For those of you who won't join in-person for Monday's sold-out Women in Data Science Conference, we have great news! The conference will be available via livestream here:
http://stanfordvideo.stanford.edu/stream/widsconference.htm
Join the livestream community to view keynotes, tech talks, and panel talks from this world-class group of data scientists. Livestream schedule is below.
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9:00-9:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Persis Drell, Dean, Stanford School of Engineering; Margot Gerritsen, Stanford ICME
9:30-10:10am Morning Keynote
Network Science: From the Online World to Cancer Genomics, Jennifer Chayes, Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director, Microsoft Research
10:10-10:50am Panel Discussion, Women Entrepreneurs in Data Science
Moderator: Tina Seelig, Stanford Technology Venture Program (STVP)
Panelists: Montse Medina, Jetlore; Jaya Kolhatkar, @WalmartLabs; Monica Rogati, Data Collective; Helena Deus, Foundation Medicine
11:05 a.m.-12:05 p.m. Morning Tech Talks
- 11:05-11:25 Enabling Breakthrough Insights, Diane Bryant, Intel Data Science Group
- 11:25-11:45 Big Graph Data Science, Lise Getoor, UC Santa Cruz
- 11:45-12:05 Netflix Data Science: A Confluence of Metrics, Algorithms, and Experimentation, Caitlin Smallwood, Netflix
1:20-2:00 p.m. Afternoon Keynote
Data-Driven Marketplace Design: Experiments, Machine Learning, and Econometrics, Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business
2:00-3:00 p.m. Afternoon Tech Talks, Session #1
- 2:00-2:20 Cyber Security Research: A Data Scientist’s Perspective, Celeste Matarazzo, LLNL
- 2:20-2:40 Teaching Computers to See with Big Data, Fei-Fei Li, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vision Lab
- 2:40-3:00 Making Pictures, 1000 Words at a Time, Irene Ros, Bocoup
3:15-3:55 p.m. Panel Discussion: Career Paths in Data Science
Moderator: Kara Swisher, Re/code
Panelists: Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft Research; Aleksandra Korolova, USC; Shubha Nabar, Salesforce; Bin Yu, UC Berkeley
3:55-4:55 p.m. Afternoon Tech Talks, Session #2
- 3:55-4:15 Data Science and the Evolution of Retail, Kelly Thompson, Walmart Global eCommerce
- 4:15-4:35 The Multi-Facets of a Data Science Project to Answer: How Are Organs Formed, Bin Yu, UC Berkeley
- 4:35-4:55 Keeping Up with the Web, Carrie Grimes Bostock, Google
4:55-5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
