Presentation

PANEL DISCUSSION

February 7, 2023Olivia Pfeiler

How to become a data scientist?

Session Chair

Anita Kloss-Brandstätter , Professor for Mathematics, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach (Austria)

Panelists

Manuela Gasser, Data Scientist, Infineon Technologies Austria, Villach (Austria)

Isabella Hinterleitner, Founder of TechMeetsLegal, Board member Women in AI Austria, Vienna (Austria)

Christina Morgenstern, Researcher, Pädagogische Hochschule Kärnten, Klagenfurt (Austria)

Lili Nemec Zlatolas, Assistant Professor in Informatics, University of Maribor, Maribor (Slovenia)

TECHNICAL VISION TALKS – SESSION 2

February 7, 2023Olivia Pfeiler

Data Science & gaming – a fruitful combination?

Session Chair

Olivia Pfeiler, Head of Statistics & Data Science, KAI

Speakers

Marie Biedermann & Ksenia Harshina, Game Studies Students @ University of Klagenfurt (Austria)

The Itch, the Game and the Ugly: How to incorporate Data Analytics into the Game Development Process to Boost Player Engagement on Itch.io

Neža Štrus, Lead Data Scientist, Outfit7, Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Why is a good data scientist a package of professions? Explained with gaming use cases

High School Students, BG|BRG St. Martin & CHS, Villach (Austria)

Opening of the exhibition “Information is Beautiful”

TECHNICAL VISION TALKS – SESSION 1

February 7, 2023Olivia Pfeiler

Insights into customer data applications

Session Chair

Natalie Vollert, Experienced Software Engineer, MediaMarktSaturn Technology/ MediaMarkt Österreich (Klagenfurt, Austria)

Speakers

Ines Ganner, Founder & CEO of NeedNect Solutions, Liesing (Austria)

Transforming hospitality by using guest data smartly: the journey of a female-led hospitality-tech startup

Patricia Brandner, Strategic Projects and Innovation, Kelag Energie, Klagenfurt (Austria)

Forecasting the energy consumption of Austrian customers: How we learned what challenges we need to solve before thinking about modeling

Katherine Munro, Data Scientist & member of Women in AI Upper Austria (Austria)

Eating humble Py: From toy problem to real-world solution in predicting Customer Lifetime Value

IMPULSE TALK

February 7, 2023Olivia Pfeiler

Practical advice on transitioning into data science from non-computer science academia

Jillian Augustine, Principal Data Scientist, Crayon, Vienna (Austria)

KEYNOTE TALK

February 19, 2022Olivia Pfeiler

The limits of our gut feeling – the necessity of data for understanding the world

Elisabeth Oberzaucher, President of the Int. Society for Human Ethology & Science Buster (Vienna, Austria)

TECHNICAL VISION TALKS – SESSION 3

February 17, 2022Janine Gogan

Information is beautiful – Data Science & Arts

Session Chair

Anita Kloss-Brandstätter , Professor for Mathematics, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

Speakers

Artemi-Maria Gioti, Composer & artistic researcher, University of music and performing arts (Graz, Austria)

From sound to data to meaning: integrating machine learning in interactive musical works

Marion Starzacher, Professor, University College of Teacher Education (Graz, Austria)

Diversity or how to share more than words, graphs or figures

TECHNICAL VISION TALKS – SESSION 2

February 17, 2022Janine Gogan

Manufacturing data, producing insights

Session Chair

Andrea Appe, Data Scientist, Infineon Technologies Austria (Villach, Austria)

Speakers

Anja Zernig, Project Manager & Data Scientist, KAI GmbH (Villach, Austria)

A wide range of opportunities for Data Scientists in the semiconductor industry

Johanna Schmidt, Head of research unit Visual Analytics, VRVis (Vienna, Austria)

Visual Analytics of time-dependent process data

Angela Fessl, Deputy Research Area Head at Know-Center (Graz, Austria)

The uptake of open science resources in industry: reality or wishful thinking?

TECHNICAL VISION TALKS – SESSION 1

February 17, 2022Janine Gogan

How can Data Science help with environmental issues?

Session Chair

Natalie Vollert, Data Scientist, TÜV Austria Data Intelligence (Klagenfurt & Vienna, Austria)

Speakers

Christina Hirschl, Head of Division Sensor Systems, Silicon Austria Labs (Villach, Austria)

Combining hardware and data science to change our tomorrows world – research of electronic based systems

Iris Rammelmüller, PhD Student, AAU Klagenfurt (Klagenfurt, Austria)

Computationally efficient pollutant dispersion calculation

Vanessa Berger, Project Coordinator at UNESCO-Chair for Sustainable Management of Conservation Area, CUAS (Villach, Austria) & project manager at E.C.O. Institute of Ecology

Digitizing the forest – from individual trees to carbon storage of forest ecosystems

TECHNICAL VISION TALKS – SESSION 2

February 27, 2021Olivia Pfeiler

Data Science in Health Applications

sponsored by WiDS Villach 2021 Sponsor - Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

Session Chair

Anita Kloss-Brandstätter, Professor for Mathematics, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

Speakers

Anna Jenul, Data Science PhD student, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Oslo, Norway)

Data science for treatment outcome prediction: towards interpretable models combining healthcare data from multiple sources

Emily Fox, Distinguished Engineer, Apple & Professor, University of Washington (USA)

The joys and perils of leveraging mechanistic models in health ML: from Type 1 diabetes to COVID-19 (WiDS worldwide @ Stanford Talk)

Verena Venek, Data Scientist, Salzburg Research (Austria)

Sports & Health: Human motion analytics for an active lifestyle

Elisabeth Oswald, Professor of Cybersecurity, University of Klagenfurt (Austria)

Can you trust your pacemaker?

TECHNICAL VISION TALKS – SESSION 1

February 27, 2021Olivia Pfeiler

The power of text data & NLP

sponsored by WiDS Villach 2021 Sponsor - LAM Research

Session Chair

Olivia Pfeiler, Head of Statistics & Data Science at KAI GmbH, Member of AI Carinthia

Speakers

Natalie Vollert, Data Scientist, Applied Statistics (Klagenfurt & Vienna, Austria)

Natural Language Processing for the classification of documents in an industrial environment

Natalia Grion, Data Scientist, ProntoPro (Trieste & Milan, Italy)

Machine Learning based early warning system with social media data

Eva Eggeling, Head of Fraunhofer Center for Data Driven Design (Klagenfurt & Graz, Austria), Member of AI Carinthia

Between the lines – text processing with AI