A full day of free workshops and talks about tech and digital skills exclusively for WOMEN. General Assembly is bringing together top speakers and instructors for collaborative, fun and interactive sessions to inspire you to pursue a career you love. Whether you are thinking about a career transition, learning in-demand skills or just exploring something new - this is for you!
INSTRUCTOR: Sotirios Seridis, Digital Marketing Instructor, General Assembly
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Sotirios is a Growth Marketer, Digital Strategist, and Startup enthusiast with a solid track record across all core digital specialties: PPC, SEO, Media Planning, Data Analytics and E-Commerce. He worked for 3 of the world’s leading media agencies: HAVAS, MediaCom and PHD and a number of successful startups in 3 of the world’s major regional hubs: London, Dubai and Singapore. Along the way he managed countless digital campaigns and built 2 digital performance departments from the ground-up, working with a diverse portfolio of local and multi-national companies – including some of the world’s biggest advertisers: Unilever, Volkswagen and Etihad Airways. Moreover, he is a huge start-up enthusiast, helping promising startups to rise off the ground.
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INSTRUCTOR:Â Gaurav Chaturvedi, SVP, Lead Data Scientist, DBS BANK
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Gaurav is the Lead Data Scientist at DBS Bank. He lends simplicity to the (sometimes very mathematical) concepts in Data Science. He can easily relate the concepts of data science to practical problem solving situations you are likely to find yourself in. His style is well suited to beginners as well as experienced programmers. Gaurav enjoys following and writing about cricket in his free time.
 INSTRUCTOR: Saif Farooqui, Anlytics Lead, Facebook
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Saif Farooqui is a Technical Analytics Lead in the Business Integrity team, which protects users and ensure safe connections between users and businesses. The team's focus on data analysis, machine learning and a robust infrastructure of back-end systems allows them to collaborate effectively with engineering and product teams.
Prior to working on data science at Facebook, Saif bounced around a fair bit, from consulting to economics research to marketing science and then computer vision, before a teaching position at (drum roll) General Assembly led to the job of his dreams. Ask him about python generators and the temporal considerations of data analysis!
INSTRUCTOR:Â Ayesha Kohli, Founder, Creative Director, SPARQ Communications
A brand storyteller and creative entrepreneur, Ayesha Kohli is the founder of communications consultancy, Sparq Communications, the editor of Creative Sparq, the founder and creative director for niche textile label, Ayesha Cashmere. With over a dozen-years’ experience in brand management, public relations, journalism and design, Ayesha has worked on a range of communications projects for multinational brands and start-up organization’s covering lifestyle and consumer goods, technology, education and non-profit sectors. A life-long learner, Ayesha holds a double Masters in Business and Economics. Her mantra is to live a creative life – ask questions, find answers, learn by doing and create by intention.
 INSTRUCTOR: Mrinal Daryani, Senior Product Consultant, Tableau Software
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Mrinal has helped over a hundred clients across APAC adopt Tableau & scale it across the organization. If he's not playing with data, he's encouraging people to play with data. Prior to joining Tableau, he completed strategy consulting projects for the social sector.
INSTRUCTOR:Â Carrie Liauw, Founder and Director at Tabula Rasa
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Carrie Liauw is the Founder and Director of Tabula Rasa, an events agency founded in 2015 that curates purposeful events through generating shared experiences. She believes that events are a platform for driving knowledge, awareness, and bringing communities and people together. Carrie has over 15 years of experience in content curation, events management, and education.
INSTRUCTOR: Miriam Feiler, Co-Founder - bizzi
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Based in Singapore, Miriam Feiler is a born connector who speaks on small business collaboration.
A dynamic presenter and entrepreneur, Miriam has spent 20 years building strong relationships globally and helping small businesses come together to learn, share and grow. She is co-Founder of bizzi.co, a collaboration platform for the world's small business owners. bizzi's vision is to enable collaborations that solve the world's greatest challenges.
Miriam is looking to meet with individuals and organisations that are addressing the SDGs, as well as those that are committed to helping small businesses overcome their challenges to growth.
PANELIST: Nicki Ramsay, CEO at CardUp
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Nicki is the CEO of CardUp, a payments company that enables individuals and businesses to utilise their credit card for all their big expenses, regardless of whether the recipient accepts card payments. A payment professional, Nicki has a background in business development, consumer insight, analytics and marketing having worked for American Express across both Asia Pacific and Europe. During this time she held a variety of leadership roles including Head of Consumer Insight for APAC and Director of International Business Development, where she was reasonable for identifying and developing partnerships with technology and fintech companies across the region. Nicki started her career as a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting, after graduating with a first class degree in Economics.
