2022 Schedule Team WiDS SLC Past Events

Schedule

April 2nd, 2022

Morning Session

Welcome to WiDS SLC

Jetta Hansen, Senior Data Analyst at Nav Inc.
Sara Song, Senior Advanced Data Analyst at BEN

Talks

Image and Text Augmentations for Machine Learning

Jes Ford, PhD, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Square

Portfolio of skill sets for a successful analytics person

Hojeong Kim, PhD, Head of Sales and Success Analytics, People Analytics at Miro

Searching Documents for Novelty with Transformers

Alexandra Cunliffe, PhD, Machine Learning Engineer at Prolego

Effective data science teams

Marissa Saunders, PhD, Associate Director, Data Science - Partnerships at Recursion

Lunch Break, Networking & Career Information Session

Zoom Breakouts Room Networking

An Introduction to the Data Science Program at the University of Utah

Prof. Bei Wang Phillips, University of Utah School of Computing

Career Information: Nav Inc.

recruiter from Nav Inc.

Career Information: BEN Group

Afternoon Session

Welcome back to WiDS SLC

Jetta Hansen, Senior Data Analyst at Nav Inc.

Talks

Transforming Data Into Value: How To Create More Value Out Of Your Data Science Project?

Ekta Kapoor, Data Scientist at BEN

Using CNNs to classify text spans

Jimmy(she/her), PhD, Principal Data Scientist at BEN

Communication Tips in Data Science Projects

Amy Heinrich, Sr. Director of Data Science at Pluralsight

How to get a job using Data Science

Angel (K.) Durr, PhD, CEO and Founder at DataReady DFW

Information Session: MSIS/MSBA Program at the University of Utah

University of Utah School of Business

Panel: Diverse perspectives on Data Science & Women in Tech

Discussion led by Marissa Saunders, PhD, Associate Director, Data Science - Partnerships at Recursion

  • Ekta Kapoor, Data Scientist at BEN
  • Hojeong Kim, PhD, Head of Sales and Success Analytics, People Analytics at Miro
  • Jimmy(she/her), PhD, Principal Data Scientist at BEN
  • Angel (K.) Durr, PhD, CEO and Founder at DataReady DFW

Speakers

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