Date: Thursday, June 27

Theme: Data Science & AI capability Lead at KPMG UK 

Room: Founders Hall, Chancellor’s Building

Leanne Allen

Leanne Allen is a Partner in KPMG’s Financial Services Tech Consulting Practice and leads KPMG’s Data capability. She is an experienced data architect with broad experience across data management, data and systems architecture, data visualisation, reporting and analytics and data migration.

She is a thought leader in Tech-Data including driving the Data lens for KPMG’s 30 Voices campaign and co-authoring a paper with UK Finance on the Ethical use of customer data in a digital economy. Leanne is passionate about driving a diverse culture in technology and in particular, supports working mothers in tech founding the Superwoman network at KPMG with over 100 women in the network.

Leanne’s areas of expertise include financial services; banking, insurance, asset and wealth management; data strategy, data management, data governance and data architecture; finance transformation; regulatory transformation; and data ethics.

She holds a PhD in Numerical and Computational Fluid Dynamics and a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from the University Of Surrey, Guildford.

Rachid Hourizi 

As Director of the Institute of Coding (IoC), Rachid leads a national Institute announced by the Prime Minister in January 2018. He has broad experience leading the teaching of coding, digital skills and entrepreneurship within the University of Bath, Department of Computer Science at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He also led efforts to have the Bath placement scheme professionally certified (the first such certification in the country) and to launch digital Degree apprenticeship provision at the University.