Susan Shu Chang
Employers on the program
- 2024–2025Elastic3 talks
- 2021–2023Quill Game Studios2 talks
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
- Data Day Texas
- PyData
- PyCon (national Python conferences)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 2025 | PyData Boston 2025 | PyData | speaker | Evaluating AI Agents in production with Python as Elastic This talk covers methods of evaluating AI Agents, with an example of how the speakers built a Python-based evaluation framework for a user-facing AI Agent…Show lessThis talk covers methods of evaluating AI Agents, with an example of how the speakers built a Python-based evaluation framework for a user-facing AI Agent system which has been in production for over a year. | Video |
| Jan 25, 2025 | Data Day Texas + AI 2025 | Data Day Texas | speaker | Improve your RAG pipelines with semantic re-ranking as Elastic Hallucinations in Generative AI can undermine trust and accuracy. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged in the last few years as a proven solution -…Show lessHallucinations in Generative AI can undermine trust and accuracy. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged in the last few years as a proven solution - in short, RAG works by retrieving relevant, ground truths from a knowledge base to pass to the LLM along with a prompt. | |
| Jan 27, 2024 | Data Day Texas + AI 2024 | Data Day Texas | keynote | Distilling the meaning of language: How vector embeddings work as Elastic Vector embeddings have been used a foundation in NLP for years, and has evolved as fast as the field itself. How do they work behind the scenes? | |
| Apr 17, 2023 | PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2023 | PyData | keynote | Keynote - A journey through 4 industries with Python: Python's versatile problem-solving toolkit as Quill Game Studios / Elastic In this keynote, I will share the lessons learned from using Python in 4 industries. Apart from machine learning applications that I build in my day to day as a…Show lessIn this keynote, I will share the lessons learned from using Python in 4 industries. Apart from machine learning applications that I build in my day to day as a data scientist and machine learning engineer, I also use Python to develop games for my own gaming company, Quill Game Studios. | |
| May 12, 2021 | PyCon US 2021 (Online) | PyCon (national Python conferences) | speaker | Narrative-focused video games development with Ren'Py, an open source engine as Quill Game Studios The game engine, Ren'Py, is an open source engine used to make countless interactive fiction games, also known as visual novels (VNs). | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Hodler | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Chris Tabb | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Clair Sullivan | 2 | — | 2025 |
| David Hughes | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Hala Nelson | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Itamar Turner-Trauring | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Jess Haberman | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Jessica Talisman | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Joe Reis | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Jonathan Mugan | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Juan Sequeda | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Matthew Housley | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Michelle Yi | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Rebecca Bilbro | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Ryan Dolley | 2 | — | 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.