PyData Global 2022

December 1-3rd, 2022
A VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, ANYWHERE ON EARTH
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Keynote Speakers

Quincy Larson

Quincy LarsonFounder of freeCodeCamp.org

Quincy Larson is a teacher and school director from Oklahoma. At age 31, he started learning to code using free online courses and attending hackathons. After working as a software engineer, he founded freeCodeCamp.org to help other busy adults also learn to code and transition into tech careers. More than a million people now use freeCodeCamp courses each day, and 10,000s of people have used it to successfully transition into software development careers.

Ada Nduka Oyom

Ada Nduka OyomFounder She Code Africa, Co founder Open Source Community Africa, Ecosystem Community manager, Sub-Saharan Africa, Google

Ada is the Founder of She Code Africa (SCA), a non-profit organisation focused on empowering young girls and women in Africa through technical skills and Co-founder, Open Source Community Africa, one of the largest communities for open-source enthusiasts, advocates and experts across Africa. She’s currently engaged with Google as the Ecosystem community manager for Sub-saharan Africa.

Hadley Wickham

Hadley WickhamChief Scientist at RStudio

Hadley is Chief Scientist at RStudio, winner of the 2019 COPSS award, and a member of the R Foundation. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (like the tidyverse, which includes ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr)and principled software development
(e.g. roxygen2, testthat, and pkgdown). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science. Learn more on his website.

DJ Patil

DJ PatilFormer U.S Chief Data Scientist

DJ is a board member for Devoted Health and former CTO. He’s a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center, an Advisor to Venrock Partners, a member of the DoD's Science Board. Most recently, he was Senior Staff and CTO for the Biden-Harris Transition.

Dr. Patil was appointed by President Obama to be the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist where he establishment nearly 40 Chief Data Officer roles.

He also was Chief Scientist, Chief Security Officer and Head of Analytics and Data Product Teams at the LinkedIn where he co-coined the term ``Data Scientist``.

Pia Mancini

Pia ManciniCo-founder & CEO at Open Collective

Pia is a Democracy activist, open source sustainer, co-founder & CEO at Open Collective, a platform that enables communities around the world to raise and spend funds in full transparency. Last year, collectives raised USD 37M, effectively unlocking access to impact funds around the world. She is also co-founder and President of The Open Source Collective, a non profit that provides a financial and admin home for +3000 open source projects around the globe granting them access to project directed funding. Pia is also co-founder and Chair of Democracy Earth Foundation, a Y Combinator backed non profit dedicated to developing technology for democracy around the world.

Thomas Dohmke

Thomas DohmkeCEO of GitHub

Fascinated by software development since his childhood in Germany, Dr. Thomas Dohmke has built a career building tools developers love and accelerating innovations that are changing software development. Currently, Thomas is Chief Executive Officer of GitHub, where he drives the company’s core mission of making GitHub the home for all developers. Before his time at GitHub, Thomas previously co-founded HockeyApp and led the company as CEO through its acquisition by Microsoft in 2014, and holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Glasgow, UK.

Gabriela de Queiroz

Gabriela de QueirozPrincipal Cloud Advocate Manager at Microsoft, Founder of R-Ladies and AI Inclusive

Gabriela de Queiroz is a Principal Cloud Advocate Manager at Microsoft. She leads and manages the Global AI/ML/Data team in Education Advocacy.
Before that, she worked at IBM as a Program Director on Open Source, Data & AI Technologies and then as Chief Data Scientist at IBM, leading AI Strategy and Innovations.

She is the founder of AI Inclusive, a global organization that is helping increase the representation and participation of gender minorities in Artificial Intelligence. She is also the founder of R-Ladies, a worldwide organization for promoting diversity in the R community with more than 200 chapters in 55+ countries.

She has worked in several startups and where she built teams, developed statistical models, and employed a variety of techniques to derive insights and drive data-centric decisions. She likes to mentor and share her knowledge through mentorship programs, tutorials, and talks.

What to Expect

The PyData Global Online Conference is where users, contributors, and newcomers can share experiences to learn from one another and grow together. PyData provides a virtual forum for the international community of users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. The global PyData network promotes discussion of best practices, new approaches, and emerging technologies for data management, processing, analytics, and visualization.

This three-day online event consists of talks, tutorials, and discussions to bring attendees the latest project features along with cutting edge use cases.

The time span of the conference stretches beyond any single time zone, reflecting the global nature of our community. To accommodate our attendees, each session will be recorded and made available to attendees the following day. Following the Conference, all recordings will be posted to the PyData YouTube channel.

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