May TechTuesday: Data Skills for the Modern Workforce with Robin Hunt

Tuesday, May 16, 2023 (11:30 AM - 1:00 PM) (CDT)

Description

Whether we realize it or not, we all analyze data constantly. The data skills required of the workforce have evolved rapidly and will only evolve faster as we get access to more data, better tools, and AI. Will you evolve or be left behind?

Join us for this fascinating TechTuesday featuring Robin Hunt! We'll have catered lunch for you as always, courtesy of our title sponsor and host Regions Bank. 

Registration is complimentary for members of TechBirmingham and $10 for non-members.

About the Speaker

Robin Hunt has spent more than 20 years inspiring people to think something new about their everyday work life and has shown where her love of data can help them improve. As co-founder and partner of ThinkData Solutions, Inc., she works to encourage people to invest in themselves and never stop learning.

Along with her business partner Daniel Bishop, they have built a woman- and minority-owned business that serves not only their local community of Birmingham, Alabama, but they have built a national and international audience as well.

She has created customized curricula that offer a path to a data analytics career and a great starting point into data analytics and developed effective, practical courses for LinkedIn Learning. Her recorded instruction “Learning Data Analytics” is included in the data analyst career learning path of opportunity.linkedin.com, the collaboration of LinkedIn, Microsoft, and GitHub to offer free skills development learning.

She has an ongoing partnership with the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education and the Alabama Department of Education. ThinkData provides datasets that meet the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Acts to a research team that includes the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, UAB School of Education, and the University of Alabama.

In 2021, ThinkData Solutions was selected by CompTIA, the leading provider of vendor-neutral skills and certifications and training for IT professionals around the world, to develop the official content and training materials for its new CompTIA Data+ certification. ThinkData is also the first authorized training organization in the country to offer CompTIA Data+ training for this certification. Robin Hunt is instructing the CompTIA Data+ pilot program.

Robin is a member of the State of Alabama Office of Education & Workforce Statistics Advisory Board. She serves on the IT Technical Assistance Committee for the Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways and is a Microsoft Certified Learning Partner and a Microsoft Certified Trainer.

Regions Center
1900 5th Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35203 United States
Event Contact
Anna Topping
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 (11:30 AM - 1:00 PM) (CDT)
Registered Guests
65
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