Keynotes

We are pleased to announce the following keynotes at EuroSciPy this year.

10 Years of Open Source: Navigating the Next AI Revolution

Abstract:

A lot has been happening in the field of AI and Natural Language Processing: there’s endless excitement about new technologies, sobering post-hype hangovers and also uncertainty about where the field is heading next. In this talk, I’ll share the most important lessons we’ve learned in 10 years of working on open source software, our core philosophies that helped us adapt to an ever-changing AI landscape and why open source and interoperability still wins over black-box, proprietary APIs.

Bio:

Ines Montani is a developer specializing in tools for AI and NLP technology. She’s the co-founder and CEO of Explosion and a core developer of spaCy, a popular open-source library for Natural Language Processing in Python, and Prodigy, a modern annotation tool for creating training data for machine learning models. Read more on her website.

Just contribute?!

Abstract:

Open source software is here for everyone - but how are we making sure that everyone has equal access? In this keynote I will discuss how to lower barriers of entry for new contributors - and the many facets to this: documentation, community, guidelines, and tools. I will share my personal motivations on contributing to open source software and my journey in the past 5 years with all of its learnings.

Bio:

Wolf Vollprecht has been in open source for his entire professional career. He is a core member of conda-forge for the past 4 years. He started the mamba package manager (a C++ reimplementation of conda). He is also a steering council member for the conda project. He founded prefix.dev to take software package management to the next level. At prefix, pixi and rattler-build are developed to make shipping software a breeze.