Conferences / posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
posit::conf(2026)
Sep 14–16, 2026 · Hilton Americas-Houston, Houston, TX, United States
- Conference
- posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Sep 14, 2026 – Sep 16, 2026
- Venue
- Hilton Americas-Houston
- Place
- Houston, TX, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Conference home page shows '5+ Workshops, 100+ Talks, 800+ Attendees' (not clearly an actual 2026 headcount, so not recorded).
- Website
- conf.posit.co
- Recorded
- 6 sponsors · 155 speaker appearances
- Notes
- In-person workshops plus virtual talks/workshop Sep 14; hybrid conference Sep 15-16. R/Pharma pre-conf Summit Sep 13 ($499 add-on). Speakers and affiliations from the Zuddl schedule API behind conf.posit.co/2026/sessions (affiliation = company part of each speaker's title field); talks inside multi-talk blocks taken from the block descriptions. Sponsors from logo file names on the home page (no tiers shown; one logo, 'KAT_WH - PJ Walters', could not be identified and is omitted). Recordings not yet linked.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super early bird: workshops only | $899 | Apr 10, 2026 | conf.posit.co | |
| Super early bird: conference only | $1,099 | Apr 10, 2026 | conf.posit.co | |
| Super early bird: all access | $1,998 | Apr 10, 2026 | conf.posit.co | |
| Early bird: workshops only | $899 | Jun 22, 2026 | conf.posit.co | |
| Early bird: conference only | $1,199 | Jun 22, 2026 | conf.posit.co | |
| Early bird: all access | $2,098 | Jun 22, 2026 | conf.posit.co | |
| Virtual: needs-based conference only | $0 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| Virtual (students & educators): all access | $98 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| Virtual: workshops only | $99 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| Virtual: conference only | $99 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| Virtual: all access | $198 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| R/Pharma Summit add-on (Sep 13) | $499 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| Academic: workshops only | $549 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| Academic: conference only | $749 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| General: workshops only | $899 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| Academic: all access | $1,298 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| General: conference only | $1,349 | — | conf.posit.co | |
| General: all access | $2,248 | — | From June 23, 2026. | conf.posit.co |
Sponsors 6
Other 6
- A2-AI · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
- Amazon Web Services · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
- Atorus Research · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
- Jumping Rivers · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
- ProCogia · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
- Snowflake · Sponsor (logo wall, no tier shown)
Speakers and talks 155
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine Zhang | The New York Times | Keynote | How to Be Clear When You Can’t Be Certain | — |
| Jagjit Dhaliwal | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | Building the Future of Data Science and AI with Posit and AWS | — |
| Sara Altman | Posit | Keynote | Correct, reproducible, and transparent data agents | — |
| Simon Couch | Posit | Keynote | Correct, reproducible, and transparent data agents | — |
| Wes McKinney | Posit | Keynote | Navigating the Agentic Future | — |
| Aaron Bogan | Mayo Clinic | Speaker | From, "Can you Just Make Us a Dashboard" to Enterprise Systems in R | — |
| Aditya Gadkari | ECOnorthwest | Speaker | Public Policy in the Age of Demographic Uncertainty | — |
| Alan Pan | Houston Methodist Hospital | Speaker | Creating Ergonomic Informatics Solutions to Enhance Patient Care in the Digital Health Era | — |
| Alex Chisholm | Posit | Speaker | Trust in the Cloud: Secure Deployments and Effortless AI Access | — |
