 you're out at the head of analytics in Accenture Ireland so maybe we'll kick off if you tell us a little bit about yourself and the work you do here in Accenture. Happy to. So this is my background. I got a degree in maths, master's in industrial mathematics. I started 20 something years ago as a credit scoring analyst building predictive models for a bank and over the last 20 odd years I've mostly worked as a management consultant using analytics to help my clients improve either how they interact with their customers or how they are more efficiently as an organisation. So what attracted you to get involved and predict again this year? Yeah like as you know we were talking about earlier like in my previous role when I led health analytics for Europe and Accenture I presented at the conference two years ago and just some of the work we're doing around cardiovascular readmissions. It was an exciting time you know great to see a better dynamic conference. I think it's also really exciting to see how yourselves are evolving as the data analytics community in Ireland so it feels as well. I think one of the things that really excited me this time was with your own maturity and really interested in the different special streams. So I think that was as well as you know committing to the analytics community in Ireland so it's important for us to do that. I think there's some really interesting technical specialist areas that we are we're keen to share our stories and give our people stories as well. What would you like to achieve from predicting? One is actually making that contribution and helping build and expand that community. I think secondly we've got loads of them you know so I want to I want myself and I want the team to sort of hear those stories from others to reflect on how we can expand it and through what we're doing as well. Look we are also open for business and open for recruitment so there are other advantages there and I think it was my team's keen to get involved and I think one of the things with this conference is it was a real bottom up feel that this is a great thing for us to be involved in so we're delighted to do that from a team perspective as well. Anyone starting out with their career and funding to analytics what would be the single biggest advice you'd give them or other advice in general? So I think for me it's about getting involved and it's about getting involved in the best way you can. There's a wonderful data science analytics community in Ireland there's lots of opportunities to get involved in hackathons and there's lots of meetups and there's loads of opportunities to do with jobs so I think the thing for me is it's really just get involved in the land and start to code and try things it's the best way analytics doesn't live in a textbook and it's absolutely about doing models, trying it, implementing it, failing it and getting better so that's what my team plays. It's great fun, it's directed totally at people who are problem solvers and want to, who have an inquisitive mindset and it's a contact sport to get involved with the player.