The Women in Data Science (WiDS) initiative aims to inspire and educate data scientists from around the world, regardless of gender, and support women in the field of data. WiDS began as a one-day technical conference at Stanford in November 2015. It is now a global movement that includes multiple initiatives around the world organized by WiDS ambassadors.
When? Thursday, April 11, 2024 from 9:30am – 12:45pm
Where? Manel Martí Recober Auditorium, Faculty of Computer Science, Barcelona
Address? B6 Building, ground floor, Campus Nord, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. C. Jordi Girona 1-3. BCN 08028 (location here)
Format: In-person event with recording and subsequent publication in webinar format
Registration: Free and open
Program
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome
Fina Antonijuan, Vice-Rector of Social Responsibility and Equality at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Lídia Montero, Vice Dean of Barcelona School of Informatics. Associate Professor of Statistics and Operational Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Karina Gibert & Núria Castell, WiDS-Barcelona 2024 ambassadors
9:45 – 11:15 Panel: Data-intensive: the management perspective
Moderator: Núria Castell, Former Dean of FIB, and VicePresident of COEINF
Panelists
Rosa Ortuño, Expert and specialist in cybersecurity and CEO of OptimumTIC
Rosa Castro, Head of IT de NOUCOR
Conxi Pérez-Andreu, Co-Founder of RollDBox Games, Digital and Rapid Transformation Consultant
Isabel Bellot, Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Grant Thornton Spain
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee
11:45 – 12:30 Keynote : Artificial Intelligence for decision support based on data
Karina Gibert, Director of IDEAI-UPC and Dean of COEINF
12:30 – 12:45 Closing
Núria Espuny, General Director of Digital Administration, Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government)
Lunch and networking at vertex gardens
Event celebrated in Catalan face-to-face on April 11th, 2024
On the Int’l girls in ICT day, April 25th, 2024, it will be launched in format webinar with all videos subtitled into English.
Women of WiDS 2024
Previous editions of WiDS-Barcelona
I WiDS-Barcelona 2021
II WiDS-Barcelona 2022
III WiDS-Barcelona 2023
WiDS provides Female Role Models
Find the women of WiDS-Barcelona 2021 here
Find the women of WiDS-Barcelona 2022 here
Find the women of WiDS-Barcelona 2023 here
Announcement
On April 25th, 2024, it is the International Girls in ICT Day. WiDS-Barcelona 2024 will broadcast a Webinar that will be available on this website internationally.
The organization of WiDS-Barcelona 2024
WiDS-Barcelona 2024 Ambassadors
Director of the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI-UPC) research center
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Dean of Official Professional College of Computer Engineering of Catalonia (COEINF)
Former Dean of the Faculty of Informatics of Barcelona (FIB-UPC)
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Vicepresident of Official Professional College of Computer Engineering of Catalonia (COEINF)
Organizing committee
- Àngela Nebot, IDEAI-UPC
- Mònica Sànchez, IDEAI-UPC
- Huilin Ni, IDEAI-UPC
- Sergi Ramírez, IDEAI-UPC
- Kevin Sànchez, IDEAI-UPC
- Xavier Angerri, IDEAI-UPC
- Miquel Umbert, IDEAI-UPC
Do you want to be a sponsor of WiDS-Barcelona 2024? Contact us! karina.gibert@upc.edu
WiDS-Barcelona 2024 is independently organized by Karina Gibert and Núria Castell-Ariño to be part of the mission of WiDS Worldwide movement to increase participation of Women in data science and to feature outstanding Women doing outstanding work.