Conferences / PyData
PyData Boston 2025
Dec 8–10, 2025 · Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Conference
- PyData Data science & ML
- Dates
- Dec 8, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
- Venue
- Microsoft NERD Center
- Place
- Cambridge, MA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- pydata.org
- Recorded
- 5 sponsors · 62 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Tutorial day Dec 8, talks Dec 9-10, at Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge. pydata.org/boston2025 has expired and the Wayback Machine was unreachable, so sponsor tiers are unverified: sponsors listed from Posit's event page ("Microsoft (host), Anaconda, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and Posit"); a search snippet suggested the latter four were Diamond but this was not confirmed. Keynote affiliations (Posit, IBM) from Posit's event page; other affiliations from pretalx bios.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student Tutorial Pass (Monday only) | $100 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Individual Tutorial Pass (Monday only) | $150 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Corporate Tutorial Pass (Monday only) | $200 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Startup Tutorial Pass (Monday only) | $200 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Student Talk Pass (Tue & Wed only) | $200 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Individual Talk Pass (Tue & Wed only) | $250 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Student 3-Day Pass | $300 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Startup Talk Pass (Tue & Wed only) | $300 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Individual 3-Day Pass | $400 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Corporate Talk Pass (Tue & Wed only) | $400 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Startup 3-Day Pass | $500 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
| Corporate 3-Day Pass | $600 | — | Listed final price includes a 3.9% processing fee | ti.to |
Sponsors 5
Speakers and talks 62
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabel Zimmerman | Posit | Keynote | Keynote by Isabel Zimmerman | Video |
| Lisa Amini | IBM | Keynote | Keynote by Lisa Amini- What’s Next in AI for Data and Data Management? | Video |
| Aayush Gauba | — | Speaker | Embracing Noise: How Data Corruption Can Make Models Smarter | Video |
| Abhishek Murthy | Schneider Electric | Speaker | Applying Foundational Models for Time Series Anomaly Detection | Video |
| Allen Downey | PyMC Labs | Speaker | The SAT math gap: gender difference or selection bias? | Video |
| Aman Bhandari | Vertex Pharmaceuticals | Speaker | Using Traditional AI and LLMs to Automate Complex and Critical Documents in Healthcare | — |
| Astha Puri | CVS Health | Tutorial | Hands-On with LLM-Powered Recommenders: Hybrid Architectures for Next-Gen Personalization | Video |
| Benjamin Batorsky | GoGuardian | Speaker | Three agents, three frameworks, one talk | Video |
| Benjamin Lear | Pennsylvania State University | Tutorial | Understanding and using color for storytelling in data visualizations | Video |
| Brandon (Anbang) Wu | Quizlet | Speaker | Unlocking Smarter Typeahead Search: A Hybrid Framework for Large-Scale Query Suggestions | Video |
| Bryce Casavant | WHOOP | Speaker | Measuring Media Impact: Practical Geo-Lift Incrementality Testing | Video |
| Caitlin Lewis | Duke University | Speaker | fastplotlib: driving scientific discovery through data visualization | Video |
| Chuxin Liu | JPMorgan Chase | Panelist | How AI Is Transforming Data Careers — A Panel Discussion | Video |
| Chuxin Liu | JPMorgan Chase | Tutorial | Build Your MCP server | Video |
| Daina Bouquin | Anaconda | Speaker | Is Your LLM Evaluation Missing the Point? | Video |
| David Jones-Gilardi | — | Speaker | One agent, one job, better AI | Video |
| Dawn Wages | Anaconda | Speaker | The Lifecycle of a Jupyter Environment: From Exploration to Production-Grade Pipelines | Video |
| Deb Nicholson | Python Software Foundation | Speaker | Who is Python for? EVERYONE (and why that matters) | Video |
| Deepyaman Datta | Goldman Sachs | Speaker | Data engineering with Python the right way: introducing the composable, Python-native data stack | — |
| Dr. Rebecca Bilbro | Rotational Labs | Speaker | Where Have All the Metrics Gone? | Video |
| Eric Ma | Moderna | Tutorial | Building LLM Agents Made Simple | Video |
| Eric Ma | Moderna | Speaker | Patterns for Productive Agent-Assisted Programming | Video |
| fasal shah | Red Hat | Speaker | Scaling Specialist Knowledge with AI: From Virtual Specialist to Revenue Acceleration Agent | Video |
