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Hyatt Regency Chicago

Join us in Chicago this September to connect, learn, and celebrate the success of our data science community at the very first posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)! This year we are expanding more learning and collaboration opportunities with the Python community in an effort to bring together R and Python users.

Whether you’re a dedicated open source user or one of the many individuals and teams who use Posit professional products, join us at posit::conf(2023) at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago from Sunday, September 17th to Wednesday, September 20th to sharpen your skills and meet your fellow data scientists. We’ll have an exciting array of workshops, an inspiring lineup of keynote speakers, and ample opportunities to learn from each other.

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WHY POSIT::CONF?

Grow your skills and expand your network

"It’s been really cool to see people from other industries and what they’re capable of and what they’ve been doing. Being able to learn that and take it back to where we’ve come from is very valuable."

Ethan Meldrum

Y2 Analytics

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2023 Keynotes

We are thrilled to announce our first three keynotes. These speakers all have deep expertise in data science and we're excited to learn from their diverse perspectives.
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Kara Woo

Senior Data Science Engineer at Insight RX

Kara Woo is a senior data science engineer at InsightRX where she develops software in R for precision medicine. She loves bringing order to messy data, derives twisted enjoyment from debugging CI pipelines, and takes it as a personal affirmation when testthat says "You rock!" Kara is involved in the R-Ladies and rOpenSci communities and shares her love of R through teaching and workshops.

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JD Long

VP Risk Management, RenaissanceRe

JD Long has been an active user of open source analytical tools in industry for many years. His advocacy for open source started the first time he asked, in 2002, "surely there's open source software for doing a logistic regression, right?" Twenty years later he's packed a lot of financial services industry experience under his belt, including over 13 years in risk management at a global reinsurance firm. JD uses R, Python, JupyterLab, RStudio, a host of AWS tooling and many colorful metaphors.

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Jeremy Howard

Founding Researcher at fast.ai

Jeremy Howard is a renowned data scientist, entrepreneur, and deep learning researcher who is a founding researcher at fast.ai, the popular R&D and teaching lab, and is Hon Professor in AI at the University of Queensland. Previously he built a number of successful startups, including as the founding CEO of Enlitic and founding President at Kaggle. He is the lead developer of a number of widely used open source libraries, including fastai, fastcore, nbdev, and ghapi.

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Workshops

For posit::conf(2023), we have an array of workshops that will feature hands-on exercises, discussions, and Q&A. You’ll also have an opportunity to meet, share and collaborate with other conference attendees with similar interests. This year, for the first time, we’re offering a mix of one and two-day workshops so that with your two-day workshop pass, you can choose to go deep into a single topic or spread your time across two topics.

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TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY

CONFERENCE

Four conference tracks will highlight exciting work across the R, PyData, & Posit landscape in two exciting days. You’ll hear from some of the most thoughtful practitioners and effective speakers in science, industry, and technology.

Talks will be live-streamed for those who can’t join in person, and we’ll post recordings a few weeks after the conference, so you can review anything you missed. A full list of speakers and a complete agenda will be available in early August.

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Workshop Spotlights

From intro to advanced, our workshops have something for everyone.

Data Science Workshops for Beginners

If you're just starting off with R or Python and interested in a new approach to learning, consider the Posit Academy program – a six-week program to level up your data science training. Posit Academy will offer in-person sessions during training days!

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All Things Shiny

Whether you’re a Shiny expert or just getting started, we have a variety of shiny workshops, from intro to Shiny (in R or Python!) to Shiny in production to advanced user interfaces.

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Take your Modeling to the next level

If you want to improve your modeling skills, we have Intro to tidymodels, advanced tidymodels, forecasting, deploying models in production, and machine learning & deep learning with Python.

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Featured Workshops

Learn from the industry experts leading innovation in data science

Hear directly from our conf(2023) workshop instructors on why you should attend, what you will learn, and what to expect from these featured workshops.
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Shiny Dashboards

Colin Rundel

In this workshop, we will explore the interesting variety of ways you can use Shiny.

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Web Design for Shiny Developers

Maya Gans and David Granjon

This course will walk you through the entire website design process, from ideation to execution.

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Advanced tidymodels

Max Kuhn

Learn more about model optimization using the tune and finetune packages, including racing and iterative methods.

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Advanced Quarto with R and RStudio

Andrew Bray

The focus for this workshop will be on projects that weave together multiple documents and allow you to write books and build websites.

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Big Data with Arrow in R

Nic Crane and Stephanie Hazlitt

Learn how to use Apache Arrow, a multi-language toolbox for working with larger-than-memory tabular data, to create seamless “big” data analysis pipelines with R.

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Community

Find your Flock

Chat with others at The Lounge and various Birds of a Feather activities throughout the event.
One of the best parts of posit::conf is the people you meet. Birds of a Feather and The Lounge offer you opportunities to connect with others working on similar problems, in the same fields, and with similar tools. And, of course, we'll have all the hexagonally shaped stickers you could ask for!
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"At our last conference, over 100 educators met up during lunch to connect and exchange ideas on teaching (with) R. One of my best memories of the conference is commiserating and reveling about our shared experiences. I look forward to doing the same next year in Chicago."

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Not able to attend in person?

We want to include as many folks as possible, so there will be a virtual option as well!

All keynotes and talks will be live-streamed online, you’ll be able to ask questions alongside in-person participants, and we’re working on ways to connect you with other attendees virtually. Recordings of the keynotes and talks will be available on the Posit website a few weeks after the close of the conference.

Virtual registration will be open on our event website soon. Stay tuned for updates!

Hyatt Regency Chicago

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Posit::Conf(2023)

Sessions and Pricing

Groups of 5 or more receive 10% off of full-priced conference registrations. Those from not-for-profit and government organizations qualify for 20% off. Full refund available until June 30th, 2023. Conference and Workshop bundle does not provide a discount.
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$1,699

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$699

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$999

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$2,799

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$1,199

Workshop and conference pricing for the first 120 seats or until March 31st, 2023

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$3,099

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$1,499

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$1,599

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If you have questions or need more details about attending posit::conf(2023) email us at conf@posit.co for more details.

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