Welcome and Introduction

• Carsten Welsch (University of Liverpool)

Careers Perspective

• Alexis Nolan-Webster

Day Start

• Constantinos Astreos (University of Liverpool)

Entrepreneurial Skills

• Mohammed Belal (STFC)

Mohammed Belal is currently an Enterprise Fellow at STFC. Previously he was a Business Development Director and Co-Founder of Spin-Out Company MIRICO, a company that has developed a transformational technology for gas sensing. He will share his experience on what is required to take an idea to market and setup a spin-out company on the basis of setting up the company MIRICO.

LinkedIn Masterclass

• Alexis Nolan-Webster

LinkedIn Masterclass is a key subject for technical PhDs taking their careers forward. Such is their specialisms that the employers and recruiters will be using LinkedIn to search them out. The learnt techniques can then be applied to either build connections or to attract attention/generate interest from employers and can take their visibility to another level. In a world dominated by Social Media the ability to master LinkedIn will become ever more important.

Day Start

• Constantinos Astreos (University of Liverpool)

Naimuri Ltd

• James Ramsden (Head of Data Science Capability, Naimuri Ltd)

James Ramsden, Head of Data Science Capability, Naimuri Ltd

Materials Innovation Factory

• Stephen Leece (Operations & Innovation Partnerships Director, Materials Innovation Factory)

Stephen Leece, Operations & Innovation Partnerships Director, Materials Innovation Factory

Deliveroo

• Kerry Parker (Data Scientist at Deliveroo)

Kerry Parker, Data Scientist at Deliveroo

The FA

• Alex Thomas

Alex Thomas, Data scientist at The FA

First Light Fusion

• James Allison
• Thomas Edwards

James Allison, Senior Data Scientist, and Thomas Ewards, Software Engineer at First Light Fusion

National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL)

• Steve Graham
• Nick Smith

Nick Smith and Steve Graham, NNL Fellows

NSG R&D Organisation

• Mark McLachlan

Mark McLachlan, Lead Engineer at NSG R&D Organisation