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Inspiration with skills your audience can actually use.

I am a teacher turned data scientist. I speak on career growth and I teach hands-on AI development coding. Your audience will learn how real teams work, build a small app they can extend later, and leave with a simple process they can use on future projects.

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Conference, school, bootcamp, or team training. Email datasistah@gmail.com with your dates, audience, and format.

Topics

Data science career talks

Clear steps for breaking into data roles, building confidence, and staying competitive in a fast-moving field.

AI development coding workshops

How developers build with AI in the real world. Code along, use simple workflows, and create a small app you can grow later.

Building custom GPTs for teachers

Step by step guidance to create helpful classroom assistants while keeping things simple and useful.

AI and equity in the classroom

Practical ideas to use AI fairly and responsibly so more students benefit.

Spoken at

  • ISTELive 25

    Sessions on building custom GPTs for teachers, and AI and equity in the classroom.

  • Black is Tech Conference

    Keynote on career transitions in data and technology.

  • Blacks In Technology

    Panel on breaking into data science careers.

  • Teacher to Data Analyst Conference

    Workshop for educators moving into data roles.

  • Business and Tech Symposium

    Talk on how AI is shaping the future of work and technology.

  • Bootcamps and training programmes

    Teaching AI development coding to students moving into the field.

Speaking bio

Short version, for programmes and introductions:

Tiffany Teasley, known online as Data Sistah, spent 20 years teaching high school math before becoming a data scientist. She is a National Board Certified Teacher, a LinkedIn Learning instructor, and a LinkedIn Top Voice for 2024 and 2025. Today she works as a forward deployed engineer, sitting with customers and building AI systems with them. She speaks on career transitions into data and AI, and teaches hands-on AI development workshops where audiences build and keep a working app.

She has spoken at ISTELive 25, the Black is Tech Conference, Blacks In Technology, the Teacher to Data Analyst Conference, and a number of bootcamps and training programmes.

Want to motivate your students or your team?

I bring the teacher mindset into every session. We keep it simple, learn by doing, and focus on skills people can use right away. In the AI development coding workshops, students and professionals build a small app, practise clean structure and version control, and leave with a repeatable process they can apply on the job.

  • Keynotes
  • Half day and full day workshops
  • Team training
  • Panels
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