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Highlights from WiDS 2021

 

The 2021 year‘s WiDS Zurich Conference was one day long and filled with excellent talks, mentorship, an art poster session, and very interested participants. Unlike the previous editions, this year’s conference was a virtual event and took place on the gather. town platform. 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.

Keynotes 2021

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

MAJA RUDOLPH

Machine Learning Research Scientist at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI)

Multi-modal Dynamics Models for Industrial AI

Lightning talks 2021

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?

OLGA KAPRALOVA

Senior Software Engineer at Google

From coding theory to Google Assistant

Panelists 2021

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

Mentors 2021

KORNELIA PAPP

Head Product Intelligence at iptiQ

SILVIA QUARTERONI

Principal Data Scientist at Swiss Data Science Center (EPFL & ETH)

IOANA TRIPA

Developer Engineer at ING Belgium

BIANCA SCHEFFLER

Co-Lead Center of Expertise Data Culture and Innovation at SwissRe

NATALYA TARASOVA

IT consultant @ Netlight, coach and mentor

 

People behind WiDS Zurich 2021

The Team 2021
 

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