GCS Agile sponsored, presented at and attended the second edition of Monash University's Data Science Course for Managers from 11 April to 13 April 2016. The course is Australia’s first accredited short course in Data Science and is led by Michael Brand, Deputy Director of Data Science at Monash Graduate School. He developed and led this course specifically for professionals seeking to harness the potential of Data Science to empower their respective organisations.
Left to Right: Stuart Growse (GCS Agile, CDO), Michael Brand (Monash University, Deputy Course Director for Data Science Master's Program), Curtis Varner (GCS Agile, Management Consultant)
From Left to Right: Michael Brand (Monash University), Dennis Claridge (doubleIQ), James Horton (Datanomics), Chris Mendes (Industrie IT), Stuart Growse (GCS Agile), Mark Stammers (doubleIQ)
The course was attended by more than 20 professionals from various industries including financial services, telecommunications, aviation, government, utilities and retail. The 12 module course was led by senior technologists in the data science community, including:
- Michael Brand, Deputy Director of Data Science, Monash Graduate School
- Dennis Claridge, Co-Founder, doubleIQ
- Di Cook, Professor of Business Analytics, Monash Business School
- James Horton, Data Technology Advisor, Strategist and Connector
- Rob Hyndman, Professor of statistics, Monash Business School
- Kim Marriot, Professor of Computer Science, Monash University
- Chris Mendes, Executive Consultant, CISCO
- Mark Stammers, Co-founder, doubleIQ
- Dr. Dickson Luckose, Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab - MIMOS