Conferences & public speaking

Talks

Conferences I've helped run, talks I've given, and competitions I've won.

Conference & event organisation 5 editions
2024
PyData Amsterdam· co-chair
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2023
PyData Amsterdam· co-chair
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2021
PyData Global· co-chair
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2020
PyData Festival· co-chair
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2019
PyData Amsterdam· co-chair
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Now involved in an advisory role (2025–present).

Competitions selection
2021
Data-Centric AI Competition· winner, "Most Innovative" · deeplearning.ai
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2017
Kaggle Data Science Bowl· 3rd, lung cancer detection (Aidence)
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Talks selection · 16
2025
Help! There Are Humans in My Data!· PyData Amsterdam
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2024
Interview w/ Guido van Rossum· interviewer, PyData Festival
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2024
Amsterdam AI Impact Festival· panelist
2024
Introduction to Data Storytelling· tutorial, PyLadiesCon
2024
How to build a Large Language Model from scratch· Women in Data
2024
Data For Social Good· PyData Amsterdam
2023
Data Storytelling through Visualization· PyData London, Global, Eindhoven
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2022
Tech Talk 101· PyData Global — Impact Scholarship Programme
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2022
The Why of Data-Centric AI· PyData London
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2021
Serious Time for Time Series· PyCon US, PyData Berlin, AMLD
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2022
Unpacking the "Black Box": How to Interpret your Machine Learning Model· Applied Machine Learning Days
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2021
Data-centric AI competition· NeurIPS
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2019
Equivariance in CNNs· PyData Berlin / PyCon DE
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2019
An Alternative to Data Augmentation· PyData Amsterdam
2019
Data-efficiency in Medical AI· PyData Amsterdam (meetup)
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2019
Towards learning with limited labels: Equivariance, Invariance, and Beyond· ICML
PyData Amsterdam committee in the conference ballpit, 2019

PyData Amsterdam committee at the 2019 conference in the conference ballpit!