Conferences / posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
posit::conf(2025)
Sep 16–18, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, United States
- Conference
- posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Sep 16, 2025 – Sep 18, 2025
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency Atlanta
- Place
- Atlanta, GA, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- posit.co
- Recorded
- 6 sponsors · 161 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Workshops Sep 16, conference Sep 17-18; R/Pharma Summit (hosted with R/Pharma) Sep 15; virtual-only talk day Oct 27, 2025 (included). Speakers and affiliations from the RainFocus on-demand session catalog API (101 recorded sessions: keynotes, talks, lightning talks, lounge demos as role 'other'); unrecorded sessions are missing. Lightning-talk titles matched to speakers by listing order (two UNC speakers share the Plotgardener talk). Workshops and instructors from the rstudio/rstudio-conf 2025 README (affiliation only where the instructor also appears in the catalog). Videos matched from the 'posit::conf(2025)' YouTube playlist. Sponsors and tiers from the RainFocus exhibitor catalog.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super early bird: workshops only | $899 | Feb 28, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Super early bird: conference only | $1,099 | Feb 28, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Super early bird: all access | $1,998 | Feb 28, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Early bird: workshops only | $899 | Jun 20, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Early bird: conference only | $1,199 | Jun 20, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Early bird: all access | $2,098 | Jun 20, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Virtual: conference only (students / academics / needs-based) | $0 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Virtual: conference only (government / non-profit) | $49 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Virtual: conference only | $99 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Academic: workshops only | $549 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Academic: conference only | $749 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Full price: workshops only | $899 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Academic: all access | $1,298 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Full price: conference only | $1,349 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Full price: all access | $2,248 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 6
Speakers and talks 161
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cat Hicks | Catharsis Consulting | Keynote | The Psychology of Technologists | Video |
| Hadley Wickham | Posit | Keynote | Making the most of artificial and human intelligence for data science | Video |
| Joe Cheng | Posit | Keynote | Making the most of artificial and human intelligence for data science | Video |
| Jonathan McPherson | Posit | Keynote | 10 Years of Data Science Tools... and What Happens Next | Video |
| Kieran Healy | Duke University | Keynote | Trustworthy Data Visualization | Video |
| Abiye Berhanu | UNC Chapel Hill | Lightning | Plotgardener – Genomic Data Visualization Made Easy | Video |
| Acacia Duncan | — | Workshop | Data Talks: How to make your data science accessible | — |
| Alex Chisholm | Posit | Speaker | Keeping Data Alive: Persistent Storage Options for Dynamic Cloud Applications | Video |
| Alex Chisholm | Posit | Speaker | Get the Latest on Posit's Commercial Products | Video |
| Alex Rossell Hayes | YouGov | Lightning | It's all fun and games til your analysis code is finished: the player package in R | Video |
| Allissa Dillman | BioData Sage | Speaker | From Solo to Social: Making Coding a Collaborative Adventure | Video |
| Andrés Quintero | ixpantia | Speaker | Extending the horizons of R with Rust | Video |
