🎤 We’re excited to welcome Merel Theisen to WiDS Belgium 2025! 📅 26 September 2025 📍 VIB, Ghent Merel is a Principal Software Engineer at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, and the tech lead of Kedro, an open-source framework for building maintainable AI pipelines, now part of the Linux Foundation. With over 8 years of experience in backend and product engineering, Merel is a champion for robust, well-tested software and a passionate advocate for the open-source community. Her talk, “Kedro: an open-source framework for building maintainable AI pipelines”, will explore how clean architecture, reusability, and solid engineering principles can transform the way we build production-ready ML workflows. 💡 Whether you're an ML engineer, data scientist, or just open-source curious—this one's for you. #WiDS #WiDSBelgium #WiDS2025 #WomeninDataScience #MLOps #Kedro #OpenSource #WomenInSTEM #QuantumBlack
