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CoP: Data Science: Create a Networking/ Speaker Invitation Guide
Overview
We need someone from our Community of Practice with networking experience to write a guide for inviting in guest speakers
Action Items
- [x] A Guide, with social networking advice and techniques
- [ ] An email template, I will help with this
- [ ] For peer review of it, and my review
- [ ] Get webform speaker consent form for DS CoP coded up like the UI/UX team has: Speaker Consent Form
- [ ] get a copy of the UI/UX team PowerPoint template so I can adapt it
- [ ] Come up with a Canva/Figma graphic for a banner that the speaker can use in LinkedIn to advertise themselves
Resources/Instructions
We need resources to be gathered and put in the guide.
Speaker Networking Guide Wiki (in progress)
Speaker topics that were suggested by the team:
- [ ] Emerging trends in DS. What's new? including AI, Human Computer Interaction, what skills to learn to be competitive?
- [ ] Data collection and preprocessing best practices
- [ ] Data engineering and how that can be crossed with web development
- [ ] What inspired you to pursue DS?
- [ ] What do you know about Model Context Protocol, a protocol for ingress of data to Retrieval Augmented Generation?
- [ ] Tell us about your personal experience with data. What data have you worked with? What part of DS are you involved in?
- [ ] What would you tell yourself 5 years ago that would have made things easier/better for your progress?
Update:
I read two social networking guides: Harvard Business Review A Beginner's Guide to Networking Hubspot: The Complete Guide to Business Networking
I am going to read a little more this week and start a wiki page when we get back from break.
Blockers:
- [ ] I need the HfLA historical roster from Bonnie for the DS CoP so I can invite speakers that used to work here.
Future Work:
- [x] Create the guide by rereading/using those two sources and following their links
- [ ] Create a contact list to start networking from Bonnie's roster and this list of companies and people:
- [x] Edit and update my LinkedIn profile
- [ ] Start networking
Ask who we know at:
[1. Google] [2. Microsoft] [3. Amazon] [4. IBM] [5. Fractal Analytics] [6. Mu Sigma] [7. Accenture] [8. Cloudera] [9. Nvidia] [10. Airbnb]
These are the top 10 DS companies in 2025 according to reputable site.
Also mine this list for Data Officers to speak here, these are the top CDOs today.
ETA:
AFTER RETURNING FROM JULY BREAK... 1-2 weeks for the guide week 3: peer review done 4 weeks or less to start contacting speakers
Possible:
- Look at previous issue authors in DS CoP for speakers
- Remember to offer something in return when approaching speakers
Instructions
- Progress: "What is the current status of your project? What have you completed and what is left to do?"
- Blockers: "Difficulties or errors encountered."
- Availability: "How much time will you have this week to work on this issue?"
- ETA: "When do you expect this issue to be completed?"
- Pictures (if necessary): "Add any pictures that will help illustrate what you are working on."
- Progress: Cloned The UI/UX CoP Speaker Guide main page...will build from this
- Blockers: None
- Availability: One hour next week after we come back from break...I have multiple issues
- ETA: August
- Pictures (if necessary):
Instructions
- Progress: "What is the current status of your project? What have you completed and what is left to do?"
- Blockers: "Difficulties or errors encountered."
- Availability: "How much time will you have this week to work on this issue?"
- ETA: "When do you expect this issue to be completed?"
- Pictures (if necessary): "Add any pictures that will help illustrate what you are working on."
- Progress: Did some research, gathered information, built a prompt, and voila, a networking guide is born here: Data Science CoP Speaker Invitation Networking Guide
- Blockers: Waiting for review, need a reviewer
- Availability: some hours this week
- ETA: next week
- Pictures (if necessary):
Instructions
- Progress: "What is the current status of your project? What have you completed and what is left to do?"
- Blockers: "Difficulties or errors encountered."
- Availability: "How much time will you have this week to work on this issue?"
- ETA: "When do you expect this issue to be completed?"
- Pictures (if necessary): "Add any pictures that will help illustrate what you are working on."
- Progress: Moved this issue to needs reviewer
- Blockers:
- Availability:
- ETA:
- Pictures (if necessary):
Instructions
- Progress: "What is the current status of your project? What have you completed and what is left to do?"
- Blockers: "Difficulties or errors encountered."
- Availability: "How much time will you have this week to work on this issue?"
- ETA: "When do you expect this issue to be completed?"
- Pictures (if necessary): "Add any pictures that will help illustrate what you are working on."
- Progress: I'm still waiting for a reviewer
- Blockers: I need a copy of the powerpoint template that the UI/UX CoP has so I can adapt it for our speakers
- Availability:
- ETA:
- Pictures (if necessary):
Document review notes
- Code for America no longer operates the brigade network. You can say Former Code for America brigades, or similar organizations to Hack for LA, such as from this spreadsheet Civic Tech volunteering in the USA spreadsheet
- Document mentions one pager.
- Should have Meetup instructions and template
- how to make graphics to give speakers (for their LinkedIn and ours) and for meetup
- How to post on meetup for minimum talk information
- Add some text about asking former leads of the CoP to come back and speak
Other related notes, but not edits for the document necessarily
Potential speakers
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmswan/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninakin/
Reviewers
When you have made the changes you can ask UI/UX leads to review this guide in the CoP leads slack channel
@chinaexpert1 Please provide update - you can process the comments I have so far. (see above)
Instructions
- Progress: "What is the current status of your project? What have you completed and what is left to do?"
- Blockers: "Difficulties or errors encountered."
- Availability: "How much time will you have this week to work on this issue?"
- ETA: "When do you expect this issue to be completed?"
- Pictures (if necessary): "Add any pictures that will help illustrate what you are working on."
You can use this template
1. Progress:
2. Blockers:
3. Availability:
4. ETA:
5. Pictures (if necessary):
Instructions
- Progress: "What is the current status of your project? What have you completed and what is left to do?"
- Blockers: "Difficulties or errors encountered."
- Availability: "How much time will you have this week to work on this issue?"
- ETA: "When do you expect this issue to be completed?"
- Pictures (if necessary): "Add any pictures that will help illustrate what you are working on."
- Progress: I didn't get to this, this week. I will incorporate Bonnie's points next week
- Blockers:
- Availability: 1 hour
- ETA: 1 week
- Pictures (if necessary):
reviewed. looks good. missing link to consent form. we need it copied from ui team. @ExperimentsInHonesty could we get access to that?
