EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language)
At a glance
- Next event
- ——
- Call for papers
- No public call found
- Audience
- 300 attendees2020
- Tickets
- £115–£9009 prices, 2022
- Sponsorship
- Packages not published
- Sponsors
- 1 in 2026No list the year before
- Program freshness
- 99#12 of 143 · 0% reruns
- Similar conferences
- posit::conf, Data Decoded, useR!
- Organizer
- Datacove (since 2024); previously Ascent (2022) and Mango Solutions (2014-2021)
- Category
- Data science & ML
- Website
- earl-conference.com
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- Brighton, United Kingdom
- Topics
- Data scienceBI & analyticsGenerative AIBusiness & leadershipMachine learningData engineering
Cross-sector conference on commercial use of R, started in 2014 by Mango Solutions (London, Tower Hotel; US editions in Boston 2015-2016 and a Seattle/Houston/Boston roadshow in Nov 2018, none after). 2020 (VirtuEARL) and 2021 were online. Mango Solutions became part of Ascent ('Ascent, the new home of Mango Solutions'); Ascent ran EARL 2022 in London. No 2023 edition found (2024 was billed as EARL's '10th year'). From 2024 Brighton consultancy Datacove with Silicon Brighton runs it in Brighton, adding Python ('Enterprise Applications of the R & Python Language'). 2026 rebranded 'EARL 2026: Data Intelligence Conference' / 'International Data Intelligence Summit'. Social: @earlconf is the conference's own X account (Mango era); LinkedIn/YouTube are the current organizer Datacove's; the older YouTube channel is Mango Solutions'.
Speakers it attracts
The 118 people who spoke at EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language) in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Wes McKinneykeynote here · PositKeynoted 6 other conferences, spoke at 12: PyCon (national Python conferences), PyData, Ray Summit…
- Hadley Wickhamkeynote here · PositKeynoted 3 other conferences, spoke at 6: PyData, useR! (The R User Conference), posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)…
- Chris Holmes · FullFibreKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 3: SatSummit, CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference), FOSS4G North America
- Bianca Stratulat · UnifeyeSpoke at 6 other conferences: Big Data LDN, Data + AI Summit, SQLBits…
- Colin Gillespie · Jumping RiversKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 3: Budapest BI Forum, useR! (The R User Conference), posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
- Leanne Fitzpatrickkeynote here · Financial TimesKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: PyData, Data Day Texas
- Mike Smithkeynote here · PfizerSpoke at 3 other conferences: EuroPython, useR! (The R User Conference), posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
- Steph Lockekeynote here · MicrosoftSpoke at 3 other conferences: Big Data LDN, SQLBits, dataMinds Connect
- Hannah Frick · PositSpoke at 2 other conferences: useR! (The R User Conference), posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
- Myles Mitchell · Jumping RiversSpoke at 2 other conferences: PyCon (national Python conferences), posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
- Nic Crane · NC Data LabsSpoke at 2 other conferences: posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf), The Data Thread
- Quazi Nafiul Islam · SonarSpoke at 2 other conferences: PyCon (national Python conferences), PyData
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Partial or unverified list
- No sponsor list
7 of 8 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | International Data Intelligence Summit 2027 (EARL) | — | Tentative | — | — | — |
| Oct 6–8, 2026 | EARL 2026: Data Intelligence Conference | Brighton, United Kingdom | — | 1 | 50 | |
| Oct 14–16, 2025 | EARL 2025 | Brighton, United Kingdom | — | — | 53 | |
| Sep 3–5, 2024 | EARL 2024 | Brighton, United Kingdom | — | 3 | 47 | |
| Sep 6–8, 2022 | EARL 2022 | London, United Kingdom | — | 3 | 49 | |
| Sep 6–10, 2021 | EARL Online 2021 | — | Online | — | — | 4 |
| Oct 8–16, 2020 | EARL Online 2020 (VirtuEARL) | — | Online | 300 | — | 13 |
| Sep 10–12, 2019 | EARL London 2019 | London, United Kingdom | — | 3 | 62 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 8 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- posit::conf0.13
- Data Decoded0.08
- useR!0.07
- CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits0.05
- Big Data LDN0.05
4 Cluster: Posit · RStudio · Appsilon crowd →
Sponsors over the years
Top 8 of 8 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Platinum
- Silver
- Other / unspecified
Sources
- https://earl-conference.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190820202700/https://earlconf.com/
- https://www.mango-solutions.com/announcing-ascent-as-the-new-hosts-for-earl-2022/
- https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/06/celebrating-a-decade-of-earl-join-us-in-brighton-uk-for-earl-2024/
- https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/10/join-us-at-the-earl-us-roadshow-a-conference-dedicated-to-the-real-world-usage-of-r/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190405071742/https://earlconf.com/archive/