Conferences / PyData
PyData Virginia 2025
Apr 18–19, 2025 · Violet Crown Cinema (talks, Apr 18); UVA Darden School of Business (tutorials, Apr 19), Charlottesville, VA, United States
- Conference
- PyData Data science & ML
- Dates
- Apr 18, 2025 – Apr 19, 2025
- Venue
- Violet Crown Cinema (talks, Apr 18); UVA Darden School of Business (tutorials, Apr 19)
- Place
- Charlottesville, VA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- pydata.org
- Recorded
- 12 sponsors · 56 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Day 1 talks/keynote at Violet Crown Cinema, 200 W Main St; Day 2 tutorials at UVA Darden, 100 Darden Blvd. Ran concurrently with the Tom Tom Festival; Haystack US 2025 followed at the same venue Apr 22-24. Speakers: all talks/tutorials/panels from the pretalx schedule; affiliations only where the pretalx bio states a current employer/university. Videos from the PyData YouTube playlist PLGVZCDnMOq0qLS7Mk-jI9jhb4t5UY6yDW. Sponsor tiers read from logo order on sponsor page (Diamond logos: Quantitative Foundation, UVA Darden). 2-Day Pass and Talk Pass were sold out per ti.to.
Ticket prices
Sponsors 12
Title / headline 2
- Quantitative Foundation · Diamond
- UVA Darden School of Business · Diamond
Platinum 1
Speakers and talks 56
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rajkumar Venkatesan | University of Virginia | Keynote | Keynote: Building AI-First Organizations | Video |
| Aaron Baker | CapTech | Panelist | Panel: Principles for Effective and Successful Data Scientists | — |
| Alec Gosse | S&P Global | Speaker | AI Ready Data | Video |
| Alex Arsenovic | — | Speaker | What is Geometric Algebra and can it help me? | — |
| Andrea Hobby | — | Tutorial | Responsible AI with SciPy | Video |
| Astha Puri | CVS Health | Tutorial | Build Your Own Data Science AI Agents | Video |
| Benjamin Bengfort | Rotational Labs | Speaker | Practical Multi Armed Bandits | Video |
| Brian Richards | HelioCampus | Speaker | Machine Learning Pipelines in Higher Education: Lessons Learned Taking Models From Training to Production | — |
| Chris Fonnesbeck | PyMC Labs | Tutorial | A Beginner's Guide to Variational Inference | Video |
| Christopher N. Eichelberger | — | Panelist | Panel: Bridging the Gap: Collaborative Approaches to Data Science | — |
| Chuxin Liu | JPMorgan Chase | Tutorial | Build Your Own Data Science AI Agents | Video |
| Cory Eicher | Eichcorp | Speaker | Using Python to Unlock Insights from OpenStreetMap Data at Scale | Video |
| Cynthia Ukawu | — | Tutorial | From Pandas to PySpark | Video |
| Dan Loehr | Georgetown University | Speaker | Addressing Climate Change with AI | — |
| David Der | — | Speaker | Real-Time Fitness Leaderboards with Open-Source Moose | — |
| David Der | — | Panelist | Panel: Principles for Effective and Successful Data Scientists | — |
| Dmitry Petrov | DataChain | Speaker | Versioning Multimodal Data: Metadata & Beyond | Video |
| Dr. Kimberly Deas | — | Tutorial | Data Viz in Python as a Tool to Study HIV Health Disparities | Video |
| Dr. Michele Claibourn | University of Virginia | Speaker | Exploring Eviction Trends in Virginia | Video |
| Greg Michaelson | Zerve | Speaker | Saving Lives with Data Science: How data science shortened the COVID-19 pandemic by 2 months | Video |
| Hamish Brookeman | S&P Global | Speaker | AI Ready Data | Video |
| John Berryman | Arcturus Labs | Tutorial | Mastering LLMs: From Prompt Engineering to Agentic AI | Video |
| Josh Fairchild | — | Speaker | The Secret Sauce of Customer Satisfaction: Turning Data Pipelines into Data Products | — |
