Kate Kolich + Mary-Ellen Gordon: WiDS 2019 (9th March, Wellington)

We had a brief chat with Kate Kolich and Mary-Ellen Gordon, the co-organisers of WiDS Wellington (Women In Data Science) being held at Wellington’s Victoria University on Saturday 9th March.They take us through the global event, the Wellington one, and what everyone can expect when they come along: https://data.sim.vuw.ac.nz/widsw2019/register/We will be recording a few podcasts in the run up to the conference as well as being there on the day itself.- https://data.sim.vuw.ac.nz/widsw2019/- https://data.sim.vuw.ac.nz/widsw2019/speakers/- https://www.widsconference.org/The 2019 speakers include the following (all of which we will have podcast chats with before and during the conference):- Agate Ponder-Sutton- Amanda Hughes- Dame Diane Robertson- Donna Cormack- Emma Vitz- Ernestynne Walsh- Kari Jones- Kat Greenbrook- Kate Kolich- Kathryn Hempstalk- Liz MacPherson- Louise Barber (Ngapuhi, Ngati Hine)- Nasca Peng- Dr Sally (Ake) Nicholas- Vidette McGregor------------------------------------------------------New Zealand tech, media, & startup podcast hosted by Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Vivian Chandra, and others. Hosts of #TechweekTV and #WellyTechAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nz Follow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZ https://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZ https://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcast Subscribe to the show however you want:https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/Buy the AG merch:https://www.accessgranted.nz/shop/