Gabriela de Queiroz is a Data and AI Developer Advocate at IBM CODAIT. She is the founder of R-Ladies (Global), a worldwide organization for promoting diversity in the R community with more than 100 chapters in 35+ countries. She runs the R-Ladies San Francisco chapter and serves on the ISC committee with the R Consortium. She has worked at several startups, where she built teams, developed statistical models, and employed a variety of techniques to derive insights and drive data-centric decisions.