scale faster. Peter will introduce the ecosystem research that lead to the setting up of the programme, the resources available and the ways startups can interact with MI Garage.
Mark Shilton is a Principal Data Scientist at TravelNest, an Edinburgh based start up focused on making it easier for holiday rental owners to market their properties. Mark will present: "Going from zero to data science at a start up" and will talk about the challenges and opportunities of being a data scientist in a start up with not much data but the remit to build a data science platform, team and data driven products that will contribute to TravelNest's success.
- Hosted by
- Michael Young
- Venue
- University of Edinburgh, George Sq, 50 George Square Edinburgh Scotland EH8 9JU