Felipe Rego

Data Science & Analytics Partner at Informa Connect Academy

Trainer

Felipe is a leading advanced analytics and data science partner, working with teams in a range of different organisations and helping them build, manage and enhance their data science and visualisation solutions. Strategically aligned, commercially oriented and above all, customer centred, Felipe’s unique methodologies help organisations stay competitive and create a solid pathway for future growth.

Felipe has a unique combination of in-depth technical expertise (including developing code and programming in analytical tools) and a high level of business experience with over a decade working in analytics teams, marketing, research and business strategy. This allows him to identify and understand the issues that impact his clients’ businesses and translate them into the complex language of analytics and data science to find the best solutions. Because of this, Felipe is highly in demand with marketing, sales, finance, technology and strategy teams. He excels at delivering robust analytical solutions that are easy to use, understand and implement. Felipe’s unique methodology takes a holistic approach to using data and science to improve whole organisational performance and reduce costs.

Felipe is also an analytics instructor with experience disseminating practical, actionable advanced analytics and data visualisation techniques in both classrooms and online settings. The organisations he works with find that partnering with Felipe results in a more engaged and capable workforce. It’s not just the organisation as a whole that benefits – individuals feel more prepared to step up to their next challenge and confidently make use of data and analytics in their day-to-day work.

When Felipe is not partnering with clients or helping students, he’s a research candidate in Learning Analytics at The University of Sydney. As part of his research, Felipe makes sense of students’ digital traces and looks at the role learning analytics dashboards play in influencing learning outcomes. His research has also been focused on exploring patterns of students’ engagement and performance profiles in learning environments.

Alongside all this, Felipe is also a blogger, writing regularly on a wide range of topics including predictive analytics, statistical learning and data visualisation. Recognised internationally for his thought leadership, Felipe received over 82,000 visitors to his blog from over 180 countries last year and some of his articles have been ranked #1 in Google search. Felipe is widely referenced by many sources and leading educational institutions including StackOverflow, Udacity, Western Michigan University, UC Santa Barbara and Edinburgh Napier University among others.