PyData Global 2024

Jeroen Janssens, PhD, is a polyglot data science consultant and certified instructor. His expertise lies in visualizing data, implementing machine learning models, and building solutions using Python, R, JavaScript, and Bash. Jeroen is passionate about open source and sharing knowledge. He is the author of Data Science at the Command Line (O’Reilly, 2021) and is currently writing Python Polars: The Definitive Guide (O’Reilly, 2025). Every now and then he blogs at https://jeroenjanssens.com.

Peter has been developing commercial scientific computing and visualization software for nearly 20 years. He has extensive experience in software design and development across a broad range of areas, including 3D graphics, geophysics, large data simulation and visualization, financial risk modeling, and medical imaging. Peter’s interests in the fundamentals of vector computing and interactive visualization led him to co-found Anaconda (formerly Continuum Analytics). As CTO at Anaconda, Peter leads the open source and community innovation group.

Dr. Hongxia Yang has published over 100 papers in top-tier conferences and journals, and holds more than 50 patents. She has over 15 years of experience as an AI scientist, and specializes in large-scale machine learning, data mining, and deep learning. Currently a professor at HK Polytechnic University, she previously held AI scientist roles at IBM T.J. Watson research center, Yahoo! Inc, Alibaba Group, and ByteDance US. She earned her PhD from Duke University and her B.S. from Nankai University.