SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)
- Organizer
- NumFOCUS (from 2023); Enthought (organizer and institutional sponsor through 2022)
- Category
- Data science & ML
- Website
- scipy.org
- Social
- X / Twitter · YouTube
- Typical place
- Austin, United States
- Topics
- Data scienceMachine learningData engineeringGenerative AI
Annual US conference on scientific computing with Python, first held 2002; the 2026 edition was the 25th. Held in Austin, TX through 2023 (2020 and 2021 virtual), Tacoma, WA in 2024-2025, and Minneapolis, MN (University of Minnesota) in 2026. Enthought ran the conference and remains institutional sponsor; SciPy 2023 onward is 'brought to you by NumFOCUS'. Social accounts are the conference's own (@scipyconf); older talk videos are on the Enthought YouTube channel. Per-year sites are scipyYYYY.scipy.org. EuroSciPy and SciPy India are separate events (see leads). No SciPy 2027 dates announced as of 2026-11-08.
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Partial or unverified 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13–19, 2026 | SciPy 2026 | Minneapolis, United States | — | 14 | 137 | |
| Jul 7–13, 2025 | SciPy 2025 | Tacoma, United States | — | 19 | 176 | |
| Jul 8–14, 2024 | SciPy 2024 | Tacoma, United States | — | 15 | 198 | |
| Jul 10–16, 2023 | SciPy 2023 | Austin, United States | 700 | 11 | 198 | |
| Jul 11–17, 2022 | SciPy 2022 | Austin, United States | — | 21 | 143 | |
| Jul 12–18, 2021 | SciPy 2021 | United States | Online | — | 11 | — |
| Jul 6–12, 2020 | SciPy 2020 | United States | Online | 900 | 15 | — |
| Jul 8–14, 2019 | SciPy 2019 | Austin, United States | 800 | 24 | 279 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 3 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.
- JupyterCon0.22
- PyData0.15
- CIDR0.13
- NeurIPS0.13
- PyCon0.10
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 68 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Title / headline
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Community
- Other / unspecified