Thank you to our Sponsors

Thousands of Microsoft engineers use, contribute to, and release open source every day across every platform, from the cloud to client operating systems, programming languages and more. We recognize that multiple projects under the NumFOCUS umbrella are included in those projects that we use on a regular basis for various data science workloads across the company. As such, we are happy to support NumFOCUS as a Partner to help support its projects to further their goals.

At IBM, we are committed to driving innovation in open source and have incorporated open source across our product portfolio to deliver differentiating value to our customers. From our work with Linux, Apache, and Eclipse, to our current work across all layers of the cloud stack, IBM is one of the top contributors to open source code and projects. That is why we are proud to be supporting NumFOCUS as a partner to help advance its projects.

Bloomberg is building the world's most trusted information network for financial professionals. Our 9,000+ engineers are dedicated to advancing and building new systems for the Bloomberg Terminal to solve complex, real-world problems. ​We trust our teams to choose the right technologies for the job, and, at Bloomberg, the answer is often Python. We employ an active community of 4,000+ Python developers who have their hands in everything from financial analytics and data science to contributing to open source technologies like Project Jupyter. Bloomberg is proud to be a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation and host of many Python community events around the world. Learn more at TechAtBloomberg.com/python.

Google believes that open source is good for everyone. By being open and freely available, it enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology.

Hopsworks Feature Store is an enterprise and python friendly Machine Learning platform for the full lifecycle of AI projects. It offers best in-class performances and an effective collaborative layer for all data teams, allowing them to leverage any data source for any application, at any performance level and across any environment.

Open source software is the bedrock of all our proprietary technology at Holocene Advisors, from systematic trading and portfolio construction, to our integrated investment research platform. Every day we trust and rely upon the hard work of thousands of talented developers in the OSS community. We’re thrilled to be able to support this community and help ensure its continuity.

At Two Sigma, we use Open Source Software, and we’re passionate about giving back to the programming community. We want to make sure that the OSS projects that we and so many others rely on will still be functional far into the future. Supporting OSS can take many forms: making substantial contributions to projects we use regularly, open sourcing tools we’ve developed in house, and financially sponsoring non-profits that contribute to a healthy open source ecosystem. That’s why we are a Corporate Partner of NumFOCUS. Two Sigma is proud to support NumFOCUS sponsored projects pandas and Jupyter.

Coiled is the scalable Dask Cloud platform. Coiled scales Python to the cloud for data professionals. Coiled has hosted more than 100M tasks for data professionals, scientists, and researchers around the globe including Capital One, Anthem Health, and the Air Force to solve challenges in business, research, and science. Founded by the initial author of Dask, Coiled is on a mission to create a platform that gives Data Scientists the power of the cloud and machine learning, freeing them from today’s limitations so they can solve important problems.

Quansight is a data, science, and engineering firm that specializes in solving complex, data-related problems by leveraging the open source software at the foundation of AI and machine learning. Quansight is led by Travis Oliphant, who founded Anaconda, NumFOCUS, PyData, and authored or led the creation of foundational Python ecosystem packages NumPy, SciPy, Numba, and Conda.

Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries, including 573 of the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 (G2K) as of January 31, 2023, use the Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses.

Posit helps people understand and improve the world through data. We build tools that enable robust and reproducible data analysis through a code-first approach, paired with tools that make it easy to share insights. Our core software is open source, freely available to anyone. Our professional software equips individuals and teams to develop and share their work at scale.

Cubist Systematic Strategies is the systematic investing business of Point72. We deploy systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, driven by our passion to understand the world around us and fueled by unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.