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WiDS Stanford Conference 2020

Summary

The WiDS 2020 Conference at Stanford University featured keynotes, technical vision talks, an ethics panel, career panel, lunchtime breakouts, and multiple opportunities to network with other attendees.

Event Program

March 2, 2020

9:00 - 9:15 am

WiDS ​​Welcome

Margot Gerritsen

Judy ​Logan

Karen Matthys

9:15 - 9:30 am

Opening Address

Persis Drell

10:00 - 10:40 am

Ethics Panel

Aslihan Demirkaya

Lucy Bernholz

Lynn Kirabo

10:40 - 11:00 am

Morning Break

​11:45 - 11:50 am
12:30- 2:00 pm

Lunch and Breakout Sessions -​On livestream: WiDS interviews by theCube

3:10- 3:30 pm

Afternoon Break

3:30 - 4:10 pm

Career Panel 

Rukmini Iyer

Talithia Williams

Denice Ross

Lillian Carrisquillo

4:50 - 5:00 pm

Closing Remarks

Margot Gerritsen

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Networking Reception

*All times are UTC -8

Speakers

Judy ​Logan

Former Co-Director, WiDS Worldwide

Karen Matthys

Executive Director External Partners, Stanford University, ICME

Persis Drell

Provost of Stanford University

Margot Gerritsen

Executive Director

Tsu-Jae King Liu

Associate Systems Engineer - MES, Caltrol Inc.

Daphne Koller

Founder and CEO, Insitro

Fanny Chevalier

Assistant Professor, University of TorontoUniversity of Toronto

Nhung Ho

VP of AI, Intuit

Been Kim

Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain

Emily Glassberg-Sands

Head of Information, Stripe

Ya Xu

LinkedIn

Rama Akkiraju

VP AI/ML for IT, NVIDIA

Newsha Ajami

Chief Strategy and Development Officer for Research, Berkeley Lab

Talithia Williams

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College

Aslihan Demirkaya

Research Scientist | Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Amazon

Lucy Bernholz

Senior Research Scholar, Director, Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford University

Lynn Kirabo

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University

Rukmini Iyer

Corporate President, Microsoft

Denice Ross

General Support Global Lead, Media Operations, Facebook

Andrea Gagliano

Head of Data Science, AI/ML at Getty Images,

Meredith Lee

Chief Technical Advisor to the Associate Provost UC Berkeley Computing, Data Science, & Society

Videos

Been Kim | Interpretability for Everyone | WiDS Stanford 2020

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

Career Panel | WiDS 2020

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

Data Slayer – How historical sword principles apply to data science | WiDS Auckland 2020

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Elena Grewal | Scaling Data Science | WiDS Stanford 2020

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

Emily Glassberg Sands, Coursera | Stanford Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference 2020

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

Ethics Panel | WiDS 2020

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

How Data Science Can Unlock Teaching & Learning at Scale | Emily Glassberg Sands | WiDS 2020

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

Fanny Chevalier | Don’t Look. See! Are We Blinded by Data (Visualization)? | Stanford 2020

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

Interpretability For Everyone | Been Kim | WiDS 2020

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Values

Know Thyself: Introspective Personal Data Mining | Talithia Williams | WiDS 2020

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Lucy Bernholz, Stanford University | Stanford Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference 2020

TOPICS: Data Science as a Career , Values

Machine Learning: A New Approach to Drug Discovery | Daphne Koller | WiDS 2020

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

Newsha Ajami interview by theCube | Stanford 2020

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Newsha Ajami, Stanford University | Stanford Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference 2020

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

Nhung Ho, Intuit | Stanford Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference 2020

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection

Opening Address | Persis Drell | WiDS 2020

TOPICS: Data Science as a Career

Polyglot AI: The Role of Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Rama Akkiraju | WiDS 2020

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Values

Stanford Ethics Panel: Lynn Kirabo, Lucy Bernholz and Aslihan Dermikaya | Stanford 2020

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

Talithia Williams, Harvey Mudd College | Stanford Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference 2020

TOPICS: Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values

Why a World with AI Needs More EQ | Tsu-Jae King Liu | WiDS 2020

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Software Design and Engineering , Values

WiDS 2020 Opening Video

TOPICS:

WiDS 2020 Highlight Video

TOPICS: Algorithms , Values

WiDS Welcome | Margot Gerritsen, Karen Matthys and Judy Logan | WiDS 2020

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Other Media

Youtube Playlist