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Any all-male tech event is likely to draw public notice these days. Yet conference organizers still seem surprised and offended when the issue is raised.
A colleague of mine, who happens to be a man, is fond of
He’s not the first or the only person to do this. I have to wonder why the organizers of these events don’t anticipate the negative reaction they’re going to get. This seems particularly remarkable in my own specialty of analytics, since so many practitioners are women.
Last week, he pointed out a couple of events with no women, or only one women, among many men. I sent the conference organizers a link to a resource that I created last year, profiles of 262 analytics book authors who happen to be women. What better speakers than the women who literally wrote the books on the topic? And I had conveniently provided succinct profiles with links to further information on each of them.
It’s not always like that. Slideshare tells me that more than 5000 people have viewed my booklet on female analytics book authors. All told, I’ve profiled about 425 accomplished women in analytics, and my
If you’re planning a conference, looking for a consultant or new employee, I hope that you, too, will use these profiles as a resource. They include only a tiny fraction of the many women in analytics, so let these build awareness of all the talented women you may overlooked in the past.
- Erica Williams Created and executed marketing plans nearing $100 million in business. Launched new household products based on consumer research. Now leads consumer research team for a major consumer products company. Manager, Consumer Insights & Market Research, Morton Salt.
- Mariana Damova Design and develops data integration infrastructures for efficient querying, access and navigation of linked data. Provides solutiuons in novel areas such as reasoning with natural language semantics and research infrastructures for the humanities. CEO, Mozaika.
- Vivian Shangxuan Zhang Founded NYC Data Science Academy, which provides short-term training programs in analytics. Founded NYC Open Data Meetup. CTO/Co-founder, SupStat. Adjunct Professor, Stony Brook University.
- Pamela Baker Leads project management for lean six sigma and other operational excellence consulting projects. Operational Excellence Consultant, P Baker Consulting, Adjunct Professor, UC San Diego Extension and San Diego Community College District
- Brenda L. Dietrich Leads data science function of
IBM Business Analytics Insights as a Service unit. Former Trustee, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Former President, INFORMS. IBM Fellow and Vice President, Data Science, IBM. - Leslie Ament Leads research in areas including customer analytics and interaction and social nedia intelligence. Editorial Board Member, Applied Marketing Analytics Journal. SVP Research and Principal Analyst Hypatia Research Group
- Gretchen Gottlich Leads and turns around Big Data and other complex IT solutions. Strategic Big Data Integration Business and IT Architect, Wallace Rose Investments, LLC
- Helena Schwenk Leads Big Data and analytics research projects. Research Manager, Big Data & Analytics, IDC
- Pam Arroway Leads a team of data scientists who provide operational support for research and benchmarking services. Directs maintenance and development of all aspects analytics infrastructure. Director of Analytics Infrastructure, EDUCAUSE
Please note: An earlier version of this article stated, incorrectly, that Vivian Zhang is an Adjunct Professor at NYU. She is currently an adjunct with Stony Brook University, but not NYU.
