Agenda

6:00 6:15 pm: Food & networking

6:15 7:00 pm: Panel + Q&A from audience

7:00 7:30 pm: Networking

Description: In honor of Womens History Month, Dotdash is teaming up with NYC Women in Machine Learning & Data Science (WiMLDS) to host a panel for Women in Data. Learn how leading-edge companies across different domains health, finance publishing, retail, & technology are leveraging data science for informing key business decisions & driving success. We will also discuss the challenges that women encounter as a minority in the field, the benefits of raising awareness around these topics & fostering ways in which we can drive positive change.

The panelists are successful women from the local data science community, who are also actively involved in supporting this cause:

Dr. Anasuya Das, Senior Data Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Masha Westerlund, Director, Data Science at Investopedia
Dr. Iva Horel, Director, Data Science at Macys
Dr. Katy Ghantous, Senior Data Scientist at Applecart
Moderator: Dr. Deepna Devkar, Sr Director, Data Science, Dotdash