| Andrew Heiss | Georgia State University | Speaker | Election Night Reporting Using R & Quarto | Video |
| Andrie de Vries | Posit | Lightning | Putting an {ellmer} AI in production with the blessing of IT | Video |
| Arnav Patel | Synovus Bank | Speaker | Cooking with Data: A Recipe for Data Validation Using Pointblank | — |
| Austin Dickey | Posit | Speaker | Outgrowing Your Laptop with Positron | Video |
| Barret Schloerke | Posit | Speaker | Observability at scale: Monitoring Shiny Applications with OpenTelemetry | — |
| Beatriz Milz | UFABC / R-Ladies São Paulo / rOpensci | Speaker | Translating R for Data Science into Portuguese: A Community-Led Initiative | Video |
| Becca Krouse | GSK | Workshop | End-to-End Submissions in R with the Pharmaverse | — |
| Becca Krouse | GSK | Speaker | Instant Impact: Developing {docorator} to Simplify R Adoption for Teams | Video |
| Becky Hodge | ProCogia | Lightning | Automating Event Scheduling with Python in Positron | Video |
| Ben Arancibia | GSK | Speaker | What R We Counting? | Video |
| Ben Straub | — | Workshop | End-to-End Submissions in R with the Pharmaverse | — |
| Bill Pikounis | Johnson & Johnson | Speaker | Quarto for Business Collaboration and Technical Documentation in Word docx format | Video |
| Blake Abbenante | Suffolk Construction | Speaker | When R Met Python: A Meet Cute on Posit Connect | Video |
| Blythe Coons | — | Workshop | Data Talks: How to make your data science accessible | — |
| Cameron Race | Department for Education | Speaker | shinyGovStyle - accessible government design in RShiny | Video |
| Cari Gostic | Sonoma Technology, Inc | Lightning | Make Big Geospatial Data Accessible with Arrow | Video |
| Carlos Scheidegger | Posit | Lightning | What we're doing to make Quarto fast(er) | Video |
| Carson Sievert | Posit | Other | Live demo: AI Session | — |
| Casey Aguilar-Gervase | Atorus Research | Speaker | Design of Everyday Shiny Apps | Video |
| Charlie Gao | Posit | Speaker | Purrrfectly parallel, purrrfectly distributed | Video |
| Charlotte Wickham | — | Workshop | Extending Quarto | — |
| Chetan Thapar | Posit | Speaker | Get the Latest on Posit's Commercial Products | Video |
| Chris Engelhardt | Gen Re | Speaker | From Framework to Function: Integrating AI, Data Science Platforms, and Psychological Safety | Video |
| Christophe Dervieux | Posit | Speaker | Beyond the Basics: Expanding Quarto's Capabilities with Lua | Video |
| Clara Amorosi | Bristol Myers Squibb | Speaker | Data-as-a-product: A framework for collaborative data wrangling | Video |
| Claudia Penaloza | Continental | Speaker | R & Python playing nice, in production | Video |
| Claus Wilke | University of Washington | Speaker | Teaching data visualization with R entirely in Quarto | Video |
| Colin Rundel | — | Workshop | Shiny for R | — |
| Colin S Gillespie | Jumping Rivers | Speaker | Can I trust that package? | Video |
| Daniel Chen | — | Workshop | Shiny for Python | — |
| Daniel D. Sjoberg | — | Workshop | End-to-End Submissions in R with the Pharmaverse | — |
| Davis Vaughan | Posit | Speaker | Air - A blazingly fast R code formatter | Video |
| Dhruvi Sompura | Posit | Lightning | Multiple Console Sessions in Positron | Video |
| Doug Kelkhoff | — | Workshop | Deploying reproducible analytics environments for regulated use cases | — |
| Dylan Pieper | University of Washington | Speaker | From messy to meaningful data: LLM-powered classification in R | Video |
| Ella Kaye | University of Washington | Lightning | Birthing the pregnancy package | Video |
| Emil Hvitfeldt | — | Workshop | Getting More Out of Feature Engineering and Tuning for Machine Learning | — |
| Emil Malta | Statistics Greenland | Speaker | Uncharted Nuuk: Data Exploration in Search of the Unexpected | Video |
| Emma Rand | — | Workshop | From R User to R Programmer | — |
| Eric Nantz | Eli Lilly and Company | Speaker | shinystate: Launching collaboration and session management to new heights in Shiny applications | — |
| Eric Scott | University of Washington | Lightning | Enabling geospatial workflow management with targets: an R package origin story | Video |
