By: DSS — Sandya Wijaya, Su Min Park | WIBD — Radhika Rangarajan, Deborah Sgro , Elaine Kwok, Shala Arshi, Tina Tang In the spirit of Women’s History Month, Women in Big Data (WiBD), the global women in tech organization that promotes diversity and inclusivity in the big data and analytics industry, proudly announced a new partnership with the Data Science Society at Berkeley, a student-led organization at UC Berkeley focused on promoting data literacy and data-driven problem-solving. The partnership will connect professionals with students for technical coaching, career mentoring, and network ..read more

Author: Mrinalini Thakur   The WiBD Northwest Chapter conducted a one-hour webinar on Career Advancements: Bringing Value, which started with a definition of value-added activities available to employees to produce measurable results for one’s team, company, or client. Emphasis was placed on understanding the value of aligning effort with the organizations or customer’s or team’s financial and strategic objectives. An exercise assisted the participants in assessing their current “value-added” profile and techniques for improving one’s value-added contribution were reviewed. The webinar c ..read more

By Dio-Ann Valmores Technology has much promise, both in creating a new and more welcoming future and having a positive impact. On August 30, 2022, Women in Big Data Bay Area and Girls in Tech San Francisco chapters hosted Telle Whitney, Computer Scientist and world-recognized expert on women and technology, as she discussed the importance of risk-taking at key junctures. She talked about her journey and how the five Cs – Courage, Creativity, Curiosity, Confidence, and Communication – helped her navigate a constantly evolving landscape. She also covered how her entrepreneurial journey took a l ..read more

WiBD spoke with Sowmya Moni, WiBD India Chapter Director and member of the WiBD Global Executive Committee WiBD: Who is Sowmya Moni? Sowmya is a passionate, self-driven individual motivated towards making societal impact. By profession, she is a technology marketer with 22+ years of experience and expertise in go-to-market strategy, market research, and influencer relations. She is a gender inclusivity and diversity in leadership advocate. WiBD: Tell us about your career journey. I started as a business analyst in an EdTech start-up about 20 years ago, and during those formative years in my ca ..read more

New WiBD Chapter at JSS Academy of Technical Education By Nathravathi B. Vidya and Lakshmi WiBD, India, in collaboration with Department of ISE and the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, launched the Women in Big Data (WiBD) Student Chapter at JSS Academy of Technical Education, Department of Information Science and Engineering, Benguluru, India. The chapter will provide a forum for JSS students for deeper collaboration with industry through its flagship programs. The MoU signing ceremony for the WiBD India Foundation was organized by the Department of Information S ..read more

By Deborah Sgro, Women in Big Data Mentoring Director After providing mentoring services for over 200 participants this spring and summer, Women in Big Data is back at it again.  Here’s a brief summary of the autumn 2022 program line-up. Emerging Technologists returns after a successful summer session. Focusing on people with two or fewer years professional technology experience, this 12-week virtual program offers 1:1 mentoring for those fresh out of school, in their first technology job,  or pivoting from another field into either Data Science or Computing Technology.  Gayatri ..read more

By Riya Girish This week, we are ecstatic to announce updates to the Women in Big Data Leadership Team! Our new members are hardworking and ambitious women, each with their own admirable skills and goals. We look forward to the innovation brought about by these team members as they join hands with our other inspirational key players and team members. Now, let’s meet our two new members of the Global Executive Committee: Sowmya Moni and Sampada Regmi. A Marketing & Alliances Incture, Co-Director of Women In Big Data India, an official Member at Forbes Communications Council, and a voluntee ..read more

Author: Mrinalini Thakur A fireside chat was organized on June 23rd by the Women in Big Data Northwest chapter. The topic for our fireside chat was AI for Everyone: Challenges and Opportunities for AI Software and Hardware at Scale. It’s a well-known fact that Artificial Intelligence and deep learning are reaching human-level and better accuracies in the fields of vision, NLP, and many more. To curb our hunger on this, we invited Huma Abidi, Senior Director, and Meena Arunachalam, Director & Principal Engineer. The fireside chat helped us understand that applied machine learning is helpin ..read more

Women in Big Data (WiBD) recently sat down with Naomi Molefe to get to know her and to introduce this amazing person to the community. WiBD: Who is Naomi Molefe? A young woman based in Johannesburg South Africa who has a keen interest in how the youth of SA is empowered in taking the country forward and making sure that we remain competitive in business and other economic activities we choose to undertake. I do this by working within the talent landscape and helping shape place in the world by bringing visibility to our collective efforts and being an advocate for women in Tech/Big data ..read more

By Mael Prauchner, WiBD Brazil Chapter Director On May 4th the Brazil chapter of WiBD had our first in-person meetup after over two years without any personal contact! It was an interesting challenge to plan and organize this in-person event; while things appear to be more normal, many people still have concerns about face-to-face contact—including me! With that in mind, our second challenge was to select a topic for discussion that could interest people enough to make them leave homes and offices and join us,. That’s where Justice DelCore and Jamila Smith-Dell made all the difference. They ra ..read more