Sponsored Events and Activities

DSI’s flagship annual event is Data Science Day. The event showcases research through lightning talks, live demonstrations, and posters. Highlights have included keynote addresses by Alondra Nelson, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Sriram Raghavan, Vice President, IBM Research AI; Pat Bajari, Chief Economist and Vice President, Amazon Core AI; Eric Schmidt, Former Google Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Schmidt Futures; Brad Smith, President of Microsoft; Diane Greene, CEO, Google Cloud; Alfred Spector, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Engineering at Two Sigma; and Dan Doctoroff, CEO, Sidewalk Labs.

DSI also has several seminar series: Data for Good Seminars, Distinguished Speaker Seminars, Poster Sessions, and iCubed (Institute, Industry, Innovation) Seminars. The recently established Race and Data Science Lecture Series, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation and New America, spotlights and advances research at the intersection of race and data.