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

8:00am
8:45am
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9:00am
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9:50am
10:00am
10:20am
10:30am
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1:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:30pm
5:30pm
Registration and Networking Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Cathy Chute, Assistant Dean for Professional and External Programs, Harvard SEAS
Michelle Carmichael, Director of Administration and Finance, MIT IDSS
Keynote Presentation
Vivienne Sze, Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department, MIT
Coffee Break
Lightning Talks (20 lightning talks of 1 minute)
Program Break
Morning Panel 1 - Sustainable Computing: Climate
Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, MIT EECS Faculty of AI and Decision Making
and CSAIL, MIT
Abigail Bodner, Assistant Professor, Departments of Earth, Atmospheric and
Planetary Sciences, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Loretta J. Mickley, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Moderator, Kayla Woputz, Data Scientist, Microsoft
Lunch, Recruiting, Poster Session, Networking & Mentoring Sessions
​Afternoon Panel 2 - Industry Perspectives: Career Journeys
Lisa Bonalle, ​Chief Executive Officer, GDS Link
Vanessa Liu, Co-Founder and CEO, Sugarwork
Tina Reich,​ Independent Board Director and Advisor
Lisa Schirf, Managing Director, Global Head of Data & Analytics, Tradeweb
Julia Taitz, Data Scientist at Instagram, Meta
Moderator, Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences in the
Department of Political Science, and the Director of the Institute for Data, Systems,
and Society (IDSS), MIT
​​​Coffee Break
​​​​Afternoon Panel 3 - Sustainable Computing: Systems
Lisa Amini, Director of IBM Research Cambridge, IBM
Cathy Wu, Associate Professor at CEE/IDSS, MIT
Minlan Yu, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard John A. Paulson
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Moderator, Emily You, Data Scientist, Microsoft
​Recruiting, Poster Session, Networking, Closing Reception, Closing Remarks
End of Conference