Last week was the sixth time the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide Conference welcomed participants to Stanford University’s campus.The hybrid event was the seventh WiDS event since the con

Several industries are seeing an influx of women participants and stakeholders doing transformational work, perhaps none more so than technology. It’s in the spirit of highlighting and promoting this paradigm shift that the Women in Data Science initiative exists.“I love the camaraderie and the community of Women in Data Science; it’s amazing,” said Nandi Leslie (pictured), senior engineering fellow at Raytheon Technologies Corp. Nandi’s role at Raytheon includes thinking about the most challenging customer problems, primarily at the intersection of data science and applied mathematics, machine learning and cybersecurity