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September 17th - September 20th
Workshops 2 Days | Conference 2 Days
Hyatt Regency Chicago

Join us this week in Chicago or virtually 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 in-person or virtually to sharpen your skills and meet your fellow data scientists. We have an exciting and inspiring schedule of workshops, keynote speakers, community activities, 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

2023 Keynotes

We are thrilled to have you attend our keynotes. These speakers all have deep expertise in data science and we're excited to learn from their diverse perspectives.
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Elaine McVey

Senior Director of Analytics at Chief

Elaine McVey is the Senior Director of Analytics at Chief, a private network for female executives. She has spent the last decade establishing data teams at a series of startups in wildly different industries at TransLoc (transit software), The Looma Project (retail media), and Chief (social network). Prior to that, she spent a decade as a statistician and data scientist in medtech R&D. The constant throughout her career has been the R ecosystem and community. She cares deeply about helping data teams have an outsized impact while powering through common organizational challenges. While not pursuing data adventures, she enjoys outdoor adventures by mountain bike, snowboard, or running shoes, and parenting adventures with her tween/teen sons.

David Meza

Branch Chief, People Analytics and Head of Analytics for the NASA’s Office of Human Capital

David Meza previously served as Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC). During his tenure at NASA, he has worked in all aspects of the Information Technology field developing and deploying several IT systems in use at JSC. His desire to improve IT processes and systems led him to earn a Master’s certificate in Project Management and Six Sigma in addition to becoming a NASA certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Mr. Meza is conducting research in People Analytics, Automatic Classification algorithms, entity tagging, topic modeling, data driven visualization and text to graph pipelines. He holds a Master’s in Engineering Management from the University of Houston Clear Lake where he is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Education.

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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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SUNDAY - MONDAY

Workshops

For posit::conf(2023), we have an array of workshops that will feature hands-on exercises, discussions, and Q&A. You can 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 highlight the exciting work being done across the R, PyData, & Posit landscape in two jam-packed days. Hear from some of the most thoughtful practitioners and effective speakers in science, industry, and technology.

Registered attendees can access live-streams and on-demand recordings of the talks and keynotes, along with all virtual experience features like session Q&A, networking, chat, and more.

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Community

One of the best parts of posit::conf is the people you meet

Join us for Birds of a Feather and connect with others working in similar fields and on similar problems. See the groups, times and locations on the event app.
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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."

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Education Birds of a Feather

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It’s not too late to register for the virtual experience!

The virtual experience of our hybrid conference is a unique experience that brings together R and Python enthusiasts from different countries, industries, and backgrounds to meet, chat, and share in the excitement of posit::conf().

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Registration is required to access the virtual event portal and networking opportunities. By registering for the conference, you gain access to:

• Livestreams of the keynote and talks led by renowned speakers in data
• On-demand recordings available shortly after the scheduled run time of keynotes and talks
• Question and answer sessions alongside other attendees during the talks
• The opportunity to chat, share, and learn with other attendees, no matter where they are, through our virtual networking platform

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Hyatt Regency Chicago

Stay in the heart of downtown, steps from the Chicago Riverwalk.
Offering an energetic urban retreat near Navy Pier, Hyatt Regency Chicago features the most hotel rooms and largest selection of meeting space in downtown Chicago. A gateway to the city’s top attractions, you can walk to Millennium Park, or shop on Magnificent Mile.
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POSIT::CONF(2023)

Virtual Pricing

Join us for the conference portion of posit::conf from wherever you are in the world! Live-stream keynotes and talks, and join in the conversation online.
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Conference + Workshops
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$99

Conference Only - Government or Non-Profit Employees

$49

Conference Only - Students and Academics

Free

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2023 Sponsors

Thank you to this year’s posit::conf(2023) sponsors!

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