The Curious Academy delivers two sixteen week Skills Bootcamps, one in Digital Marketing and one in Data Analytics, from The Curious Lounge in central Reading. The data analytics course is hands on (new data set every week) and covers advanced spreadsheet skills, SQL and Tableau as a data visualisation platform.Skills Bootcamps are free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with an employer.Designed to give you in-demand data skills, whilst working on real life projects, with industry experts to bring the content alive and with a guaranteed job interview at the end. Skills Bootcamps – part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life.

The Curious Lounge - a place to listen, learn and meet just a 2 minute walk from Reading train station. We have two ten person meeting rooms, one twelve person boardroom and our sixteen person day office, all with 65” or 75” screens, best-in-class AV (beamforming microphone, auto-pan and tilt camera & wireless display options), 4x1 metres of write-on glass, sound proofing, individual environment control, natural light and comfortable seating. All can be configured to use as meeting rooms, day offices, boardrooms or training rooms. We offer a great environment to cowork as a sanctuary from home-working or a fantastic flexible alternative to serviced office space for teams to collaborate as regularly as they need to.If your group needs breakout space we have ample seating in our coworking and cafe area. Choose from either a traditional hot desk or indulge your retro side by using one of our original 1960s Ercol or G-Plan tables.We are also proud to be a skills hub delivering Skills Bootcamps in data analytics and digital marketing. The Curious Lounge, a home for life-long learning. Curious? Contact us at hello@thecuriouslounge.co.uk

Connecting the tech and digital talent dots across the Thames Valley. We are a talent event company with a media platform bringing together the Thames Valley’s fast-growing entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our flagship initiatives include our annual Game Changers programme and our Festival of Digital Disruption.

Responsible for developing workforce insights and analytics to guide decision making around future workforce planning, resourcing effectiveness and workforce productivity.

Vodafone is the world’s leading provider of IoT solutions. I work with a global team of experts dedicated to turning our customer’s visions in to market realities, impacting their bottom line and enabling them to transform their business models. Our team of innovators has helped design solutions that deliver internet in the car, make cities smart and even help seals avoid roaming charges.

Working with the Cloud & Hosting business unit within Vodafone Group Enterprise. As part of the Project Spring initiative we are expanding in to a number of geographies (we launched services in Germany in 2014 with additional countries planned for 2015) and investing heavily in our product capability. I support the senior management team by leading HR activities in the areas of resourcing, talent, reward, L&D, ER and organisational effectiveness.

Recruiting to support our activities across Group Enterprise (IoT, Cloud & Hosting, Product Management, Global Enterprise & Carrier Services), Group Technology and Corporate Functions.

Supporting recruitment activities for Vodafone Group Enterprise, including: Vodafone Carrier Services (VCS) globally - sales, commercial and service deliveryVodafone Cloud and Hosting Services (VCHS) - sales, solution consulting, commercial and service delivery

We view recruitment as a combination of identifying those people who can make a significant difference to your organisation and engaging in a continuous, accountable process to deliver them.In the global search for talent we strive to identify those that add competitive advantage in highly technical environments. We actively maintain and build our network not just based on immediate requirements but through a desire to build long term relationships with exceptional individuals and leading edge technology companies.With over 15 years exposure to pan-European recruitment in the technology sector we have worked on a broad range of assignments covering both technical and commercial roles.

Cradle to grave account management for vendors, systems integrators and operators. Responsible for entire sourcing and account life cycle.

Senior Consultant within team supporting Tier One telecom vendors.