My talk at Digital Women 2017 - University of Tor Vergata

1. I am Fabiana
Full Stack Data Scientist
Member of Digital Team

2. —
Mission
Make public services
for citizens and businesses
accessible in an easy manner,
via a mobile first approach,
with reliable, scalable and
fault tolerant architectures,
based on clearly defined APIs.

3. Our Major Projects
ANPR
SPID
Pago PA
DAF
CAD
Three-year Plan
Designers Italia
Developers Itala

4. What people think we look like

5. What really we look like

6. Who we are
71 %
29 %

7. How many IT experts
88 %
12 %

8. My story
2006 - 2010
B.S in Computer
Science
2010 - 2012
M.S in Computer
Science
2012-2016
Co-Founder of
DataToKnowledge
2015
Research
Intern at
UIUC
2013 - 2017
Ph.D. in CS
2016
Big Data
Architect
2017
Data Scientist

9. Who I am

10. Who I am not

11. Who I am not
Codemotion 2014 ≈ 1500
software developers

12. Who I am not
HackInBo 2017 ≈ 500 cyber security
experts

13. Is the IT field so bad?
Sometimes no:
- Opportunity to work with heterogeneous teams
- Differences improve team’s performance
- Intellectually stimulating
- Be part of most promising disruptive scientific paradigm
- Always cleaned and private restrooms :-)
Other times yes:
- Prove to be the best and you will be considered as the
average

14. BE BRAVE