Ritchie Vink
Appearances by year
- PyData
- PyCon (national Python conferences)
- Budapest Data+AI Forum
- EuroPython
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | PyData Amsterdam 2026 | PyData | tutorial | Polars Open Source Sprint: Fix Your First Issue or Build Your Own Expression Plugin as Polars Inc What is an open source sprint? An open source sprint is an event where programmers come together to make focused contributions to an open source project within…Show lessWhat is an open source sprint? An open source sprint is an event where programmers come together to make focused contributions to an open source project within a limited timeframe. | |
| Nov 6, 2024 | PyData NYC 2024 | PyData | speaker | Polars GPU acceleration | Video |
| Sep 18, 2024 | PyData Amsterdam 2024 | PyData | talk | Polars 1.0 and beyond Polars is a novel query engine that focuses on DataFrame use front-end. This July it has hit the 1.0 milestone and this August it has landed GPU support. | |
| Apr 2, 2024 | PyCon Lithuania 2024 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | keynote | Keynote PolarsPolars is an OLAP query engine that focusses on the DataFrame use case. Machines have changed a lot in the last decade and Polars is a query engine that is…Show lessPolars is an OLAP query engine that focusses on the DataFrame use case. Machines have changed a lot in the last decade and Polars is a query engine that is written from scratch in Rust to benefit from the modern hardware. Effective parallelism, cache efficient data structures and algorithms are... | |
| Nov 30, 2023 | PyData Eindhoven 2023 | PyData | keynote | Keynote on Polars Plugins Polars is an OLAP query engine that focusses on the DataFrame use case. | Video |
| Nov 1, 2023 | PyData NYC 2023 | PyData | speaker | Polars; DataFrames in the multi-core era. as Polars Inc. Polars is an OLAP query engine that focusses on the DataFrame use case. Machines have changed a lot in the last decade and Polars is a query engine that is…Show lessPolars is an OLAP query engine that focusses on the DataFrame use case. Machines have changed a lot in the last decade and Polars is a query engine that is written from scratch in Rust to benefit from the modern hardware. | Video |
| Sep 14, 2023 | PyData Amsterdam 2023 | PyData | talk | Polars and a peek in the expression engine This talk we will see why the expression engine in polars is so versatile and fast. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 | EuroPython 2023 | EuroPython | talk | What polars does for you. Ritchie Vink is the Author of the new Polars DataFrame library. The library that is built for modern hardware. | Video |
| May 17, 2023 | PyCon Lithuania 2023 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | talk | Polars: done the fast, now the scaleDataFrame abstractions are one of the favorite data structures of many data scientists, data-engineers and programmers in general. They offer flexibility and…Show lessDataFrame abstractions are one of the favorite data structures of many data scientists, data-engineers and programmers in general. They offer flexibility and intuitive reasoning on top of query processing. However, the implementation of DataFrame abstractions have been lacking. On the single... | |
| May 3, 2022 | Budapest ML Forum 2022 | Budapest Data+AI Forum | speaker | Introducing Polars: The fast(est) DataFrame library you may have heard of as Xomnia | |
| May 10, 2019 | PyData Amsterdam 2019 | PyData | talk | Build Facebook's Prophet in PyMC3; Bayesian time series analyis with Generalized Additive Models as Xomnia | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheuk Ting Ho | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Ines Montani | 5 | — | 2024 |
| James Powell | 5 | — | 2024 |
| Peter Vidos | 4 | — | 2024 |
| Vincent Warmerdam | 4 | — | 2024 |
| Laura Summers | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Maarten Sukel | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Marco Gorelli | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Alexander CS Hendorf | 3 | — | 2023 |
| Piotr Płoński | 3 | — | 2023 |
| Andy Kitchen | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Arda Kaygan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Azamat Omuraliev | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Dror A. Guldin | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jeroen Janssens | 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.