Simon Willison
Employers on the program
- 2023–2026Datasette2 talks
- 2019Eventbrite1 talk
- 2024Independent1 talk
Appearances by year
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
- PyCon (national Python conferences)
- JupyterCon
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 2026 | AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Simon Willison, Creator of Datasette, Independent | |
| Jun 29, 2026 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | keynote | This Year in Claude as Datasette | |
| Jun 3, 2025 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | keynote | 2025 in LLMs so farWhat's changed in the world of LLMs since the AIE World's Fair last year? A lot! I'll be taking full advantage of my role as a fiercely independent researcher…Show lessWhat's changed in the world of LLMs since the AIE World's Fair last year? A lot! I'll be taking full advantage of my role as a fiercely independent researcher to review the past 12 months of advances in the field and catch everyone up on the latest models, free from any influence of vendors or employers. | Video |
| Jun 25, 2024 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | keynote | Open Challenges for AI Engineering as Independent Previously, on AI Engineer... | Video |
| May 15, 2024 | PyCon US 2024 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | keynote | Untitled | Video |
| Oct 8, 2023 | AI Engineer Summit 2023 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Open Questions for AI Engineering as Datasette Recapping the past year in AI, and what open questions are *worth pursuing* in the next year! Covering local models, transparency, tool usage, prompt injection.…Show lessRecapping the past year in AI, and what open questions are *worth pursuing* in the next year! Covering local models, transparency, tool usage, prompt injection. Please will SOMEBODY solve these?? | Video |
| Nov 16, 2020 | PyConAr 2020 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | keynote | Keynote - Simon Willison | |
| Oct 12, 2020 | JupyterCon 2020 | JupyterCon | speaker | Using Datasette with Jupyter to publish your data | |
| May 1, 2019 | PyCon US 2019 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | speaker | Instant serverless APIs, powered by SQLite as Eventbrite Serverless computing is all about paying only for what you use: it can scale up to handle millions of requests, but it can also scale down to 0, costing you…Show lessServerless computing is all about paying only for what you use: it can scale up to handle millions of requests, but it can also scale down to 0, costing you nothing if your application is not receiving any traffic. | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Liu | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Charles Frye | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Dominik Kundel | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Eugene Yan | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Jerry Liu | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Philip Kiely | 4 | — | 2026 |
| swyx | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Alex Volkov | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Barr Yaron | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Ben Hylak | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Daniel Han | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Eno Reyes | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Harald Kirschner | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Hassan El Mghari | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Ishan Anand | 3 | — | 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.