Laura Ellis
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Laura Ellis is the Vice President of Data at Rapid7, a cybersecurity company. Her mission is to make artificial intelligence, data science and analytics accessible to everyone in a secure and scalable manner.
She has worked in the data field holding a variety of positions for almost 20 years. She holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, a Master of Science in Predictive Analytics from Northwestern University and a Chief Data Officer executive certificate from Carnegie Mellon.
She is the co-founder of Data Mishaps Night (www.datamishapsnight.com), an evening for data practitioners to share their data mistakes and learning. She has a long time blog where she writes about all things data: www.littlemissdata.com