>>live from Stanford University. It's the queue covering Stanford women in data Science 2020. Brought to you by Silicon Angle Media. >>Hi, and welcome to the Cube. I'm your host, Sonia today, Ari. And we're live at Stanford University covering wigs, Women in Data Science Conference 2020 And this is the fifth annual one. Joining us today is John Hoegger, who is the principal data scientist manager at Microsoft. John. Welcome to the Cube. Thanks. So tell us a little bit about your role at Microsoft. >>I manage a central data science team for myself. 3 65 >>And tell us more about what you do on a daily basis. >>Yeah, so we look at it across all the different myself. 365 products Office Windows security products has really try and drive growth, whether it's trying to provide recommendations to customers to end uses to drive more engagement with the products that they use every day. >>And you're also on the Weeds Conference Planning Committee. So tell us about how you joined and how that experience has been like, >>Yeah, actually, I was at Stanford about a week after the very first conference on. I got talking to Karen, one of this co organizers of that that conference and I found out there was only one sponsor very first year, which was WalMart Labs >>on. >>The more that she talked about it, the more that I wanted to be involved on. I thought that makes it really should be a sponsor, this initiative. And so I got details. I went back and my assessment sponsor. Ever since I've been on the committee trying it help with. I didn't find speakers on and review and the different speakers that we have each year. And it's it's amazing just to see how this event has grown over the four years. >>Yeah, that's awesome. So when you first started, how many people attended in the beginning? >>So it started off as we're in this conference with 400 people and just a few other regional events, and so was live streamed but just ready to a few universities. And ever since then it's gone with the words ambassadors and people around the world. >>Yes, and outwits has is over 60 countries on every continent except Antarctica has told them in the Kino a swell as has 400 plus attendees here and his life stream. So how do you think would has evolved over the years? >>Uh, it's it's term from just a conference to a movement. Now it's Ah, there's all these new Our regional events have been set up every year and just people coming together, I'm working together. So, Mike, self hosting different events. We had events in Redmond. I had office and also in New York and Boston and other places as well. >>So as a as a data scientist manager for many years at Microsoft, I'm I'm sure you've seen it increase in women taking technical roles. Tell us a little bit about that. >>Yeah, And for any sort of company you have to try and provide that environment. And part of that is even from recruiting and ensuring that you've got a diverse into s. So we make sure that we have women on every set of interviews to be able to really answer the question. What's it like to be a woman on this team and your old men contents of that question on? So you know that helps as faras we try, encourage more were parented some of these things demos on. I've now got a team of 30 data scientists, and half of them are women, which is great. >>That's also, um So, uh, um, what advice would you give to young professional women who are just coming out of college or who just starting college or interested in a stem field? But maybe think, Oh, I don't know if they'll be anyone like me in the room. >>Uh, you ask the questions when you interview I go for those interviews and asked, like Like, say, What's it like to be a woman on the team? All right. You're really ensuring that the teams that you're joining the companies you joined in a inclusive on and really value diversity in the workforce >>and talking about that as we heard in the opening address that diversity brings more perspectives, and it also helps take away bias from data science. How have you noticed that that bias becoming more fair, especially at your time at Microsoft? >>Yeah, and that's what the rest is about. Is just having those diverse set of perspectives on opinions in heaven. More people just looking like a data and thinking through your holiday to come. Views on and ensure has been used in the right way. >>Right. Um and so, um, what do you going forward? Do you plan to still be on the woods committee? What do you see with is going how DC woods in five years? >>Ah, yeah. I live in for this conference I've been on the committee on. I just expected to continue to grow. I think it's just going right beyond a conference. Dossevi in the podcasts on all the other initiatives that occurring from that. >>Great. >>John, Thank you so much for being on the Cube. It was great having >>you here. Thank you. >>Thanks for watching the Cube. I'm your host, Sonia, to worry and stay tuned for more. Yeah.