Bob Loftis on Procrastination

By Promila Agarwal and

On Aug 28th I had the pleasure of attending my very first event as co-host for Women in Big Data: an awesome talk by Bob Loftis on Procrastination. The event took place at Intel’s Santa Clara…

Women in Big Data in Russia welcoming Moscow chapter on board

By Elena Plankina and

On September 10, the Women in Big Data team in Russia had the first meetup in Moscow hosted by Google. This event was special and long-awaited for us, as it started the Moscow chapter of…

Afterwork event – Women in Big Data in collaboration with intel @intel Munich

By Nahia Orduña and

By Nahia Orduna The WiBD Afterwork event took place at Intel in Munich during the Oktoberfest, the famous celebration joined by millions of people from around the world who come to Bavaria to enjoy beer…

WiBD Düsseldorf Event #5

By Liisel Jessop and

The Düsseldorf Chapter of Women in Big Data held a meetup event at Vorwek — Airgate Düsseldorf on September 12, 2019. The world around Big Data and IoT, especially in connection to the EU General…

How to Help Women with Disabilities Get into Big Data

By WiBD Team and

How to Help Women with Disabilities Get into Big Data One way to encourage more women into the Big Data industry is to make workplaces and online systems more accessible to those with disabilities. Web…

Wrangling Multimodal Data for Data Science Scenarios with Big Data

By Regina Karson and

In the age of Big Data, data enthusiasts struggle to bring various types of data, such as graph, text, image, streaming, and relational together, and run machine learning algorithms across them. Data scientists are looking…

Cloudera EDGE2AI Workshop

By Surbhi Kochhar and

On July 23rd, 2019, a beautiful summer evening in sunny California, Cloudera and Women in Big Data collaborated on hosting their first joint meetup for women at Cloudera’s Palo Alto headquarters.

Afterwork Event: Women in Big Data in collaboration with SAP Business Women Network @SAP Munich

By Nahia Orduña and

The event took place on the 27th of June, 2019, at the SAP offices in Munich. It was a very sunny day, with temperatures of over 30°C. Even with our city full of beer gardens…

VerveCon And WiBD: Meet the Leader in You

By Sudha Kasamsetty and

How many technical conferences have you attended lately with strong female representation (attendance or otherwise)? And how many of them have a statistically significant number of female technical speakers (beyond the token keynote speaker or…

WiBDSA – #ConnectSession + #DevSprint

By Nikiwe Sambo and

We have been having an inspirational time in South Africa, and here is a sneak peek of what has been happening this month. It’s been an exciting couple of weeks for us in South Africa.