The Fisher Center Summit

Berkeley World Business Analytics Awards

October 24th, 2022

at Spieker Forum, Chou Hall, UC Berkeley

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The Fisher Center Summit
& Berkeley World Business Analytics Awards 2022

Since 2017, the Fisher Center has been awarding the Woman of the Year, Project of the Year, and CIO of the Year annually. The Berkeley World Business Analytics Awards celebrate impactful, ethical, and humane analytics work by recognizing women in applied business analytics, projects that impact social and environmental issues, and innovative work by young professionals. Diversity is imperative to business analytics and AI. We encourage nominations and applications from individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ and across different identities of race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and ability.

This year’s theme is: The keys to Inclusive and sustainable analytics: How technology, leadership, and innovative ways to run projects can promote inclusive and sustainable analytics and support better, fairer data. How can we foster inclusion and sustainability with actions that have a direct and immediate impact?

The summit and award ceremony will be held online and in-person at Spieker Forum (Chou Hall, 6th Floor) at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, 8:30am-2:00pm

*** SPECIAL ADDITION ***
Join us for a special afternoon Berkeley-Ukraine Conference, bringing together Ukrainian officials and entrepreneurs with Haas faculty and fellows to present how transformation challenges can be tackled with impact.
2:00pm-6:00pm
More information here

Program Overview


8:30am	8:35am	Welcome Keynote	Gauthier Vasseur (Executive Director at Fisher Center for Business Analytics)
8:35am	8:45am	State of Business Analytics	Zsolt Katona (Faculty Director at Fisher Center for Business Analytics)
		Session #1: Initiative to Transform Society
8:45am	9:00am	Data-Driven Government	Joy Bonaguro (Chief Data Scientist at State of California)
9:00am	9:15am	Government Transparency	Vazyl Zadvornyy (CEO at Prozorro – Ukraine)
9:15am	9:30am	AI and Ethics: The perils and opportunity of synthetized content and deep fakes	Anna Bulakh (Ethics & Partnerships at Respeecher)
9:30am	9:45am	IT Research in the Interest of Society	Camille Crittenden (Executive Director at CITRIS & the Banatao Institute)
9:45am	10:00am	Break
		Session #2: Solution to Empower People
10:00am	10:15am	Working Ahead of Recruitment With Training	Juliana Plexxo (Artist – AR Artist)
10:15am	10:30am	A Story About The Opportunity of Data	Nolwenn Godard (Co-President at AIAI) & Fiona Ly (High School Student)
10:30am	10:45am	Empowering Teams on a Continent Level	Safietou Sonko (Head of Digitial Projects at Orange MEA) & Karine Doret (Customer eXperience & Digital Director at Orange MEA)
10:45am	11:00am	Break
		Session #3: Projects to Change the World
11:00am	11:15am	Measuring CO2 Emissions	Rachel Delacour (CEO and Co-Founer at Sweep)
11:15am	11:30am	Design Thinking to Think Differently About Tech	Dave Rochlin (Executive Director at Tech For Good)
11:30am	12:10am	The Future of No-Code BI and AI: Focus on Business, Not Code and Scripting	Marie Gombert (Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford Data Institute), Deepa Sankar (VP Product Marketing at Pyramid Analytics) and Ardith Daly (Academic Program Specialist at Dataiku)
12:10pm	12:25pm	Closing Keynote: Data for Freedom: How Data is Strategic for Post War Development	Natalia Denikeieva (Minister of Digital Transformation – Ukraine)
12:30pm	2:00pm	Berkeley World Analytics Business Awards Luncheon
2:00pm	6:00pm	Berkeley-Ukraine Conference
6:00pm	8:00pm	Cocktail Reception

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The Woman of the Year Award

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Project of the Year Award

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Young Talent of the Year Award

Eligibility criteria

She is a woman
She is working in the field of applied business analytics
She is leading one or several projects in applied business analytics
She is involved in inclusion and empowerment
She is chosen by the Nomination Committee

Project of the Year criteria

The project is innovative
The project addresses social and/or environmental issues to anticipate and minimize risks through the use of technology
The project is inclusive

Young Talent criteria

The applicant is less than 30 years old
The applicant is involved in one or several projects in applied business analytics

Application Process & Dates

All laureates and projects will have to demonstrate the values of relevant, ethical, impactful, and humane analytics.

Familiarize yourself with the eligibility criteria for each award.
Submit your nomination by filling out the form below.
Apply before October 7th, 2022.
A member of our team will be in contact with you or the person you are nominating.

Applications will be reviewed by the committee. After October 7th, the eligible applications will be shared with the jury to be evaluated. The results will be announced to recipients prior to the ceremony.

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