Slides of the Inaugural Meetup WiMLDS Kyiv, together with WiMLDS Paris and Poznan, 20 December 2022

2. Today’s Inaugural Meetup WiMLDS Kyiv: Agenda
1. Welcome by Larysa Visengeriyeva
Presentation of WiMLDS Kyiv by Larysa Visengeriyeva
Presentation of WiMLDS Poznań by Agnieszka Kamińska
Presentation of WiMLDS Paris by Natalie Cernecka
2. Iana Iatsun, Project Manager for Applications with Artificial Intelligence at Banque de
France, "Machine learning in production: from data-scientist to the final user"
3. Khrystyna Grynko, Cloud Customer Engineer at Google, "My journey from Marketing to
Tech"
4. Anastasiia Tryputen, Co-founder and CTO of Data unBlocked Inc. and Myriad Tech
Inc, “War in Ukraine or how extraordinary courage reshapes geopolitical landscape”
5. Q&A and Conclusions by Larysa Visengeriyeva

3. The mission of WiMLDS is to support and promote women
and gender minorities who are practicing, studying,
or are interested in machine learning and data science

4. WiMLDS around the world
Over 67 000 members
Over 100 chapters
Over 30 countries

5. Est. 2022

6. Our mission:
Promoting Ukrainian female+ machine learning and data science practitioners
internationally by organizing online and onside events as soon as it becomes
possible.
Mentoring for Ukrainian women+ who would like to start a career in machine
learning and data science.
Mentoring for female+ members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who would like to
pursue a career in machine learning and data science after the war.
Learn from each other, empower, and support each other.

7. Organizers
Larysa
Visengeriyeva
Anastasiia
Tryputen
Nataliya
Remez
Roksolana
Diachuk
Marianna
Diachuk

8. Larysa Visengeriyeva
● PhD in Augmented Data Quality
● MLOps, Data, and Software Architect at INNOQ
Germany
● ml-ops.org
● “Women+ in Data and AI Summer Festival”
organizer
● women-in-data-ai.tech

9. Anastasiia Tryputen
● Entrepreneur, researcher, AI enthusiast
● Co-founder and CTO of Data unBlocked
Inc. and Myriad Tech Inc,
● Public speaker

10. Nataliya Remez
● Director of Platform Engineering at PayPal
● GoAgile! Sweden co-organiser
● Master of Computer Science, Donetsk
State Institute of Artificial Intelligence
● Public speaker

11. Roksolana Diachuk
● Big Data Engineer at Captify,
● Diversity and Inclusion ambassador for
Ukrainian region at Captify,
● Women Who Code Kyiv, Data Engineering
Community Lead and Mentor
● Public speaker

12. Marianna Diachuk
● Senior Data Scientist at Moneyflow
● Women Who Code Kyiv, Data Science
Lead
● Public speaker at Build Stuff 2020, PyCon
DE & PyData Berlin 2019, Open Source
Summit Europe 2019, Data Science
fwdays 2019

14. WiMLDS Poznań
The first chapter in the Central-Eastern Europe
(founded in 2018)
+1k Meetup group members
Offline & online meetups:
● Lectures & Lightning Talks
● Technical Workshops
● Panel Discussions
● WiMLDS Mastermind Program
@Women in Machine Learning & Data Science POLAND

15. WiMLDS Poznań
Our community members support Ukraine by:
● hosting people in own places or helping to find an accommodation
for people looking for safety in Poland
● providing individual help in finding or changing a job in a Polish tech
market
● collecting and sharing resources on legal, psychological and medical
help for people crossing borders with Poland
● donating money to foundations supporting Ukrainians staying in UA
or temporarily living abroad
● promoting content shared by Ukrainian colleagues to amplify their
voice

16. WiMLDS Paris: Who we are
Founded 2017
The 3rd largest chapter in the world
● 4 600+ Meetup members
● 2 600+ Twitter followers
● 2 300+ Linkedin followers
Team of 4 + volunteers

17. WiMLDS Paris: What we do
● Our speakers are female, but our events
are open to anyone regardless of gender
and background
● We both invite prominent speakers and
scout the first time speakers
● We organize BBL to discuss research
papers
● We share a paper (co-)written by a
woman every Friday,
#FridayWiMLDSPaper
● We organise joint event with other groups,
online and onsite

18. WiMLDS Paris supports Ukraine

19. Ukraine has extraordinary data science!

20. WiMLDS Paris: Connect with us
Email: paris@wimlds.org
Twitter Paris: @WiMLDS_Paris
Medium : Paris WiMLDS
LinkedIn: Paris Women in Machine Learning and Data
Science
Youtube: WiMLDS Paris
Slack: paris-wimlds
Website: wimlds.org

21. Let’s begin!
Use tags to tweet / retweet
@WiMLDS_Paris
@WiMLDS_Poznan
@wimlds #WiMLDS
@visenger
@ncernecka
@k_grynko

22. Project Manager for
Applications with
Artificial Intelligence at
Banque de France

23. Cloud Customer
Engineer at Google

24. Co-founder and CTO of
Data unBlocked Inc.
and Myriad Tech Inc

25. Code of conduct
WiMLDS is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone.
We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. All communication
should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many
different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.
Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down others. Behave professionally.
Remember that harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not
appropriate.
Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly community for all.
https://github.com/WiMLDS/starter-kit/wiki/Code-of-conduct