Meet the Speakers Schedule

These sessions provide an opportunity go deeper into the topic areas that each speaker will cover on the WiDS Worldwide main stage. These sessions are accessible only to WiDS Worldwide registrants. ​
​All times listed below are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Meet the Speakers: APAC | Meet the Speakers: EMEA | Meet the Speakers: Americas/Closing

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Meet the Speakers: APAC

​March 8 GMT

5:00 - 6:00 am

Meet the Speakers

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    5:00 - 5:20 am

Moderated by:
Joy Ku, Director, Communications & Engagement, Mobilize Center, Stanford University

Emily Fox, Distinguished Engineer, Apple; Professor University of Washington

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    5:20 - 5:40 am

Moderated by:
Radhika Kannan, Technical Program Manager, Intuit
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Geetha Majunath, CEO, Niramai

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    5:40 - 6:00 am

Moderated by:
Margot Gerritsen, Professor, Stanford University

Kalinda Griffiths, Scientia Lecturer
Centre Big Data Research in Health, UNSW

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Meet the Speakers: EMEA

​March 8 GMT

11:00 - 12:15 pm

Meet the Speakers

    11:00 - 11:25 am

Moderated by:
Mahadia Tunga, Co Founder and Director Data Science, Research and Capacity Development, Tanzania Data Lab

Dina Machuve, Lecturer and Researcher, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST)

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    11:25 - 11:50 am

Moderated by:
Lama Moussawi,  Associate Dean of Research, American University of Beirut (AUB)

Fatima Abu Salem, Associate Professor American University of Beirut (AUB)

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    11:50 - 12:15 pm

Moderated by :
Margot Gerritsen, Professor, Stanford University

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

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Meet the Speakers: Americas/Closing

​March 8 GMT

6:00 - 7:15 pm

Meet the Speakers

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    6:00 - 6:25 pm

Moderated by:
Deepa Gautam-Nigge, Senior Director, Global Lead SAP Next-Gen Ecosystem, SAP

Karina Edmonds, VP, Head of Academies and University Alliances, SAP

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    6:25 - 6:50 pm

Moderated by:
Izabel Aguiar, Ph.D. Student, Stanford University

Fernanda Viégas, Principal Scientist, Google

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    6:50 - 7:15 pm

Moderated by:
Lori Sherer, Partner, Bain & Co. 

Gina Papush, Global Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Evernorth