Simon Rumble took us through the year that was, the highs and lows.

We spent some time going through ideas for 2023, what are the hot topics we should get sessions on a Data & Analytics Wednesday.

Broke everyone into groups under the following “teams”:

1. “Platforms” (which technologies / platforms / vendors do we want to hear more about?)
   
2. Privacy
3. Business Value (how do we have the biz value discussion with wider stakeholder groups? How do we explain what the best advertising campaign we have right now is? Etc.)
4. Jobs & Careers (what’s going to happen to our jobs? What can we do to get ahead? Etc.)
   

Austin Byrne 
Head of Product Analytics, Atlassian

Let's face it: your job rarely involves the depth of technology and innovation read on Airbnb's Data blogs. Over the past ten years, Austin has come to see a trend across hundreds of analytics professionals: we are an unhappy bunch when we feel there is more advanced analytics work being done by our peers. This is true even in "cutting edge" companies, based on his experience working on and leading several Analytics teams at Facebook and Atlassian. He lends thoughts into why he think this plight exists, share what he feels is a representative view into the "normal" work done by the majority of analytics professionals in companies of all sizes, and contest what "impactful" really means to an analyst job-well-done.