MEET THE BRUSSELS DATA SCIENCE COMMUNITY A young but very fast growing community in the heart of Europe set to use data to make a positive impact on the world. The Brussels Data Science Community is a very young community whose ultimate goal is to make a difference by applying their data science and knowledge on social challenges. Only 3-month old but with already more than a 300 members, this group of expert data scientists has plenty of energy and ideas and they are ready to use them on interesting projects. Their plan is to meet every month and share, discuss and showcase ideas on how data sicences should be used, in either the private or public sector.

1. The Brussels Talent Hub using data in the service of the greater good. - @DataScienceBe
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3. Networking & Brasisilan Cocktails:
21:02 Networking will take place on the terras of the Kultuurkaffee of the VUB.
Agenda:
21:00 2 minutes walk to the Kultuurkaffee
Match: Greece - Japan on giant screen.
22:30 after the networking at the Kultuurkaffee there is the possibility to follow Greece - Japan on giant
screen.
20:00 – 15 minutes Break
20:20
- 5' Presentation of the R-Community in Belgium
- Short update about our community - Philippe
- Open discussion about Doing data for good & participation in DataKind projects. - Sébastien
18:45 - Introduction to Machine learning - Prof Bontempi (ULB)
19:10 - 2nd Data for development initiative - Sébastien
19:30 - Datakind - Presentation about the activities of DataKind in Europe - Fran (DataKindUK)
19:45 - Datakind 'Datadive' - feedback from our participation to the DataDive in London - Thomas (ING)
18:30 – Our Host for tonight - Wouter Verbeke - VUB
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11. Open – Not Commercial - Sharing
Fun - Learning - Networking
Permanent
Education
Track
Meet ups
&
Garden
Parties
Data Dives
&
Hackathons
LAB
DataScience
Bigdata
Startup
Support
Business - Professionals - Academic
Government - Students - NGO

12. Agenda & events :
June 7& 8 DataDive in London hosted by Datakind
June 19th DataScience Meet-up - Data4Good
July 17th DataScience Meet-up – Garden Party
Sept. 18th DataScience Meet-up – HR
Oct. 16th DataScience Meet-up – Customer Intelligence
Initiatives ready to be lauched :
Summer Start-up support Hackathon on telco data,
Summer Datadive on NGO data in Brussels
Fall Permanent education track
Fall Data Science Lab
Winter DataKind full day event
Nice activities in the pipeline
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