| Aliza Samad | NASA | Speaker | Quarto Wiki Chatbot | — |
| Allie Warren | Washington State Department of Health | Speaker | Nowcasting Pertussis Case Counts in Washington State | — |
| Allissa Dillman | Montgomery College/BioData Sage | Speaker | Yes And...AI in Your IDE | — |
| Amy Rossi | Posit | Speaker | — | — |
| Anatoliy Sokolov | Dow | Speaker | From internal scripts to public portfolios: building an open source program at Dow | — |
| Andy Teucher | Openscapes | Speaker | The NASA Earthdata Cloud Cookbook: A Quarto Collaboration Story | — |
| Barret Schloerke | Posit | Speaker | Beyond Bootstrap: Building Custom Shiny UI Packages with AI | — |
| Becca Krouse | GSK | Workshop | AI-Powered Clinical Reporting in R with the Pharmaverse | — |
| Becca Krouse | GSK | Speaker | Say Yes to the Request - From Helping One to Empowering Many | — |
| Ben Arancibia | GSK | Speaker | Flipping the Switch | — |
| Ben Haffly | Seattle City Light | Speaker | It Worked Great Until I Left | — |
| Ben Straub | Praxis Precision Medicines | Workshop | AI-Powered Clinical Reporting in R with the Pharmaverse | — |
| Bilikisu Aderinto | Business Data Laboratory | Speaker | — | — |
| Björn Fisseler | FernUniversität in Hagen | Speaker | Shift-left for more accessibility | — |
| Blake Abbenante | Suffolk Construction | Speaker | The Tableau Plateau: From Dashboards to AI-Ready Data Products | — |
| Brendan Broderick | Mayo Clinic | Speaker | SQL Without Writing SQL: dbplyr for Serious Shiny Apps | — |
| Brian Lambert | Posit | Speaker | SQL as a first-class language in your data science IDE | — |
| Bryce Mecum | Columnar | Speaker | ADBC: A Faster Foundation for Database Connectivity in R, Python, and Beyond | — |
| Carlos Scheidegger | Posit | Speaker | Quarto Hub: Collaboratively edit, create, and share documents | — |
| Carson Sievert | Posit | Speaker | The Shiny AI Stack: shinychat, querychat, and the LLM Plumbing Beneath | — |
| Casey Johnson | Pfizer | Workshop | Administering and Orchestrating Next-Gen Statistical Environments for AI and Open Source Enabled Infrastructure for Regulated Use Cases | — |
| Charlie Gao | Posit | Speaker | Never Block, Never Copy: mirai + mori from Shiny to the Cluster | — |
| Charlotte Wickham | Posit | Speaker | Quarto + Accessibility + You | — |
| Charlotte Wickham | Posit | Workshop | Practical Quarto: Patterns, Templates, and Tooling | — |
| Chetan Thapar | Posit | Speaker | Enterprise Data Science, Minus the Overhead: Posit Team Native App on Snowflake | — |
| Christian Martinez | City University of New York | Speaker | Designing Reproducible Learning Ecosystems with R and Quarto | — |
| Cory Adkins | Consilio | Speaker | Friends till the End(-to-end): Moving R and Python Projects into Pipelines with targets and Hamilton | — |
| Cynthia Huang | LMU Munich | Speaker | Reusing 'ggplot2' code: how to design better plot helper functions | — |
| Daniel Sjoberg | Kardigan | Workshop | AI-Powered Clinical Reporting in R with the Pharmaverse | — |
| Derrick Cogburn | American University | Speaker | From Programming Alone to Programming and Prompting: Teaching Bilingual AI-Enabled Data Science with Positron and Quarto | — |
| Dylan Wootton | MIT | Speaker | Principles for Effective Interactive Visualizations | — |
| Edgar Ruiz | Posit | Speaker | Prepare locally, run remotely: Easily scale Tidymodels on Databricks with sparklyr | — |
| Elliot Murphy | Posit | Speaker | AI Governance in Posit Team: getting better results from agentic helpers | — |
| Emil Hvitfeldt | Posit | Speaker | Slideware Is Dead - Long Live Quarto | — |
| Emil Hvitfeldt | Posit | Workshop | Practical Machine Learning with tidymodels | — |
| Eric Nantz | — | Speaker | For the community, by the community: The 10-year journey of R Weekly powered by open-source | — |
| Eric Thompson | Juul Labs | Speaker | Cairn: From notebooks to logbooks | — |
| Erica Chio | — | Speaker | Delivering Automations at Scale: {rtemplate} for High‑Throughput Biomarker Analytics | — |
