We are looking forward to the next WiMIR session at ISMIR conference in Suzhou, kindly organized by our WiMIR co-chairs:
![]() Jin Ha Lee University of Washington, USA |
![]() Preeti Rao Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India |
![]() Zhongzhe Xiao Soochow University, Mainland China |
The WiMIR meeting will take place in October 24th from 13:20 to 14:20, according to the program. There will also be a WiMIR reception at 18:00.
For this year’s WiMIR session, we will begin with a brief overview of the group, recognition of WiMIR sponsors, and report on disbursement of WiMIR funding. We will then summarise and discuss various initiatives that happened in the previous year. This will be followed by the talk by Shawn Carney, Director of IT at Spotify, titled Bye Bye Bias: Promoting Diverse Teams.
Finally, we will wrap up the session with Q&A with Shawn Carney, and discussion of ideas for new initiatives to further support women in the field. More information is available at the ISMIR 2017 web page.
We thank the generous WiMIR sponsors of ISMIR2017: