WiDS Chicago 2025

Schedule

• Agenda April 3, 2025

4:30 - 5:00

Doors Open & Registration

Come early and network with attendees.

5:00 - 5:10

Welcome

Hear from WiDS Organizers.

Our 2025 theme is "Our World in Data"

MC: Maggie Wolff

5:10 - 6:00

AI/LLMs

Speakers:

Kavya Shankar: Evolution of Data Collection in the age of LLMs

Upasna Menon & Vaishnavi Neema: Speech Transcription Pipeline: Harnessing OpenaI, GPT and AWS for Accurate Speech to Text Transcripts

Stephanie Kirmer: Being a Data Scientist in the Age of LLMs

Nafiseh (Cati) Mollaei: Revolutionizing vLLM in Healthcare: Optimizing AI for Infectious Diseases

Dr. Serena H. Huang: The Power of Human Skills in the Age of AI

6:05 - 6:35

Data Applications

Speakers:

Emily Cunningham: Automated Competitor Analysis: Monitor Key Content and Motivate Actionable Insights

Eve Jennings: Modernizing Chicago's strategy for data services and up-to-date capabilities

Liv McFarlin: Expanding the UX Research Toolkit: Leveraging Data Science Methods for Deeper Insights

6:35 - 7:15

Panel: Humanizing Healthcare Data: Privacy & Ethics

Moderator: Mena Whalen

Panelists:

Giulianna Grandinetti: Senior Data Analyst

Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup: Research Director at Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy

Nafiseh(Cati) Mollaei: AI Advisor/Postdoc at Northwestern Medicine/MG Health Tech

Sonja Petrović: Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officier at TrustVector

7:15 - 8:30

Networking

Chat with speakers, organizers, sponsors, and other attendees.

Soft drinks & light bites will be available.