| Felippe Lazar Neto | Sociedade Brasileira de Oncologia Clínica (SBOC) | Speaker | CancerTrialsBR: Improving Access to Cancer Clinical Trials in Brazil with R, Shiny and Large Language Models | — |
| Florian Mayr | Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System | Speaker | Operationalizing Quality: Building an ICU Dashboard at the VA with Shiny | — |
| Francois Michonneau | Posit | Workshop | Getting Started with Positron: An AI-Ready Polyglot Workflow for Data Science | — |
| Gabriel Morrison | Urban Institute | Speaker | Open Source Routing Analysis at Scale | — |
| Garrett Grolemund | Posit | Workshop | Getting Started with Positron: An AI-Ready Polyglot Workflow for Data Science | — |
| Garrick Aden-Buie | Posit | Speaker | The Shiny AI Stack: shinychat, querychat, and the LLM Plumbing Beneath | — |
| Garrick Aden-Buie | Posit | Workshop | Programming with LLMs in R and Python | — |
| Gergely Daroczi | Spare Cores | Speaker | SELECT instance FROM cloud WHERE workload = ? ORDER BY cost_efficiency | — |
| Hadley Wickham | Posit | Speaker | data-dict & data-diff: two tools supporting AI-human data science collaboration | — |
| Hadley Wickham | Posit | Workshop | Our Modern R Workflow (ft. Positron and AI) | — |
| Hamid Shafiezadeh | FNBO | Speaker | When English Is Second, R Comes First | — |
| Ian Cook | Columnar | Speaker | ADBC: A Faster Foundation for Database Connectivity in R, Python, and Beyond | — |
| Imari Genias | Guidehouse | Speaker | Finding Care Fast: An R Shiny App for Infectious Disease Exposure Response | — |
| Inger Bergom | Harvard University | Speaker | One Report, Many Audiences: Role‑Based Views in Posit Connect | — |
| Isabel Glauss | Boehringer Ingelheim | Speaker | High Quality R/Shiny Apps at Scale: Lessons from DaVinci’s Modular Framework | — |
| Isabel Zimmerman | Posit | Speaker | Positron Everywhere All At Once | — |
| Isabel Zimmerman | Posit | Workshop | Modern Data Science in Python | — |
| Jadey Ryan | Washington State Department of Agriculture | Speaker | Template → Package → App: Meeting Users Where They're At | — |
| James Blair | Posit | Speaker | Positron for Everyone: Organization-Wide Posit Tooling on Amazon SageMaker | — |
| James Clawson | Grant Witness | Speaker | Debugging Is a Nightmare: Meaningful Metaphors for Data Science Education | — |
| James Wade | Dow | Speaker | AI Agents Deserve R | — |
| Jay Westreich | — | Speaker | Building a Custom Version of GeoGuessr in R | — |
| Jenny Bryan | Posit | Workshop | Our Modern R Workflow (ft. Positron and AI) | — |
| Jeroen Janssens | Posit | Speaker | The modern tool builder: CLIs, agents, and PEP 723 | — |
| Jeroen Janssens | Posit | Workshop | Modern Data Science in Python | — |
| Joe Cheng | Posit | Speaker | AI Agents for Data Science: Posit Assistant, Commons, and Beyond | — |
| Joe Roberts | Posit | Speaker | Beyond Packages: Governing the AI Toolchain with Posit Package Manager | — |
| John Paul Helveston | The George Washington University | Speaker | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quarto | — |
| Jon Harmon | Atorus Research | Speaker | The Design of Everyday R Functions | — |
| Jonathan McPherson | Posit | Speaker | Quarto Notebooks and Literate Programming in Positron | — |
| Josh Livingston | — | Speaker | Interdependent Filters in Shiny Made Simple | — |
| Julia Silge | Posit | Speaker | SQL as a first-class language in your data science IDE | — |
| Kaitlyn Housel | University of Washington | Speaker | Interpretable NLP for Clinical Imaging: Using tidymodels and Lasso-Regularized Text Models to Classify Pleural Effusion Impressions in R | — |
| Karan Gathani | Posit | Speaker | Shiny design: Where humans and AI disagree | — |
| Kathryn Cronquist | Summit Partners | Speaker | AI/ML SOS IDK | — |
| Katie Masiello | Posit | Speaker | — | — |
| Keaton Wilson | CHG Healthcare | Speaker | ORCA: a collaboratively-built AI-powered Shiny app built on Posit Team | — |
