Conferences / posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
posit::conf(2024)
Aug 12–14, 2024 · Hyatt Regency Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
- Conference
- posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Aug 12, 2024 – Aug 14, 2024
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency Seattle
- Place
- Seattle, WA, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 1,500posit.co conference page (Aug 2025 snapshot) recapping posit::conf(2024): '15+ Workshops, 110+ Talks, 1.5k+ Attendees'.
- Website
- posit.co
- Recorded
- 6 sponsors · 171 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Workshops Aug 12, conference Aug 13-14. Speakers and affiliations from the RainFocus public session catalog API (posit::conf(2024) public catalog, still served in Nov 2026); talk titles inside multi-talk sessions taken from each session's abstract; lightning-talk titles matched to speakers by listing order. Lounge demos, AMA and sponsor lunch-and-learns recorded with role 'other'. Videos matched from the 'posit::conf(2024)' YouTube playlist. Sponsors from the Sep 2024 posit.co page (logo file names; no tiers shown).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super early bird: workshops only | $849 | Mar 29, 2024 | web.archive.org | |
| Super early bird: conference only | $999 | Mar 29, 2024 | web.archive.org | |
| Super early bird: all access | $1,848 | Mar 29, 2024 | web.archive.org | |
| Early bird: workshops only | $849 | May 31, 2024 | web.archive.org | |
| Early bird: conference only | $1,099 | May 31, 2024 | web.archive.org | |
| Early bird: all access | $1,948 | May 31, 2024 | web.archive.org | |
| Academic: workshops only | $499 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Academic: conference only | $699 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Full price: workshops only | $849 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Academic: all access | $1,198 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Full price: conference only | $1,249 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Full price: all access | $2,098 | — | From June 1. | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 6
Other 6
- Appsilon · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
- Atorus Research · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
- cynkra GmbH · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
- Jumping Rivers · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
- Lander Analytics · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
- ProCogia · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
Speakers and talks 171
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Downey | PyMC Labs | Keynote | A future of data science | Video |
| Charlotte Wickham | Posit | Keynote | Updates from Posit | Video |
| George Stagg | Posit | Keynote | Updates from Posit | Video |
| Hadley Wickham | Posit | Keynote | Updates from Posit | Video |
| Hannes Mühleisen | DuckDB Labs | Keynote | Data Wrangling [for Python or R] Like a Boss With DuckDB | Hannes Mühleisen | Video |
| James Blair | Posit | Keynote | Updates from Posit | Video |
| Melissa Van Bussel | Statistics Canada | Keynote | Practical Tips for using Generative AI in Data Science Workflows | Melissa Van Bussel | Video |
| Aaron Jacobs | Posit | Speaker | Auth is the product, making data access simple with Posit Workbench | Video |
| Abigail Haddad | Department of Homeland Security | Speaker | GitHub: How To Tell Your Professional Story | Video |
| Adam Wang | NMDP | Speaker | Why You Should Think Like an End-to-end Data Scientist, and How | Video |
| Alan Schussman | Gore Medical | Speaker | Getting Data Done with a Pragmatic Data Team | Video |
| Albert Rapp | — | Lightning | Breaking data identities: Making a case for language-agnosticity | Video |
| Aleksander Dietrichson | Universidad de San Martín | Speaker | AI for Gaming: How I Built a Bot to Play a Video-Game with R and Python | Video |
| Alena Reynolds | Skokomish Tribe | Speaker | bRewing code: Ingredients for successful tribal collaboration | Video |
| Alenka Frim | Apache Software Foundation | Speaker | Mixing R, Python, and Quarto: Crafting the Perfect Open Source Cocktail | Video |
