Lead, Director, and Principal: Data career progress

More companies are appointing or hiring Leads, Directors, and Principals. Are you ready to step up?

This workshop is for you if...

You are recognized as a Senior or have at least 4 years of experience in Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, and MLOps.

You want to advance your career and be trusted by businesses and regulators.

You want support in navigating your career. We are diverse, fight discrimination, and help to break the glass ceiling.

AI Guild members may attend this workshop once a year for free - limited seats.

Make it a work day: Ask your company to sponsor your professional development day (€1200 +VAT).

Your workshop outcome is

Determine your next career step and promotion plan.

A competency profile to drive your career progress for the next 24 months.

Actionable orientation for handling career obstacles and breaking the glass ceiling.

Proof-of-concept

The AI Guild has offered career development since 2020, supporting practitioners online and in person. We have worked with startups and corporates to define data roles and build teams.

The AI Guild has pioneered Accreditation, the Competency Profile, and the Skills profile for data practitioners to have more impact.

You can learn more on the Medium publication 'Fluent inData.'

Workshop outline

09.30 Doors open

10.00 The Care & Feeding of Data Practitioners: Lead, Director, Principal.

10.40 Examples of Competency Profiles and career advances.

11.00 Networking: Please introduce a fellow practitioner using the LinkedIn profile.

11.30 Coffee break

11.45 Building your competency profile.

12.00 Pair work (interview): Competency profile draft

13:00 Individual work: Profile statement draft

13:30 Lunch

14.30 Migration, discrimination, the glass ceiling: Support in navigating common issues on the way to the top.

15:15 Individual work on your Competency Profile.

16.00 Coffee break

16.15 AI Guild Accreditation as the benchmark for progress to Director, Principal, and CDO.

16.45 Completing your Competency Profile

17.15 Wrap up and next steps

Workshop organizers

Chris Armbruster, Director, AI Guild. Over the past 6 years, Chris has supported 1000+ practitioners in advancing a data career.

Dânia Meira, Director, AI Guild. A Data Scientist since 2013, she focuses on use cases in production and teams and infrastructure required to productionize.

AI Guild

2200+ Specialists: The AI Guild is Europe’s leading practitioner community in Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, and MLOps.

All practitioners may

apply to be a member via the website

. Membership is free.