Speakers

AB

SPA Student Assistant
UNC Chapel Hill

Acacia Duncan

Director of Coaching and Training
Articulation

AW

Data Scientist
NMDP

Alex Rossell Hayes

Senior Data Scientist
YouGov America

Alex Chisholm

Product Manager - Cloud Platforms
Posit

Allissa Dillman

Founder/CEO
BioData Sage

Andrew Heiss

Assistant professor
Georgia State University

Andrie de Vries

Director, Product Strategy
Posit

Andrés Quintero

Data Professional
ixpantia

Arnav Patel

Quantitative Analyst
Synovus

Austin Dickey

Senior Software Engineer
Posit, PBC

Barret Schloerke

Shiny Team Software Engineer
Posit

Beatriz Milz

Post doc / Community organizer / Software peer review editor
UFABC / R-Ladies São Paulo / rOpensci

Becca Krouse

Data Science Leader
GSK

Becky Hodge

Bioinformatics Scientist
ProCogia

Ben Arancibia

Director Data Science - Scientific and Adoption Lead for Open Source
GSK

Ben Straub

Principal Programmer
GSK

Bill Pikounis

Senior Distinguished Scientist, Manufacturing Statistics
Johnson & Johnson

Blake Abbenante

Director, Analytics & Data Science
Suffolk Construction

Blythe Coons

Executive Speech Coach
Articulation

Cameron Race

Lead Product Manager and Statistician
Department for Education (UK)

Cari Gostic

Air Quality Data Scientist
Sonoma Technology

CS

Principal Engineer
Posit

CS

Software Engineer
Posit

Casey Aguilar-Gervase

Senior Developer
Atorus Research

Cat Hicks

Psychologist for Software Teams
Catharsis Consulting

Charlie Gao

Senior Software Engineer
Posit

Charlotte Wickham

Developer Educator
Posit

Chetan Thapar

Sr Product Manager
Posit

Chris Engelhardt

Sr. Data and AI Operations Manager
Gen Re

Christophe Dervieux

Open Source Sofware Engineer
Posit

Clara Amorosi

Principal Data Scientist
Bristol Myers Squibb

Claudia Penaloza

Data Scientist
Continental Tires

Claus Wilke

Professor
The University of Texas at Austin

Colin Rundel

Associate Professor of the Practice
Duke University

Colin S Gillespie

CTO
Jumping Rivers

Daniel Sjoberg

Genentech

Daniel Chen

Data Science Educator
Posit + University of British Columbia

Davis Vaughan

Senior Software Engineer
Posit

DS

Software Engineer
Posit

Doug Kelkhoff

Data Scientist
Roche

Dylan Pieper

Data Scientist
University of Pittsburgh

Ella Kaye

Senior Research Software Engineer
University of Warwick

Emil Malta

Senior Consultant
Statistics Greenland

Emil Hvitfeldt

Software Engineer
Posit, PBC

Emma Rand

Professor
University of York

Eric Scott

Scientific Programer & Educator
University of Arizona

EN

Statistician
Eli Lilly

Flávia E. Rius

Data Scientist
Mendelics

Freda Warner

Analyst
CIHR

Gabe Osterhout

Data Visualization Specialist
Idaho Secretary of State

Garrick Aden-Buie

Senior Software Engineer
Posit

George Stagg

Principal Software Engineer
Posit, PBC

GR

Consultant

Gordon Woodhull

Software Engineer, Quarto
Posit, PBC

Greg Headley

Sr. Partner Development Manager
AWS

Hadley Wickham

Chief Scientist
Posit

Hugo Fitipaldi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Lund University

Ian Lyttle

Data Scientist
Schneider Electric

IZ

Software Engineer
Posit, PBC

Isabella Velásquez

Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Posit

James Black

Executive Director, Technology and Scientific Computing
Novartis

James Blair

Senior Product Manager
Posit, PBC

JW

Research Scientist
Dow

Jenna Wraith

Head of Sustainable Futures & Principal Data Scientist
QCIF

Jenny Bryan

Software engineer
Posit

Jeremy Winget, PhD

Full-Stack Engineer
CrossStack Society

Jeroen Janssens

Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Posit

Joe Cheng

CTO
Posit

Joe Roberts

Product Manager
Posit

Joe Kirincic

Principal Data Scientist
RESTORE-Skills

John Paul Helveston

Associate Professor
George Washington University

John Coene

Founder
Opifex

JR

Head of Financial Services AI
Snowflake

Jonathan Keane

Senior Engineering Manager
Posit, PBC

Jonathan McPherson

Software Architect
Posit Software, PBC

JS

Assistant Professor
University of Illinois

JP Flores

PhD Candidate
UNC Chapel Hill

Julia Silge

Engineering Manager
Posit, PBC

Julianne Gent

Analytics Developer
Emory Healthcare

Kara Woo

Senior Software Engineer
Posit

Karan Gathani

Software QA Engineer
Posit PBC

Katerina Gapanenko

Manager, Advanced Analytics
Canadian Institute for Health Information

Katie Burak

Assistant Professor of Teaching
University of British Columbia

Keaton Wilson

Solutions Developer
KS&R

Kelly McConville

Associate Professor/Director
Bucknell University

Kelly O'Briant

Product Manager
Posit

Kene David Nwosu

Curriculum Director
TheGraphCourses.org

Kennedy Mwavu

Software Developer

Kieran Healy

Professor
Duke University

Kim Schouten

Data scientist
NZa (Dutch Healthcare Authority)

