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WiDS Cambridge Agenda
8:00am - 4:30pm ET

 

8:00am   

8:50am    

9:00am

  

 

9:45am 

10:05am 

10:15am 

 

 

 

 

11:00am

 

11:45am

1:00pm 

 

 

1:45pm

2:00pm  

 

 

2:45pm   

 

 

 

 

3:30pm

3:35pm  

4:30pm  

Registration and Networking Breakfast

Opening Remarks

Plenary Talk: "The Why, How, and When of Representations for Complex Systems, and their Implications for Machine learning Tasks"

Tina Eliassi-Rad, Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University

Lightning Talks

Coffee break

Panel - Data, Climate Change, and Global Health

Samar Deen, Microsoft

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Harvard Medical School

Karen Zheng, MIT Sloan School of Management

Moderator: Rachel Nethery, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Plenary Talk: "Difference-in-differences: more than meets the eye"

Laura A. Hatfield, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School

Lunch and Poster Session

Plenary Talk: "Building Smarter Air Transportation Systems"

Hamsa Balakrishnan, William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT

Coffee Break

Plenary Talk: "Daring to be Different: Three essential skills to succeed as a minority in tech"

Raji Rajagopalan, Partner Director of Software Engineering, Microsoft

Panel - Women in Entrepreneurship

Darshita Chaturvedi, Atri Labs

Susan Conover, Piction Health

Zara Perumal, Overwatch Data

Moderator: Arushi Jain, Microsoft

Closing Remarks

Recruiting and Networking
End of Conference

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