| Alex Chisholm | Posit | Speaker | Deploying data applications and documents to the cloud | Video |
| Alex Chisholm | Posit | Other | Demo: Posit Connect Cloud | — |
| Alex Gold | Posit | Other | Ask Me Anything with Alex Gold | — |
| Alok Pattani | Speaker | Using Generative AI to Increase the Impact of Your Data Science Work | Video | |
| Andrew Bates | Atorus Research | Workshop | Flavors of the Pharmaverse | — |
| Andrew Bates | Atorus Research | Speaker | Making an App a System | Video |
| Andrew Bray | Berkeley | Workshop | Introduction to Quarto | — |
| Andrew Bray | Berkeley | Speaker | Closeread: bringing Scrollytelling to Quarto | Video |
| Andrew Gard | Lake Forest College | Lightning | Teaching and learning data science in the era of AI | Video |
| Andrew Holz | Posit | Speaker | Oops I'm A Manager - Finding your Minimal Viable Process | Video |
| Andrie de Vries | Posit | Workshop | Introduction to Shiny for Python | — |
| Angie Reed | Penobscot Indian Nation | Speaker | bRewing code: Ingredients for successful tribal collaboration | Video |
| Ava Hoffman | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Lightning | Ten Simple Rules for Teaching an Introduction to R | Video |
| Barret Schloerke | Posit | Speaker | Editable data frames in Py-Shiny: Updating original data in real-time | Video |
| Becca Krouse | GSK | Speaker | Stitch by Stitch: The Art of Engaging New Users | Video |
| Becca Krouse | GSK | Workshop | Flavors of the Pharmaverse | — |
| Benjamin Arancibia | GSK | Lightning | The Expanse - Navigating the R Package Universe | Video |
| Brandon Sucher | Moderna | Speaker | Beyond the Classroom: Unspoken Realities of a Data Science Career | Video |
| Brendan Graham | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Speaker | A Machine Learning Approach to Protect Patients from Blood Tube Mix-Ups | Video |
| Brennan Antone | Cornell University | Speaker | Democratizing Organization Surveys with Quarto and Shiny | Video |
| Brian Carter | ProCogia | Other | Lunch and Learn hosted by ProCogia | Using GenAI in a Multilingual Environment | — |
| Bryan Shalloway | NetApp | Speaker | Understanding, Generating, and Evaluating Prediction Intervals | Video |
| Carrie Wright | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Speaker | Supporting Social Good Through Community-Based Data Science Education | Video |
| Carson Sievert | Posit | Speaker | Supercharge Your Shiny (for Python) App: Unleashing Jupyter Widgets for Interactivity | — |
| Casey Aguilar-Gervase | Atorus Research | Workshop | Flavors of the Pharmaverse | — |
| Charlie Gao | Hibiki AI | Speaker | {mirai} and {crew}: next-generation async to supercharge {promises}, Plumber, Shiny, and {targets} | Video |
| Charlotte Wickham | Posit | Workshop | Quarto Websites | — |
| Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti | Chapman University | Speaker | Deep Learning is Just LEGO: and Other Hands on Machine Learning Activities | Video |
| Christine Parker | Institute for Local Self-Reliance | Speaker | Data Wrangling for Advocacy: Tidy Data to Support the Affordable Connectivity Program | Video |
| Christoph Scheuch | Tidy Finance | Speaker | Empowering Reproducible Finance through Tidy Finance with R and Python | Video |
| Christopher T. Kenny | Department of Government | Lightning | Templated Analyses within R Packages for Collaborative, Reproducible Research | Video |
| Claire Bai | COTA | Lightning | Translating clinical guidance to actionable insights with R | Video |
| Claus Wilke | University of Washington | Workshop | Effective Data Visualization with ggplot2 | — |
| Colin Gillespie | Jumping Rivers | Speaker | 20+ Years of Reading Data into R | — |
| Colin Rundel | Duke University | Workshop | Introduction to Shiny for R | — |
| Cynthia Huang | Monash University | Speaker | Quarto for Knowledge Management | Video |
| Daniel Chen | Posit | Workshop | Introduction to Machine Learning in Python with Scikit-learn | — |
| Daniel Sjoberg | Genentech | Workshop | Flavors of the Pharmaverse | — |
| Daniel Sjoberg | Genentech | Speaker | gtsummary: Streamlining Summary Tables for Research and Regulatory Submissions | Video |
