2022 Sponsors
Institutional Sponsor
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Enthought powers digital transformation for science. Our technology and deep scientific expertise enable faster discovery and continuous innovation. We solve complex problems for the most innovative and respected organizations across the life sciences, material sciences, chemical, and semiconductor industries.
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As the creators of the SciPy package and founders of the conference for Scientific Computing with Python, we’ve been leaders of scientific software development for over 20 years. We are bringing the future closer by leveraging data strategy, modeling, simulation, and AI/ML to accelerate scientific discovery.
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Learn more at www.enthought.com
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Enthought
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With more than 25 million users, Anaconda is the world’s most popular data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning. We pioneered the use of Python for data science, champion its vibrant community, and continue to steward open-source projects that make tomorrow’s innovations possible. Our enterprise-grade solutions enable corporate, research, and academic institutions around the world to harness the power of open-source for competitive advantage, groundbreaking research, and a better world.
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Learn more at www.anaconda.com
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Anaconda
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At Capital One, we dare to dream, disrupt and deliver a better way. Our goal is simple – bring ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to an industry ripe for change. Founder-led, Capital One is on a mission to help people live their best lives and build one of America’s leading information-based technology companies.
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Learn more at www.capitalone.com
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Capital One
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NumFOCUS is a nonprofit promoting open practices in research, data, and scientific computing by serving as a fiscal sponsor for open source projects and organizing community-driven educational programs. Celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2022, NumFOCUS marks a decade of working towards its vision of an inclusive scientific and research community that utilizes actively supported open source software to make impactful discoveries for a better world.
Learn more at https://numfocus.org
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NumFOCUS
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At PDL, we believe that the future of every business will be data driven, and we’re in the business of making that happen. By building the world's best B2B datasets on business profiles and companies, we supply engineers with the comprehensive, ethically sourced B2B data they need to build tomorrow’s great products.
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We have a fast-growing user base across exciting industries like talent acquisition, investment research, competitive intelligence, fraud detection, and risk mitigation. We’re a fun-loving, collaborative team and we’re always on the lookout for great talent to join.
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Learn more at peopledatalabs.com
People Data Labs
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BlackLocus is an innovation lab operating within The Home Depot, the top home improvement retailer in the world. To stay ahead of the curve, The Home Depot has made a substantial investment in data science, innovation, technology and design, and BlackLocus is at the cutting edge.
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Our team gets to collaborate with smart and diverse minds to explore exciting opportunities in the rapidly transforming retail space. We approach problem solving holistically, integrating our research and knowledge of customer motivations and buying habits with scalable technology.
Learn more at https://www.blacklocus.com/
Learn more at www.blacklocus.com
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At JetBrains, we have a passion for making people more productive through smarter software. Today JetBrains makes some of the most intelligent and powerful IDEs in the market. Our products are used by millions of developers worldwide, and you’ve probably heard of some of them: IntelliJ IDEA for Java, enterprise and web development; ReSharper for .NET; PyCharm for Python; CLion for C++, as well as other smart tools for individual developers and teams. We are also the creators of Kotlin, a new JVM programming language.
Learn more at www.jetbrains.com
JetBrains
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INE offers best-in-class IT training for Networking, Cyber Security, Cloud, and Data Science. With courses, sand-boxed lab environments, and more, we give you and your team access to expert-level instruction. Hands-on, on-demand IT training can be yours with INE!
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Learn more at www.ine.com
INE
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Deepgram is a speech-to-text (STT) company whose API takes an audio file or audio stream and converts it into written text, providing a transcript and other information about the transcribed data. With their revolutionary end-to-end, deep learning technology that includes language support, Deepgram makes sure that every voice is heard and understood by providing fast and accurate transcripts.
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Learn more at www.deepgram.com
Deepgram
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BCG GAMMA is BCG’s global team dedicated to applying artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to critical business problems at leading companies and organizations. The team includes more than 1500 data scientists and engineers who utilize AI and advanced analytics (including machine learning, deep learning, optimization, simulation, natural language, and image analytics) to build solutions that transform business performance. BCG GAMMA’s approach builds value and competitive advantage at the intersection of data science, technology, people, business processes, and ways of working.
Learn more at www.bcg.com.
