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Best of WiDS Schedule

Best of WiDS includes highlights talks from WiDS Stanford and WiDS regional events from
2015-2020. These talks will be accessible during the WiDS Worldwide conference,
on the main stage. All times listed below are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
APAC | EMEA | Americas
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Best of WiDS Speakers
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Best of WiDS: APAC

​March 8 GMT
WiDS Regional Event
 Talk Titles
Featured Speakers 
5:04 - 5:08 am
WiDS Hyderabad 2020
Regional event highlights
WiDS Hyderabad 

5:08 - 5:31 am
WiDS Stanford 2015
Teaching Computers to See with Big Data
Fei-Fei Li, Co-Director, Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI)

5:31 - 5:59 am
WiDS Tokyo @ Yokohama City University 2020
The Fusion of Science and Fashion
Ema Rie, Designer / Representative Director / CEO, EMCreation CO.,Ltd

5:59 - 6:32 am
WiDS Bangalore @ Intuit
Fireside Chat
Sanghamitra Bandhyopdhyay, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute

6:32 - 6:51 am
WiDS Stanford 2020
Scaling Data Science
Elena Grewal, Founder at Data 2 the People

6:51 - 7:08 am
WiDS Jeddah 2020
Brain Art: Brain Computer Interfaces for AI-Driven Artistic Expression
Areej Al-Wabil, CEO at HCID and Director of the HCI Lab

7:08 - 7:27 am
WiDS Stanford 2019
Understanding the Limitations of AI: When Algorithms Fail
Timnit Gebru, Black in AI

7:27 - 7:33 am
WiDS Budapest 2020
WiDS Budapest highlight video
WiDS Budapest 

7:33- 7:55 am
WiDS Stanford 2020
Interpretability For Everyone
Been Kim, Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain

7:55 - 7:59 am
WiDS Stanford 2015
Interview: Data Science, Healthcare, and Genomics
Helena Deus, Data Science Manager, Biomedical Semantic Solutions Lead, ZS

7:59 - 8:24 am
WiDS Auckland 2020
Data Slayer - How historical sword principles apply to data science
Agate Ponder-Sutton, Advanced Analytics Lead, Chorus New Zealand Limited

8:24 - 8:55 am
WiDS Stanford 2019
Technology Driven Business Opportunities for the Next Decade
Padmashree Warrior, Founder, President and CEO at Fable
 

Best of WiDS: EMEA

​March 8 GMT
WiDS Regional Event
 Talk Titles
Featured Speakers
11:05 - 11:10 am
WiDS Riyadh @ PSU
Regional event highlights
WiDS Riyadh 

11:10 - 11:41 am
WiDS Stanford 2020
Machine Learning: A New Approach to Drug Discovery
Daphne Koller, Founder and CEO at Insitro 

11:41 am - 12:06 pm
WiDS Amsterdam 2020
Improving the Food & Agriculture Chain with AI
Robey de Jong, Lead Analytics Way of Working at Rabobank

12:06 - 12:29 pm
WiDS Kuwait City 2020
3D Data using LASER Technology
Bedoor Adel Alsadoun, Data and Information Analyst, The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

12:29 - 12:53 pm
WiDS Stanford 2017
The Secret Life of Predictive Models
Claudia Perlich, Data Scientist at Two Sigma

12:53 - 12:56 pm
WiDS Zagreb
Regional event highlights
WiDS Zagreb

12:56 - 1:32 pm
WiDS Madrid @ Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 2020
Innovative Technological Projects at INDRA
Elena de Mesa Martin, Business Controller and MRP at Indra Sistemas

1:32 - 1:52 pm
WiDS Stanford 2019
Improving Healthcare with Machine Learning
Marzyeh Ghassemi, University of Toronto

1:52 - 2:24 pm
WiDS Amsterdam 2020
Data and AI at TomTom: How We Are Transforming Mobility
Zeinab Bakhtiarinoodeh, Senior Data Scientist, TomTom

2:24 pm - 2:27 pm
WiDS Quito 
Regional event highlights
Patricia Acosta Vargas, Universidad de las Americas (UDLA)

2:27 - 2:47 pm
WiDS Zagreb 2020
How to Predict Earthquakes with use of Ionospheric Predictors
Barbara Pongračić, Senior Engineer at IOLAP

2:47 - 3:18 pm
WiDS TelAviv 2019
Gender Bias in Word Embeddings
Hila Gonen,  PostDoc, Amazon

3:18 - 3:30 pm
WiDS Stanford
 theCube interview
Lillian Carrisquillo, Data Science, Analytics and User Research Lead at Spotify

3:30 - 3:51 pm
WiDS Stanford 2017
Machine Learning to Determine How Many People Have Been Killed in Syria
Megan Price, Executive Director at Human Rights Data Analysis Group

3:51 - 3:55 pm
WiDS Lima @ UP 
Regional event highlights
WiDS Lima @ UP

 

Best of WiDS: Americas

​March 8 GMT
WiDS Regional Event
 Talk Titles
Featured Speakers
6:03 - 6:07 pm
WiDS Montevideo 
Regional event highlights
WiDS Montevideo

6:07 - 6:45 pm
WiDS Stanford 2018
Data Science to Save the World
Latanya Sweeney, Professor at Harvard University

6:45 - 7:27 pm
WiDS Stanford 2020
WiDS Ethics Panel
Lynn Kirabo, Lucy Bernholz, Aslihan Dermikaya

7:27 - 8:00 pm
WiDS Sao Paulo 2020
Artificial Intelligence’s Black Box
Carla Viera, Software Engineer, Artificial Intelligence researcher (USP) and coordinator at perifaCode

8:00 - 8:08 pm
WiDS Stanford 2015
Driven Marketplace Design: Experiments, Machine Learning, and Econometrics
Susan Athey, Professor of Economics

8:08 - 8:42 pm
WiDS Stanford 2018
When Data Science IS the Business
Leda Braga, CEO, Systematica Investments

8:42 - 9:03 pm
WiDS Stanford 2019
Machine Learning and the Evaluation of Criminal Evidence
Alicia Carriquiry, Distinguised Professor and President's Chair in Statistics at Iowa State

9:03 - 9:18 pm
WiDS São Paulo 2019
Deep Learning on Medical Images
Jéssica Santos, Lead Data Scientist at NeuralMed

9:18 - 9:19 pm
WiDS Lima @ UPP 2018
Gender Equility in Science, Innovation and Technology
Ana Luna, Doctor of Physical Science, Universidad del Pacifico

9:19 - 9:20 pm
Introduction to WiDS Stanford 2019
WiDS Stanford 2019

 9:20 - 9:43 pm
WiDS Stanford 2019
Filling in Missing Data with Low Rank Models
Madeline Udell, Optimization and Machine Learning, Cornell

9:43 - 10:01 pm
WiDS Stanford 2019
Data Science for Unlocking Teaching & Learning at Scale
Emily Glassberg-Sands, VP of Data Science, Coursera

 10:01 - 10:23 pm
WiDS Stanford 2019
Netflix: A confluence of metrics, algorithms, and experimentation
Caitlin Smallwood, VP of Data of Science and Engineering, Netflix

10:23 - 10:36 pm
WiDS Stanford 2020
TheCube Interview
Newsha Ajami, Director of Urban Water Policy and Innovation, Stanford University

10:36 - 10:57 pm
WiDS Stanford 2020
Don't Look. See! Are We Blinded by Data (Visualization)?
Fanny Chevalier, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science & Department of Statistical Science, University of Toronto

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