This lightning talk was given at the Collaborations Workshop 2024. The talk advertises a new project based at The Alan Turing Institute called 'People in Data'. Our project aims to convene an open community of data professionals, which promotes a culture that values and prioritises data and recognises people that work in data roles as essential to research.We have three objectives: 1: Convene and promote an open community of Data Professionals across the UK’s data science ecosystem – People in Data. 2: Data Skills and Capacity Building across the People in Data community. 3: Develop a business case for how to sustain this network to continue supporting and developing the UK technical workforce in data professional roles. To achieve these aims, we will work with a wide range of data science organisations from across the UK including Universities, Research Institutes, Professional societies, Government bodies and Industry. Current partners include ELIXIR-UK, Health Data Research UK and Natural History Museum. Find out more on our webpage: https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/people-data