On March 4, 2019, 400+ people gathered at Stanford University and thousands more gathered across the globe for the 4th annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference. View the full conference program, and watch all presentations from WiDS Stanford.

WiDS Co-Directors:
​Margot Gerritsen, Karen Matthys, and Judy Logan,  Opening  Remarks

​Jennifer Widom, Dean, Stanford School of Engineering
​Opening Address

Padmasree Warrior,Former CEO, CDO and Board Member, NIO
​Keynote Address 

Hilary Parker, Data Scientist, Stitchfix, ​​"Using Data Effectively: ​Beyond ​Art and Science"
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Marzyeh Ghassemi, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, "Improving Health Requires Targeting and Evidence"

Meredith Lee, Executive Director, West Big Data Hub, WiDS Datathon, ​Winners Announced

Anima Anandkumar​, Professor, Caltech, "Infusing Structure into Machine Learning Algorithms"

Timnit Gebru, Research Scientist, ​Google, "Understanding the Limitations of AI: When Algorithms Fail"

Cynthia Dwork, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University,
​Keynote Address

Yoky Matsuoka & Lori Sherer, Fireside Chat

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Alicia Carriquiry Professor, Iowa State, "​"Machine Learning and the Evaluation of Criminal Evidence"

Yinglian Xie, CEO and Co-Founder, DataVisor, ""Building Trust in the Digital Age"
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Laura Kegelmeyer, Scientist / Engineer, LLNL, "Evolution of Machine Learning for NIF Optics Inspection"

​WiDS 2019 Career Panel

Emma Brunskill, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, ​"Better Reinforcement Learning for Human in the Loop Systems"

Madeleine Udell, Assistant Professor, Cornell, ​"Filling in Missing Data with Low Rank Models"

Closing Remarks Margot Gerritsen, Senior Associate Dean, Stanford University
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