"There cannot be equity in society without equity in data collection, curation, and decisions."
Women in Big Data Founders
The founders determined that mentoring is essential to the success at every stage of a women’s career, both as mentee and as mentor. WiBD mentoring programs are open to WiBD members.
Not yet a member of WiBD? No worries. By joining a mentoring program you agree to become a member of WiBD. Both membership and mentoring are free of charge.
The WiBD Global Mentoring Initiative was designed with you, the mentors and mentees, in mind by supporting your efforts with quality mentoring software, materials, and Mentor Program Owners to assist throughout your entire participation.
Find the program that’s right for you.
Whether you’d like to participate as a mentee, a mentor, or both, we’re ready to get you going.
General Description: The Emerging Technologist Mentoring Program provides skill and leadership opportunities for those engaged in the fields of data science, or any computing technology. Whether you are fresh out of school, pivoting from another field, or looking for career advancement within your field, this program pairs you with experienced mentors from a wide variety of technology backgrounds.
General Description: The Gayatri Mentoring Program India aims to guide and nurture future leaders in tech. The objective is to offer the right platform for mentoring aspiring women by associating them with current leaders in the tech field. This program pairs a mentee with a mentor to focus on career advancement or transitions.
General Description: The goal of the program is to support women who aspire to come back after taking a career break to manage other priorities. This program pairs a mentee with a mentor focusing on assisting women looking to restart a data related career.
General Description: This program was specifically designed to advance technology skill development and technical leadership through data science contest participation, and is appropriate for any WiBD member whether you are a data science enthusiast, novice, beginner, expert, or domain/industry expert. If you have the interest to develop your skills through competition, you are welcomed.
General Description: This mentoring program uses the facilitated peer mentoring format, where participants share their experiences and goals to learn from each other under the direction of two experienced facilitators. Participants will learn the techniques for creating and executing a skills based action plan for job-seeking or career advancement. Participants will work individually, in accountability pairs, small groups and with the entire cohort to create a strategy.
General Description: This program offers mentoring services to help women gain new skills, get through transitions, prepare to find a job they want, and/or build an exciting career. Particular focus is given to the areas such as:
General Description: This program is to support the skill development, personal and professional growth of WiBD Toronto members and any member of WiBD from Canada through networking and knowledge sharing. The program is designed to meet career advancement and skill development goals; provide an opportunity for senior leaders to volunteer and contribute in a direct and highly rewarding way; and to cultivate future leaders and mentors within the WiBD Toronto Chapter
Gayatri Program
“I always was intrigued by data and the analytics behind it. One day I chanced about the page Women in Big Data India Chapter and attended the Gayatri program launch. They put me onto a great mentor - a person who wants the best in you to come out. She has instilled a sense of questioning in every data that I see, looking if there is an opportunity.” – Participant in Gayatri Program
Mentor in Tech International
“After many attempts to find insights from a wide variety of webinars, courses and training, I realized at one point that I wanted to be more precise with my requests. That’s how I got the idea to find a mentor. And your program is like a gift of fate. I could hardly have met my mentor without you. So, dear organizers, you do wonders. Thank you” – Participant in Mentor in Tech International
Getting From Here To There Program
“In addition to accountability, the WiBD Peer Mentoring group provided me with practical guidelines I could follow to accomplish my goal. These can probably be found online, but I benefited from being guided through them by our facilitators. Our twice-monthly meetings allowed me the opportunity to get to know other women on different paths in the data domain, and connect with them wherever in the world they were located. I even participated with several in a separate use-case project”. - Participant in Getting From Here To There Program