| Kelli Goggans | National Institutes of Health | Speaker | When the data doesn’t fit the question | — |
| Kelly Bodwin | California Polytechnic State University | Speaker | Life after R4DS: How to take your R skills to the next level | — |
| Kelly O'Briant | Posit | Speaker | — | — |
| Kelly Pisane | Booking.com | Speaker | Building Confidence, Not Bugs: Internal Packages for Empowered Data Teams | — |
| Kelsey Chalmers | The Lown Institute | Speaker | Outgrowing Spreadsheets: Rebuilding Research Data Collection with Shiny and Posit Connect | — |
| Kimberley Isabel Orozco Cornejo | ixpantia | Speaker | Beyond Prediction: A Causal Framework using R for solving real world problems | — |
| Konstantinos Ntentes | Posit | Speaker | Inbox Insights with ellmer and Posit Connect | — |
| Kristin Bott | Posit | Speaker | Hello, robot: Introducing humans to LLM’s | — |
| Leslie Emery | Bristol Myers Squibb | Speaker | Clinical data harmonization with LLMs | — |
| Libby McKenna | Brown and Caldwell | Speaker | Repotting and propagating my Shiny houseplant | — |
| Luis D. Verde Arregoitia | Instituto de Ecología AC INECOL | Speaker | Can I offer you a nice IDE in this trying time? | — |
| Luis Wirth | HMS Analytical Software | Speaker | Combining Agentic Python Applications with R Workflows Using Posit Connect | — |
| Magdalena Krochmal | Roche | Workshop | AI-Powered Clinical Reporting in R with the Pharmaverse | — |
| Malosree Maitra | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Speaker | Bridging the Gap: Custom Catalogs to Connect End Users with Data Products | — |
| Marc Dotson | Utah State University | Speaker | Positron and the Three Bears: Teaching Python with Positron | — |
| Matt Leary | Posit | Speaker | Building Posit Connect for Two Very Different AI Organizations | — |
| Max Kuhn | Posit | Speaker | Roll for Wisdom: What AI Gets Wrong About Data Analysis | — |
| Max Kuhn | Posit | Workshop | Practical Machine Learning with tidymodels | — |
| Meghan Harris | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Speaker | Fake it Til' You Make It: Mocking Reality So Your Tests Can Run | — |
| Michael Hausinger | Dow | Speaker | Finding Common Language between Data Scientists and Non Data Scientists | — |
| Michael Mayer | Posit | Workshop | Administering and Orchestrating Next-Gen Statistical Environments for AI and Open Source Enabled Infrastructure for Regulated Use Cases | — |
| Michael Morales | Intus | Speaker | An R app for generating appraisals reports | — |
| Michael Mullarkey | Teamworks | Speaker | Instant Feedback, Robust Evals: Agentic AI Tutoring in R and Python | — |
| Michael Thomas | Ketchbrook Analytics | Speaker | ORCA: a collaboratively-built AI-powered Shiny app built on Posit Team | — |
| Mike Smith | Pfizer | Workshop | Administering and Orchestrating Next-Gen Statistical Environments for AI and Open Source Enabled Infrastructure for Regulated Use Cases | — |
| Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel | Posit | Workshop | Practical Quarto: Patterns, Templates, and Tooling | — |
| Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel | Posit | Speaker | Another one writes the code | — |
| Mirian Lima | United Nations | Speaker | Package Your Judgment, Keep Your Intent | — |
| Morgana Kinlan | DeepSeas | Speaker | Staying Organized Across Machines: Practical Workflows for Data Scientists with Busy Brains | — |
| Morten Dall | University of Washington | Speaker | How Shiny changed data analysis at the Metabolism Center | — |
| Nate Mockler | Biogen | Speaker | How I Automated My Job, Cashed Out and Developed 6-Pack Abs Using AI! | — |
| Neal Richardson | Posit | Speaker | MCP, or not MCP | — |
| Neil Rosenbaum | Houston Methodist Hospital | Speaker | Clinical Data Science | — |
| Neil Rosenbaum | Houston Methodist Hospital | Speaker | Environmental Stressors and Healthcare: Lessons from Scaling a Posit/R Pipeline That Connects Environmental Data to Emergency Department Visits | — |
