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. Led by Sunita Sharma and Surbhi Kochhar, the EDGE2AI workshop was aimed at getting the attendees familiar with different Cloudera technologies, as well as
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By Nahia Orduna, WiBD Munich Chapter 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 and many summer festivals during this time of the year, our event was booked
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By Suha Kasamsetty, Founder of VerveCon 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 a handful of session speakers). With increasing focus on improving female representation in business
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By Nikiwe Sambo – Social Media Lead @ WiBDSA 30 June 2019 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. June 20 We hosted our first Connect Session
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By Itai Yaffe, Women in Big Data Israel Chapter Director This is how we celebrated the launch of the WiBD Israeli chapter! Over 50 attendees (mostly women but not only) from various companies, domains and positions. Two great talks about AI (watch them on our YouTube channel if you speak Hebrew…) A roundtables’ session of
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By Katharina Zech, WiBD Contributor Did you know that a total of 97% of collected data is currently unused? Still, within two days we amass so much data that, if pressed on DVDs, they would cover Luxembourg. Amazing, right? What percentage of the collected data is actually being used in your institution? Thanks to easy
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14 May 2019, Naomi Molefe, Chapter Chair The South African chapter is the first African Women in Big Data chapter to launch. Here is a summary of the activities we have contributed to in the last few weeks. March 18th – SAPNexGen hosted a WiDS event in partnership with Stanford University. WiBDSA was invited as
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By Sally Keys (Sally Writes – sally@diamondmail.net) Research shows that women are 11% better when it comes to digital skills, including search, email, social media, digital strategy, planning, mobile, and big data, yet they make up less than one-third of the digital marketing workforce. Women may be better at giving personalized content, which is in high demand
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Sunnyvale, California On March 8, 2019, Pluto7, Google Cloud, and Women in Big Data teams hosted a meaningful afternoon full of conversations around how empowering female leadership often leads to innovation in the tech space. By gathering on International Women’s Day, we celebrated our achievements in tech and discussed ways to continue making great contributions.
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Women in Big Data Alberta (Edmonton) Canada Chapter We are excited to report WiBD Alberta (Edmonton) hosted its first meetup on April 11, 2019 at Startup Edmonton. This was an opportunity to get engaged from the inception of the chapter and to help shape what it will be. The meeting was attended by a group of
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