Bio: Jane Alexander, WiBD Chapter Director, Australia

By Regina Karson and

Jane Alexander has worked in the ICT Industry for her entire career in a broad range of areas, from banking to Government, infrastructure outsourcing, cloud enablement, and analytics. Jane has focused on business and customer…

TalentSeer Hosts Its First Women in Big Data How to Assess A Startup Offer in Sunnyvale, California

By Lorry Tang and Regina Karson and

On December 5th in Sunnyvale, California, TalentSeer hosted a career development event for Women in Big Data SF Bay Area. Regina and Margaret kicked off the event, welcoming a room of ~ 50 guests.

Q&A with Lucy Hur: Chief People Officer, Slalom Consulting

By April Zeng and

Lucy Hur talks about Slalom’s commitment to Inclusion & Diversity and her vision to continuously foster a sense of belonging for Slalom employees.

Women In Big Data Düsseldorf Chapter Wrap-up 2019

By Juliette Aucamp and

While Women in Big Data, is a globally mature organisation, the WiBD Chapter in Düsseldorf is still really in its infancy – it is only one year old.

Australian National University’s data analytics courses exceed gender parity

By WiBD Team and

Efforts from the Canberra chapter of Women in Big Data, and support from the government for gender parity, have for the first time helped women achieve more enrollments than men in two postgraduate data analytics…

@WiBDSA – Introduction to Machine Learning

By Nikiwe Sambo and

As groups advocating for women in the tech space, WiBDSA, Retro Rabbit, CodingMamas, RLadies and WiMLDS recently joined together to collaborate on an important event, Introduction to Machine Learning. Aimed at empowering women from all…

Five Lessons from a Five-city Roadshow: The SAP HANA and AWS Sagemaker ML Workshop West Coast Tour

By Tina Tang and

AWS, SAP, and Womeninbigdata.org partnered for a five-city workshop tour September 4-12, through San Diego, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Seattle, and Vancouver. The workshops played to full rooms of data scientists in every location. Signaling strong interest…

WiBD and Pinterest

By Regina Karson and

On October 29, 2019 the women of Pinterest Engineering and WiBD hosted a casual evening of mind-sharing, lightening talks about Pinterest’s work.The event took place at the Pinterest headquarters in San Francisco CA, USA.

#WiBDSA – From Fibre Cable to Careers in Big Data

By Johanna Thathaisa and

Women in Big Data has certainly been painting the city red amongst the many events in 2019; in our efforts to advance our mission to drive inclusion of women in the Tech industry, here is…

Data Trends afterwork discussion at Vodafone London

By Nahia Orduña and

Women in Big Data organised a panel discussion at Vodafone Headquarters in London the 8th of October, 2019 in the evening. The attendees started joining around 6pm and were welcomed with food and drinks. By…