Celebrate International Women in Data Science Day 2022 with the Australian Data Science Network (ADSN)

Monday, 7 March 2022, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM AEDT

Online event

About this event

Celebrate International Women in Data Science Day (WiDS) 2022 by joining the ADSN for an engaging panel discussion featuring some of Australia's top women in Data Science, including the current President of SSA as well as a Past President of SSA.

"Raising the Bar for Australian Data Science"

The panel will explore how the Data Science Network can increase recognition of Data Science as a discipline in its own right, and representation in terms of more inclusive participation. Also, it will investigate where and how Data Science should be best applied.

Moderator: Dr Kate Helmstedt, QUT & WiDS @ ADSN Ambassador

• Prof Flora Salim, Deputy Director, RMIT Centre for Information Discovery & Data Analytics (CIDDA); Incoming Professor and Cisco Chair of Digital Transport, UNSW Sydney
• Prof Joanna Batstone, Director, Monash Data Futures Institute, Monash University
• A/Prof Jessica Kasza, President, Statistical Society of Australia
• D/Prof Kerrie Mengersen, Director, QUT Centre for Data Science
• Prof Sally Cripps, Research Program Director, Analytics & Decision Sciences at CSIRO/Data 61

WiDS @ Australian Data Science Network is an independent event that is organized by the Australian Data Science Network as part of the annual WiDS Worldwide conference organized by Stanford University and an estimated 200+ locations worldwide, which features outstanding women doing outstanding work in the field of data science. All genders are invited to attend all WiDS Worldwide conference events.