| Flávia E. Rius | Mendelics | Speaker | Precision Medicine for All: Using Tidymodels to Validate Breast Cancer PRS in Brazil | Video |
| Freda Warner | CIHR | Speaker | Talk data to me: How to present youR data to any audience | Video |
| Gabe Osterhout | Idaho Secretary of State | Speaker | Election Night Reporting Using R & Quarto | Video |
| Garrick Aden-Buie | Posit | Speaker | Theming Made Easy: Introducing brand.yml | Video |
| Garrick Aden-Buie | Posit | Workshop | Programming with LLM APIs: A Beginner’s Guide in R and Python | — |
| George Stagg | Posit | Other | Live demo: AI Session | — |
| Gina Reynolds | — | Speaker | Who are 'the ggplot2 extenders' and how to become one | Video |
| Gordon Woodhull | Posit | Lightning | Brand YML and Dark Mode in Quarto | Video |
| Greg Headley | Amazon Web Services | Other | Live demo: Building Agentic AI applications with Positron and AWS Strands Agents | — |
| Hadley Wickham | Posit | Workshop | R in Production | — |
| Hugo Fitipaldi | Lund University | Speaker | Building a Real-Time COVID-19 Surveillance System with R: Lessons from the COVID Symptom Study Sweden | — |
| Ian Lyttle | — | Workshop | From R User to R Programmer | — |
| Isabel Zimmerman | Posit | Speaker | IDE-ntity Crisis: Choosing the Right Tool for Me | Video |
| Isabella Velasquez | — | Workshop | Branded Websites, Presentations, Dashboards, and PDFs with Quarto | — |
| Isabella Velásquez | Posit | Other | Live demo: A quick Positron layout tour! | — |
| James Black | — | Workshop | Deploying reproducible analytics environments for regulated use cases | — |
| James Blair | Posit | Other | Live demo: Posit and the modern data stack: Using Posit tools alongside Snowflake & Databricks | — |
| James Wade | Dow | Speaker | Disposable Shiny Apps | Video |
| Jenna Wraith | QCIF | Speaker | Breaking Barriers: Making Ecological Modelling Accessible with EcoCommons | Video |
| Jenny Bryan | — | Workshop | Package Development: The Rest of the Owl | — |
| Jeremy Winget, PhD | CrossStack Society | Speaker | Death by Dropdown? Engineer Insightful Shiny Apps with Behavioral Science | Video |
| Jeroen Janssens | Posit | Speaker | Polyglot Data Science: Why and How to Combine R and Python | Video |
| Joe Cheng | Posit | Workshop | Programming with LLM APIs: A Beginner’s Guide in R and Python | — |
| Joe Kirincic | RESTORE-Skills | Speaker | Lift Off! Building REST APIs that Fly | Video |
| Joe Roberts | Posit | Speaker | Get the Latest on Posit's Commercial Products | Video |
| John Coene | Opifex | Speaker | Building Web Apps and APIs in R with Ambiorix | Video |
| John Paul Helveston | The George Washington University | Speaker | surveydown: A Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys Using Quarto and Shiny | — |
| Jonathan Keane | Posit | Speaker | Oops! I accidentally made a production dashboard | Video |
| Jonathan Regenstein | Snowflake | Speaker | The Power of Snowflake and Posit Workbench: Macroeconomic Data Exploration in the Cloud | — |
| Julia Silge | Posit | Speaker | How I got unstuck with Python | Video |
| Julianne Gent | Emory University | Speaker | Protecting our Healthcare Heroes: Using Natural Language Processing to Prevent Billing Mistakes in Healthcare | — |
| Kara Woo | Posit | Speaker | Get the Latest on Posit's Commercial Products | Video |
| Karan Gathani | Posit | Speaker | Old Apps, New Tricks: How AI can write Automated Tests for your Shiny Apps | Video |
| Katerina Gapanenko | Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) | Speaker | A tale of one organization: learning how to swim in the ocean of open source | Video |
| Katie Burak | — | Workshop | Machine learning with scikit-learn in Python | — |
| Keaton Wilson | KS&R | Speaker | Using Quarto to Improve Formatting and Automate the Generation of Hundreds of Reports | Video |
| Kelly McConville | Bucknell University | Speaker | Teaching Data Sharing through R Data Packages | Video |
