International Women Day (IWD) 2025 @Pace University, New York

Redefine Possible

April 25th, 2025, 10 am to 4 pm

Pace University Seidenberg School of CSIS, Pace AI Lab, GDG on Campus @ Pace University and Pace University Data Science Club

Location

• Pace University, Seidenberg School of CSIS, NYC Design Factory, 15 Beekman, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10038

Registration

Register here

Agenda

Available here

Speakers

Organizers

Dr. Christelle Scharff, Katie Todd, Lauren DeMaio, Audrey Louie, Jennifer Garcia, Stephanie Sicilian, Rohan Niranjan Lalpavruksha, Ryia Golani, Arpit Shah, Kseniya Liavitskaya, Tejomay Kapdia, Roshan Niranjan Lalpavruksha

Presentations

• Introduction Dr. Christelle Scharff
• RAG & Roll! A backstage look at grounding LLMs with your data, Mariem Ayadi, Customer Engineering AI/M, Google Cloud, Google
• Impact of AI on Workforce and Community: Insights to benefit. Shivika Arora, Executive Director, EPiX Global Tech. & GDG NYC
• Navigating Executive Leadership as a Woman. Anjana Nandi, Director of Partnerships, Google, and Renee Li, Partner Engineering Lead, Google
• Opportunitas, AI, & You. Lolita Tiwari, Strategic Partner Manager, Google Maps, Google

Hackathon

• Judges: Dr. Kaleema (Pace University), Lolita Tiwari (Google), Sarah Lin (UniUni), John Lynn (QUAY), Garima Mandal (Pace University), Dr. Krishna Bathula (Pace University)

• Hackathon Projects

  • MindMate. Drashti Sanghani, Vrutika Prajapati (1st prize)
  • Kai. Burhan Latief Dar, Saranya Attaluri, Neelima Verma (2nd prize)
  • AutoMate. Gavin Gapara, Donald Fata (3rd prize)
  • VD Legal Assistant. Karan Sandesh Yadav, Rushabh Rajesh Makwana, Anish Krishnakant Ayare
  • CareerGenie. Prince Gupta, Avantika Agrawal
  • VoyaGenie. Negar Kamvij, Dhwani Dobariya
  • Tech Career Coach. Tanay Patil, Aakash Jadhav
  • Rosa. Clive Lewis, Dhruv Joshi, Shikha Sharma
  • Soma.ai. Parth Soni

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Social Media

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