Kirill Müller

Partner
cynkra GmbH

Kris Fabick

Data Scientist
Nissan North America

Kristin Bott

Manager, Data Science Mentors, Posit Academy
Posit, PBC

Kristin Mussar

Associate Director, Translational Oncology Bioinformatics
Pfizer

KC

Data Insights Analyst
Nissan North America

Kylie Ainslie

Senior Researcher
University of Melbourne

Laura Gast

Enterprise Data & Analytics Lead
USO

Libby McKenna

Water Process Engineer
Brown and Caldwell

Libby Heeren

Data Community Manager
Posit

Lionel Henry

Software Engineer
Posit

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan

Assistant Professor
Wake Forest University

Luis D. Verde Arregoitia

Biodiversity Scientist
Instituto de Ecología AC INECOL

Malcolm Barrett

Research Software Engineer
Stanford University

Marcos Huerta

Manager, Data Science
Carmax

Marcus Beck

Senior Scientist
Tampa Bay Estuary Program

Mark Neal

Head of Data Science
DairyNZ

Mauro Lepore

Senior Software Engineer
Recast

Max Hockstein

Physician
Georgetown University

Max Kuhn

Principal Software Engineer
Posit

Maya Gans

Associate Director
Atorus Research

MB

Senior Software Engineer
Posit, PBC.

Melissa Van Bussel

Senior Data Scientist
Statistics Canada

Melissa Albino Hegeman

Data Analyst
NYS OGS

Michael Thomas

Chief Data Scientist
Ketchbrook Analytics

Michael Chow

Software Engineer, Open Source
Posit (Open Source)

Michael Mayer

Principal Solution Engineer
Posit

Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel

Professor + Developer Educator
Posit + Duke University

Myles Mitchell

Principal Data Scientist
Jumping Rivers

Nic Crane

R Consultant
NC Data Labs

Noam Ross

Executive Director
rOpenSci

Olivia Hebner

Data Science Manager
Summit

Rachael Dempsey

Head of Customer Marketing
Posit | Data Science Hangout

Rafael Pereira

Platform Unit Lead
Appsilon

RK

Staff Product Manager - Technical
Databricks

RG

Genentech

Rebecca Barter

Senior Data Scientist
Arine

Regis James

Associate Director (Data Science / AI) and Head (Data Science & AI Community of Practice)
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Rich Iannone

Software Engineer
Posit

RV

SPA Student Assistant
UNC Chapel Hill

Ryan Johnson

Data Science Advisor
Posit, PBC

Ryan Timpe

Lead Data Scientist
The LEGO Group

Ryszard Szymański

Staff Engineer
Appsilon

Sam Clark

Software Engineer
Posit

Sam Edwardes

Senior Solutions Engineer
Posit

Sara Altman

Data Science Educator
Posit

Sarah Wong-Brown

Head of Statistics Development and Flexible Analysis
UK Civil Service (HMRC)

Shannon Pileggi

Associate Director of Data Science
The PCCTC

Sharon Machlis

Retired/Occasional Freelance Writer
Former Computerworld & InfoWorld

SW

Senior Software Engineer
Posit

Shun Mao

Senior Partner Solutions Architect
AWS

Simisani Ndaba

Teaching Assistant | Data Science Research Assistant
University of Botswana

Simon Couch

Software Engineer
Posit, PBC

Steve Nolen

Engineering Manager
Posit

Ted Laderas

Director of Training and Community
Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Teun Van den Brand

Contractor
Posit

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Software Engineer
Posit

Tiffany Timbers

Associate Professor of Teaching
University of British Columbia

Timothy Keyes

Data Scientist
Stanford Health Care

TM

Posit

Tom Shafer

Principal Data Scientist
Elder Research

Tomasz Kalinowski

Engineering Manager - Open Source
Posit PBC

TA

Software Engineer
Posit, PBC

Varun Dwaraka

Director of Bioinformatics and Principal Investigator
TruDiagnostic

Wes McKinney

Principal Architect
Posit

Will Landau

Senior Advisor – Innovative Statistics
Eli Lilly and Company

WC

Principal Software Engineer
Posit

Yvonne Kienast

Project Lead
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

Zac Davies

Lead Solutions Architect
Databricks