Careers Breakfast: Andy Turner

We are very grateful to Andy Turner for this week’s Careers Breakfast.

Andy is Client Partner for Utilities and Clean Energy UK & Ireland at Palantir Technologies and he gave students an interesting overview of how they develop tech solutions for real world problems.

Palantir Technologies work with government bodies and businesses to deliver solutions that make a real impact. For example, students were fascinated by the work on predicting wildfires in the US, which has resulted in a 100% reduction in fatalities since its introduction in some farming areas. 

Andy explained about his company’s ground-breaking work on the application of AI and was impressed by the experience that students already have of working with AI programmes.

Head of Careers, Dr Hensman, thanked Andy for the session.

“It was great to see so many students from all year groups at this morning’s Careers Breakfast and I am sure that they all learned a lot about the impact that software developers can have. 

“It was particularly fascinating to hear about the rapid rate of development and application of AI and how companies like Palantir are using this.”