WiMIR Workshop

The WIMIR Workshop is an annual event accompanying the ISMIR conference. The goal of the WiMIR Workshop is to provide a venue for mentorship, networking, and collaboration among women and allies in the ISMIR community.

WiMIR 5th Annual Workshop

The WiMIR 5th Annual Workshop will take place in an entirely virtual format as a series of sessions and discussions before the ISMIR2022 virtual conference.  The Workshop is free and open to ALL members of the MIR community – you can sign up and read about the presenters here.  Our dates are:

• Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 November

The WiMIR 5th Annual Workshop is brought to you by:

• Courtney Reed, Queen Mary
• Iris Ren, Utrecht University
• Kitty Shi, Stanford University
• Jordan B. L. Smith, Tiktok

WiMIR 4th Annual Workshop

The WiMIR 4th Annual Workshop took place in an entirely virtual format as a series of sessions and discussions before the ISMIR2021 virtual conference.  The Workshop is free and open to ALL members of the MIR community – you can sign up and read about the presenters here.  Our dates are:

• 29-30 October 2021

The WiMIR 4th Annual Workshop is brought to you by:

• Courtney Reed, Queen Mary
• Kitty Shi, Stanford University
• Jordan B. L. Smith, ByteDance
• Thor Kell, Spotify
• Blair Kaneshiro, Stanford University

WiMIR 3rd Annual Workshop

The WiMIR 3rd Annual Workshop took place in an entirely virtual format as a series of sessions and discussions over the weeks leading up to the ISMIR2020 virtual conference.  The Workshop is free and open to ALL members of the MIR community.  Our dates are:

• 22 August 2020
• 5 September 2020
• 19 September 2020
• 3 October 2020

You can view a list of our speakers here, and you can register here: https://bit.ly/WiMIRWorkshop2020!

The WiMIR 3rd Annual Workshop is brought to you by:

• Blair Kaneshiro, Stanford University
• Katherine M. Kinnaird, Smith College
• Jordan B. L. Smith, ByteDance
• Thor Kell, Spotify

WiMIR 3rd Annual Workshop Volunteers: Jay Appaji, Phoebe Chua, Elena Georgieva, Rui Guo, Kyungyun Lee, Alia Morsi, Elona Shatri

WiMIR 2nd Annual Workshop

The WiMIR 2nd Annual Workshop took place on Sunday, 3rd November 2019 in Delft as a satellite event of ISMIR2019! This year we are expanding our focus on small-group projects led by top researchers in the field. The Workshop is free and open to ALL members of the MIR community.

• Registration is now closed for 2019, but you can still click to view the roster of 2019 Project Guides and their topics!

The WiMIR 2nd Annual Workshop is made possible by generous support from Pandora and Spotify.

WiMIR 1st Annual Workshop

We ran a successful workshop at ISMIR 2018 in Paris!  You can read about it in these posts:

• WiMIR Workshop 2018: Success!
• WiMIR Workshop 2018 Project Guides
• WiMIR 1st Annual Workshop

You can also read every post about the workshop here.

The goal of this event was to provide a venue for mentorship, networking, and collaboration among women and allies in the ISMIR community, while also highlighting technical work by women in MIR in different stages of completion.  The Workshop was free and open to ALL members of the MIR community.

WiMIR Workshop Organizers

• Blair Kaneshiro, Stanford University
• Katherine M. Kinnaird, Smith College
• Eric Humphrey, Spotify
• Thor Kell, Spotify

We are grateful to Spotify for sponsoring the WiMIR 1st Annual Workshop!