| Kelly O'Briant | Posit | Speaker | Get the Latest on Posit's Commercial Products | Video |
| Kene David Nwosu | TheGraphCourses.org | Speaker | ChalkTalk: Globalizing Data Science Education with AI-generated Videos | Video |
| Kennedy Mwavu | — | Speaker | Building Web Apps and APIs in R with Ambiorix | Video |
| Kim Schouten | NZa (Dutch Healthcare Authority) | Speaker | Modular, layout-as-code approach for customizable Shiny dashboards | Video |
| Kirill Müller | cynkra GmbH | Speaker | duckplyr: Analyze large data with full dplyr compatibility | Video |
| Kristin Bott | Posit | Speaker | On teaching adults to code | Video |
| Kylie Ainslie | University of Washington | Speaker | Elevating Public Health Decision-Making with R Packages | Video |
| Laura Gast | USO | Speaker | Failure (and Mistakes) | Video |
| Libby McKenna | Brown and Caldwell | Speaker | Enemies to lovers: How non-programmers can make sparks fly when using testthat during package development | Video |
| Lionel Henry | Posit | Speaker | Air - A blazingly fast R code formatter | Video |
| Lucy D'Agostino McGowan | — | Workshop | Causal Inference in R | — |
| Luis Verde Arregoitia | Instituto de Ecología AC INECOL | Speaker | Bold indicates negative? | Video |
| Malcolm Barrett | — | Workshop | Causal Inference in R | — |
| Marcos Huerta | CarMax | Speaker | Semantic Search for the Rest of Us with DuckDB | Video |
| Marcus Beck | Tampa Bay Estuary Program | Speaker | Data 911: how Posit can support decision-makers in times of environmental crisis | Video |
| Mark Neal | DairyNZ | Speaker | Championing modern science workflows to benefit dairy farmers | Video |
| Mauro Lepore | Recast | Lightning | Approaching Positron from RStudio | Video |
| Max Hockstein | Georgetown University | Speaker | See if talking to the doctor is right for you. | Video |
| Max Kuhn | — | Workshop | Getting More Out of Feature Engineering and Tuning for Machine Learning | — |
| Maya Gans | Atorus Research | Speaker | Design of Everyday Shiny Apps | Video |
| Melissa Albino Hegeman | NYS OGS | Speaker | Get your ducks in a row... faster Shiny apps with DuckDB | — |
| Melissa Barca | PBC | Speaker | Tips & tricks from the maintainers of Positron | Video |
| Melissa Van Bussel | Statistics Canada | Speaker | Running a polyglot data science community | Video |
| Michael Chow | Posit | Speaker | The Curse of Documentation | Video |
| Michael Mayer | — | Workshop | Deploying reproducible analytics environments for regulated use cases | — |
| Michael Thomas | Ketchbrook Analytics | Speaker | Building Multilingual Data Science Teams | Video |
| Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel | Posit + Duke University | Speaker | Leveraging LLMs for student feedback in introductory data science courses | Video |
| Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | — | Workshop | Extending Quarto | — |
| Myles Mitchell | Jumping Rivers | Speaker | Demystifying MLOps with Vetiver | Video |
| Nic Crane | NC Data Labs | Speaker | Hacking Productivity with LLMs: What Works (and What Doesn’t) | — |
| Noam Ross | rOpenSci | Speaker | rOpenSci Champions: Building Communities of Open-Source Leaders | Video |
| Olivia Hebner | Summit Partners | Speaker | Same Data, Different Tools: Visualizing with R and Python | Video |
| Rafael Pereira | — | Workshop | Deploying reproducible analytics environments for regulated use cases | — |
| Rafi Kurlansik | Databricks | Speaker | From SDKs to Agents: Building with R and Python on Databricks | Video |
| Rammprasad Ganapathy | — | Workshop | End-to-End Submissions in R with the Pharmaverse | — |
| Rebecca Barter | Arine | Speaker | AI Coding Assistants: Hype, Help, or Hindrance? | Video |
| Regis James | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | Speaker | AskRADS: An AI Recommendation Agent for Maximizing the ROI of Data Science Collaborations | Video |
| Rich Iannone | Posit | Speaker | Making Things Nice in Python | Video |
| Rishabh Sharma Vemuri | UNC Chapel Hill | Lightning | Plotgardener – Genomic Data Visualization Made Easy | Video |
