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techUK's 'Big Data Hero' campaign highlights Big Data leaders in the UK as part of our work to address the Big Data skills gap.

techUK's July Big Data Hero

techUK's 'Big Data Hero' campaign continues to champion Big Data leaders in the UK that are working hard to ensure the UK can fully realise the benefits of Big Data and Data Analytics.

techUK's campaign highlights the people that are making a difference and asking them what made them choose this career, how they got there, what their typical day involves and what they most enjoy about their work. We will also be enquiring about the future of the industry and what advice they would give to people considering a career in Big Data and Data Analytics, in light of the current Big Data skills gap in the UK.

This campaign will feed into the work of techUK's Big Data Skills Working Group, which will be looking at ways to reduce the Big Data skills gap.

A new techUK 'Big Data Hero' will be chosen every month, so if you would like to nominate a friend or colleague to be the next 'Big Data Hero' please drop Jeremy Lilley a line with a bit of information about them!

July's Big Data Hero - Alison Lowndes, Deep Learning Solutions Architect & Community Manager, Nvidia Ltd

Congratulations to July's techUK 'Big Data Hero' - Alison Lowndes, Deep Learning Solutions Architect & Community Manager at Nvidia Ltd

Read on for a little taster and find the full interview below.

What is your current role and what are your responsibilities?

I advise and consult on a very wide range of Big Data applications as well as keeping up with the field of Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning research and it's Community.

What do you think the future holds for Big Data?

The future is bright! Big data allows us to gain insights that are robust to variance. That means we can make accurate predictions from vast amounts of knowledge without too much bias. We have so much knowledge amassed and we can now use it to make our lives easier and our processes run much more efficiently.

What needs to be done to inspire people to pursue careers in big data?

We need more girls to study STEM subjects and to understand how much they can offer industry in general from an engineering and computer science standpoint. Code should be taught as prolifically as reading to open the doors to the digital age for everyone.