"There cannot be equity in society without equity in data collection, curation, and decisions."
Women in Big Data Founders
As part of the International Women Week, Vodafone celebrated the 6th of March a Data Diversity day, where the London Chapter of Women in Big Data was invited to Vodafone’s London Paddington offices for an internal event in the morning and an after work external event in the evening. The morning event was joined by around
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Event: Breakfast panel discussion hosted in collaboration with MTN Business. Date: 18th March 2019 Location: South Africa The panel breakfast discussion was hosted in collaboration with the business division of MTN, an emerging markets mobile telecommunications operator at the forefront of technological and digital changes. Its operations span across 22 countries in Africa and the Middle
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The Event Theme: Data Science Empowering Business This event was one of more than 150 ambassador-driven regional events under the umbrella of the Women in Data Science (WiDS) program. SAP was a sponsor and WiBD was a community partner. The agenda included panels, keynotes and breakout sessions. WiBD was happy to be able to contribute. Tina Tang, Sr.
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Women in Data Science (WiDS) at Stanford is an annual technical conference designed to educate, inspire, and empower data scientists around the world. Everyone is encouraged to participate. It’s a global conference with 150+ regional events worldwide, and it provides an opportunity to hear about the latest data science-related research and applications across a broad
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I’m Diana Shaw, and I am the Lead for WiBD, Alberta Chapter. On 25th October, 2018, we formally launched the Chapter, at the Data Management Conference Canada. This was the ideal event to officially launch the Chapter since the keynote presenters included Radhika Rangarajan and Azadeh Yazdan, who added their voices to help promote the
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On January 16th, our Toronto chapter launched its first meetup of the year, gathering over 100 members to join the panel discussion on Data Trends of 2019. We were thrilled to have Nicole Brouillard (Chief Information Officer at Aviva), Katrin Shechtman (Head of Architecture at Thomson Reuters), Jan Kestle (President of Environics Analytics) and Janice
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By Ilyana “Lily” Salem The Women in Big Data Southern California chapter was begun in cooperation with the Marshall Business School at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. As the first campus-driven WiBD chapter, we’ve learned a lot about how to get a group up and running, and we’d like to share some information
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By Sally Keys (Sally Writes – sally@diamondmail.net) Being a woman in the technology industry, including the big data sector, can be challenging. Technology and IT remain predominantly male career paths, which can pose obstacles in both networking and career advancement. However, women working in big data have the opportunity to use their position creatively. The
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October 4, 2018 How does Netflix use Data to delight over 130 million global members? Hear women of the Data team talk about different aspects of the data ecosystem, and how culture, technology and innovation enable great storytelling and content. The session was moderated by Chicago Women in Big Data founder Kim Weisensee Brown, and introduced
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By Liisel Jessop and Antje Barth On November 29, 2018, the Düsseldorf chapter of Women in Big Data welcomed ~45 guests to METRONOM GmbH for a meet up on Big Data. Participants came from different industries and diverse backgrounds, but all share an interest in Data and seek to learn more about the technology and its impact
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