WiDS Worldwide 2021 Main Stage Schedule

WiDS Worldwide will take place on March 8th, 2021. 
​All times listed below are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
OPENING SESSION | APAC | EMEA | AMERICAS | CLOSING SESSION
Speakers 

OPENING SESSION

​March 8 GMT
Segment
Speakers, Panelists, and Presenters
1:00 - 1:05 am
Opening Video
1:05 - 1:10 am
WiDS ​​Welcome
WiDS Co-Directors: 
​Margot Gerritsen, Karen Matthys, and Judy Logan, ​Stanford University
1:10 - 1:21 am
Opening Address: To Your Health
Suzanne Weekes, Executive Director, SIAM and Professor at WPI 
​1:21 - 1:52 am
Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez
Andrea Ghez, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
1:52 - 2:24 am
Technical Vision Talks
​     1:53 - 2:08 am
The joys and perils of leveraging mechanistic models in health ML: from Type 1 diabetes to COVID-19​ 
Emily Fox, Distinguished Engineer, Apple, and Professor, University of Washington
2:24 - 2:29 am
WiDS Datathon, ​Winners Announced
Meredith Lee and Sharada Kalanidhi, WiDS Datathon Co-Chairs
2:29 - 2:59 am
Panel Discussion:
The Democratization of Data
Moderator: Margot Gerritsen, Professor and WiDS Co-Director, Stanford University
Panelists:
  • Zhamak Dehghani, Director of Next Tech Incubation, Thoughtworks
  • ​Mary Gray, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft and Faculty Associate, Harvard University's Berkman Klein of Internet and Society​
  • Amanda Obidike, Executive Director,  STEMi Makers Africa
2:59- 3:00 am
Closing
Margot Gerritsen, Professor, WiDS Co-Director, Stanford University

APAC

​March 8 GMT
Segment
Speakers, Panelists, and Presenters
3:00 - 3:02 am
A Day in the Life of APAC Ambassadors
Yoko Ono, WiDS ambassador, WiDS Tokyo @ Yokohama City University
3:03 - 3:28 am
AI in Healthcare : Cancer to Covid
Geetha Manjunath, Founder and CEO of Niramai
3:28 - 3:29 am
WiDS Worldwide Mosaic featuring conference participants around the world
3:29 - 3:59 am
Panel Discussion:
Energy and Sustainability
Moderator: ​Rosalind Archer, Professor, University of Auckland​​
  • Lesly Goh, Senior Fellow, National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
  • Xin Ma, Managing Director, Asia Platform, Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures
  • Nida Rizwan Farid, Aerospace Engineer and Energy Efficiency Consultant,  Save Joules
3:59 - 4:11 am
APAC Networking and Career Expo
4:11- 4:43 am
Technical Vision Talks
    4:12- 4:27 am
The identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in official statistics and other data
Kalinda Griffiths, Scientia Lecturer at Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW Sydney
    4:28 - 4:43 am
Assessing Fairness of AI Systems
​in Financial Services
Danielle Jiang, Assistant Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore

EMEA

​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
​9:02 - 9:28 am
Fireside Chat
Corinne Vigreux, Co-Founder and CMO, TomTom
​9:28 - 10:17 am
Technical Vision Talks
​    9:28 - 9:44 am
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
10:17 - 10:29 am
EMEA Networking and Career Expo
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

AMERICAS

​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
4:02 - 4:23 pm
Building Reproducible, Reusable, and Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning Systems
Joelle Pineau,  Team Lead, Facebook Research, Associate Professor, McGill University 
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
4:39 - 4:40 pm
WiDS Worldwide Mosaic featuring conference participants around the world
4:40 - 4:56 pm
Technical Vision Talks
    4:41 - 4:56 am
Data is the New Code
Daniela Braga, Founder and CEO, DefinedCrowd
4:56 - 5:08 pm
Americas Networking and Career Expo
5:08 - 5:38 pm
Panel Discussion:
Paths to Leadership in Data Science
Moderator: Martina Lauchengco, Operating Partner, Costanoa Ventures
Panelists:​​
5:38 - 5:59 pm
The Emerging Role of Cryptography in Trustworthy AI
Shafi Goldwasser,  Director, UC Berkeley and Professor, MIT and Weizmann Institute of Science

Closing Session

​March 8 GMT
Segment
Speakers, Panelists, and Presenters
11:00 - 11:01 pm
WiDS Worldwide Global Map
​11:01 - 11:27 pm
Keynote Address: Data Visualization as Exploratory Medium: from Scientific Insight to Artistic Expression ​
Fernanda Viegas, Principal Scientist, Google
11:27 - 11:47 pm
Technical Vision Talks
 
​     11:28 - 11:47 pm
​Roles for Computing in
​Social Justice
Rediet Abebe, JR Fellow, Harvard University and Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
11:47 - 11:49 pm
WiDS Worldwide Mosaic featuring conference participants around the world
11:49 pm - 12:09 am
Technical Vision Talks
     11:50 - 12:09 am
Role of Machine Learning
​in Behavior Change
Hulya Emir-Farinas, Director of Data Science, FitBit
12:09 - 12:13 am
Educational Outreach Announcements
12:13 - 12:44 am
Panel Discussion:
​Diversity and Data Science Education
Moderator: ​Talitha Washington, Professor of Mathematics, Clark Atlanta University and Director, Atlanta University Center
Panelists:
  • Jo Boaler, Professor of Education, Stanford University
  • Loreto Bravo, Data Science Institute Director, UDD
  • Karina Edmonds, VP, Head of Academies and University Alliances, SAP​
12:44 - 12:55 am
Why data science needs more women
Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
12:55 - 1:00 am
Closing
Margot Gerritsen, Professor, Stanford University

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