{"id":9522,"date":"2015-07-24T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T18:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=9522"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:07:27","slug":"mit-symposium-discusses-data-talent-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=9522","title":{"rendered":"MIT Symposium On Data Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute&#8217;s director Dr. Michael Rappa was in Cambridge this week to participate in the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitcdoiq.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium<\/a>. Dr. Rappa moderated a discussion with a distinguished group of financial industry executives that included Lynda Abend (Chief Data Officer at John Hancock Financial Services), <!--more-->Kelsey Calhoun, (Director of Operational Analytics and Reporting at Liberty Mutual), John Pyhtila, Ph.D. (Head of Analytics at Cigna), and Gopal Subramanian (Senior Vice President at Fidelity Investments).<\/p>\n<p>The four panelists agreed the shortage of data savvy professionals continues to impact businesses seeking to draw valuable insights from their data. But organizations are coping through various means including: well-honed strategies for recruiting new talent; cultivating pipelines by working closely with universities; internal programs aimed at talent development and retention; and external outreach to enhance the visibility of the opportunities for data professionals in the financial services sector. The panelists also agreed, when it comes to recruiting and retention, it&#8217;s less about compensation than it is about the recognition that comes from engagement with challenging problems that impact business performance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" title=\"MIT CDO Symposium Panelists: Abend, Calhoun, Pyhtila, and Subramanian\" src=\"..\/images\/mit_panel_2015.jpg\" alt=\"MIT CDO Symposium Panelists: Abend, Calhoun, Pyhtila, and Subramanian\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute&#8217;s director Dr. Michael Rappa was in Cambridge this week to participate in the annual MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium. Dr. Rappa moderated a discussion with a distinguished group of financial industry executives that included Lynda Abend (Chief Data Officer at John Hancock Financial Services),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25955,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions\/25955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}