WiDS Worldwide 2021 Americas Session

Americas session will take place on March 8th, 2021. 
​All times listed below are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
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​March 8 GMT

Segment

Speakers, Panelists, and Presenters

4:00 - 4:02 pm

Day in the Life of Americas Ambassadors

Michelle Rodriguez, WiDS ambassador, WiDS Lima @ UP

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4:02 - 4:23 pm

Building Reproducible, Reusable, and Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning Systems

Joelle Pineau,  Team Lead, Facebook Research, Associate Professor, McGill University 

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4:23 - 4:39 pm

Technical Vision Talks

    4:24 - 4:39 pm

​Leveraging Data & Analytics
to Solve Challenges in the
​Pandemic and Beyond

Gina Papush, Global Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Evernorth

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4:39 - 4:40 pm

WiDS Worldwide Mosaic featuring conference participants around the world

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4:40 - 4:56 pm

Technical Vision Talks

   4:41 - 4:56 am

Data is the New Code

Daniela Braga, Founder and CEO, DefinedCrowd

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4:56 - 5:08 pm

Americas Networking and Career Expo

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5:08 - 5:38 pm

Panel Discussion:
Paths to Leadership in Data Science

Moderator: Martina Lauchengco, Operating Partner, Costanoa Ventures
Panelists:​​

• Aishwarya Agrawal, Professor, University of Montreal; Research Scientist, DeepMind
• ​Daniela Braga, Founder and CEO, DefinedCrowd
  
• Afua Bruce, Chief Program Officer, DataKind
• Michelle Rodriguez, Dean, Engineering School Universidad del Pacífico

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5:38 - 5:59 pm

Keynote Address

Shafi Goldwasser,  Director, UC Berkeley and Professor, MIT and Weizmann Institute of Science

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