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PyData Seattle 2025

Nov 7–9, 2025 · Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA, United States

Conference
PyData Data science & ML
Dates
Nov 7, 2025 – Nov 9, 2025
Venue
Bellevue College
Place
Bellevue, WA, United States
Format
In person
Status
Past
Attendance
—
Website
pydata.org
Recorded
0 sponsors · 66 speaker appearances
Notes
Held at Bellevue College, 3000 Landerholm Cir SE, Bellevue, WA (Seattle area). pydata.org/seattle2025 has expired and the Wayback Machine was unreachable during research, so sponsors are not recorded (LanceDB was billed as a community partner on its own Luma page). Speakers: all talks/tutorials/panels/keynotes from pretalx; affiliations only where the pretalx bio states one.

Ticket prices

TicketPriceValid untilNotesSource
Student Tutorial Pass$100—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Individual Tutorial Pass$150—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Corporate Tutorial Pass$200—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Startup Tutorial Pass$200—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Student Talk Pass$200—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Individual Talk Pass$250—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Student 3-Day Pass$300—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Startup Talk Pass$300—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Individual 3-Day Pass$400—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Corporate Talk Pass$400—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Startup 3-Day Pass$500—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to
Corporate 3-Day Pass$600—Final price incl. processing fees; early bird ($50 off 3-day, $25 off tutorial/talk, non-student) through 2025-09-22ti.to

