And to all of our great exhibitors Morrisons, The Alan Turing Institute, Answer Digital, Ligentia, Oakland Everything Data, Impactive IT, West Yorkshire Pension Fund, NPH Ethnic Minority Business and Policy Forum, Opendoor Scientific and Women in Machine Learning.
Thank you to our fantastic speakers for sharing your wealth of experience and guidance for those just entering the industry including An Nguyen & Jo Hall (Netflix), Rob Wood (Nestlé), Sarah Culkin (NHS England) and Andrea Liotta (UST).
📈 Technical skill development
🤝 Networking opportunities
🗣️ Communication abilities
📖 Story-telling in data
We had a great time this week at our annual #Data & #AI Careers Festival!
It was great to see so many of you both at the exhibition and turning up for our keynote speakers. We heard some great conversations and tips on:
The 3-year project, in conjunction with the Faculty of Environment and Societies, marks the sixth international research project on the platform, but the first collaboration with Japanese researchers, and further strengthens LIDA’s growing global reach.
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At the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, that capability continues to expand. Our Data Analytics Team has recently onboarded a new international project with partners in Japan, onto LASER, the University of Leeds’ in-house cloud-based TRE.
Global #DataScience and #AI research collaboration is accelerating, and international partnerships are generating insight at an unprecedented scale. As data needs grow and security expectations evolve, Trusted Research Environments (#TRE's) are playing an increasingly central role.
👀 Visibility
📖 Training
🤝 Mentoring
📢 Advocacy
ℹ️ Knowledge
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LIDA Co-Director, Professor Susan Grant-Muller, shares her thoughts on the theme and five ways that LIDA supports women in Data Science & AI, as well aims for the future to continue progress towards change including:
International Women's Day: 'Give to Gain' means "emphasizing the power of reciprocity and support. When people, organizations, and communities give generously, opportunities and support for women increase. Giving is not a subtraction, it's intentional multiplication. When women thrive, we all rise."
#NHSData #NHSCareers #BiomedicalDataScience #HealthDataScience #UKResearch #DataScienceCareers #EDIinSTEM #MentoringMatters
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The project is run by the PROMOTE team, funded by the Medical Research Council and led by the University of Leeds with partners from higher education & health and medicine.
Calling all NHS Data Scientists, Analysts, Engineers and AI pro's 📈
We're mapping career pathways in health data and identifying what helps (or blocks) progression, particularly into leadership.
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting the Department for Transport (DfT) Senior Analyst Team at Virtuocity. It was a fantastic opportunity to showcase our ongoing work, share insights, and explore how advanced simulation and behavioural research can support evidence-based transport policy.
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AIFL is designed to integrate into operational workflows, capturing key hydrological dynamics while providing robust predictions for both routine and extreme events. Maria outlined its architecture, training strategy, and preliminary evaluation results.
Recent advances in #MachineLearning offer new opportunities to complement these models and improve predictive skill across diverse basins.
Maria spoke about #flood forecasting at large scales being critical as extreme events become more frequent. ECMWF provides the computational backbone for operational systems such as GloFAS and EFAS, delivering global and european streamflow predictions.
LIDA AI ON CATCHUP - NEW EPISODE
Our Scientific Machine Learning group recently hosted a presentation on AIFL, a deterministic LSTM-based model under development for global daily streamflow forecasting.
Maria Luisa Taccari spoke from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - ECMWF.
Work with health or biomedical data in the UK?
PROMOTE (MRC‑funded, led by @lida-leeds.bsky.social) is mapping real career paths in biomedical data science across academia, industry & healthcare.
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📅 Projects begin October 2026 or April 2027
💬 Initial consultations are free of charge
⏳ Availability is limited - enquiries will close once slots are filled
Find out more about the Data Insights Programme and how to get involved 👉 lida.leeds.ac.uk/get-data-ins...
If you’re:
✔ sitting on valuable data
✔ stretched for in-house data science capacity
✔ exploring AI or automation opportunities
✔ looking for rigorous, research-led insight
…this is an opportunity to explore what’s possible.
We work with public, private and third sector organisations to turn real-world data into practical insights, by pairing organisations with academic experts and data scientists at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social for six-month collaborative projects.
Got data, but not enough time or expertise to unlock its value?
We are opening a limited consultation window for organisations interested in joining our Data Insights Programme.
Process mining offers a way to analyse variation and flow in care delivery, using existing data, and is increasingly relevant to health analytics, service evaluation and the use of #AI in healthcare settings.
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Work to date by LIDA Acadamic Fellow, Owen Johnson, includes methodology development, NHS-based case studies, training activity, and engagement with national and international stakeholders.
Process mining for health: one year of the LIDA Academic Fellowship
Our first Academic Fellowship in #Processmining for #Health at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social focuses on applying methods to #HealthRecords, to better understand real clinical pathways across @england.nhs.uk services.
📢 If you work in academia, industry, the NHS, or the public sector - your experience matters.
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