TEDxUWMadison

Introducing our event's first speaker, Kunal Khadilkar.

Kunal is a Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University, pursuing a Masters degree in Computational Data Science. His interests lie in data science, machine learning, AI, and how it can be used to make the world a better place.

He is actively involved in the AI community and in the past has worked with Adobe, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and IBM on large-scale machine learning initiatives. Kunal was one of the select few to represent India at the inaugural India-Singapore AI for Social Good Hackathon, and his work was recognized by both the Governments of India and Singapore.

Kunal has always been passionate about using “AI for Social Good” and has had experiences participating, speaking, and judging in hackathons and conferences around the world. Last year, he was selected as one of the 'Rising Stars of Social Impact' by Harvard's CRCS Rising Stars Workshop and won the best poster award, for his research efforts in this area. His most recent work on uncovering gender bias and colorism in movie industries has received widespread media attention that include Vice, Pittsburgh NPR (WESA), The Hindu, Times of India and Government of India's AI portal, among others.

2020 has been a very different year and we think it's time to take a moment and reflect on what we all have gone through. This year's conference is focused on highlighting the voices of those battling the ongoing COVID-19 crisis as well as racial injustices. For the first time, we are going virtual meaning that our ideas are truly boundless and we hope to impact all of you, no matter where you are. April 16th 11-12:30, 2-3:30

Register: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hKaxolm5RKmSFr_fH5Cy6g

Joining us this year to speak on COVID-19:
Dr. Grace Flood
Dr. Hart E Posen
Dr. Dietram A. Scheufele

Joining us to speak on racial injustice:
M. Adams
Emilie Songolo
Kunal Khadilka

Hi everyone! Our upcoming 2021 event will be held virtually in late February - early March! Here is the speaker nomination form, if you or someone you know doing some cool things that you'd like to talk about!

Speaker Nomination Form for TedxUWMadison 2021 Welcome! If you are interested in either speaking, or nominating someone to speak at our next event in March 2021, please fill out this form.

Hello followers! We would like to introduce our seventh speaker, Christina Olstad.

Christina Olstad joined UW-Madison as the Dean of Students in July 2019. Dean Olstad has nearly twenty years of experience in higher education administration. She received undergraduate and master’s degrees in social work from Augsburg University and an Ed.D. in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Vermont.

Prior to joining UW-Madison, Dean Olstad served as Interim Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs, Housing & Residence Life at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. She’s also held positions at Augsburg University, the University of New England, the University of Vermont, and Semester at Sea.