#IAmRising
First, a shout out to all the women who were a part of The Rising 2022 . Our first in-person event after two years began with the keynote address from dunnhumby’s India head Manoj Madhusudanan. He spoke about the urgency of changing the dynamic and reshaping the narrative in both the workplace and the society to address the historical misstep that’s patriarchy.
The last session of the conference– Changing the Narrative For Women In Tech– embodied the spirit of The Rising. The moderator of the session, journalist Barkha Dutt, pointed to the puzzling exodus of women from the workforce after the pandemic hit. She also made a case for owning your gender in the workspace.
The panel comprising Manoj Madhusudanan, head of dunnhumby India; Jaya Janardanan, COO at Indostar Capital Finance; Aashima Kumar, senior manager of data analytics at Publicis Sapient; and Shobha Bhagwat, data analyst manager at Gojek called for a safe, friendly, gender diverse, and respectful work environment.
The major themes at the day-long conference included diversity and inclusion, gender bias and diversity in AI, digital transformation, fraud detection and more. The Rising also offered great networking opportunities for women in tech and wrapped up with a standup act from Abijit Ganguly.
Check out more stories from The Rising 2022 event below:
AIM Videos
Vanitha D'Silva, director of data science at Skoruz Technologies, speaks about the challenges women face at workplaces, skill gaps, and the need for more initiatives to get women in boardrooms.
People & Tech
Gilberto Titericz, aka "Giba", has the highest gold medals (59) worldwide on Kaggle. Check out his interview with AIM here.
Analytics India Magazine caught up with Bhaskar Roy, Client Partner, Fractal, to understand the relationship between innovation and sustainability in business enterprises.
MachineHack grandmaster Tapas Das has participated in over 32 hackathons and is among the top 10 champions worldwide. Find more about his journey here.
Startups, Apps & Tools
Scribble Data is an MLOps startup that offers a machine learning feature store for data teams of mid-market enterprises.
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Epic Games recently introduced RealityScan—a free 3D scanning app that turns smartphone photos into high-fidelity 3D models.
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Articles in Focus
Founded in 2019, Einblick Analytics is an MIT and Brown University spin-off. Its co-founders include Benedetto Jacopo Buratti, Emanuel Zgraggen, Philipp Eichmann, Kraska, and Zeyuan Shang. The company aims to enable everyone to make an impact through data, not opinions.
Analytics India Magazine spoke to Sayee Bellamkonda, a doctoral candidate at INSOFE-Rennes School of Business, who shares his experience of pursuing the leadership program in data science.
PaLM’s performance as a function of scale follows a log-linear behaviour similar to prior models, suggesting that performance improvements from scale have not yet plateaued. Click here to read the complete story.
Dukaan plans to hire close to 10-15 data science professionals across various roles and experience levels in the coming months. The article discusses the ecommerce platform’s interview process.
Research & Papers
DeepMind researchers have proposed a 280 billion parameter model, GopherCite, that can produce answers with high quality supporting evidence and abstain from answering when unsure.
In this research paper, Randall Balestriero, Leon Bottou, and Yann LeCun demonstrated that techniques such as DA or weight decay produce a model with a reduced complexity that is unfair across classes.
Event in Focus
Masterclass on ‘Supercharge Data Analytics’
Cloudera and NVIDIA, in association with Analytics India Magazine, are organising a masterclass on ‘Supercharge Data Analytics’ on 26 April 2022 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM to teach you how to run Data Science workloads on an accelerated Cloudera Data Platform.
You can register for the event here.
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