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Speakers

Wes McKinney

Employers on the program

  1. 2024–2026Posit8 talks
  2. 2021–2023Voltron Data5 talks
  3. 2021Ursa Computing1 talk
  4. 2019–2020Ursa Labs10 talks

Bluesky: @wesmckinney.com

Events24
Conferences13
Talks247 keynotes
Years active2019–2026
Talk freshness875 different talks in 5 · 2 circuits, 24 monthsMiles between events33,96116 in-person events · 3 countries

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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecData CouncilData Councilposit::confposit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)
  • posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
  • Subsurface
  • Data Council
  • PyData
  • Data Outpost
  • EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language)
  • OmniSci Converge
  • 5 other conferences

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Sep 14, 2026posit::conf(2026)posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)keynoteNavigating the Agentic Future
as Posit

*This talk was originally scheduled for 4:15pm CT but was moved to 9am CT.

May 12, 2026AI Council 2026Data CounciltalkThe Mythical Agent-Month Strategy & culture
as Posit
Oct 14, 2025EARL 2025EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language)keynoteBuilding Data Science Tools in an AI-Native World
as Posit
Slides
Sep 16, 2025posit::conf(2025)posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)speakerExploring Datasets in Positron
as Posit

Inspecting raw data in data frames and tables can be a critical tool in the data preparation, tidying, and feature engineering process.

Video
Dec 3, 2024PyData Global 2024PyDataspeakerRetooling for a Smaller Data Era
as Posit
Video
Sep 23, 2024Small Data SF 2024Data OutpostspeakerRetooling for a Smaller Data Era
as Posit PBC
Video
May 16, 2024New York R Conference 2024 (10th anniversary)New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)talkThe Future Roadmap for the Composable Data Stack
as Posit
Video
Mar 26, 2024Data Council Austin 2024Data CounciltalkThe Future Roadmap for the Composable Data Stack
as Posit
Video
Jul 13, 2023New York R Conference 2023New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)talkLeveling Up the Data Stack: Thoughts on the Last 15 Years
as Voltron Data
Video
Jun 23, 2022The Data Thread 2022The Data ThreadkeynoteUntitled
as Voltron Data
Jun 9, 2022New York R Conference 2022New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)talkApache Arrow in an Interconnected World
as Voltron Data
Video
Mar 2, 2022Subsurface LIVE Winter 2022SubsurfacespeakerApache Arrow: Open Source Standard Becomes an Enterprise Necessity
as Voltron Data
Slides
Sep 9, 2021New York R Conference 2021New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)talkNew Directions for Apache Arrow
as Ursa Computing
Video
Jul 21, 2021Subsurface LIVE Summer 2021SubsurfacepanelistPanel: Open Data Architecture
as Voltron Data
Oct 19, 2020Global STAC Live, Fall 2020STAC SummitspeakerA sharper Arrow
as Ursa Labs
Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory columnar data processing. Among other things, it contains a language-independent columnar…Show less

Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory columnar data processing. Among other things, it contains a language-independent columnar data format designed for fast transport and processing on modern hardware.

Sep 30, 2020Ray Summit 2020Ray SummitkeynoteScalable Python We Can Afford
as Ursa Labs
Video
Aug 14, 2020R Conference "New York" 2020 (virtual)New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)talkSpeeding Up Data Access in R with Apache Arrow
as Ursa Labs
Video
Jul 29, 2020Subsurface LIVE Summer 2020SubsurfacespeakerApache Arrow: A New Gold Standard for Dataset Transport
as Ursa Labs

Discusses the role that Apache Arrow and Arrow Flight play in disrupting previous approaches to creating data services that transport large datasets.

Video
Feb 26, 2020ScaledML 2020ScaledML (Scaled Machine Learning Conference)speakerApache Arrow: Present and Future
as Ursa Labs
SlidesVideo
Feb 7, 2020PyCon Colombia 2020PyCon (national Python conferences)keynoteUntitled
as Ursa Labs
Oct 21, 2019OmniSci Converge 2019OmniSci ConvergekeynoteKeynote: Apache Arrow: Leveling Up the Data Science Stack
as Ursa Labs
May 10, 2019New York R Conference 2019New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)talkApache Arrow: Leveling Up the Data Science Stack
as Ursa Labs
Video
Jan 15, 2019rstudio::conf 2019posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)speakerUrsa Labs and Apache Arrow in 2019
as Ursa Labs
Video
Jan 9, 2019PyData Miami 2019PyDatakeynoteUrsa Labs and Apache Arrow in 2019
as Ursa Labs
For the last 3 years, the Apache Arrow project has been developing a language-independent open standard in-memory format for tabular data and a library…Show less

For the last 3 years, the Apache Arrow project has been developing a language-independent open standard in-memory format for tabular data and a library ecosystem that builds on top of the format.

Video

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Max Kuhn9—2026
Jared P. Lander6—2024
Jeroen Janssens5—2026
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan5—2025
Malcolm Barrett5—2025
Andrew Gelman5—2024
Jon Krohn5—2024
Mike Band5—2024
Emil Hvitfeldt4—2026
Hadley Wickham4—2026
Tom Mock4—2026
Daniel Chen4—2025
Nic Crane4—2025
Caitlin Hudon4—2024
David Robinson4—2024

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.