Data & AI in action

18:30 -19:00 
Walk-in 

19:00 – 20:30 
Presentations, including breaks 

Data Product transformation, by Theo Gough 

Traditional AI to measure cannibalisation & halo effects in Retail, by Longhow Lam 

20:30 - 22:00 
Get-together with the speakers and fellow professionals, drinks & snacks will be provided. 

This meetup is built for managers, leads and project managers of data and IT teams. It is equally relevant if you are a Head of Data, data product manager, or a senior data scientist, analyst or data engineer working with data every day.

Data Product transformation 

How do you turn an internal data service team into a scalable Data Product organisation? Theo shows how product thinking was retrofitted onto existing data operations at Just Eat Takeaway, starting with one question: what actually counts as a Data Product? 

Some of the things you’ll learn 

• Shift focus from isolated tables or projects to domain-focussed Data Products that prioritise measurable business outcomes. 

• Use a Service Quality Framework of promises, obligations and constraints to manage consumer expectations and deliver reliably. 

• Apply lifecycle strategies to clarify, optimise, consolidate, reduce or retire Data Products, and keep your cost-to-serve under control. 

Traditional AI to measure cannibalisation & halo effects in Retail  

Longhow shows how Action uses proven, traditional AI methods to measure cannibalisation & halo effects after promotions and product launches: two embedding methods to shortlist candidate articles, business filters to sharpen that selection, and a Databricks Genie chat agent to share results with non-technical stakeholders.  

Some of the things you'll learn 

• Learn how to quantify cannibalisation & halo effects in your own assortment. 

• Discover how embeddings surface the product relationships that matter. 

• Turn proven AI methods into insights your business stakeholders can act on. 

Theo Gough – Data & Analytics Head of Strategy, Governance and Experimentation Enablement – Just Eat Takeaway  

Theo Gough is Data & Analytics Head of Strategy, Governance and Experimentation Enablement at Just Eat Takeaway. He specialises in organisational transformation and applies product thinking to data to reshape operating models. Having moved internal data service teams into product-led organisations, he enables collaboration across engineering, analytics and business teams, replacing reactive delivery with structured workflows. He defines Data Products as bounded units with clear responsibilities. 

Longhow Lam – Data Scientist - Action 

Longhow Lam is an all-round Data Scientist and a seasoned speaker with more than 20 years in the field. He has worked for ABN AMRO, ING, Adidas, WE Fashion, Grandvision and Parkmobile, and currently works at Action in Zwaagdijk on forecasting-related challenges.