| Ryan Johnson | Posit | Other | Live demo: AI-Powered Data Science in Positron | — |
| Ryan Johnson | Posit | Speaker | Positron for Babies: Communicating Technical Concepts to all Audiences | Video |
| Ryan Johnson | Posit | Workshop | Data Science Workflows with Posit Tools - R Focus | — |
| Ryan Timpe | The LEGO Group | Speaker | AI missteps as stepping stones: Opportunities gained when your LLM coding assistant gets it wrong | — |
| Ryszard Szymański | Appsilon | Speaker | Deploy with Confidence: Strategies to Minimize Failure and Maximize Success (on Posit Connect) | Video |
| Sam Edwardes | — | Workshop | Data Science Workflows with Posit Tools - R Focus | — |
| Sara Altman | — | Workshop | Branded Websites, Presentations, Dashboards, and PDFs with Quarto | — |
| Sarah Wong-Brown | UK Civil Service | Speaker | shinyGovStyle - accessible government design in RShiny | Video |
| Shannon Pileggi | The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium | Speaker | Practical {renv} | Video |
| Sharon Machlis | Former Computerworld & InfoWorld | Lightning | Use Your Data Skills for Good: Ideas for Community Service | — |
| Sharon Wang | Posit | Speaker | Tips & tricks from the maintainers of Positron | Video |
| Shun Mao | Amazon Web Services | Other | Live demo: Building Agentic AI applications with Positron and AWS Strands Agents | — |
| Simisani Ndaba | University of Botswana | Speaker | History repeats itself: What the Du Bois Challenge taught me about reproducing visualisations | Video |
| Simon Couch | Posit | Workshop | Introduction to machine learning in R with tidymodels | — |
| Simon Couch | Posit | Speaker | Is that LLM feature any good? | Video |
| Steve Nolen | Posit | Speaker | Get the Latest on Posit's Commercial Products | Video |
| Ted Laderas | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Speaker | Empowering Learners with WebR, Pyodide, and Quarto | Video |
| Teun Van den Brand | — | Workshop | Mastering Data Visualization with ggplot2: Latest Techniques and Best Practices | — |
| Thomas Lin Pedersen | Posit | Speaker | There's a new Plumber in town | Video |
| Thomas Pedersen | — | Workshop | Mastering Data Visualization with ggplot2: Latest Techniques and Best Practices | — |
| Tiffany Timbers | — | Workshop | Machine learning with scikit-learn in Python | — |
| Timothy Keyes | Stanford Health Care | Speaker | Trust, but Verify: Lessons from Deploying LLMs in a Large Health System | Video |
| Tom Mock | Posit | Speaker | Get the Latest on Posit's Commercial Products | Video |
| Tom Shafer | Elder Research | Speaker | Building Governable ML Models with R | Video |
| Tomasz Kalinowski | Posit | Other | Live demo: AI Session | — |
| Toph Allen | Posit | Other | Live demo: Exploring Extensions from the Connect Gallery | — |
| Wes McKinney | Posit | Speaker | Exploring Datasets in Positron | Video |
| Will Landau | Eli Lilly and Company | Speaker | R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages | Video |
| Winston Chang | Posit | Other | Live demo: AI Session | — |
| Winston Chang | Posit | Speaker | Web applications with Shiny and React (and AI) | Video |
| Yvonne Kienast | Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) | Speaker | Ripples of Change with R: It’s more than just coding | Video |
| Zac Davies | Databricks | Speaker | From SDKs to Agents: Building with R and Python on Databricks | Video |
Sources
- https://reg.rainfocus.com/flow/posit/positconf25/attendee-portal/page/sessioncatalog
- https://reg.conf.posit.co/flow/posit/positconf25/exhibitors/page/sponsors
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250605024422/https://posit.co/conf-pricing-2025/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20240909171551/https://posit.co/conference/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250807133454/https://posit.co/conference/
- https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio-conf/blob/master/2025/README.md
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9HYL-VRX0oTixlfDPCS5RW_F1pccERRe