WiMLDS NYC: February 2023 Newsletter
Special Announcements
WiMLDS NYC Event Summary
See Medium Event Post ➡️ Salary Negotiation & Networking with BrainStation, women.nyc, WiMLDS & AAUW | by F. Patricia Medina | WiMLDS NYC Blog | Feb, 2023 | Medium
“On February 9th, the NYC Chapter of WiMLDS, in partnership with BrainStation, women.nyc, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW), held a jam-packed event with live networking and a salary negotiation workshop. The event took place at BrainStation’s beautiful space in SoHo with over 60 attendees in different stages of their careers! Faye Penn, who serves as Executive Director of women.nyc and Executive Vice President of Initiatives at New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), hosted the special AAUW 45-minute workshop.
The event began with…” ➡️ Read More 🌟
📣Reminder for BrainStation’s Bootcamp Scholarships
Please see WiMLDS NYC: January 2023 Newsletter | by Ellie D. Norris | WiMLDS NYC Blog | Jan, 2023 | Medium for the section entitled “BrainStation Bootcamp Scholarships Available for WiMLDS” to learn more about BrainStation’s full and partial bootcamp scholarships!
About BrainStation: Founded in 2012, BrainStation works with industry leaders from the most innovative companies, developing cutting-edge digital education that has empowered more than 100,000 professionals and some of the largest corporations in the world.
Inspiration Corner
By Manya Wadhwa
🪅This month, we feature Dr. Joy Buolamwini, the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, an award-winning researcher, and poet of code.
Joy Buolamwini is a poet of code who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League to create a world with more equitable and accountable technology. Her MIT thesis methodology uncovered large racial and gender bias in AI services from companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon. Joy’s journey is depicted in the critically-acclaimed documentary Coded Bias which sheds lights on threats A.I. poses to civil rights and democracy.
As companies, governments, and law enforcement agencies use AI to make decisions about our opportunities and freedoms, we must demand that we are respected as people.
Her spoken word visual audit “AI, Ain’t I A Woman?” which shows AI failures on the faces of iconic women like Serena Williams, Oprah Winfrey, and Michelle Obama has been part of exhibitions ranging from Ars Electronica to the Barbican Centre, UK.
External Events
Convergence Conference 2023: The new frontiers of Machine Learning via Data Science Salon | NYC
Date and Time: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 12:00 PM to Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 5:00 PM EST
“Join the second edition of Convergence ML Conference on March 7–8, 2023 and explore the new frontiers of machine learning! This two-day virtual event hosted by Comet features talks, panels and workshops from leading data scientists who share cutting-edge ML techniques, applications and tools to solve complex problems in the real world.
Machine learning solutions are increasingly employed by companies across industries to generate economic and social value. The power of algorithms provides firms with actionable insights and enables them to build better products and services at a faster pace and at lower costs. However, the AI journey has just begun and nascent exciting approaches are being developed to create ML models that are even more reliable, ethical, creative and explainable. Convergence gathers data scientists, ML engineers and researchers to meet each other and discover the latest technology, advancements and trends in ML.
Featured speakers are from Twitter, Wayfair, Gong, Carvana, World Economic Forum and many more! 25+ speakers, 2,500+ attendees online, 2 days of exclusive machine learning content!”
Sample topics covered:
- Data-centric AI
- How to Build a Successful ML Stack
- The Future of Creative AI: Is it Going to Disrupt the Creator Marketplace?
- ML, DL, RL: What is Hype and What is Not?
- Economic Impact on Growth in Emerging Trends
- Disrupting Gaming with Machine Learning
- Federated ML
- AI Bill of Rights: How can Government Policies Hamper Growth
- AI Governance
- Ethical AI
Ray NYC Meetup Community Talks via NYC Machine Learning and AI
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
“Join us if you are an ML practitioner and want to to learn how you can:
- Crunch timeseries and forecasting data at massive scale with Ray from Nixtla
- Conduct distributed data processing with Python Daft Dataframes using Ray as its distributed compute engine.
Both are exclusive Ray community user talks aimed at ML practitioners, and the Ray team is delighted to have them share their Ray use cases and journeys with the community.
For this meetup RSVP Here.
Agenda
(The times are not strict; they may vary slightly.)
Talk 0: Welcome remarks & upcoming Ray announcements — Jules Damji, Anyscale
Talk 1 (30–35 mins): Forecasting at Scale with Nixtla and Ray — Max Mergenthaler & Frderico Ramirez, Nixtla
Talk 2 (30–35 mins) : Daft: The Ray-native Python dataframe for Complex Data — Jay Chia, Eventual”
Conferences
- Convergence Conference 2023: The new frontiers of Machine Learning — Virtual, March 7–8; Note: See “External Events” section for more information.
- The European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit — Edinburgh, Scotland & Virtual, March 15–16
- NVIDIA GTC | Developer and AI Conference — Virtual, March 20–23
- RE.WORK AI in Finance Summit New York 2023 — New York, NY, April 20–21
- CDO & Data Leaders’ Global Summit 2023 — Virtual, May 3–4
