Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

Why data is the lifeblood of online retail and drives many things: recommendations, search, pricing, personalisation, merchandising and stocking decisions ultimately also logistics, warehousing and monitoring with data. Provide a technical & high-level overview about what we do and how we do it, whilst expanding into detail around Big data, algorithms and industry pioneering technology.

THG will also announce details of their annual student programming contest with the largest prize ever offered by a UK company to tech qstudents. Game of Code is The Hut Group’s app building contest with a winner takes all top prize of £100,000!

Gary Higham
Software Engineering Manager, formerly of BBC iPlayer Gary now heads The Hut Group's industry pioneering Growth & Innovation technology group.

Dhruv Kumar
Senior Software Engineering Manager. A computer scientist from Cambridge University & formerly of HP Autonomy, Dhruv Kumar has made major contributions to personalised search & recommendation and world class marketing technology automation.

Company Bio
The Hut Group is a multi-website online retailer that is reimaging eCommerce. A two-time Sunday Times profit track winner, this British company is a nimble giant with a start-up mentality. Built on a foundation of industry-leading technology, a world-class team and an intelligent approach to business, we are fast becoming the world'™s most important online retail organisation. Our unique technology platform helps us dispatch 20 million items across the world, taking us to the top of the Sunday Times fast track 100 for a second consecutive year. And it'™s technology that will help us achieve our goal of becoming the world'™s leading online Health & Beauty destination. THG has over 20 recent graduates of Imperial College helping to build a world class British technology company on the global stage.