Enda Ridge (Past Speaker)

Enda Ridge is the Head of Data Science and Algorithms at Sainsbury's Group in the UK and the author of "Guerrilla Analytics – a practical approach to working with data". He is an accomplished data scientist who sets up and grows data science teams to help businesses leverage data to stay competitive. His experience spans 15 years of consulting, software pre-sales and academic research. He has consulted to clients in the public and private sectors including financial services, insurance, audit, IT security and retail in the US and UK. Most recently, he founded Sainsbury's supermarkets first data science team and is leading efforts to productionise data science algorithms.  He is an expert in the agile delivery of practical applied data science and analytics where data and requirements change often and results must be explainable to high profile business stakeholders.