Simon Hayward

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Simon is a solution architect at Microsoft specialising in advanced analytics and AI for the enterprise. Before joining Microsoft he worked as a data scientist building analytics pipelines for modelling consumer behaviour.

Simon has expertise in R and Python for data science, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, machine learning at cloud scale and data strategy in the enterprise.

In his spare time he enjoys rock climbing and some truly dorky board games.

Simon Hayward's Sessions

Azure Cosmos DB and Databricks for CRM OptimizationSQLBits 2019

Find out how a major UK hotel chain unified their wildly different sources of data to build a supercharged analytics and pricing engine to power their business. Find out how Cosmos and Databricks helped them get to know their customers, how best to retain them, and how best to keep them happy, all while ensuring GDPR compliance and the right to be forgotten.