Michelle Alarcon | President, and Managing Director
Analytics Association of the Philippines

“An analytics practitioner since 1999, Michelle founded the analytics consulting firm Z-Lift Solutions in 2013 to enable organizations on analytics, serving as its President and Managing Director. She had always been an advocate of “analytics for the masses”, so in the same year she organized the R Users Group of the Philippines, a tech community that promotes awareness and use of open source programming language R to analytics practitioners, which continues to meet regularly up to this day. In 2017, she co-founded and joined the Analytics Association of the Philippines (AAP) as Board of Trustees to help develop the ecosystem to upskill the country on analytics, and currently serves as its President. In 2020, Michelle became the Head of Learning at For The Women Foundation, a non-profit organization providing free training on data science to underprivileged women, and in 2021 became a co-founder. She graduated with a degree in Statistics from the University of the Philippines, and currently teaches at the Professional Master in Data Science and Analytics program of her alma mater.”