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Asunto: 	[Enog] Announcing the EURO WISDOM Forum and Webinar on 
Bias/Fairness and Artificial Intelligence 20th April 2020, 15.00 (UTC+1)
Resent-Date: 	Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:34:00 +0200
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Fecha: 	Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:02:16 +0100
De: 	Sarah Fores <office at euro-online.org>
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Para: 	ewg at euro-online.org
CC: 	Tatiana Cordeiro <tatiana at ua.pt>



Dear Working Groups,

I would be grateful if you could disseminate the following information to
your members. With best wishes.

Sarah

Following the EURO 2018 Women in Science and EURO 2019 Women in OR
sessions, interested members of the OR community are working with the EURO
Executive Committee on an initiative to create the EURO WISDOM Forum (Women
In Society: Doing Operational Research and Management Science).

This initiative restates the need for gender main-streaming and affirms
that OR/MS can offer exciting opportunities for all women if they have
equal access to resources and adequate training. Gender main-streaming aims
to integrate a gender dimension into existing institutions and practices in
order to achieve meaningful gender equality.

WISDOM is a forum to support, empower, and encourage the participation 
of all
genders in OR/MS within EURO. In particular, it aims to promote inclusivity
by the following actions:
1. Advise/make recommendations/highlight best practices to the EURO
executive on issues facing women in OR. Such guidelines can be disseminated
to EURO member societies and Working Groups. Positive progress, outcomes
and activities of member societies can serve as a template for other member
societies;
2. Promote championing, networking and mentoring, particularly of women at
the early stages of their career in OR;
3. Promote a conversation around how OR can be utilised to help create a
diverse and inclusive future.

In January 2020, all EURO member societies were invited to nominate one or
two members
to participate in establishing the EURO WISDOM Forum. At the moment, the
WISDOM Forum
organising committee (OC) includes 21 members from 10 European OR societies
including two EURO representatives, the EURO Vice Presidents Julia Bennell
and Claudia Archetti. The chair of the WISDOM OC is Paula Carroll and the
Secretary is Annunziata Esposito Amideo, both from the University College
Dublin, Ireland.
The WISDOM Forum will operate through three subcommittees focusing on
Research, Events and Public Relations (PR). The subcommittees chairs are:
Research : Paula Carroll, Events :
Renata Mansini (University of Brescia ,Italy), and PR: Tatiana Tchemisova
(University of Aveiro, Portugal).

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Our first event is a webinar on “Bias/Fairness and Artificial Intelligence”.
You can register for the webinar and subscribe to WISDOM Forum updates by
emailing WISDOM at euro-online.org.

Webinar Format
* Expert panellists explains data bias in their respective disciplines and
application areas (~10/15 minutes each);
* Roundtable discussion with audience participation (~15 minutes).

Panellists

Prof Alan Smeaton is Professor of Computing at Dublin City University,
Ireland and a Founding Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at
DCU. He will speak on Data bias in automatic image and video captioning and
its impact. For more information about Alan see
https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~asmeaton/

Dr Claire Gormley is an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics
and Statistics in University College Dublin, Ireland and a Funded
Investigator in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the VistaMilk
research centre. Her research develops novel statistical methods for the
analysis of complex data arising from substantive problems. The methods
solve applied problems across a range of disciplines, including
epigenetics, metabolomics, genomics, social science, sports science and
political science. She will speak on Be fair to the models: the importance
of assumptions in data analytics and modelling. For more information about
Claire see https://people.ucd.ie/claire.gormley;

Dr Fintan Costello, is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer
Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests cover a
number of different areas in computer science, psychology and maths. His
main interests are: biases in human reasoning and decision making;
processes of rational inference in cognition; the origins of bias and
rationality in human thought; computational models of probabilistic
reasoning; computational models of decision making. He will speak on Bias
and rationality in human reasoning (and why the same biases apply to AI).
For more information about Fintan see https://people.ucd.ie/fintan.costello.

Dr Susan Leavy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and
Communication Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland with research
interests in artificial intelligence and digital policy, developing
interdisciplinary frameworks for the governance and regulation of machine
learning algorithms. She will speak on Gender bias and Artificial
Intelligence. For more information about Susan see
https://people.ucd.ie/susan.leavy

Facilitator
Dr Paula Carroll, UCD, Chair WISDOM Forum



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Dr Sarah Fores, FORS
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