iCARE data scientist attends Women in Data conference

Kathleen Goldsmith attended the largest female data and tech event in Europe event alongside 3,500 others at the Women in Data conference.

ICARE was represented by a data scientist at the Women in Data 2025 flagship event.

Kathleen Goldsmith attended the largest female data and tech event in Europe event alongside 3,500 other women in data at the Intercontinental at the O2 London on March 27.

“As someone working in data, it was really nice to feel part of a wider community” Goldsmith said. “Conferences like this, where you can network and connect with others in the field, are always so rewarding".

Goldsmith is a data scientist at iCARE, a research team and secure data environment which hosts health data for North West London and beyond. iCARE sits across Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London.

Goldsmith said, “it was a really big and empowering day, full of discussions about the many different career paths within data. I focused on the health data sessions—one of which featured developers from the NHS app team within NHS England. They shared their plans for the future of the app, which was both inspiring and fascinating”.

The afternoon brought an extended workshop by iCARE’s provider Snowflake.

According to Goldsmith, “the workshop centred on using data science to reduce women's health inequalities. It was incredibly insightful and introduced some great tools and techniques that I later shared with our lovely team at iCARE so everyone could benefit”.

Beyond exploring the many career paths for women in data, Goldsmith also learned valuable technical skills that can be transferred to the data science team at iCARE.

Snowflake hosts the secure data environment that allows iCARE to provide access to healthcare data from North West London.

Goldsmith explains that “I had not used the platform much before, and they introduced Streamlit apps within Snowflake. These let you quickly create a simple web interface for your data. I am now implementing that in one of our projects to support research with some of our resident doctors—it’s already proving to be really useful from a technical standpoint”.