useR! (The R User Conference)
At a glance
- Next event
- Not announcedLast: Jul 6–9, 2026
- Call for papers
- No public call found
- Audience
- 543 attendees2024 · source
- Tickets
- €60–€6507 prices, 2026
- Sponsorship
- €1,000–€25,00013 packages, 2026
- Sponsors
- 13 in 2026▲ +18% vs 2025 (11)
- Program freshness
- 99#3 of 143 · 0% reruns
- Similar conferences
- posit::conf, AI and Data in Pharma & Healthcare Summit, SciPy Conference
- Organizer
- R Foundation (local organizing committees; supported by the R Consortium)
- Category
- Data science & ML
- Website
- r-project.org
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Bluesky · Mastodon · YouTube
- Typical place
- 4 cities
- Topics
- Data scienceMachine learning
Annual nonprofit conference of the R community, supported by the R Foundation and organized by volunteer local committees (each edition has its own userYYYY.r-project.org site). useR! 2020 (the St. Louis conference and Munich European hub were cancelled and replaced by online events), 2021 and 2022 were held online only and are not recorded as editions; there was no useR! in 2023 (the R project's conference list goes from 2022, online, to 2024, Salzburg). useR! 2024 was run with Linux Foundation Events. From 2024 a free virtual event has been held alongside the in-person conference. Social accounts are the conference's own.
Speakers it attracts
The 419 people who spoke at useR! (The R User Conference) in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Julia Silge · PositKeynoted 4 other conferences, spoke at 5: PyCon (national Python conferences), SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python), posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)…
- Hadley Wickhamkeynote here · PositKeynoted 3 other conferences, spoke at 6: PyData, posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf), EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language)…
- Colin Gillespie · Jumping RiversKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 3: Budapest BI Forum, posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf), EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language)
- Mike Smith · PfizerKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 3: EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language), EuroPython, posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
- Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel · Duke University + Posit, PBCKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 3: posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf), PyData, SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)
- Tomaž KaštrunSpoke at 6 other conferences: SQLSaturday, SQLBits, SQLDay…
- George Stagg · PositKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf), Budapest BI Forum
- Hilary Parkerkeynote here · Stoneware DataKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf), Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference
- Jakub Nowosadkeynote here · Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: FOSS4G Europe, FOSS4G
- Michael Pagekeynote here · cynkra GmbHKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits, FOSS4G
- Simon Couch · PositKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf), SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)
- Veronica Andreo · Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State UniversityKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: FOSS4G, FOSS4G Europe
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Complete list
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 6–9, 2026 | useR! 2026 | Warsaw, Poland | — | 13 | 178 | |
| Aug 8–10, 2025 | useR! 2025 | Durham, United States | — | 11 | 121 | |
| Jul 8–11, 2024 | useR! 2024 | Salzburg, Austria | 543 | 18 | 280 | |
| Jul 9–12, 2019 | useR! 2019 | Toulouse, France | — | 43 | 359 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 4 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::conf0.16
- AI and Data in Pharma & Healthcare Summit0.08
- SciPy Conference0.07
- JSM0.07
- EARL0.07
4 Cluster: Posit · RStudio · Appsilon crowd →
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 71 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unspecified