Els van Vessem
Data Engineer and BI Consultant
The Hague, The Netherlands
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Els van Vessem (they/them) works as a BI Consultant/Data Engineer for a national government organization in The Netherlands, after 5 years working in data for organizations in healthcare. They focus on topics of diversity, non-data skills needed for data jobs, compassion and mental health. Outside of work they hang out on bluesky (@geekingthething), help events with their code of conducts and harassment/abuse policies, read a whole lot of books, and spoil their two kitties.
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Gender, beyond 0/1
Between 0.5% a 5% of people does not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. Chances are you work with someone, or will work with someone in the future, who is not cisgender, and is transgender and/or nonbinary.
Do these sentences already confuse you and use terms you do not know? Want to learn what all the letters in the LGBTQIA* acronym stand for? And how to create a welcome environment at your workplace for queer folk of all shapes and sizes? Come to this talk! Feel free to ask the questions you were always afraid to ask (as long as they're asked with an open mind and with respect).
How to get a running start at a new job, without getting lost.
"Welcome to your first day at company WeHaveData! Here are your laptop and your account, and you're good to go, right? Let me know if you have any questions; I'll be in an office miles away."
Many of us have been in situations like this. What are the questions you should definitely ask? What things can you do to figure stuff out yourself? How can you get up to speed as efficient and with as little frustration as possible, for both you and your new colleagues/managers/project leads? In this talk I'll guide you through some strategies and tips&tricks on how to get an overview of the data-landscape of a new place, for ensuring a confident start. At the end of the talk, you'll have some checklists with topics to broach and resources to keep on hand.
How to get more out of a conference.
You got your ticket, travelled to the venue or logged onto the online platform, and... now what? Tech conferences can feel intense and intimidating. This talk will give you some tips and tricks on how to navigate online and offline conferences, to gain more knowledge, and most of all: enjoy yourself while doing so.
Time and stress management for data people
Too much work for too little time. And the world is on fire. Doesn't that just describe all our days? In this workshop I'll share a variety of techniques, strategies and tips and tricks to get better equipped with dealing all our lives throw at us. This will be an interactive workshop, in which we'll be able to share our challenges with time and stress management, and try new things that will hopefully help you (as they helped me). I'll go into golden oldies like Stephen Covey and David Allen (Getting Things Done), and newer ones on the scene like pomodoro's, and we might even do some meditating. A note beforehand: we will not focus on what exact apps you can use, but on the systems that you can put in place to do more with less stress.
SQL for absolute beginners
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Are you completely new to work within data? Or do you work with data professionals, and would you like to know a bit more what coding they seem to do all day? Do you work mostly at the visualisation level and use drag and drop UI tools, and would you like to know more coding? This is the workshop for you!
You'll learn the very basics of SQL. How to select rows from tables, with conditions, and combine this with data from other table, and the other magical things the data engineers and bi specialists do on a daily basis.
This is a very hands-on workshop, with lots of exercises, so a laptop (preferably with admin access, so you can download and install all you like) is required.
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Els van Vessem
Data Engineer and BI Consultant
The Hague, The Netherlands
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