Events | WiDS Worldwide Online Conference 2021
Events | WiDS Worldwide Online Conference 2021
WiDS Worldwide Online Conference 2021
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On March 8, 2021, thousands of participants gathered around the world for the 24-hour virtual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide Conference.
View the conference program and watch conference videos from WiDS Worldwide on YouTube!
Speakers
Co-Founder, WiDS Worldwide
Former Co-Director, WiDS Worldwide
Executive Director External Partners, Stanford University, ICME
Executive Director at Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
Distinguised Engineer at Apple and Professor, University of Washington
Ph.D. Candidate in Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University
Chief Technical Advisor to the Associate Provost
UC Berkeley Computing, Data Science, & Society
Director of Data Science, Stanford University
Director, Emerging Technologies, North America, ThoughtWorks
Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Associate Professor, The School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University
TechWomen Fellow, U.S. Department of State
Statistics and Data Science Professor at Yokohama City University
Managing Director, Niramai Health Analytix
Head of Engineering & Built Environment, Griffith University
Senior Technology Advisor, World Bank Group
Managing Director, Asia Platform, TOTAL
Aerospace Engineer and Energy Efficiency Consultant, Save Joules
Associate Dean Indigenous, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW
Research Scientist, Core Data Science, University of Pittsburgh
President & Chief People Officer, Didi Chuxing
Founder & CEO, AULA MAGNA Business School
CMO - Strategy Office, TomTom
Co-Founder and CTO, DevData Analytics Limited
Associate Professor, American University of Beirut
Senior Researcher at Xanadu
Data Science Group Manager, Intuit
Leader IBM Watson Center Munich & EMEA Client Centers, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Head of the Division “Information and Application Architecture”, Italian National Institute of Statistics
AI Ethics Officer, Socially Acceptable - South Africa
Professor and Researcher at Universidad del Pacifico
Director, Meta AI Research Labs
Chief Data Analytics Officer, Evernorth
Regional Product Lead, Youtube, Google
Conslultant, Author, Adjunct Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Computing
Director of Data Science, Pivotal, Inc.
Director, Association for Women in Mathematics
Professor Mathematics Education, Stanford University
Director, Data Science Institute
SVP, Global Head of Academies and University Alliances, SAP
Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
Videos
WiDS 2021 Opening Video
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Welcome to WiDS 2021 | Margot Gerritsen, Karen Matthys and Judy Logan
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Science as a Career
Opening Address: To Your Health | Suzanne Weekes | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Values
Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Hardware
Tech Talk: The joys and perils of leveraging mechanistic models in health ML | Emily Fox | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Wrangling , Values
Tech Talk: What does it mean to have a robust algorithm? | Cindy Orozco Bohorquez | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
WiDS Datathon Overview
TOPICS:
Data Science as a Career , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Datathon Winners | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Science as a Career
Panel: The Democratization of Data | Mary Gray, Zhamak Dehghani & Amanda Obidike | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Hardware , Values
Day in the Life: APAC featuring Yoko Ono, WiDS ambassador, WiDS Tokyo @ YCU | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Science as a Career , Values
Celebrating Women on International Women’s Day | Jacinda Ardern | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Science as a Career
AI in Healthcare: Cancer to Covid | Geetha Manjinath | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Science as a Career
WiDS Mosaic | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Science as a Career
Panel: Energy and Sustainability | Rosalind Archer, Xin Ma, Lesly Goh, Nida Rizwan Farid | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Software Design and Engineering
The identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in official | Kalinda Griffiths
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values
Tech Talk: Assessing Fairness of AI Systems in Financial Service | Danielle Jiang | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Wrangling , Values
Be Great, Be You: Building Character and Resilience for Organizations of Future | Jean Liu
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Wrangling
Day in the Life: Clara Lapiedra, WiDS ambassador, WiDS Madrid & WiDS Barcelona | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Science as a Career , Values
Fireside chat with Corrine Vigreux | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Hardware
Tech Talk: Improving Livestock Health with Deep Learning | Dina Machuve | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Values
Tech Talk: Doing Data Science in Data Deserts | Fatima Abu Salem | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Wrangling , Values
Tech Talk: Machine learning with quantum computers | Maria Schuld | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Hardware , Software Design and Engineering , Values
Panel: Ethics & Responsible Data Science | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values
Day in the Life: Americas featuring Michelle Rodriguez, WiDS ambassador, WiDS Lima @ UP
TOPICS:
Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career
Building Reproducible, Reusable & Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning Systems | Jöelle Pineau
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Leveraging Data & Analytics to Solve Challenges in the Pandemic and Beyond | Gina Papush | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Tech Talk: Data is the New Code | Daniela Braga | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Science as a Career , Values
Panel: Paths to Leadership in Data Science | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Generation/Collection
The Emerging Role of Cryptography in Trustworthy AI | Shafi Goldwasser | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Hardware
Data Visualization as Exploratory Medium | Fernanda Viégas | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Tech Talk: Role of Machine Learning in Behavior Change | Hulya Emir-Farinas | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values
Education Outreach | WIDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Science as a Career
Panel: Diversity and Data Science Education | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Values
Closing Address: Why data science needs more women | Andrea Goldsmith | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Hardware
Worldwide Closing Participant Map | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Data Science as a Career
Meet the Speaker: Emily Fox moderated by Joy Ku | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Values
Meet the Speaker: Geetha Manjunath moderated by Radhika Kannan | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values
Meet the Speaker: Kalinda Griffiths moderated by Margot Gerritsen | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values
Meet the Speaker: Dina Machuve moderated by Mahadia Tunga | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Software Design and Engineering , Values
Meet the Speaker: Fatima Abu Salem moderated by Lama Moussawi | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Software Design and Engineering , Values
Meet the Speaker: Maria Schuld moderated by Margot Gerritsen | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Hardware , Software Design and Engineering
Meet the Speaker: Karina Edmonds moderated by Deepa Gautam-Nigge | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Values
Meet the Speaker: Gina Papush moderated by Lori Sherer | WiDS 2021
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Values