WiBD 2019

2nd International Workshop for Women in Big Data

Preliminary Program

12:00 Registration (sandwiches and drinks available)

2:15 pm Welcome

Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Dfinity Foundation – Zurich

Elisa Celis, Yale University - New Haven

2:30 pm Keynote

Mihaela van der Schaar University of Cambridge, UK,

"Machine Learning for Social Good: Joining Female Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence "

3:30pm Coffee break / Posters

4:00pm Panel discussion “Career Trajectories - A Lifetime of Challenges”

Moderator: Olivia Kühni, Journalist

5:00 pm Madness Session (30min)

5:30 pm Free time

6:30 pm Light dinner buffet and networking (Apéro riche)

8:30 am Welcome

Beatrice Huber, Head of knowledge and technology transfer of NRP 75 "Big Data"

Sara Irina Fabrikant, Director Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich

8:50 am Introduction

Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Dfinity Foundation – Zurich

Elisa Celis, Yale University - New Haven

9:00 am Keynote

Natalie Schluter, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

" The Glass Ceiling in the Natural Language Processing Community"

10:00 am Panel discussion “Diversity - Beyond Gender”

Moderator: Olivia Kühni, Journalist

11:00 am Coffee break / Posters

11:30 am Keynote

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO women@thetable

"Triple A - Affirmative Action for Algorithms: A concrete call for action"

12:30 pm Lunch / Posters

1:45 pm Invited talk

Christin Schaefer, ACS Plus

"Data Ethics Kaleidoscope"

2:15 pm Panel discussion “Data Ethics”

Moderator: Olivia Kühni, Journalist

3:15pm Coffee break

3:45 pm Madness Session

4:20 pm Best Poster Talk (20min)

4:45 pm Closing remarks

5:00 pm Networking apéro

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