Andy Kitchen
Employers on the program
- 2025Cortical Labs1 talk
- 2025Consultant1 talk
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- PyData
- EuroPython
- PyCon (national Python conferences)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | PyData Amsterdam 2026 | PyData | keynote | Mothering the Machine Sarah Connor, the mother, defeats The Terminator. Only Leeloo, The Fifth Element, can overcome the Ultimate Evil. | |
| May 27, 2026 | PyCon Italia 2026 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | talk | Program like a RoninThe Book of Five Rings is a profound work of samurai warrior philosophy, through the lens of misunderstanding this book, we can also truly misunderstand…Show lessThe Book of Five Rings is a profound work of samurai warrior philosophy, through the lens of misunderstanding this book, we can also truly misunderstand programming. Programming is exactly like sword fighting except there is no sword and no opponent. You must meditate on this. | Video |
| Apr 14, 2026 | PyCon DE & PyData 2026 | PyData | talk | On Interventional Generalisation If I do X instead of Y, will I get the outcome I want? What about in a new unseen situation? | |
| Sep 1, 2025 | PyData Berlin 2025 | PyData | keynote | PyData 2077: a data science future retrospectiveFrom: Chrono-Regulatory Commission, Temporal Enforcement Division To: PyData Berlin Organising Committee Subject: Citation TMP-2077-091 - Unauthorised Spacetime…Show lessFrom: Chrono-Regulatory Commission, Temporal Enforcement Division To: PyData Berlin Organising Committee Subject: Citation TMP-2077-091 - Unauthorised Spacetime Disturbance Dear Committee, Our temporal monitoring systems have detected an unauthorised chronological anomaly emanating from your... | Video |
| Jul 14, 2025 | EuroPython 2025 | EuroPython | talk | Wisdom of the cloud? Drifting through Community Notes as Consultant Community Notes - if you haven’t heard of this algorithm yet, you’ll come across it in 2025. Originated by the team at then-Twitter and developed open source,…Show lessCommunity Notes - if you haven’t heard of this algorithm yet, you’ll come across it in 2025. Originated by the team at then-Twitter and developed open source, this year Meta will be adopting it across all platforms (and spinning down all other content moderation—but that’s a separate topic). | Video |
| Apr 23, 2025 | PyCon DE & PyData 2025 | PyData | talk | Machine Reasoning and System 2 Thinking as Cortical Labs Raw large language models struggle with complex reasoning. New techniques have emerged that allow these models to spend more time thinking before giving an…Show lessRaw large language models struggle with complex reasoning. New techniques have emerged that allow these models to spend more time thinking before giving an answer. | |
| Sep 14, 2023 | PyData Amsterdam 2023 | PyData | talk | Promptly Evaluating Prompts with Bayesian Tournaments Pick your next hot LLM prompt using a Bayesian tournament! Get a quick LLM dopamine hit with a side of decision theory vegetables. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laura Summers | 7 | 3 | 2026 |
| Iryna Kondrashchenko | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Oleh Kostromin | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Cheuk Ting Ho | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Theodore Meynard | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Alexander CS Hendorf | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Azamat Omuraliev | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Dr. Kristian Rother | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Freya Bruhin | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Ines Montani | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Jannis Lübbe | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Luca Baggi | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Tereza Iofciu | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Vincenzo Ventriglia | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Alan Franzoni | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.