Sponsors 0

No sponsors recorded

Speakers and talks 66

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Chang SheLanceDBKeynoteKeynote: Chang She - Never Send a Human to do an Agent's SearchVideo
Josh Starmer—KeynoteKeynote: Josh Starmer - Communicating Concepts, Clearly Explained!!! (Or, why I don’t worry about AI taking my job and sense of purpose away from me.)Video
Zaheera ValaniDatabricksKeynoteKeynote: Zaheera Valani- Driving Data Democratization with the Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformVideo
Allison DingNVIDIATutorialScaling Large-Scale Interactive Data Visualization with Accelerated Computing—
Allison WangDatabricksSpeakerPolars on Spark: Unlocking Performance with Arrow Python UDFsVideo
Andy Terrel—SpeakerBuilding Inference Workflows with Tile LanguagesVideo
Andy Terrel—TutorialGPU Accelerated Python—
Anquida Adams—PanelistDiversity Panel: Data for All: Empowering Underrepresented Voices in Data Science and Analytics—
Avik Basu—SpeakerBeyond Just Prediction: Causal Thinking in Machine LearningVideo
Aziza MirsaidovaOracleSpeakerPrompt Variation as a Diagnostic Tool: Exposing Contamination, Memorization, and True Capability in LLMsVideo
Bernardo Dionisi—SpeakerKnow Your Data(Frame) with Paguro: Declarative and Composable Validation and Metadata using PolarsVideo
Bill EngelsPyMC LabsSpeakerActually using GPs in practice with PyMC Data scienceVideo
C.A.M. Gerlach—SpeakerDemocratizing (Py)Data: Remote computing for allVideo
C.A.M. Gerlach—TutorialNewcomer Sprint!—
Carl Kadie—SpeakerHow to Optimize your Python Program for Slowness: Inspired by New Turing Machine ResultsVideo
Carl Kadie—SpeakerExplore Solvable and Unsolvable Equations with SymPyVideo
Carlos Garcia Jurado SuarezCodePointersSpeakerWrangling Internet-scale Image DatasetsVideo
Catherine Nelson—TutorialGoing From Notebooks to Production Code—
Daniel ChenPositTutorialLLMs, Chatbots, and Dashboards: Visualize and Analyze Your Data with Natural Language—
David AronchickExpansoSpeakerTaming the Data Tsunami: An Open-Source Playbook to Get Ready for MLVideo
Denny LeeDatabricksSpeakerBuilding Agents with Agent Bricks and MCPVideo
Devin PetersohnSnowflakeSpeakerWe don't dataframe shame: A love letter to dataframesVideo
Eloisa Elias T—PanelistPanel: Building Data-Driven Startups with User-Centric DesignVideo
Eloisa Elias T—PanelistDiversity Panel: Data for All: Empowering Underrepresented Voices in Data Science and Analytics—
Eloisa Elias T—TutorialNewcomer Sprint!—
Esteban GinezQ-CTRLTutorialSubgraph Isomorphism at Scale with data science tools—
Everett KlevenDaftSpeakerWhy Models Break Your Pipelines (and How to Make Them First-Class Citizens)Video
Fangchen Li—TutorialNewcomer Sprint!—
FTC 18225 High Definition—TutorialBuilding Intelligent DIY Robots: From Hardware to Vision Systems—
Heejoon AhnNorthwell HealthPanelistDiversity Panel: Data for All: Empowering Underrepresented Voices in Data Science and Analytics—
Ivan Perez AvellanedaMonaghan Medical CorporationTutorialThe Problem of Address Matching: a Journey through NLP and AI—
Jack YeLanceDBSpeakerSupercharging Multimodal Feature Engineering with Lance and RayVideo
Jake Stevens-Haas—TutorialNewcomer Sprint!—
Jim DowlingHopsworksSpeakerReal-TIme Context Engineering for AgentsVideo
Jiten Oswal—TutorialBuilding Bazel Packages for AI/ML: SciPy, PyTorch, and Beyond—
John Carney—SpeakerBuilding valuable Deterministic products in a Probabilistic worldVideo
John TigueConnoiterTutorialHow to make datamap web-apps of embedding vectors via open source tooling—
Joseph Holsten—TutorialNewcomer Sprint!—
Joshua AhmedRealEngineersPanelistPanel: Building Data-Driven Startups with User-Centric DesignVideo
Justin CastillaRedisSpeakerThere and back again... by ferry or I-5?Video
Jyotinder SinghGoogleSpeakerPractical Quantization in Keras: Running Large Models on Small DevicesVideo
Khuyen TranCodeCutSpeakerMulti-Series Forecasting at Scale with StatsForecastSlidesVideo
Micheleen Harris—PanelistDiversity Panel: Data for All: Empowering Underrepresented Voices in Data Science and Analytics—
Nicholas Merchant—SpeakerWrangling Internet-scale Image DatasetsVideo
nidhin pattaniyilWalmartTutorialBuilding a Deep Research Agentic Workflow—
Noor AftabAmazon Web ServicesSpeakerThe Missing 78%: What We Learned When Our Community Doubled OvernightVideo
Ojas Ankurbhai RamwalaUniversity of WashingtonSpeakerExplainable AI for Biomedical Image ProcessingVideo
Oli DinovAI By The BayPanelistDiversity Panel: Data for All: Empowering Underrepresented Voices in Data Science and Analytics—
Pedro AlbuquerqueAppOrchidSpeakerGeneralized Additive Models: Explainability Strikes BackVideo
Pedro LuraschiHal9PanelistPanel: Building Data-Driven Startups with User-Centric DesignVideo
Rachel Wagner-KaiserKPMGTutorialNewcomer Sprint!—
RajeshJenius BankSpeakerSecuring Retrieval-Augmented Generation: How to Defend Vector Databases Against 2025 ThreatsVideo
Ramesh OswalAuroraTutorialBuilding Bazel Packages for AI/ML: SciPy, PyTorch, and Beyond—
Ravi Kumar YadavWalmartTutorialBuilding a Deep Research Agentic Workflow—
Robert MassonAtlassianTutorialGoing From Notebooks to Production Code—
Roman LutzMicrosoftSpeakerRed Teaming AI: Getting Started with PyRIT for Safer Generative AI SystemsVideo
Sarah KaiserMicrosoftTutorialThere's no place like home: using AI agents in Jupyter notebooks—
Saurabh GargOuterboundsSpeakerOptimizing AI/ML Workloads: Resource Management and Cost AttributionVideo
Sebastian DuerrCerebrasSpeakerEvaluation is all you needVideo
Shujing YangDatabricksSpeakerPolars on Spark: Unlocking Performance with Arrow Python UDFsVideo
Stephen ChengParakeet HealthSpeakerScaling Background Noise Filtration for AI Voice AgentsVideo
Trent NelsonNVIDIASpeakerUnlocking Parallel PyTorch Inference (and More!) with Python Free-ThreadingVideo
Weston PaceLanceDBSpeakerData Loading for Data EngineersVideo
Yibei Hu—SpeakerMulti-Series Forecasting at Scale with StatsForecastSlidesVideo
Yinhan LiuFlickBloomPanelistPanel: Building Data-Driven Startups with User-Centric DesignVideo
Yujian TangOSS4AIPanelistPanel: Building Data-Driven Startups with User-Centric DesignVideo

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