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Quantum computing promises to help us solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges- and Microsoft Azure Quantum offers a first-generation quantum computing experience, with cloud service access to a diverse range of hardware and simulators to enable the quantum innovation of today to fuel the path toward industrial scale. Delivering impact at a worldwide scale requires breakthroughs across the quantum stack. It requires a truly scalable quantum system that can handle a million qubits and beyond. Our approach to achieving that scale is innovating across every layer of the quantum stack– from software and applications down to control and devices. We’re driving innovation from both directions, simultaneously, in collaboration with a worldwide quantum community coming together to deliver on the promise of quantum.
Learn more at Azure.com/Quantum.
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Quansight
Quansight is a data science and engineering consulting firm specializing in open-source software. Quansight is led by Travis Oliphant, who founded Anaconda, NumFOCUS, and PyData and authored or led the creation of the foundational Python ecosystem packages NumPy, SciPy, Numba, and Conda.
Learn more at www.quansight.com
Mozilla
Formed in 2003, Mozilla exists at the nexus of non-profit - meets tech company - meets open source advocacy group. We’re committed to keeping the internet an open resource, accessible to all and broadening its accessibility to underserved communities across the globe. We build products, tools, and services to enable this. We’re also passionate about ensuring that users maintain agency over their identities online, with user privacy and security being at the core of our products. From a Data perspective, this presents us with unique challenges of continuing to innovate and adapt while also embracing Lean Data Practices (LDP) - being more thoughtful about the data we collect so that we can drive meaningful impact while collecting less data overall.
Learn more at www.mozilla.org
IBM
Advances in hybrid cloud, AI and quantum – and a deepening understanding of how they will come together to enable unprecedented new capabilities to accelerate science, discovery and impact – have significant potential to accelerate the rate of discovering solutions to urgent problems our clients, industries and society at large are facing. At IBM Research, we are bringing advancements across these cutting-edge technologies together to accelerate discovery of solutions across a range of challenges including future pandemics, climate change, drug design and more sustainable materials. We invite you to learn more about our mission to accelerate discovery.
Open-Source Science (OSSci) is a community initiative at NumFOCUS, the home of leading Open-Source Software for science in general and data science in particular. OSSci is focused on three things: (1) Community Stewardship for OSS projects serving science; (2) mapping all of science areas onto OSS projects used in those areas, prioritizing needs and gaps; (3) resourcing the work required to fill in the gaps. OSSci is cofounded by IBM Research and partners from academia, industry, government, and startups. OSSci operates as a set of interest groups in science verticals (materials, healthcare, climate) and technology horizontals (reproducibility, data formats, scalability).
Learn more and join at opensource.science.
Two Sigma
Two Sigma is a financial sciences company. We combine rigorous inquiry, data analysis, and invention to solve the toughest challenges across financial services.
We’re looking for people who see beauty in data and the possibilities it reveals. Researchers who see connections and patterns in unexpected places. Engineers who build tools that channel massive amounts of data into insights. And experts across business disciplines to help solve the toughest challenges in investment
management, insurance, market-making, private equity, and venture capital.
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Learn more at www.twosigma.com
Tensorflow
TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of tools, libraries and community resources that lets researchers push the state-of-the-art in ML and developers easily build and deploy ML powered applications.
Learn more: tensorflow.org
Agnostiq
Agnostiq develops software tools that make quantum and high performance computing resources more accessible to enterprises and developers. Along with its algorithmic research, Agnostiq is developing Covalent, an open source workflow orchestration platform designed to help users manage and execute tasks on heterogeneous compute resources.
Learn more at https://agnostiq.ai/
Tutte Institute
The Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing (TIMC) is a government research institute focused on fundamental mathematics and computer science. Our mission is to deliver research results having an impact on the most important scientific challenges facing the Canadian and 5-Eyes security and intelligence communities.
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Learn more at https://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/en/tutte-institute and https://github.com/TutteInstitute
Kitware
Kitware delivers innovation to its customers through custom software solutions built on open source technology and advanced AI. Kitware solves the world’s most complex challenges through technical computing and state-of-the-art R&D. Since its founding in 1998, Kitware has developed a reputation for deep customer understanding, technical expertise, and honest interactions. The company is proud to be 100% employee-owned.
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Learn more at www.kitware.com
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of our local communities. Our mission is to build a more inclusive, just, and healthy future for everyone.
For more information, please visit www.chanzuckerberg.com.
Packt
Packt is a leading tech book publisher globally, based in the UK. We have published more than 8000 books, videos, articles, and tutorials. We provide IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done - whether that's specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.
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Learn more at https://www.packtpub.com/
