How Laing O'Rourke Built Capability to Underpin their Data Revolution
Every organisation is facing retention challenges and fighting the war for talent, especially data teams (and data skills for the broader business). But you might be looking in the wrong place for solutions -- your valued people are already there, with the needed domain knowledge. Funded by the levy and harnessing the power of applied learning, professional apprenticeships across data, tech and AI can help tap into this pipeline ready to be upskilled and re-skilled. Whether serving internal stakeholders or external customers is your north star, building data capability across the organisation to inform your strategy and stay ahead of the competition is table stakes in today’s world.
Speakers
Pedro Rente Lourenco
Group Head of Data & Analytics - Laing O'Rourke
With a robust background in Data Science and Machine Learning, Pedro's role as Group Head of Data & Analytics at Laing O'Rourke allows him to drive transformative data strategies and deliver value-focused analytics solutions. Previously, as an Advisor at dotmoovs and Global Head of Data Science at Laing O'Rourke, Pedro honed his expertise in Python and leveraged machine learning to foster innovation and deliver value at scale and pace. He have successfully designed and implemented Data Strategies for both large companies and start-ups with measurable results.
Louisa Dunwiddie
Enterprise Account Director - Multiverse
Louisa Dunwiddie is an experienced go-to-market leader, with a successful track record designing and delivering digital transformations, relationship building and leveraging data to drive decisions. She is currently an Enterprise Regional Director at Multiverse, where she led the development of their business value approach to quantify and communicate the impact of skills initiatives on a bottom line, and established the Business Value Consultancy team.
Prior to joining Multiverse, Louisa was a consultant in Mercer’s Talent practice, where she delivered strategic engagements around the world including San Francisco, Denver, Washington DC, Norway, the UK, and Portugal.
Louisa graduated cum laude from Claremont McKenna College with a BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and holds a MSc, with Distinction, from the London School of Economics in Behavioural Science as well as an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology.