Celebrating five years of developing a community
Meetup events are a public space for people to come and get to know each other. If organized with the community in mind and far away from commercial interest, they bring many stakeholders as a union of people based on individuals and less as organizations together. That is how trust is built, connections are made and growth occurs. That’s how the magic happens and communities are developed.
Frankfurt Data Science has become an important element of Frankfurt’s local analytics ecosystem. Employees of companies as diverse as consulting (like Deloitte and d-fine), software companies (like SAS and H2O.ai), hubs and accelerators (like TechQuartier, Accelerator Frankfurt), members of academia (Frankfurt School), founders of startups (Santiment, Pitch Club, ADEAL Systems, Risklio, IntelScoring) and of course members of other communities (FinTech Frankfurt, AI Frankfurt) gather once a month to share their experience and understanding of varieties of topics around data, analytics, predictive models and insights. The organizers have put a lot of effort into building strong partnerships.
This year Frankfurt Data Science will celebrate 5 years since it was founded and the community keeps growing and growing. Five years is a serious age for a Meetup, I have experienced a lot of Meetups coming and going, but there are only few in Frankfurt that are still active after so many years.
Congratulations Frankfurt Data Science on your 5th year anniversary!
Luckily the organizers of Frankfurt Data Science aren’t going to halt there. As Data Scientists themselves, they are aware of the chances and the risks of a maturity phase and have begun working on several tracks to support their members on beneficial basis.
One is Education
Particularly the role of stakeholders from the field of education is crucial here e.g. Frankfurt School, as Eldar notes:
We do have many talents who have high level of expertise in particular data science topics and we want to help them to be able to share their know-how, help them become professional trainers by supporting with curriculum building, coaching etc. And that’s where other ecosystem partners step in, support and collaborate
The Other are Talents
“Talents” is a pain topic on the market, everyone is looking for talents but there is often a mismatch between talents, jobs and skills. What is important here is a dialog between stakeholders and transparency. Frankfurt Data Science helped many talents to land at jobs they liked. As Eldar further clarifies:
Here it is crucial to understand the needs of companies, profiles, current trends and skills mobility. Coaching of both talents as well as companies and right matching is something that market needs today.
At the end for Frankfurt Data Science it is important to experiment with new event formats and by doing that, test collaboration concepts with different partners. There is a bunch of interesting formats to try and that are planned and great partners with whom they could be done together.
I asked Eldar what he has on the Agenda and he whispered into my ears that Frankfurt Data Science is planing a Hackathon with the well known crypto data startup Santiment, one of the loyal partners of the Meetup who have supported the community with presentations and continuous participation.
But there is One More Thing:
The Model Review will be a new format that is coming soon, a much smaller event aimed at bringing together experienced Data Scientists and accelerate know-how exchange in smaller groups clustered by interest domain, such as NLP, Computer Vision and others.
So stay tuned, there will be more details about the upcoming events on this publication soon, Eldar is working on it, as always!