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The official Jupyter Conference
Aug 21-22, 2018: Training
Aug 22-24, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan
Evil Mad Scientist, derwen.ai

Website | @pacoid

Paco Nathan is known as a “player/coach” with core expertise in data science, natural language processing, machine learning, and cloud computing. He has 35+ years of experience in the tech industry, at companies ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage startups. His recent roles include director of the Learning Group at O’Reilly and director of community evangelism at Databricks and Apache Spark. Paco is the cochair of Rev conference and an advisor for Amplify Partners, Deep Learning Analytics, Recognai, and Primer. He was named one of the "top 30 people in big data and analytics" in 2015 by Innovation Enterprise.

Sessions

8:50am–8:55am Thursday, August 23, 2018
Thursday opening remarks
Location: Grand Ballroom
Paco Nathan (derwen.ai), Fernando Perez (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Brian Granger (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
JupyterCon cochairs Paco Nathan, Fernando Pérez, and Brian Granger open the first day of keynotes. Read more.
9:10am–9:20am Thursday, August 23, 2018
Jupyter trends in 2018
Location: Grand Ballroom
Paco Nathan (derwen.ai)
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 3 ratings)
Jupyter is built on a set of extensible, reusable building blocks, expressed through various open protocols, APIs, and standards. For many use cases, these are combined to provide extensible software architecture for interactive computing with data. Paco Nathan shares a few somewhat unexpected things that emerged in 2018. Read more.
8:50am–8:55am Friday, August 24, 2018
Friday opening remarks
Location: Grand Ballroom
Paco Nathan (derwen.ai), Fernando Perez (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Brian Granger (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
JupyterCon cochairs Paco Nathan, Fernando Pérez, and Brian Granger open the second day of keynotes. Read more.
5:00pm–5:40pm Friday, August 24, 2018
Business Summit discussion group
JupyterCon Business Summit
 Location: Concourse A: Business Summit
Paco Nathan (derwen.ai)
The Business Summit concludes with "unconference"-style breakout sessions that allow enterprise stakeholders to give input to Project Jupyter directly. Read more.