WiDS Cambridge 2025
in collaboration with
Friday, March 7th, 2025
8am-4:30pm EST
In person: Microsoft New England (NERD Center)
1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Registration is now open,
and closes on February 28, 2pm
For the ninth year, MIT, Harvard, and Microsoft New England are proud to collaborate with Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide to bring the WiDS regional conference to Cambridge, Massachusetts. This one-day conference will feature an all-female lineup of speakers and panelists from academia and industry to talk about the latest data science-related research in a number of domains, to learn how leading-edge researchers and companies are leveraging data science for success.
2025 Keynote Speaker
Vivienne Sze
Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT
Keynote Presentation: Efficient Computing for AI and Robotics
2025 Morning Panel 1: Sustainable Computing: Climate
Kayla Woputz
Moderator
Data Scientist, Earth Science Researcher and Lecturer
Microsoft
Sara Beery
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
MIT
Abigail Bodner
Assistant Professor, Departments of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MIT
2025 Afternoon Panel 2: Industry Perspectives: Career Journeys
Fotini Christia
Moderator
Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science, and the Director of the Institute for Data, Systems,
and Society (IDSS)
MIT
Lisa Bonalle
Chief Executive Officer
GDS Link
Vanessa Liu
Co-Founder and CEO
Sugarwork
Tina Reich
Independent Board Director
and Advisor
2025 Afternoon Panel 3: Sustainable Computing: Systems & AI
Emily You
Moderator
Data Scientist
Microsoft
Lisa Amini
Director of IBM Research Cambridge
IBM
Cathy Wu
Thomas D. and Virginia W Cabot Career Development Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
MIT
Minlan Yu
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
About WiDS
WiDS Cambridge is independently organized by MIT, Harvard, and Microsoft New England to be part of the mission to increase participation of women in data science and to feature outstanding women doing outstanding work.
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The Women in Data Science (WiDS) initiative aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and to support women in the field. WiDS started as a one-day technical conference at Stanford in November 2015. Nine years later, WiDS is a global movement that includes a number of worldwide initiatives:​​
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