Closing Remarks | Susan Malaika | WiDS Stanford 2023

Senior Technical Staff, IBM

Susan Malaika is Senior Technical Staff Member in the Ecosystem Engineering & Developer Advocacy group at IBM. Her specialties include opensource software, opendata, databases, and community building. Susan has worked in various engineering roles particularly in database development. She has served as Tech Advisory Council Representative at LF-AI & Data as well as co-lead for the Principles Working Group in the Trusted AI Committee. Susan was a founder of the JanusGraph project now at the Linux Foundation,. She has led workshops, hackathons, meetups and she engages with universities globally – and in the MENA region in particular. Susan also leads a tech community of a few hundred members in the New York area and hosts community sessions to foster collaboration.