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WiDS Stanford Conference 2015

Summary

The inaugural Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference was held at Stanford University with 400+ attendees online and 6,000 + on the livestream.

Event Program

November 2, 2015

9:00AM

Opening Video: Women are changing the world of Data Science

9:00-9:30am

Welcome and Opening Remarks 

Margot Gerritsen

Persis Drell

10:10-10:50am  

Panel Discussion, Women Entrepreneurs in Data Science Moderator

Helena Deus

Jaya Kolhatkar

Montse Medina

Monica Rogati

Tina Seelig

10:50-11:05 am

Break 

11:05-11:25am
11:25-11:45am
12:05-1:20 pm

Lunch and Table Discussions

3:00-3:15 pm

Break

3:15-3:55 pm

Career Panel

Jennifer Chayes

Aleksandra Korolova

Shubha Nabar

Bin Yu

Kara Swisher

4:55-5:00 pm

Closing Remarks

Margot Gerritsen

5:00-6:30 pm

Cocktail Reception

*All times are UTC -8

Speakers

Margot Gerritsen

Executive Director

Persis Drell

Provost of Stanford University

Caitlin Smallwood

VP, Data Science & Engineering, Search & Assistant, Google

Kelly Thompson

Senior VP at Walmart eCommerce

Jennifer Chayes

Associate Provost and Dean, University of California, Berkeley

Diane Bryant

Chairman and CEO, NovaSignal

Lise Getoor

Professor, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Irene Ros

Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Google

Helena Deus

Biomedical Semantics Lead, Manager, ZS

Montse Medina

Jetlore

Monica Rogati

Equity Partner, Data Collective

Susan Athey

Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Bin Yu

Chancellor's Distinguished Professor, Class of 1936 Second Chair, Statistics, EECS, CCB, UC Berkeley

Carrie Grimes Bostock

Engineering Fellow, Google

Jennifer Tour Chayes

Director, Microsoft Research

Aleksandra Korolova

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton

Shubha Nabar

Co-Founder, Faros AI

Fei-Fei Li

Associate Professor at Stanford University

Tina Seelig

Executive Director, Knight-Hennessy Scholars, Stanford University

Kara Swisher

Executive Producer of the annual Code Conference

Videos

Big Graph Data Science | Lise Getoor | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Software Design and Engineering

Career Panel | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values

Carrie Grimes, Google | Stanford Women In Data Science (WiDS) Conference 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Closing Remarks | Margot Gerritsen | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Data Science as a Career , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Cyber Security Research: A Data Scientist’s Perspective | Celeste Matarazzo | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Driven Marketplace Design: Experiments, Machine Learning, and Econometrics | Susan Athey | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Enabling Breakthrough Insights | Diane Bryant | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Wrangling , Hardware , Software Design and Engineering

Entrepreneur Panel | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling

Evolution of Shopping, Powered by Data Science | Kelly Thompson | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms

Fei-Fei Li | Teaching Computers to See with Big Data | WiDS Stanford 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Hardware

Helena Deus | Interview: Data Science, Healthcare, Genomics | WiDS Stanford 2015

TOPICS: Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career

Keeping Up with the Web | Carrie Grimes Bostock | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values

Making Pictures, 1000 Words at a Time | Irene Ros | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Data Generation/Collection

Netflix: A confluence of metrics, algorithms, and experimentation | Caitlin Smallwood | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Network Science: From the Online World to Cancer Genomics | Jennifer Chayes | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Susan Athey | Driven Marketplace Design: Experiments, Machine Learning, Econometrics | Stanford 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Teaching Computers to See with Big Data | Fei-Fei Li | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Hardware

The Multi-Facets of a Data Science Project to Answer: How Are Organs Formed | Bin Yu | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Algorithms , Software Design and Engineering

Welcome and Opening Remarks | Margot Gerritsen and Persis Drell | WiDS 2015

TOPICS: Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Other Media

Youtube Playlist