Do you need a chat with a Data Doctor? The Data landscape is vast and ever changing, it can also be a place where we are bombarded with buzzwords, new trends and an onslaught of tools and services. Your body needs a check-up every now and then, so does your data journey need a check-up too? The Data Lab are running drop-in sessions with industry experts, "Doctors", who offer practical, executable advice to attendees covering 3 of the current big themes in data. Each Doctor has nine 12-minute slots available during the day, so request your 1-2-1 slot quickly before they are fully booked out.

People say there's a first for everything. A few weeks ago, I attended my first big tech conference, the IBM Watson Developer's Conference. For many, it may not be a big deal, but it sure was for me. I represented a real organization, got an attendee badge to prove it, and even missed a day of my senior year of high school. AOL #BUILTBYGIRLS, a platform encouraging girls to be builders and creators in our tech-enabled economy, offered me the opportunity to serve as its ambassador. My mission was to learn about up and coming IBM Watson technology, promote #BUILTBYGIRLS, and advocate for girls to take their place in the tech world.

Later this week, Google is expected to unveil a bevy of new products: phones, a smart home hub, a Wi-Fi router and possibly more. It's all stuff you can touch and pick up -- objects made of atoms. But don't let the hype around the new hardware fool you. As is almost everything Google does, this is firmly about code. Think of hardware, whether it's the rumored Pixel phone or the previously unveiled Google Home speaker, as the physical gateway into the company's software, which can't exist on its own.