Vodafone sponsors WiBD London chapter Kick Off

By Anna Marchon and

Women in Big Data (WiBD) EMEA Region continues to grow and we are happy to welcome both the new London chapter and Vodafone as a sponsor.

First 2018 Meetup of Big Data’s Latina America Chapter Committee

By Mael De Franceschi and

Women in Big Data’s Latina America Chapter Committee in collaboration with SAP, N1N3 Data Science, POX, Hammer and Eiffel held the first 2018 meetup on April 18 at Tecnopuc Campus, Porto Alegre Brazil. We had…

My Big Data Journey

By Samina Partapurwala and

I admit it. When I started my Big Data journey, I was overwhelmed,  quite easily and very quickly, by all the new technologies, terminologies and touchpoints I was encountering. Squoop, Splunk, Striim, Storm, Scribe, Hbase,…

Speed Mentoring: Career Tracks in Technology

By Art Zaragoza and Regina Karson and

Women in Big Data (WiBD) and BNY Mellon’s Women in Technology (WiT) organized a speed mentoring event hosted by BNY Mellon Silicon Valley Innovation Center on April 19, 2018. The event included five diverse mentoring…

Women in Big Data and Apache Spark: Bay Area Apache Spark Meetup Summary

By WiBD Team and

Databricks hosted a meetup in collaboration with the West Coast chapter of Women in Big Data on March 29, 2018.

SoCal Showcase Meetup for Women in Big Data, Women in Data Science and PyData

By Ilyana “Lily” Salem and

After weeks of preparation, the Women in Big Data (WiBD) Southern California chapter, in collaboration with Women in Data Science (WIDS) Southern California and PyData Los Angeles, held a SoCal Showcase Meetup on Mar. 29th,…

Women in Big Data Speed Mentoring Event

By Prabha Viswanathan and

Intel Ronler Acre Campus, Hillsboro Oregon Women in Big Data’s North West Chapter Mentorship Committee organized a speed mentoring event on the afternoon of March 1 at Intel RA3 Campus, Hillsboro Oregon. This was the…

A Day @ VerveCon Technical Conference

By Srabasti Banerjee and

It was very exciting to see more than 700 attendees (mostly women, a few men) on a Friday morning at Santa Clara Convention Center, ready to explore the Future with Tech experts from AI, IoT,…

WiBD Meetup in Munich

By Anna Marchon and

The Munich chapter of Women in Big Data kicked off 2018 with a MeetUp on March 22nd, signifying the growth trajectory of WiBD chapter in Germany. We are delighted to see the EMEA Region develop,…

Women in Big Data Australian Launch

By Jane Alexander and

On 20 March, 2018, the first Women in Big Data chapter in Australia was launched at a ceremony in the Members Private Dining Room of the Australian Parliament House.

Washington DC Meetup – March 7, 2018

By Gunjan Sharma and

The Washington, D.C. chapter of Women in Big Data recently hosted its first event of 2018, “Applications of Analytics in the Field of Natural and Technological Disasters.” East Coast Region Director Gunjan Sharma opened the evening with…

Q1 Newsletter, Women in Big Data – East

By WiBD Team and

Hello WiBD community! Hope your New Year is off to a great start. WiBD East wrapped up 2017 with a 1200-member strong community across Washington DC, New York City, Boston and Pittsburgh. We are looking…