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WiDS Stanford Conference 2023

Summary

On March 8, 2023, thousands of participants gathered around the globe for the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Stanford Conference.
​View the conference program and watch conference videos from WiDS Worldwide on YouTube!

Event Program

March 8, 2023

8:00AM - 8:30AM

Registration and Breakfast

8:30-8:35AM

WiDS Welcome

Margot Gerritsen

8:35AM-8:45AM

Opening Address

Srinija Srinivasan

10:00AM-10:20AM

Morning Break

10:20AM-10:50AM
10:50AM-10:55AM

Interlude: Announcing the WiDS Datathon 2023 Winners

12:00PM-12:55PM

Lunch Break

1:30PM-2:05PM

Panel Discussion: Preparing for a career in ​data science

Sanne Smith

Montserrat Cordero

Adriana Velez Thames

Elaine Yi Xu

2:40PM-3:00PM

Afternoon Break

3:15PM-3:45PM
4:20PM-4:25PM

Closing Remarks

Susan Malaika

4:25PM-4:30PM

Closing Activity

Jhanvi Shriram

Ketaki Shriram

4:30PM

WiDS Farewell

Margot Gerritsen

4:30PM-6:00PM

Networking Reception & Career Expo

*All times are UTC -8

Speakers

Margot Gerritsen

Executive Director

Srinija Srinivasan

Co-Founder at Loove

Amanda Milberg

Data Scientist, Dataiku

Becki Cook

Centre Manager, QUT Centre for Data Science

Jennifer Pan

Professor of Communication and FSI Senior Fellow, Stanford University

Adriana Velez Thames

Geophysicist-Data Scientist, Springboard Alumni

Elaine Yi Xu

Staff Business Data Analyst, Intuit

Gabriela de Queiroz

Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

Gayatree Ganu

Vice President of Data Science at Facebook

Irene Dankwa-Mullan

Chief Health Equity Officer at Merative & Affiliate Professor, GWU Milken Institute School of Public Health

Jhanvi Shriram

Co-Founder and CEO, Krikey

Julia Stewart Lowndes

Director, Openscapes

Kathryn Hymes

Technologist, Computational Linguist, and Game Designer

Ketaki Shriram

Co-Founder, Krikey

Marisa Torres

Bioinformatics Group Leader, ​Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Megan Price

Executive Director, HRDAG (Human Rights Data Analysis Group)

Michela Taufer

ACM Distinguished Scientist, University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK)

Momona Yamagami

Assistant Professor at Rice University Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nikki Tulley

Doctoral Student, University of Arizona

Priya Donti

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Climate Change AI (CCAI)

Sanne Smith

Director of Master's Program, Education Data Science, Stanford University

Trina Reynolds-Tyler

Data Director, Invisible Institute

Wendy Ku

Computer Vision Tech Lead, Senior Data Scientist, Getty Images

Videos

Closing Remarks | Susan Malaika | WiDS Stanford 2023

TOPICS: Data Science as a Career

Closing Activity | Jhanvi Shriram & Ketaki Shriam | WiDS Stanford 2023

TOPICS: Data Science as a Career

Farewell | Margot Gerritsen | WiDS Stanford 2023

TOPICS: Data Science as a Career

Gabriela de Queiroz, Microsoft | WiDS 2023

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

Gayatree Ganu, Meta | WiDS 2023

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Wrangling

Irene Dankwa-Mullan, Marti Health | WiDS 2023

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

Jacqueline Kuo, Dataiku | WiDS 2023

TOPICS: Algorithms

Kelly Hoang, Gilead | WiDS 2023

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

Keynote Analysis | WiDS 2023

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

Myriam Fayad & Alexandre Lapene, TotalEnergies | WiDS 2023

TOPICS: Data Science as a Career , Values

Opening Address | Srinija Srinivasan | WiDS Stanford 2023

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

Rhonda Crate, Boeing | WiDS 2023

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

Shir Meir Lador, Intuit | WiDS 2023

TOPICS: Algorithms , Values

WiDS 2023 Opening Video

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Science as a Career

WiDS Welcome | Margot Gerritsen | WiDS Stanford 2023

TOPICS: Data Generation/Collection

Women in Data Science | Stories of Women from Around the Globe | WiDS Stanford 2023

TOPICS: Data Generation/Collection , Featured , Values

theCUBE Insights | WiDS 2023

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Wrangling

Optimization in the loop machine learning for energy and climate | Priya Donti

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

Making Biosignal Interfaces Accessible | Momona Yamagami

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

Data Democratization Panel | Priya Donti, Julia Stewart Lowndes, Nikki Tulley, Michela Taufer

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