Open source tools are critical to data science across a range of industries. Engaging with the community can be beneficial for everyone, but sometimes you have to convince your management of that! The panel will talk about how they have successfully brought open source into their companies.
Moderated by Gil Forsyth, a maintainer of the popular xonsh shell. With guest leaders in industry, Kevin Fleming (Member of the CTO office at Bloomberg), Mike McCarty (Director at the Capital One Center for Machine Learning) and David Palaitis (Managing Director at Two Sigma).
Example questions for our guests include: How do you have to pitch management on presenting at conferences? How do you pitch management on contributing to existing projects?