Conferences / Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference
WiDS Stanford Conference 2020
Mar 2, 2020 · Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Conference
- Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference Data science & ML
- Dates
- Mar 2, 2020
- Venue
- Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University
- Place
- Stanford, CA, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 400WiDS: 'On March 2, 2020, 400+ people gathered at Stanford University and thousands more ... across the globe' (in-person 400+, livestreamed).
- Website
- widsconference.org
- Recorded
- 13 sponsors · 21 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Fifth annual conference, held March 2, 2020 just before COVID-19 lockdowns; livestreamed. Speaker affiliations are the titles shown on the WiDS Worldwide speaker profiles, which may be current rather than as of the event. Talk titles and YouTube links matched from the event's video list; speakers without a matching video have no title. Sponsors listed without tiers.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 13
Speakers and talks 21
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persis Drell | — | Keynote | Opening Address | Video |
| Andrea Gagliano | Getty Images | Speaker | — | — |
| Aslihan Demirkaya | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | — | — |
| Been Kim | Speaker | Interpretability For Everyone | Video | |
| Daphne Koller | insitro | Speaker | Machine Learning: A New Approach to Drug Discovery | Video |
| Denice Ross | Meta | Speaker | — | — |
| Emily Glassberg-Sands | Stripe | Speaker | — | — |
| Fanny Chevalier | University of Washington | Speaker | Don’t Look. See! Are We Blinded by Data (Visualization)? | Video |
| Judy Logan | Stanford GSB | Speaker | — | — |
| Karen Matthys | Stanford University | Speaker | — | — |
| Lucy Bernholz | Stanford University | Speaker | — | — |
| Lynn Kirabo | Carnegie Mellon University | Speaker | — | — |
| Margot Gerritsen | WiDS Worldwide | Speaker | — | — |
| Meredith Lee | UC Berkeley | Speaker | — | — |
| Newsha Ajami | Berkeley | Speaker | Building Water Security From the Bottom Up by Leveraging Big Data | Video |
| Nhung Ho | Intuit | Speaker | Data Science in a Cloud World: What Every Data Scientist Needs to Know | Video |
| Rama Akkiraju | NVIDIA | Speaker | Polyglot AI: The Role of Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Video |
| Rukmini Iyer | Microsoft | Speaker | — | — |
| Talithia Williams | Harvey Mudd College | Speaker | Know Thyself: Introspective Personal Data Mining | Video |
| Tsu-Jae King Liu | Caltrol Inc | Speaker | Why a World with AI Needs More EQ | Video |
| Ya Xu | — | Speaker | Creating Global Economic Opportunity with Responsible Data Science | Video |