Ian is a Chief Data Scientist and Coach, he co-organises the annual PyDataLondon conference with 700+ attendees and the associated 10,000+ member monthly meetup. He runs the established Mor Consulting Data Science consultancy as Chief Data Scientist in London, gives conference talks internationally often as keynote speaker and is the author of the bestselling O'Reilly book High Performance Python (with the second edition due in 2020). He has 16 years of experience as a senior technical leader, data scientist and coach. For fun he's walked by his high-energy Springer Spaniel, surfs the Cornish coast and drinks fine coffee.