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.