We are very pleased to announce an upcoming event at BCNAnalytics. In this occasion we will be honoured with Sharon Biggar, head of Analytics at Social Point and Francesc Paloma, head of revenue management at Vueling. The format will be similar to the previous events: small presentations of the speakers, Q&A and finally networking time.

Sharon Biggar is the Head of Analytics at Social Point, one of the world’s leading developers of games for mobile, with more than 50 million active monthly players generating terabytes of data daily. There, she ensures that SP has the Big Data architecture ready to support the user base, analyses game play and user comments to improve the games and analyses user behavior to help customize user experience with predictive models.

Prior to that, Sharon was the CEO of Path Intelligence, a technology that provides online analytics to the offline world, analyzing customer behavior in shopping malls, retailers and entertainment arenas.

Sharon is a kiwi (from New Zeland). She holds a degree in Music and a degree in Economics, from the University of Auckland, and an MBA from the MIT  – Sloan School of Management.

Francesc Paloma is the Director of Revenue Management & Pricing  at Vueling, where he has held various positions related to revenue management and pricing. He is responsible for dynamic flight price setting and other revenue management initiatives. Revenue management has become a more sophisticated analysis in recent years as competition has increased and data is more readily available. Vueling has also been innovative in terms of revenue strategies.

Prior to that, Francesc has lead analytics projects applied to social exclusion in Barcelona and was an auditor of lotteries at Loto Catalunya. He has also been a professor of Mathematics at the School of Engineering at UPC.

Francesc hold a degree in Math from UPC and an MBA from UPF, as well as a PDD from IESE.