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[WiMLDS] July Newsletter

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WiMLDS NYC: July 2019 Newsletter

CODE OF CONDUCT

Our Code of Conduct is available online and applies to all our spaces, both online and off.

BLOGS

Read Reshama Shaikh’s two new blog posts:

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Thank You: AT&T Labs and Capital One

Special thanks to AT&T Labs for hosting us last month and to Capital One for sponsoring refreshments for our event. We had an extraordinary speaker, Jaime Anne Earnest, who talked about AI, Machine Learning and Analytics in Federal Policy!

Call for Speakers: O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference (February 22–26, 2020) New York, NY

The O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference is four action-packed days of practical training for veteran and aspiring software architects, engineers, and senior developers. Don’t miss this opportunity to join as a presenter—share your best practices, case studies, or deep technical knowledge, and help make this a must-attend event.
O’Reilly wants to hear about your personal, on-the-job experiences. Think about:

The benefits and pitfalls of architectural decisions
How frameworks and other architectural underpinnings perform in the face of real-world challenges
What it takes to be a leader in software architecture design, development, and deployment

Have a look at their suggested topics and tips for a successful proposal, and submit yours by August 20.

Apply to speak here by 11:59 pm PST on August 20!

CONFERENCES

AI NEXTCon Developer Conference (July 23-26) New York

Join us at the annual AI NextCon Developer Conference with 40+ top-notch tech lead speakers on in-depth tech talks on computer vision, NLP, machine learning life cycle, deep learning, etc.. The event is specially geared to developers, engineers, data scientists and researchers to learn the latest on AI, practical experiences in applying deep learning, and machine learning life cycle.

Here are just a few of the reasons why you cannot miss this must-attend event:

Speakers: 40+ speakers of technical lead, practitioners, data scientists from companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, LinkedIn, Nvidia, and more.
Topics: 40+ topics and practical experiences in computer vision, NLP, machine learning, deep learning, data science/ data analytics.
Hands-on Workshop, by Google and Microsoft engineers: learn the reinforcement learning, NLP, AutoML and machine learning, with codelabs.
AI in Healthcare and Fintech: Learn how AI applied to healthcare, fintech industry and innovation.
Women In AI: special session to attend, learn from women tech leads on technical and career growth.

Best Price (starting at just $99) is available for a limited time.

We have some free "basic" passes. Apply here .

VOICE (July 22-25) Newark

The time to get ahead in AI development is now and our friends at VOICE Summit just made it easier with an amazing offer of 50% off the Super Pass or the Mainstage + Expo + Breakouts pass to VOICE Summit. So act quickly and get ready for an unforgettable event with 250 sessions, a hackathon, startup EXPO, 350 speakers and 5000 attendees over four days. Developers, designers, marketers, brands, and agencies will all be there. Will you?

Write/Speak/Code (August 16-18) San Francisco

Write/Speak/Code is coming to San Francisco and the CFP is open! Let’s take your career to the next level.

Write/Speak/Code is an intensive, three-day, hands-on conference with workshops, personalized feedback sessions, panels, and talks by talented speakers from marginalized gender backgrounds. Each track of the conference is themed: Write/Visibility Day, Speak/Leadership Day, Code/Project Day and Growth. Attendees leave the conference having developed blog posts, conference talks, open source contributions, and more. We provide actionable next steps and a supportive community to keep attendees accountable to the goals they set at the conference and beyond.

Come to our conference: register here.

Strata Data Conference (September 23-26, 2019) New York

At Strata Data Conference, learn how data is driving innovation and transforming business. You’ll see top minds in technology from leading companies like Airbnb, Google, WeWork, and Uber discuss latest developments in machine learning, data engineering, real time applications, data governance and strategy, and much more. You'll also network with thousands at the largest gathering of technologists and business leaders working with data.

NODES 2019 - Neo4j Online Developer Expo & Summit (October 10)

Neo4j Community gathered together around the world to watch a keynote from Emil Eifrem, CEO and co-creator of Neo4j, and then 20+ technical sessions delivered by Neo4j engineers and community members. We’ll be using the interactive Crowdcast platform and will bring in participants from around the world for Q&A and panels.

Natural Language, Dialog and Speech Symposium (November 22) The New York Academy of Sciences in NYC

Natural language, dialog and speech (NDS) researchers develop models for analyzing the structure and content of human conversation and create artificial agents who can engage in human-like interaction with people and other agents. This symposium will address areas including dialog systems, spoken and natural language understanding, natural language generation and speech synthesis.

Keynote speakers: Yejin Choi, PhD, University of Washington; Lillian Lee, PhD, Cornell University; Sungjin Lee, PhD, Microsoft Research; Karen Livescu, PhD, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Abstract deadline: September 16, 2019

JOBS

Data Scientist, Rent the Runway (New York)

Data Platform Engineer, Rent the Runway (New York)

Sr./Staff Data Scientist, Zymergen (Emeryville East SF Bay Area or Seattle)

Data Scientist I/II, Zymergen (Emeryville East SF Bay Area or Seattle)

Data Scientist, Apollo Agriculture (Amsterdam)

Research Opportunities in Machine Learning and HPC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN)

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Plenty (South San Francisco, CA)

Senior Data Scientist, Capital One (New York, NY)

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning, Wikimedia Foundation (Remote)

Postdoc in Machine Learning & Climate Science, NYU Courant Institute (New York City)

Genomics Data Scientist, AgBiome (RPT, NC)

Data Scientist, Dataiku (London, Paris)

Developer Evangelist, Paperspace (Brooklyn, NY)

Data Analyst – Product, Lyra Health (Burlingame, CA)

Data Scientist, ONOGONE (Paris)

Data Scientist / AI Specialist, ASTRA (Denver Metro Area)

Postdoctoral Fellow in Network Science, University of Technology Sydney (Sydney)

Data Scientist, BrainStation (Vancouver, BC)

Software/Data Engineer, DeepMind (London)

Data Scientist, Datadog (Paris)

Data & Tech Ops Coordinator, SheEO (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Machine Learning Engineering Lead – Recommender System, Criteo (Paris, France)

Intervenant pour Module Systems Distribues a ISEP, ISEP (Paris)

Multiple Postdoctoral Fellowships in Omics Data Science, Simon Fraser University (Metro Vancouver, British Columbia)

Data Integration Engineer, Farm Credit Services of America (Omaha, Nebraska)

Senior Data Scientist, TaskRabbit (San Francisco)

For more job postings, visit our Job Board.

CONNECT WITH US

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Slack

- We have a global Slack team for female and gender minority members of WiMLDS. If you would like to join and connect, send an email request to [address removed] with a brief note.