{"id":1029,"date":"2025-09-30T17:45:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/mcr\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1029"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:37:37","slug":"roisin-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/mcr\/speakers\/roisin-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Roisin McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roisin McCarthy is a pioneering force in the data industry, renowned for her unwavering commitment to talent innovation and gender representation. In 2014, she founded\u00a0Women in Data\u00ae, sparked by a concern over the declining number of female applicants for data roles. Today Women in Data\u00ae offers a thriving community for data professional with over\u00a0100,000 members. 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