Nevertheless, we had 180 participants from 18 different countries attend the conference. 40% of the attendees were students from over 16 different academic institutions.

Do you want to know more about WiDS 2021? Please take a look at the WiDS 2020-2021 Annual Report.

SABINE SÜSSTRUNK

Professor at Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Visual Computing: facts, fakes, and fiction

FERNANDA VIÉGAS

Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google

Data Visualization as Exploratory Medium: from Scientific Insight to Artistic Expression

ALMERIMA JAMAKOVIC- KAPIC

Senior Data Scientist and Engineer at Swisscom

Building a real-time anomaly detection system for streaming data at Swisscom

SUSANNA TRON

NLU Chapter Lead at SwissRe

NLU Applications in Reinsurance

ENIKO SZEKELY

Senior Data Scientist at Swiss Data Science Center, ETH Zürich and EPFL

A direct approach to detection and attribution of climate change

TATIANA SAVELEVA

Product Lead at Yandex.SupportAI

How to make it so that everyone can manage an ML chatbot?

LISA FALCO

Head of Product at Pipra

An AI tool for predicting risk of post-operative delirium

OLGA KAPRALOVA

Senior Software Engineer at Google

From coding theory to Google Assistant

Data & Ethics

DOROTHEA BAUR

Independent ethics consultant at Baur Consulting AG

LEILA TOPLIC

Head of Emerging Technologies Initiative at NetHope

ANNA MATZENER

Managing Director at AlgorithmWatch Switzerland

MARISSA TSCHOPP

Researcher at scip AG, PhD student at IWM, WAI Ambassador CH Co-Chair IEEE committe trust & agency

ANNA JOBIN

Senior Researcher at Humboldt Institute of Internet and Society

KORNELIA PAPP

Head Product Intelligence at iptiQ

IOANA TRIPA

Developer Engineer at ING Belgium

NATALYA TARASOVA

IT consultant @ Netlight, coach and mentor