| Dave Slager | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Speaker | What I Learned Resurrecting an R package | — |
| David Aja | Posit | Workshop | What They Forgot To Teach You About R | — |
| David Kegley | Posit | Other | Demo: Posit Connect | — |
| David Keyes | R for the Rest of Us | Speaker | Report Design in R: Small Tweaks that Make a Big Difference | Video |
| Davis Vaughan | Posit | Speaker | Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE | Video |
| Demetri Pananos | Recast | Speaker | Making sense of marginal effects | Video |
| Edgar Ruiz | Posit | Workshop | Using Databricks with R | — |
| Edgar Ruiz | Posit | Speaker | Easing the pain of connecting to databases | Video |
| Ella Kaye | University of Washington | Lightning | rainbowR - a community that supports, connects and promotes LGBTQ+ people who code in R | Video |
| Ellis Hughes | GSK | Speaker | Be Kind, Rewind | Video |
| Ellis Hughes | GSK | Workshop | Flavors of the Pharmaverse | — |
| Emil Hvitfeldt | Posit | Speaker | Tidypredict with recipes, turn workflow to SQL, spark, duckdb and beyond | Video |
| Emil Hvitfeldt | Posit | Workshop | Quarto Websites | — |
| Emily Riederer | Capital One | Speaker | Python Rgonomics | Video |
| Emma Rand | University of York | Workshop | From R User to R Programmer | — |
| Eric Leung | The Walt Disney Company | Lightning | R Scripts to Databricks: Lessons in Production Workflow | Video |
| Eric Nantz | Eli Lilly and Company | Speaker | A New Era for Shiny-based Clinical Submissions using WebAssembly | Video |
| Erin Bugbee | Carnegie Mellon University | Speaker | To Explore or To Exploit: Decoding Human Decision Making with R and Python | Video |
| Gabriel Morrison | Urban Institute | Speaker | Open Source Software in Action: Expanding the Spatial Equity Data Tool | Video |
| Garrett Grolemund | Posit | Workshop | Introduction to Shiny for Python | — |
| Garrick Aden-Buie | Posit | Workshop | Level Up with Shiny for R | — |
| Garrick Aden-Buie | Posit | Other | Demo: Shiny (with R, Python, and Quarto in Positron) | — |
| Georgios Karamanis | Explained | Speaker | From idea to code to image: Creative data visualizations in R | Video |
| Greg Swinehart | Posit | Speaker | We CAN have nice Shiny apps: What's new in Shiny's UI & UX | Video |
| Hadley Wickham | Posit | Workshop | R in Production | — |
| Hannah Frick | Posit | Workshop | Introduction to tidymodels | — |
| Hannah Frick | Posit | Speaker | tidymodels for time-to-event data | Video |
| Heather Turner | University of Washington | Speaker | Contributing to the R Project | Video |
| Hubert Halun | Appsilon | Speaker | Art of R Packages: Forging Community with Hex Stickers | Video |
| Ian Lyttle | Schneider Electric | Workshop | From R User to R Programmer | — |
| Isabel Zimmerman | Posit | Workshop | Intro to MLOps with vetiver | — |
| Isabel Zimmerman | Posit | Speaker | Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE | Video |
| Isabella Velásquez | Posit | Other | Demo: Automate your reporting with Quarto dashboards and Posit Connect | — |
| James Black | Roche | Speaker | Giving your scientific computing environment (SCE) a voice: experiences and learnings leveraging operational data from our SCE and Posit products to help us serve our users better | — |
| James Goldie | 360info | Speaker | Animated web graphics in Quarto with Svelte and other tools | — |
| James Wade | Dow | Speaker | Posit Academy in the Age of Generative AI - Lessons from the Frontlines | Video |
| Jenny Bryan | Posit | Workshop | Package Development: The Rest of the Owl | — |
| Jenny Bryan | Posit | Speaker | Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE | Video |
| Joe Cheng | Posit | Speaker | Shiny x AI | Video |
| Joe Roberts | Posit | Speaker | Saving time (and pain) with Posit Public Package Manager | Video |
| Jonathan McPherson | Posit | Speaker | Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE | Video |
| Joseph Richey | Maverik | Speaker | Leveraging Data in a Volunteer Fire Department | Video |
| Joshua Cook | University of Washington | Speaker | Quarto: A Multifaceted Publishing Powerhouse for Medical Researchers | Video |
| Julia Silge | Posit | Workshop | Intro to MLOps with vetiver | — |
