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Integrating Data & Social Science
September 19, 2023, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Free for EPIC Members(Time in CEST: 6–7:00 pm)
Virtual Session
Sponsor Session presented by Qamar Zaman, Partner and Chief Data Scientist & Tom Hoy, Partner, Stripe Partners
2023 has been a year of challenge for research. It’s also an opportunity for extending our practice and evolving it for the changing needs of the business environments we operate in. In Stripe Partners’ report The New Research Playbook, we outlined one important shift that practitioners need to embrace: the skillset shift from narrow user research to integrated data. In this session Qamar Zaman and Tom Hoy will outline what an integrated approach can look like in practice. Using concrete case studies they will explore some of the challenges of forging an integrated approach, how to overcome them and what’s possible when this is done effectively.
Stripe Partners is an EPIC2023 Sponsor. EPIC is a nonprofit organization and we’re grateful for the volunteers, members, and sponsors who support our community.
Qamar Zaman is a Partner and the Chief Data Scientist at Stripe Partners. He has advised some of the world’s leading financial services and technology firms on questions around social connectedness, culture and behaviour. Qamar’s expertise lies at the intersection of data science, economics and behavioural science. Before joining Stripe Partners, Qamar was the Chief Economist and Head of Data and Behavioural Science at the Financial Services Culture Board, where he built and led globally the largest exercise to assess culture in financial institutions. He began his consulting career at Oliver Wyman, and holds degrees from the University of Oxford, McGill and Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Tom Hoy is a Partner at Stripe Partners. He has spent 12 years advising some of the world’s leading organisations on strategy and innovation. Tom’s expertise lies in applying social science theory to unlock concrete business and product challenges. The frameworks and concepts developed by Tom’s teams guide the activity of clients including Spotify, Google and Intel. His work has been covered by the “Financial Times” and “The Guardian.” Prior to co-founding Stripe Partners, Tom was a leader in the social innovation field, growing a hackathon network in South London to several hundred members to address local causes. Tom holds a Masters in International Relations from the LSE.