Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference KL 2018

WiDS KL 2018 conference is a part of the Global WiDS Conference which is held at Stanford University and 100+ locations around the world. The conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, which features exclusively female speakers.

Our inaugural event in KL hopes to highlight current developments in the ever-changing world of data science, as well as create awareness of the exciting projects being carried out by women data scientists locally and in the region. We hope to reach out and bring together a community of data scientists of all experience levels to generate discussions as well as support for data science projects.

We also hope that this event will be able to serve as an introduction to data science to all aspiring data scientists, men or women, and as a gateway to enter this career path.

We welcome anyone with an interest in data science to join us for an exciting day of talks given by prominent industry professionals!

Visit our event site: www.widskl.com for more information.

Note:

For students purchase, please bring along your student card for verification. if no card, you will need to top up to normal admission ticket price

AGENDA :

08:30 Registration & Networking

09:00 Opening Remarks by Ghazal Ghalebandi, WiDS KL Ambassador

09:10 Keynote - Sharala Axryd (CEO, ASEAN Data Analytics eXchange (ADAX))

09:40 Career Panel

Moderator: Goh Chee Yim (Director, WomenWhoCode KL)
Panelist:

• Hema Latha Krishna Nair (Senior Lecturer cum Head of Program, INTI International University)
• Siti Sophiayati Yuhaniz (Associate Professor, Advanced Informatics School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
• Panelist 3

10:40 BREAK

11:10 Talk 1

11:40 Alexandra Ugolnikova (Data Scientist, iPrice)

12:10 Hema Latha Krishna Nair (Senior Lecturer cum Head of Program, INTI International University) - The Challenges and special requirements of Clinical data mining : Managing Data Imbalance

12:40 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 Afternoon Keynote - SEEK Asia

14:30 Fireside Chat - Data Science: The Landscape in Malaysia

Moderator: Goh Chee Yim (Director, WomenWhoCode KL)

• Sharala Axryd (CEO, ASEAN Data Analytics eXchange (ADAX))
• Panelist 2

14:50 TBD

15:20 Anthea Low (Data Scientist, Media Prima Digital)

15:50 BREAK

16:20 Hazwany Jamaluddin (Research Associate, DataViz My)

16:50 Closing Remarks

17:10 END

To know more about our speakers profile? visit here!