| Julia Silge | Posit | Speaker | Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE | Video |
| Julia Silge | Posit | Other | Demo: Positron Talk Extended Q&A | — |
| Karishma Srikanth | US Agency for International Development | Speaker | Building scalable data pipelines through R and global health information systems' API | Video |
| Katie Masiello | Posit | Workshop | Data Science Workflows with Posit Tools - R Focus | — |
| Keaton Wilson | KS&R | Speaker | Modernizing the Data Science Toolkit of a 40-year-old Market Research Company | Video |
| Kelly Bodwin | California Polytechnic State University | Speaker | Building Sustainable Open Source Ecosystems: Lessons From the #rstats Community and an NSF Grant | Video |
| Kelly O'Briant | Posit | Lightning | Event Automation with Posit Connect | Video |
| Kiegan Rice | NORC at the University of Chicago | Speaker | Wait, that’s Shiny? Building feature-full, user-friendly interactive data explorers with Shiny and friends | Video |
| Kirill Müller | cynkra GmbH | Workshop | Databases with R | — |
| Kshitij Aranke | dbt Labs | Speaker | Demystifying Data Modeling | Video |
| Laura Gast | USO | Speaker | Uniquely Human: Data Storytelling in the Age of AI | Video |
| Lee Durbin | Auckland Council | Speaker | Coding in a Cyclone: open-source and the public sector in the birthplace of R | Video |
| Lionel Henry | Posit | Speaker | Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE | Video |
| Lovekumar Patel | ProCogia | Speaker | Empowering Decisions: Advanced Portfolio Analysis and Management through Shiny | Video |
| Luis Lopez | NSIDC | Speaker | earthaccess: Accelerating NASA Earthdata science through open, collaborative development | Video |
| Luis Verde Arregoitia | Instituto de Ecología AC INECOL | Lightning | Why’d you load that package for? | Video |
| Malcolm Barrett | Stanford University | Workshop | Causal Inference in R | — |
| Marcin Dubel | Appsilon | Speaker | Shiny in Action: Transforming Film Production with TARS | Video |
| Mark Bynens | Johnson & Johnson | Speaker | Mastering the Art of Adopting R and Python: Innovative Strategies for Effective Change Management | Video |
| Mark Wang | Pinnacle | Speaker | Using GitHub Copilot in R Shiny Development | Video |
| Max Kuhn | Posit | Workshop | Advanced Tidymodels | — |
| Max Kuhn | Posit | Speaker | Evaluating time-to-event models is hard | Video |
| Meghan Hall | Zelus Analytics | Speaker | Designing and Deploying Internal Quarto Templates | Video |
| Meghan Harris | The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium | Speaker | "Please Let Me Merge Before I Start Crying": And Other Things I've Said at the Git Terminal | Video |
| Michael Beigelmacher | Posit | Workshop | Data Science Workflows with Posit Tools - Python Focus | — |
| Michael Chow | Posit | Workshop | Making Tables with gt and Great Tables | — |
| Mika Braginsky | Stanford University | Lightning | DataPages for interactive data sharing using Quarto | Video |
| Mike Stackhouse | Atorus Research | Other | Lunch and Learn hosted by Atorus | Challenges of Shiny in Clinical Analytics | — |
| Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Posit | Workshop | Build-a-Dashboard Workshop (with Quarto, R and/or Python) | — |
| Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Posit | Speaker | Reproducible, dynamic, and elegant books with Quarto | Video |
| Nic Crane | Novartis | Speaker | Mixing R, Python, and Quarto: Crafting the Perfect Open Source Cocktail | Video |
| Nic Crane | Novartis | Workshop | Big Data in R with Arrow | — |
| Nicholas Masel | Johnson & Johnson | Speaker | Open-Source Initiatives in Pharma - What's Out There and Why You Should Join | Video |
| Nick Pelikan | Posit | Speaker | Data Contracts: Keep Your Weekend Work-Free! | Video |
| Nick Pratap | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Speaker | Novice to data scientist: how a pediatric anesthesiologist used R Studio to help disadvantaged kids access surgical care | Video |
| Nicole Jones | Denali Therapeutics | Speaker | Breaking Barriers: Adopting R in Biotech with Posit | Video |
| Orla Doyle | Novartis | Speaker | Creating Reproducible Static Reports | Video |
