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The official Jupyter Conference
August 22-23, 2017: Training
August 23-25, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY

Thursday opening welcome

Andrew Odewahn (O'Reilly Media), Fernando Perez (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
8:50am–8:55am Thursday, August 24, 2017
Location: Grand Ballroom
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)

Program chairs Andrew Odewahn and Fernando Pérez open the first day of keynotes.

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Andrew Odewahn

O'Reilly Media

Andrew Odewahn is the CTO of O’Reilly Media, where he helps define and create the new products, services, and business models that will help O’Reilly continue to make the transition to an increasingly digital future. The author of two books on database development, he has experience as a software developer and consultant in a number of industries, including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and publishing. Andrew holds an MBA from New York University and a degree in computer science from the University of Alabama. He’s also thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.

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Fernando Perez

UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Fernando Pérez is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a founding investigator of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at UC Berkeley, created in 2013. His research focuses on creating tools for modern computational research and data science across domain disciplines, with an emphasis on high-level languages, interactive and literate computing, and reproducible research. He created IPython while a graduate student in 2001 and continues to lead its evolution into Project Jupyter, now as a collaborative effort with a talented team that does all the hard work. Fernando regularly lectures about scientific computing and data science and is a member of the Python Software Foundation, a founding member of NumFOCUS, and a National Academy of Science Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow. He is also the recipient of the 2012 Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation. Fernando holds a PhD in particle physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, which he followed with postdoctoral research in applied mathematics and developing numerical algorithms.