| Gayathri Ramanathan | CVS Health | Panelist | How AI Is Transforming Data Careers — A Panel Discussion | Video |
| Gilberto Hernandez | — | Tutorial | From Notebook to Pipeline: Hands-On Data Engineering with Python | Video |
| Ian Stokes-Rees | BCG | Tutorial | "Save your API Keys for someone else" -- Using the HuggingFace and Ollama ecosystems to run good-enough LLMs on your laptop | SlidesVideo |
| Isaac Godfried | — | Tutorial | Going multi-modal: How to leverage the lastest multi-modal LLMs and deep learning models on real world applications | Video |
| Ishita Sequeira | Red Hat | Speaker | Scaling Specialist Knowledge with AI: From Virtual Specialist to Revenue Acceleration Agent | Video |
| Itamar Turner-Trauring | — | Speaker | Processing large JSON files without running out of memory | Video |
| Jacob Tomlinson | NVIDIA | Speaker | Accelerating Geospatial Analysis with GPUs | Video |
| Jake Lorocco | — | Tutorial | Generative Programming with Mellea: from Agentic Soup to Robust Software | Video |
| Jaya Venkatesh | NVIDIA | Speaker | Accelerating Geospatial Analysis with GPUs | Video |
| Jules Walzer-Goldfeld | Posit | Speaker | Wrappers and Extenders: Companion Packages for Python Projects | Video |
| Katrina Riehl | NVIDIA | Tutorial | CUDA Python Kernel Authoring | Video |
| Konstantin Taletskiy | — | Speaker | The JupyterLab Extension Ecosystem: Trends & Signals from PyPI and GitHub | Video |
| Kushal Kolar | New York University | Speaker | fastplotlib: driving scientific discovery through data visualization | Video |
| Leonardo Ferreira | — | Tutorial | Create your Health Research Agent | — |
| Lily Xu | Vertex Pharmaceuticals | Speaker | Using Traditional AI and LLMs to Automate Complex and Critical Documents in Healthcare | — |
| Luca Fiaschi | PyMC Labs | Speaker | MMM Open- Source Showdown: A Practitioner's Benchmark of PyMC-Marketing vs. Google Meridian | Video |
| Mike Woodward | — | Speaker | Using Cursor (and other AI code gen tools) for data science | Video |
| Mingxuan Zhao | IBM | Tutorial | Learn to Unlock Document Intelligence with Open-Source AI | Video |
| Morgan Vincent | Pennsylvania State University | Tutorial | Understanding and using color for storytelling in data visualizations | Video |
| Nathan Fulton | IBM | Tutorial | Generative Programming with Mellea: from Agentic Soup to Robust Software | Video |
| Naty Clementi | NVIDIA | Speaker | Accelerating Geospatial Analysis with GPUs | Video |
| Nikunj Doshi | — | Speaker | Building Production RAG Systems for Health Care Domains : Clinical Decision | Video |
| Paddy Mullen | — | Speaker | The Column's the limit: interactive exploration of larger than memory data sets in a notebook with Polars and Buckaroo | Video |
| Pranav Kompally | Vizit | Speaker | Modeling Aesthetic Identity: Building a Digital Twin from Instagram Likes & Visual Preferences | Video |
| Rodrigo Silva Ferreira | Posit | Speaker | When Rivers Speak: Analyzing Massive Water Quality Datasets using USGS API and Remote SSH in Positron | Video |
| Sanjit Paliwal | Verizon | Speaker | No Cloud? No Problem. Local RAG with Embedding Gemma | Video |
| Sarthak Pattnaik | — | Speaker | Tracking Policy Evolution Through Clustering: A New Approach to Temporal Pattern Analysis in Multi-Dimensional Data | Video |
| Sebastian Wallkötter | — | Speaker | The Boringly Simple Loop Powering GenAI Apps | Video |
| Serhii Sokolenko | Tower | Speaker | Surviving the Agentic Hype with Small Language Models | Video |
| Sheetal Borar | Etsy | Tutorial | Hands-On with LLM-Powered Recommenders: Hybrid Architectures for Next-Gen Personalization | Video |
| Sheetal Borar | Etsy | Panelist | How AI Is Transforming Data Careers — A Panel Discussion | Video |
| Shikhar Patel | Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners HealthCare) | Speaker | Building Production RAG Systems for Health Care Domains : Clinical Decision | Video |
| Siddharth Shankar | Mphasis | Speaker | LLMOps in Practice: Building Secure, Governed Pipelines for Large Language Models | Video |
| Susan Shu Chang | Elastic | Speaker | Evaluating AI Agents in production with Python | Video |
| Ted Conway | — | Speaker | Fun With Python and Emoji: What Might Adding Pictures to Text Programming Languages Look Like? | Video |
| Yiwen Liu | — | Tutorial | Build Your MCP server | Video |
| Yiwen Liu | — | Panelist | How AI Is Transforming Data Careers — A Panel Discussion | Video |
| Yunxin Gao | — | Speaker | Rethinking Feature Importance: Evaluating SHAP and TreeSHAP for Tree-Based Machine Learning Models | Video |
| Zvi Topol | — | Speaker | Uncertainty-Guided AI Red Teaming: Efficient Vulnerability Discovery in LLMs | — |