| Krishna Rekapalli | IBM | Tutorial | Building Rich RAG Systems with Docling: Unlock Information from Tables, Images, and Complex Documents | Video |
| Lane Rasberry | University of Virginia | Tutorial | Introduction to Wikidata | Video |
| Liam Agnew | — | Speaker | The Secret Sauce of Customer Satisfaction: Turning Data Pipelines into Data Products | — |
| MacKenzye Leroy | S&P Global | Speaker | Evaluating LLMs at S&P Global: Building a Robust Evaluation Framework for GenAI Productivity Tools | Video |
| Manikandarajan Shanmugavel | S&P Global | Panelist | Panel: Bridging the Gap: Collaborative Approaches to Data Science | — |
| Matt Litz | BWX Technologies | Tutorial | Tutorial on Image Classification using Scikit-Image, Scikit-learn, and PyTorch | SlidesVideo |
| Matthew Topol | Voltron Data | Speaker | Practical Applications of Apache Arrow | Video |
| Matthew Topol | Voltron Data | Speaker | Author Chat & Book Signing | — |
| Mauricio Mathey | Asarco | Speaker | Using Changepoint and Bayesian Analysis to Drive Safety Improvements in Mining | Video |
| Michelle Rojas | — | Tutorial | Build Your Own Data Science AI Agents | Video |
| Mike McCarty | NVIDIA | Tutorial | Getting Started with RAPIDS: GPU-Accelerated Data Science for PyData Users | Video |
| Nathan Day | — | Speaker | Maximizing Multimodal: Exploring the search frontier of text-to-image models to improve visual find-ability for creatives | Video |
| Naty Clementi | NVIDIA | Tutorial | Getting Started with RAPIDS: GPU-Accelerated Data Science for PyData Users | Video |
| Niharika Krishnan | — | Tutorial | Build Your Own Data Science AI Agents | Video |
| Ralph Liu | NVIDIA | Speaker | Zero Code Change GPU-Powered Graph Analytics with NetworkX and cuGraph | Video |
| Renee Teate | HelioCampus | Panelist | Panel: Principles for Effective and Successful Data Scientists | — |
| Renee Teate | HelioCampus | Speaker | Author Chat & Book Signing | — |
| Renee Teate | HelioCampus | Panelist | Panel: Bridging the Gap: Collaborative Approaches to Data Science | — |
| Robert Shelton | Redis | Tutorial | Blazing the AI Trail: Using LangGraph to Conquer the Oregon Trail | Video |
| Robin Isadora Brown | — | Tutorial | Introduction to Wikidata | Video |
| Samantha Toet | University of Virginia | Speaker | Exploring Eviction Trends in Virginia | Video |
| Sihang Jiang | University of Virginia | Speaker | Bayesian Risk Analysis For Large Multi-Modal Data | Video |
| Siwen Liao | University of Virginia | Speaker | The Art of Brain Data in ASD Subjects: Celebrating Neurodiversity Through Aesthetic Data Visualization | Video |
| Srijith Rajamohan | Redis | Speaker | Fine tuning embeddings for semantic caching | — |
| Suhas Pai | Hudson Labs | Speaker | Author Chat & Book Signing | — |
| Suhas Pai | Hudson Labs | Speaker | Making the most of test-time compute in LLMs | Video |
| Thomas Loeber | GoHealth | Panelist | Panel: Bridging the Gap: Collaborative Approaches to Data Science | — |
| Tyler Hutcherson | Redis | Speaker | Fine tuning embeddings for semantic caching | — |
| Vivek Dhand | — | Speaker | Visualization of higher-dimensional feature spaces during model training | — |
| Waris Gill | Virginia Tech | Speaker | Fine tuning embeddings for semantic caching | — |
| Will Angel | Excella | Speaker | Data wrangling with DuckDB | Video |
| William Ayd | — | Speaker | Author Chat & Book Signing | — |
| William Ayd | — | Speaker | Practical Applications of Apache Arrow | Video |