Update: With the current Covid-19 situation, the speaker portion of the conference will be run remotely. Workshops will be rescheduled for a later time. Details will come soon.

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The conference schedule has been adjusted to reflect it's online nature. Workshops have been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date. We will still run the speaker track via an online service. Connection details will be shared accordingly.

Our conference features exclusively female speakers doing outstanding work in the field of data science, but it is open to all, regardless of gender.

Programme

Inspirational speakers from the industry (12:00 - 17:00)

We are excited to welcome NINE industry professionals to share their stories with us. The programme will start at 12:00 (GMT+2, Oslo time):

• Welcome - Alexandra & Heidi, WiDS Ambassadors
• Machine Intelligence at Super Computing Scale - Ellie Dobson, Director of AI Engineering at Graphcore
• How we scaled insight to 400 people with four analysts and one data engineer - Nina Walberg, Head of Data & Insights at Kolonial.no
• Fighting the HIPPO - Get A/B experiments right - Ning Zhou, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
• How can Data Analysis and ML support engineers in everyday tasks? - Astrid Walle, AI Development Specialist at Rolls Royce
• --- BREAK --- we will resume at 14:30 (GMT+2, Oslo time)
• Sustainable Software Solutions, Astrid Sæbø, CFO at SAP
• Learning to compute with the language of neurons - Kristine Heiney, PhD candidate at Oslo Metropolitan University
• From Science to Data Science: How to switch from academia to industry - Ekaterina Kuzmina, Data Scientist at Unacast
• Data Illiteracy – An Invisible Barrier - Aurélie Jallat, Data Scientist at Equinor and Magali Børsum, CEO at Datatrotters
• Closing remarks - Alexandra & Heidi, WiDS Ambassadors

Sponsors

This event would not be possible without our sponsors and we are very grateful for their support of women and diversity in data science!

Platinum Sponsors and Partners: Graphcore and Tekna

Graphcore is proud to sponsor Women in Data Science. Graphcore’s IPU lets innovators create the next breakthroughs in Machine Intelligence. We are hiring - graphcore.ai !

About WiDS

The Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field. This annual conference is held at Stanford University and 100+ locations worldwide, hosted by WiDS Ambassadors.

What to expect?

Talks from local speakers from academia and the industry.

Who should attend?

The conference is open to everyone, regardless of gender, who is interested in engaging with and learning from the local data science community.