| Phillip Cloud | Voltron Data | Speaker | CI madness with Ibis: testing 20 query engines on every commit | Video |
| Rafi Kurlansik | Databricks | Speaker | Elevating enterprise data through open source LLMs | Video |
| Regina Lionheart | Herrera Environmental Consultants | Speaker | Making Waves with R, Python, and Quarto | Video |
| Regis James | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | Speaker | Computing and recommending company-wide employee training pair decisions at scale via an AI matching and administrative workflow platform developed completely in-house | — |
| Rich Iannone | Posit | Workshop | Making Tables with gt and Great Tables | — |
| Rich Iannone | Posit | Speaker | Adequate Tables? No, We Want Great Tables | Video |
| Richie Moluno | Open science community Saudi Arabia | Lightning | JSquarto: Bridging JavaScript Documentation with Quarto's Power | Video |
| Rika Gorn | Posit | Workshop | DevOps for Data Scientists | — |
| Ryan Johnson | Posit | Workshop | Data Science Workflows with Posit Tools - R Focus | — |
| Ryan Johnson | Posit | Other | Demo: Collaboration between R & Python with Pins | — |
| Ryan Yu | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | Other | Lunch and Learn hosted by Atorus | Challenges of Shiny in Clinical Analytics | — |
| Sam Edwardes | Posit | Workshop | Data Science Workflows with Posit Tools - Python Focus | — |
| Satish Murthy | Johnson & Johnson | Other | Lunch and Learn hosted by Atorus | Challenges of Shiny in Clinical Analytics | — |
| Saumiitha Leelakrishnan | Cummins Inc | Speaker | Partnering with Posit for progress on Environmental Stewardship | Video |
| Sean Nguyen | S2G Ventures | Speaker | Beyond Dashboards: Dynamic Data Storytelling with Python, R, and Quarto Emails | Video |
| Sep Dadsetan | ConcertAI | Speaker | CONNECTing with our clients | Video |
| Seth Copolnix | PicnicHealth | Speaker | Level up! Empowering industry R users with different levels of experience | Video |
| Shannon Pileggi | The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium | Speaker | Balancing Global Infrastructure and Local Autonomy: Lessons from R-Ladies Global | Video |
| Shannon Pileggi | The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium | Speaker | Context is King | Video |
| Shannon Pileggi | The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium | Workshop | What They Forgot To Teach You About R | — |
| Simon Couch | Posit | Workshop | Introduction to tidymodels | — |
| Simon Couch | Posit | Speaker | Fair machine learning | Video |
| Stefanie Butland | Openscapes | Lightning | Using the Kyber R package to connect Google Sheets, RMarkdown, GitHub, and Agenda docs for open education | Video |
| Steph Hazlitt | BC Stats | Workshop | Big Data in R with Arrow | — |
| Thomas Pedersen | Posit | Speaker | Creating multi-figure visualizations with Patchwork | — |
| Tiffany Timbers | University of Washington | Workshop | Introduction to Machine Learning in Python with Scikit-learn | — |
| Tom Mock | Posit | Speaker | Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE | Video |
| Tom Mock | Posit | Other | Demo: Positron Talk Extended Q&A | — |
| Tomasz Kalinowski | Posit | Speaker | Keras 3: Deep Learning made easy | Video |
| Travis Gerke | The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium | Workshop | Causal Inference in R | — |
| Tyler McInnes | Genomics Aotearoa | Speaker | Converting Posit-Enthusiasm into Posit-Action | Video |
| Tyler Morgan-Wall | Institute for Defense Analyses | Speaker | Quarto, AI, and the Art of Getting Your Life Back | Video |
| Vasant Marur | Merck | Speaker | Quality Control to avoid GIGO in Deep Learning Models | Video |
| Will Landau | Eli Lilly and Company | Speaker | {mirai} and {crew}: next-generation async to supercharge {promises}, Plumber, Shiny, and {targets} | Video |
| Winston Chang | Posit | Speaker | An assistant to learn Shiny and build Shiny apps | — |
| Zack Verham | Posit | Other | Demo: Posit Connect | — |
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- https://reg.rainfocus.com/flow/posit/positconf24/publiccatalog/page/publiccatalog
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