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Speakers

Hamel Husain

Employers on the program

  1. 2023–2025Parlance Labs5 talks
  2. 2022–2023fast.ai3 talks

Bluesky: @hamelhusain.bsky.social

Events9
Conferences6
Talks101 keynote
Years active2020–2026
Miles between events18,7628 in-person events · 2 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
  • Data Council
  • JupyterCon
  • posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
  • PyData
  • QCon

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 16, 2026QCon San Francisco 2026QConspeakerThe Revenge of the Data Scientist: Why Reliable AI Needs Evals, Traces, and Metrics
Most teams can now ship an AI prototype by calling a foundation-model API. The hard part is knowing whether that system works when real users, messy data, and…Show less

Most teams can now ship an AI prototype by calling a foundation-model API. The hard part is knowing whether that system works when real users, messy data, and business consequences arrive.

Apr 22, 2025Data Council 2025Data CounciltalkThe Model is Not the Product
as Parlance Labs
Feb 19, 2025AI Engineer Summit 2025 (New York)AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)leadership trackHow To Build an AI Strategy That Fails
as Parlance Labs
Want to guarantee your AI initiatives are great boardroom presentations but don't actually work? This talk explores the most reliable ways to waste time, money,…Show less

Want to guarantee your AI initiatives are great boardroom presentations but don't actually work? This talk explores the most reliable ways to waste time, money, and resources while building AI strategies. One proven method? Cultivate the perfect disconnect between those building AI solutions and the executives charting the strategic direction.

Video
Jun 25, 2024AI Engineer World's Fair 2024AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)speakerHow to construct domain-specific LLM evaluation systems.
as Parlance Labs
"Many failed AI products share a common root cause: a failure to create robust evaluation systems. Evaluation systems allow you to improve your AI quickly in a…Show less

"Many failed AI products share a common root cause: a failure to create robust evaluation systems. Evaluation systems allow you to improve your AI quickly in a systematic way and unlock superpowers like the ability to curate data for fine-tuning. However, many practitioners struggle with how to construct evaluation systems that are specific to their problems.

Video
Jun 25, 2024AI Engineer World's Fair 2024AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)keynoteWhat We Learned From A Year of Building With LLMs
as Parlance Labs

Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.

Video
May 10, 2023JupyterCon 2023JupyterContutorialWrite, Document, Test and Distribute Python Packages With Jupyter & Quarto
as fast.ai
nbdev is an exciting literate and exploratory programming framework that provides developers with 10x productivity in Python. With nbdev, you write your tests,…Show less

nbdev is an exciting literate and exploratory programming framework that provides developers with 10x productivity in Python. With nbdev, you write your tests, documentation and software in one context: a Jupyter Notebook.

Apr 26, 2023PyData Seattle 2023PyDatapanelistPanel: “Building a Stronger Open Source Python Data Community: Trends, Gaps, and Collaborative Contributions”
as fast.ai
Video
Mar 28, 2023Data Council Austin '23Data CounciltalkInnovating on Software Development Other
as Parlance Labs
Jul 25, 2022rstudio::conf(2022)posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)speakerLiterate Programming With Jupyter Notebooks and Quarto
as fastai

Jupyter Notebooks play a critical role in in the workflow of many users.

SlidesVideo
Oct 12, 2020JupyterCon 2020JupyterConspeakerfastpages - A new, open source Jupyter notebook blogging system.

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
J.J. Allaire312023
Charles Frye212025
Jason Liu212025
Katrina Riehl212023
Zander Matheson212023
Holden Karau2—2026
Alex Volkov2—2025
Alison Cossette2—2025
Aparna Dhinakaran2—2025
Beyang Liu2—2025
David Wilson2—2025
Eno Reyes2—2025
Erik Bernhardsson2—2025
George Mathew2—2025
Hadley Wickham2—2025

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.