posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
- Organizer
- Posit (formerly RStudio)
- Category
- Data science & ML
- Website
- posit.co
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- 7 cities
- Topics
- Data scienceBI & analytics
Annual R (and, since 2022, Python) data science conference run by RStudio, PBC. Held as rstudio::conf through 2022 (2019 Austin, 2020 San Francisco); the 2021 edition was the free virtual rstudio::global(2021). JJ Allaire and Hadley Wickham announced on 27 July 2022, during rstudio::conf(2022), that RStudio was becoming Posit (rebrand effective October 2022; site moved to posit.co in November 2022) to reflect its multi-language (R and Python) focus, and the conference became posit::conf from 2023 (Chicago 2023, Seattle 2024, Atlanta 2025, Houston 2026). Since 2022 the conference has been hybrid (in-person plus live-streamed talks). The conference site moved from rstudio.com/conference to posit.co/conference and, for 2026, conf.posit.co. Session catalogs for 2023-2025 ran on RainFocus; 2026 on Zuddl. No 2027 edition announced as of Nov 2026. Social accounts are the organizer's (Posit), linked from pos.it short links.
At a glance
- Next event
- Not announcedLast: Sep 14–16, 2026
- Call for papers
- No public call found
- Audience
- 1,500 attendees2024
- Tickets
- $0–$2,24818 prices, 2026
- Sponsorship
- Packages not published
- Sponsors
- 6 in 2026■ 0% vs 2025 (6)
- Program freshness
- 96#42 of 127 · 2% reruns
- Similar conferences
- EARL, New York R Conference, AI and Data in Pharma & Healthcare Summit
Speakers it attracts
The 325 people who spoke at posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf) 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…
- Hannes Mühleisenkeynote here · DuckDB LabsKeynoted 5 other conferences, spoke at 14: PyData, Coalesce, Forward Data Conference…
- Julia Silge · PositKeynoted 3 other conferences, spoke at 4: PyCon (national Python conferences), SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python), EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language)…
- Hadley Wickhamkeynote here · PositKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 5: PyData, EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language), Data Council…
- Alenka Frim · Apache Software FoundationKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 5: PyData, PyCon (national Python conferences), EuroPython…
- Daniel Chen · PositSpoke at 7 other conferences: CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits, PyData, AWS re:Invent…
- Colin Gillespie · Jumping RiversKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: Budapest BI Forum, EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language)
- Isabel Zimmerman · PositKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: PyData, SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)
- Jeroen Janssens · PositKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: PyData, New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)
- Max Kuhn · PositKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language), New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)
- Mike Smith · PfizerKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language), EuroPython
- Phillip Cloud · Voltron DataSpoke at 5 other conferences: PyCon (national Python conferences), PyData, SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)…
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Partial or unverified list
- No sponsor list
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14–16, 2026 | posit::conf(2026) | Houston, United States | — | 6 | 155 | |
| Sep 16–18, 2025 | posit::conf(2025) | Atlanta, United States | — | 6 | 161 | |
| Aug 12–14, 2024 | posit::conf(2024) | Seattle, United States | 1,500 | 6 | 171 | |
| Sep 17–20, 2023 | posit::conf(2023) | Chicago, United States | — | 10 | 123 | |
| Jul 25–28, 2022 | rstudio::conf(2022) | National Harbor, United States | — | — | 135 | |
| Jan 21–22, 2021 | rstudio::global(2021) | — | Online | 17,000 | — | 3 |
| Jan 27–30, 2020 | rstudio::conf 2020 | San Francisco, United States | 2,200 | — | 170 | |
| Jan 15–18, 2019 | rstudio::conf 2019 | Austin, United States | 1,800 | — | 68 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 4 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.
- EARL0.13
- New York R Conference0.11
- AI and Data in Pharma & Healthcare Summit0.09
- SciPy Conference0.09
- CIDR0.08
1 Cluster: RStudio · Posit · CSIRO Data61 crowd →
Sponsors over the years
Top 13 of 13 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Bronze
- Other / unspecified