Thanks to This Year's Keynote Speakers

Dr. Fritz Obermeyer

Fritz Obermeyer has been modeling data in Python for more than two decades.  His work connects probabilistic tooling, programming languages, and applied science.  Since 2017 he has led the development of the open-source library Pyro, a deep probabilistic programming language built on PyTorch, with over 100 contributors.  Most recently, Dr. Obermeyer has been applying Pyro to bioscience problems, including virology at the Broad Institute and protein design at Generate Biomedicines.

Wolfgang Weidinger

Wolfgang Weidinger is a Data Scientist and has worked in a wide variety of industries and sectors such as start-ups, finance, consulting, wholesale, and insurance.  There he led Data Science teams and drove their role as spearheads in digital and data-driven transformation.

He is President of the Vienna Data Science Group (www.vdsg.at), a non-profit association of and for Data Scientists. This brings together both research and practice across a wide range of industries. The VDSG is a rapidly growing international community whose goal is to educate about Data Science and its subfields such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, as well as their impact on society.