Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference
- Organizer
- WiDS Worldwide (founded at Stanford ICME; independent non-profit since 2024, fiscally sponsored by Mission Edge) with Stanford Data Science; regional events run by volunteer WiDS ambassadors
- Category
- Data science & ML
- Website
- widsworldwide.org
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- Stanford, United States
- Topics
- Data scienceMachine learningBusiness & leadershipGenerative AI
Annual one-day flagship conference at Stanford (Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center), first held Nov 2015, livestreamed to 150+ ambassador-run regional events in 60+ countries; speakers are women. 2021 was a 24-hour virtual 'follow the sun' event. Editions: id_suffix 'stanford' for the flagship and 'nyc' for in-person WiDS New York regional conferences. No 2025 or 2026 Stanford flagship conference was found after WiDS Worldwide became independent of Stanford in 2024 (the WiDS events archive lists only regional/online 2025-26 events). WiDS Seattle events found (2024 Northeastern University fireside chat; online WiDS Seattle & Quito workshop) were networking/online, not conferences, so not recorded; vendor-hosted 'WiDS NYC @ Company' events (Dataiku, Virtu, Buzzer, 6sense, IBM) are also not recorded. LinkedIn/YouTube/Facebook/Instagram are WiDS Worldwide's own accounts and X (site footer).
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.
- Partial or unverified list
- No sponsor list
6 of 6 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2024 | WiDS New York City 2024 | New York, United States | — | — | 9 | |
| Mar 8, 2024 | WiDS Stanford Conference 2024 | Stanford, United States | — | 16 | 29 | |
| Apr 14, 2023 | WiDS New York 2023 | New York, United States | — | — | 7 | |
| Mar 8, 2023 | WiDS Stanford Conference 2023 | Stanford, United States | — | 17 | 33 | |
| Mar 7, 2022 | WiDS Stanford Conference 2022 | Stanford, United States | — | — | — | |
| Mar 8, 2021 | WiDS Worldwide Conference 2021 (virtual) | — | Online | — | — | — |
| Mar 2, 2020 | WiDS Stanford Conference 2020 | Stanford, United States | 400 | 13 | 21 | |
| Mar 4, 2019 | WiDS Stanford Conference 2019 | Stanford, United States | — | 12 | 19 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 8 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- ODSC0.15
- Data + AI Summit0.15
- KDD0.14
- NeurIPS0.12
- CIDR0.10
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 30 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Other / unspecified
Sources
- https://www.widsworldwide.org/
- https://www.widsworldwide.org/events-sitemap.xml
- https://hai.stanford.edu/news/stanford-university-to-retain-strong-connections-to-women-in-data-science-wids-worldwide-as-wids-becomes-independent-non-profit
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210302141356/https://www.widsconference.org/