| Nick Giangreco | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | Speaker | Delivering Automations at Scale: {rtemplate} for High‑Throughput Biomarker Analytics | — |
| Nick Strayer | Posit | Speaker | Positron Notebooks: Built Around How You Actually Work | — |
| Nicky Bell | Powered Analysis | Speaker | Between Code and Conclusions: An Evaluation Layer for LLM-Generated Analysis | — |
| Nicolas Bennett | cynkra GmbH | Speaker | Less to decide, more to reuse: the block in blockr | — |
| Nicole Jones | Denali Therapeutics | Workshop | Administering and Orchestrating Next-Gen Statistical Environments for AI and Open Source Enabled Infrastructure for Regulated Use Cases | — |
| Olivia Hebner | Summit Partners | Speaker | AI/ML SOS IDK | — |
| Padmashri Saravanan | BioData Sage | Speaker | Yes And...AI in Your IDE | — |
| Paula Lopez Casado | Cleo | Speaker | Influence with Quarto: Designing Reports That Drive Decisions | — |
| Ran Li | Drexel University | Speaker | Making the Impossible Possible: A Software-First Stack for Resource-Constrained Research | — |
| Rebecca Wardrop | Michigan Medicine | Speaker | Clinical Data Science | — |
| Rebecca Wardrop | Michigan Medicine | Speaker | Lowering Cesarean Rates - Using Quarto to Create Scalable Performance Reports | — |
| Richard Iannone | Posit | Speaker | Great Docs: Beautiful Documentation Sites for Python Packages | — |
| Richard Iannone | Posit | Workshop | Modern Data Science in Python | — |
| Ryan Yen | MIT | Speaker | Principles for Effective Interactive Visualizations | — |
| Sam Clark | Posit | Speaker | Three Agents, Two Mistakes, or Designing for LLM-Assisted Data Analysis | — |
| Sara Altman | Posit | Workshop | Programming with LLMs in R and Python | — |
| Satish J Murthy | Johnson & Johnson | Workshop | Administering and Orchestrating Next-Gen Statistical Environments for AI and Open Source Enabled Infrastructure for Regulated Use Cases | — |
| Sharon Wang | Posit | Speaker | What context do your AI agents actually need? | — |
| Shelby Level | The Ohio State University | Speaker | First Impressions Matter: Styling Data Products That People Actually Want to Use | — |
| Sierra Johnson | Brown and Caldwell | Speaker | Crying, Caching, and Compiling: The Five Stages of R Optimization | — |
| Sofia Lendahl | NASA | Speaker | Quarto Wiki Chatbot | — |
| Subodh Kumar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Positron for Everyone: Organization-Wide Posit Tooling on Amazon SageMaker | — |
| Tanya Cashorali | TCB Analytics | Speaker | From Tribal Knowledge to Trusted AI in Pharma | — |
| Tanya Shapiro | IndieVisual | Speaker | Template → Package → App: Meeting Users Where They're At | — |
| Thomas Lin Pedersen | Posit | Speaker | A Grammar of Graphics for SQL | — |
| Tiger Tang | CARFAX, Inc | Speaker | From ABC to AI: Applying Language Acquisition to R and Technical Mastery | — |
| Timothy Keyes | Stanford Health Care | Speaker | From chats to workflows to “agents”: Demystifying LLM jargon by example | — |
| Tom Mock | Posit | Speaker | AI Governance: Bringing Posit Assistant to the enterprise | — |
| Tom Shafer | Elder Research | Speaker | Better Python Notebooks with Marimo | — |
| Travis Gerke | The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium | Speaker | Quack to the Future: Building Traceable Data Lakehouses with DuckLake in R | — |
| Tyler Riccio | Citizens Bank | Speaker | From Dplyr to Polars: Migrating Tools & Languages While Maintaining the Tidy Model | — |
| Tyson Barrett | Utah State University | Speaker | Teach Once, Use Often: Building AI Skills for Data Analysis | — |
| Wasim Lorgat | Posit | Speaker | Where Do Notebooks Come From? | — |
| Winston Chang | Posit | Speaker | Why is AI costing me so much money? | — |
| Wojciech Gajewski | Appsilon | Speaker | Running a software department in times of agents | — |
| Yasha Kaushal | CCS Fundraising | Speaker | LLM-Powered Data Workflows: Structuring Inputs and Accelerating Insight | — |
| Zan Armstrong | — | Speaker | Do This Instead: 4 Alternatives to Common Charts | — |