SciPyConf @SciPyConf
SciPy 2025 Conference for Scientific and Technical Computing topics in Python. Tutorials July 7-8, Conference July 9-11, Sprints July 12-13. scipy2025.scipy.org Tacoma, WA Joined December 2012-
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@SciPyConf took place a couple of weeks ago and it was a blast! 🤩 CAM Gerlach, our developer advocate, gave two talks: 1️⃣ About our main updates during the last year 2️⃣ About the new cool features for remote development in 6.1, with a failed and now infamous "dem-oh-no" 😅
🎊 Huge thank you to @SciPyConf for an inspiring week and for the conversations with such an incredible community. We had a blast diving into #OpenSource and accelerated #Python through tutorials, talks, and sprints. 🙌 We are already excited for next year.
@SciPyConf was amazing last week! More thoughts here on my blog about key conclusions + links for those interested blog.mgrover.dev/posts/2025/sci…
🔥 The Teen Track at #SciPy2025 was an absolute blast! Huge thanks to @openteamsinc for creating space for the next generation of scientists and coders 🌟👩💻👨💻
Huge thanks to our Platinum Sponsor, NVIDIA, for hosting an amazing reception at the Tacoma Glass Museum! 🥂✨ We had a blast; great conversations, beautiful art, and meaningful connections. You helped make these moments possible. 💙 #SciPy2025
🔥The #SciPy2025 Poster Session was a blast! 🖼️🧪 Great conversations, amazing questions, and lots of cool projects to explore. Thanks to all the presenters for keeping things interesting 🙌
🔥Lightning Talks are always a highlight at #SciPy2025 ⚡️ Thanks to everyone who took the stage and let us spice things up with props!🦞🤲
Thank you, Dr. Malvika Sharan, for your powerful #SciPy2025 keynote 💛 You reminded us that the most powerful "intelligence" is community. Cultivating diverse, engaged people is essential for ethical, sustainable tech and a responsible scientific future. 🚀
We are excited that Albert Steppi will be presenting at SciPy 2025 this Friday! 🎉 Together with Matt Haberland, they'll explore SciPy's New Infrastructure for Probability Distributions and Random Variables at 11:25 AM in the Ballroom. If you're at #SciPy2025, don't miss it!
🚀 #SciPy2025 is off to an incredible start with a great keynote by Hon. Kathryn Huff! 🙌 Grateful for her powerful insights and for sharing her journey with the scientific Python community. 💡🐍
📣Shoutout to our Gold Sponsors for helping make #SciPy2025 an unforgettable experience! Your support fuels the talks, tutorials, and hallway moments that bring this community together! @curvenote @awscloud @motherduck @EarthmoverHQ @wherobots @anacondainc @posit_pbc @prefix_dev
🔥 A huge thank you to our Platinum Sponsor, @nvidia, for powering #SciPy2025! Your support is foundational to building a thriving scientific Python community. 💙🐍
🙌Another successful day at #SciPy2025! We had another round of amazing tutorials, huge thanks to our instructors for sharing their expertise! We ended the day unwinding with friends at 7 Seas Brewery & Taproom, beer, games, food and lots of laughter 🔥🍕
Day 1 at #SciPy2025 is a wrap! 🎉 🔥We had amazing tutorials, learned a ton, and got to reconnect with folks we hadn’t seen in a while. So excited for Day 2 🙌
💡 Join NVIDIA's VP of Software for Compute Platforms Christopher Lamb at #SciPy2025 for "Python at the Speed of Light: Accelerating Science with CUDA Python." @NVIDIAHPCDev⚡🐍 🚀 Discover how native Python support is transforming GPU computing. 🔗 scipy2025.scipy.org
📣We’re especially grateful to @openteamsinc, our Teen Track Sponsor, for supporting the next generation of scientists and coders at #SciPy2025! Have teens attending SciPy with you? They’ll love this track! 📅 Saturday, July 12 👥 Ages 14–18 🔗 Register: lnkd.in/db7G4dTy
🔥 #SciPy2025 wouldn’t be the same without the incredible support of our Institutional Sponsor, @enthought Thank you for helping make this conference possible year after year! 🙌
⚡ Speaker Spotlight: Kevin Lee Join Kevin at #SciPy2025 for his tutorial "Bringing Accelerated Computing to Data Science in Python." 🚀🐍 Explore GPU-powered workflows with RAPIDS and speed up your data science like never before! 🔗 scipy2025.scipy.org
🤖 Speaker Spotlight: Cainã Max Couto da Silva Join Cainã at #SciPy2025 for the hands-on tutorial "Building an AI Agent for Natural Language to SQL Query Execution on Live Databases." 💬 Learn to build an extensible AI querying system from scratch! 🔗 scipy2025.scipy.org
🔥 Speaker Spotlight: Michael Horrell Don't miss @horrellmt at #SciPy2025 for "GBNet: Gradient Boosting packages integrated into PyTorch." 🧠⚙️ Discover how GBNet bridges powerful boosting methods with deep learning workflows. 🔗 scipy2025.scipy.org

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