A polyglot community of innovators and transformers

Jonathan is a software architect at Posit Software, PBC, working primarily on the Positron IDE. In the past he’s worked on the RStudio IDE at Posit, Office at Microsoft, and web applications at a nuclear site in the desert. Learn more on his website, Twitter, Linked In, GitHub, and BlueSky.

Cat Hicks is a psychologist for software teams and defender of the mismeasured. She is the author of the Developer Thriving framework, the AI Skill Threat framework, and the VP of Research at Pluralsight. Cat is the founder of the Developer Success Lab, an open science research lab that creates industry-changing empirical evidence about how organizations and individuals can achieve sustainable, resilient innovation in technology and create more wellbeing for technologists. Cat is also the founder of Catharsis Consulting, a scientific consultancy that connects organizations to human-centered evidence strategies. Cat holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Experimental Psychology from UC San Diego, serves on the Advisory Council of the University of San Diego Center for Digital Civil Society, and is the author of a forthcoming book on the psychology of software teams. Learn more on her website.

Kieran Healy teaches at Duke University, where he is Professor of Sociology. He studies the moral order exchange in market societies, the effect of measurement on social classification, and the links between these two topics. His most recent book, The Ordinal Society (co-authored with Marion Fourcade), is about how the widespread availability of social data is transforming how the world is organized. He is also the author of Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (Data Visualization); Last Best Gifts, a book about exchange in human blood and organs; and numerous articles across the social sciences and philosophy. He has been using R since it was a different letter. His website, kieranhealy.org, has more than twenty years of public writing on these and other topics.

Hadley is Chief Scientist at Posit PBC, winner of the 2019 COPSS award, and a member of the R Foundation. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (like the tidyverse, which includes ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr)and principled software development (e.g. roxygen2, testthat, and pkgdown). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science. Learn more on his website.

Joe Cheng is the Chief Technology Officer at Posit PBC, and the original creator of Shiny. He joined RStudio in 2009 to help create the RStudio IDE, and along the way created many web-related R packages, including htmltools, httpuv, promises, and shinymeta. He lives in the suburbs of Seattle, Washington with his wife Amy, three teenage sons, two Mazdas, and numerous bicycles.

Alex Chisholm is a data professional turned product manager. His current focus is on Posit Connect Cloud, a new online publishing platform for data applications and documents. Prior to joining Posit, Alex lived in Amsterdam, NL where he worked for an online travel startup and an education insights company.

Becca Krouse is a data scientist in GSK’s Data Science Innovation and Engineering team where she focuses on enabling users across Biostatistics. A biostatistician by training, she has experience spanning 15 years in the field of clinical research and specializes in developing R-based tools.

Cari earned her M.S. in data science from the University of British Columbia in 2020. She currently works as a data scientist at Sonoma Technology, where she addresses wide-ranging questions related to air quality. She enjoys the transformation of raw pollutant monitoring data into useful insights through effective data visualization.

Chetan will be giving a talk called: Get the Latest on Posit’s Commercial Products

Chris is a Sr. Data and AI Operations Manager at Gen Re, where he leads a dynamic team comprising architects, engineers, data scientists, and full-stack developers. Together, they are dedicated to creating and implementing innovative data science and AI solutions. Additionally, Chris has been instrumental in organizing regular meet-ups for enthusiasts of R programming and AI development. He enjoys spending time with his two boys and watching them play baseball and soccer.

Doug will be teaching a workshop on Deploying reproducible analytics environments for regulated use cases.

Greg Headley is a Sr. Partner Development Manager at AWS, helping AI/ML and GenAI partners drive business growth and adoption of next-generation AI solutions.

James Black, Executive Director at Novartis is business lead for the development of the next generation Scientific Computing Environment, as a member of Technology & Scientific Computing in Advanced Quantitative Sciences.

Luis D. Verde Arregoitia is a biodiversity scientist at Instituto de Ecología AC (INECOL) in Xalapa, Mexico. In addition to his research on small mammals, he spends time writing tools, blog posts, and teaching materials. Most of his open source work aims to help others work with messy data and spreadsheets and also improve their code for reproducibility. Luis participates in various R communities in Latin America such as the LatinR meetings, RLadies, translation initiatives, and the rOpenSci Champions program.

Wes McKinney is an as an open source software developer and entrepreneur focusing on data processing tools and systems. He created the Python pandas and Ibis projects, co-created Apache Arrow, and co-founded Voltron Data. He is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation and also a project PMC member for Apache Parquet. He is currently a Principal Architect at Posit PBC where he works on Positron and other Python-related initiatives.