Data Spark Awards 2020

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Held annually, the Data Spark awards are a way for us to show our appreciation for the innovation, creativity and dedication shown by our students who participated in the Data Spark programme.

Simon Thomae
Winner: Simon Thomae

‘Outstanding individual contribution in analytics’
 

Nominations from business collaborators and academic mentors

  • Simon Thomae

For his work on ‘Improving operational efficiencies and commercial performance’

  • Felix Heinemann

For his work on ‘Improving operational efficiencies and commercial performance’

  • Alvaro Bejar

For his work on ‘The next step in legal analytics’

Winner: Simon Thomae

‘Outstanding individual contribution in communication’

Nominations from business collaborators and academic mentors

  • Adrien Talbot

For his work on ‘Improving operational efficiencies & commercial performance’, with a KPMG client

  • Maria Tan

For her work on ‘The next step in legal analytics’, with DLA Piper

  •  Olivia Dalton-Hoffman

For her work on ‘Digital transformation of procurement processes’, with a KPMG client

  • Lucy Vincent

For her work on ‘Digital transformation of procurement processes’,
with a KPMG client

Winner: Maria Tan

‘The Breakthrough Award’

Nominations from business collaborators and academic mentors

  • 'Digital transformation of procurement processes’, with a KPMG client

Team: James Chou, Olivia Dalton-Hoffman, Callum Fenn-Macalister, Thibault Lavallee, Lucy Vincent

  • 'Improving operational efficiencies and commercial performance’, with a KPMG client

Team: Felix Heinemann, Samuel Heng, Furkan Olcay, Adrien Talbot, Simon Thomae

  • ‘The next step in legal analytics’, with DLA Piper

Team: Alvaro Bejar, Emily Dothe, Alonso Lanzagorta, Pak Ho Shen, Maria Tan, Marios Zoulias.

Winners:
'Improving operational efficiencies and commercial performance’

Felix Heinemann, Samuel Heng, Furkan Olcay, Adrien Talbot, Simon Thomae

'Best visualisation'

The people's vote; visualisations were presented during the awards ceremony and participants took a live vote for their preferred demo.

  • Digital transformation of procurement processes’, with a KPMG client

Designers: Callum Fenn-Macalister, Thibault Lavallee

  • ‘Improving operational efficiencies and commercial performance’, with a KPMG client

Designers: Furkan Olcay, Simon Thomae'

  • 'The next step in legal analytics’, with DLA Piper

Designers: Alvaro Bejar, Maria Tan

Winner: Callum Fenn-Macalister, Thibault Lavallee

‘Star Mentor’

Nominations from the student teams

  • Sadia Haider (Imperial College London)

For ‘The next step in legal analytics’, with DLA Piper

  • Uendi Kacorri (KPMG)

For 'Improving operational efficiencies and commercial performance’ with a KPMG client

  • Susan Mulcahy (Imperial College London)

For ‘Digital transformation of procurement processes’, with a KPMG client

Winner: Sadia Haider

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