WiDS Worldwide 2021 EMEA Session

EMEA 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

9:00 - 9:02 am

Day in the Life of EMEA Ambassadors

Clara Lapiedra, WiDS ambassador, WiDS Madrid & WiDS Barcelona

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​9:02 - 9:28 am

Fireside Chat

Corinne Vigreux, Co-Founder and CMO, TomTom

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​9:28 - 10:17 am

​    9:28 - 9:44 am

Technical Vision Talks

Improving Livestock Health with Deep Learning

Dina Machuve, Lecturer and Researcher, Nelson Mandala African Institution of Science and Technology

    9:45 - 10:01 am

​Doing Data Science in
​Data Deserts 

Fatima Abu Salem, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut

    10:01 - 10:17 am

​Machine learning with
​quantum computers

Maria Schuld, Senior Researcher, Xanadu and the University of KwaZulu-Natal

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10:17 - 10:29 am

EMEA Networking and Career Expo

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10:29- 10:59 am

Panel Discussion:
Ethics and Responsible Data Science

Moderator:  Shir Meir Lador, Data Science Group Manager, Intuit
Panelists:

• Andrea Martin, Leader IBM Watson Center Munich & EMEA Client Centers, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM

• Monica Scannapieco, Head of the Division “Information and Application Architecture”, Italian National Institute of Statistics
  
• Nazareen Ebrahim, AI Ethics Officer, Socially Acceptable - South Africa
  

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