# PyData London 2026 > 72 verified speakers from this event's public agenda. - Location: London, United Kingdom - Date: 2026-06-05 - Event site: https://pydata.org/london2026 - Agenda we sourced from: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/schedule/ - Organizer: PyData London / NumFOCUS ## Verified speakers - [Carol Chen](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/carol-chen) — "Learn to Unlock Document Intelligence with Open-Source AI" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/9PPVRK/ - [Cedric Clyburn](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/cedric-clyburn) — "What Can LLMs Do with Messy Residential Electrification Data?" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/TL88MJ/ - [Laura Summers](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/laura-summers) — "The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/3YH3WF/ - [Marco Gorelli](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/marco-gorelli) — "The Polars vs SQL differences nobody is talking about" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/HPJR9B/ - [Luca Baggi](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/luca-baggi) — "Reading the Mind of an LLM" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/AYDUBL/ - [Özge Çinko](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/ozge-cinko) — "LLM-Based Recommendation Systems: From Embeddings to Real Personalization" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/HAYANG/ - [Cheuk Ting Ho](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/cheuk-ting-ho) — "Unconference- Feminist AI", "Do you know how well your model is doing? Evaluate your LLMs" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/8SWJS9/ - [Jacob Tomlinson](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/jacob-tomlinson) — "Documenting your open source projects for machines" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/3MAU9W/ - [Katrina Riehl](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/katrina-riehl) — "GPU Algorithm Authoring with CUDA Tile" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/DBGAND/ - [Chris Fonnesbeck](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/chris-fonnesbeck) — "PyMC Code Sprint", "Flexible Statistical Modeling with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/BUEZSA/ - [Sam Joseph](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/sam-joseph) — "Python Leadership and Engineering Excellence BoF" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/AV3A3W/ - [Theo van Kraay](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/theo-van-kraay) — "Designing Semantic Memory for Multi-Agent Systems with Python" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/JFJFQX/ - [Ines Montani](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/ines-montani) — "Vibe NLP for Applied NLP" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/CJGBGV/ - [Adam Hill](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/adam-hill) — "From Chat-with-PDF to Quiz-Master: Live-Grading RAG with LLM-as-Judge in Python" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/QQWDVQ/ - [Lena Shakurova](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/lena-shakurova) — "Evaluating multi-turn conversations: A practical guide to AI Agent evals" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/8Y9GRD/ - [Sofia Pinto](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/sofia-pinto) — "Mapping the local heat transition: from large-scale geospatial data to real-world impact" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/CKV8PH/ - [Fred O'Loughlin](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/fred-o-loughlin) — "Making tech boring to keep data exciting" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/AMGUEK/ - [Tun Shwe](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/tun-shwe) — "Observing Agentic AI in Production: MCP Server Tracing with OpenTelemetry and Animal Crossing" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/APYSNR/ - [Mingxuan Zhao](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/mingxuan-zhao) — "Learn to Unlock Document Intelligence with Open-Source AI" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/9PPVRK/ - [Gergely Daroczi](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/gergely-daroczi) — "SELECT instance FROM cloud WHERE workload = ? ORDER BY cost_efficiency" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/ABYV3J/ - [Samuel Colvin](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/samuel-colvin) — "Keynote: Samuel Colvin: Pydantic Monty & Logfire: Wild LLMs, from tool calling to computer use" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/TAWYHU/ - [Dragos Crintea](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/dragos-crintea) — "Making Databases LLM-Ready: Building Production Semantic Layers with Semantido" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/YFYXAC/ - [Abby Tse](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/abby-tse) — "Learn to Unlock Document Intelligence with Open-Source AI" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/9PPVRK/ - [Fei Phoon](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/fei-phoon) — "Observing Agentic AI in Production: MCP Server Tracing with OpenTelemetry and Animal Crossing" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/APYSNR/ - [Oreolorun Olu-Ipinlaye](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/oreolorun-olu-ipinlaye) — "Building a Browser Agent from Scratch: Teach an LLM to Navigate the Web" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/ZAR8AG/ - [Nabin Mulepati](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/nabin-mulepati) — "From Synthetic Examples to Production Signals: Multimodal Training Data Pipelines with Privacy-Safe Feedback" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/HC3SLQ/ - [Lipika Ramaswamy](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/lipika-ramaswamy) — "From Synthetic Examples to Production Signals: Multimodal Training Data Pipelines with Privacy-Safe Feedback" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/HC3SLQ/ - [Niek Tax](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/niek-tax) — "Beyond ML Model Calibration: Hands-On Multicalibration with MCGrad" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/SKBDNF/ - [Nicolas Makaroff](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/nicolas-makaroff) — "Hands-On with Tabular Foundation Models: From Zero to Strong Baselines" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/WDQZLR/ - [Nick Radcliffe](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/nick-radcliffe) — "Test-Driven Data Analysis" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/MRKKWJ/ - [Oriol Abril Pla](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/oriol-abril-pla) — "PyMC Code Sprint", "Model criticism through posterior predictive checks" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/BUEZSA/ - [Rachel Lee Nabors](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/rachel-lee-nabors) — "Keynote- Rachel Lee Nabors- The Community Is the Boat" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/PUL99Q/ - [Margaritha Groenendijk](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/margaritha-groenendijk) — "The Rules Nobody Writes Down: Decoding and Shifting Team Culture From Any Seat" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/V3D3LS/ - [Kamlesh Shah](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/kamlesh-shah) — "Columnar Thinking - Designing for high-performance execution with Arrow and Polars" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/WGJMXV/ - [Ian Thomas](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/ian-thomas) — "JupyterLite: run all your code in a web browser using WebAssembly" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/NVXBEM/ - [Jeremiah Lowin](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/jeremiah-lowin) — "Keynote- Jeremiah Lowin- Build Reasonable Software" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/QU33NS/ - [Daniele Raimondi](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/daniele-raimondi) — "Building a Scientific Taxonomy at Scale with Graph Clustering, Embeddings, and LLMs" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/ZFR8VH/ - [Feichi Lu](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/feichi-lu) — "Building a Scientific Taxonomy at Scale with Graph Clustering, Embeddings, and LLMs" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/ZFR8VH/ - [Samuel Jaja](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/samuel-jaja) — "Building Production Multi-Agent RAG Systems on Serverless AWS" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/RQ3FJQ/ - [Prattyush Mangal](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/prattyush-mangal) — "Production-Ready AI Agents: From LLMs to Small Language Models" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/3JJHZF/ - [Austen Wallis](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/austen-wallis) — "Fast-Forward(ing) Models: Accelerating High-Dimensional Inference with AI Emulators" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/J99JNR/ - [Ivo Dilov](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/ivo-dilov) — "Bridging Pandas and Polars: The Hidden Costs of Dataframe Interoperability" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/YYTLFF/ - [Sujee Maniyam](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/sujee-maniyam) — "Using coding agents with open models" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/HBPSDS/ - [Arthur Andres](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/arthur-andres) — "Kafka Streaming, the Pythonic Way" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/BPJEKV/ - [Ken Obata](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/ken-obata) — "Beyond Spark MLlib: Deduplicating Common Crawl at Scale" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/T7GMEL/ - [Viktor Kessler](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/viktor-kessler) — "Governance-as-Code for the Lakehouse: Zero Trust with Iceberg REST Catalog and Policy Engines" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/8JJUKQ/ - [Neal Richardson](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/neal-richardson) — "MCP, or not MCP" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/QMGS7U/ - [Daina Bouquin](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/daina-bouquin) — "Build your castle, dig your moat: AI sovereignty, provenance and compliance" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/T7BQTG/ - [Ono Gantsog](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/ono-gantsog) — "From Noisy Sensors to Events: Event Detection in Sensor data with Kalman Filters and Hidden Markov Models" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/EQZ7VK/ - [Simran Dave](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/simran-dave) — "Mapping the local heat transition: from large-scale geospatial data to real-world impact" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/CKV8PH/ - [Nathaniel Forde](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/nathaniel-forde) — "Hazards on the Causal Path: Bayesian Time-Varying Survival Analysis with PyMC" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/A38MW7/ - [Benjamin Vincent](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/benjamin-vincent) — "Did Your Rollout Actually Work? Measuring Phased Launches with Staggered DiD in Python" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/H7PFXK/ - [Kavit Tolia](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/kavit-tolia) — "Do Multilingual Embeddings Really Share a Semantic Space? Practical Lessons Across Scripts and Languages" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/JWNWFQ/ - [Gabriel Lipnik](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/gabriel-lipnik) — "Your ML Pipeline Meets the EU AI Act" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/NMFNQJ/ - [Hitendri Bomble](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/hitendri-bomble) — "The Silent Crash: Why Your RAG Evaluation Metrics Are Lying to You" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/MMS9WY/ - [Arghyadeep Sarkar](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/arghyadeep-sarkar) — "The Silent Crash: Why Your RAG Evaluation Metrics Are Lying to You" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/MMS9WY/ - [Martin O'Reilly](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/martin-o-reilly) — "Keynote- Martin O'Reilly- LLMs and AI agents demystified" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/XQXNVK/ - [Matt Crooks](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/matt-crooks) — "AI-Assisted Creative for Automated Marketing using Python" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/GBGB9X/ - [Paddy Mullen](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/paddy-mullen) — "The Future of Notebooks in a Claude Code World**" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/KDWRYR/ - [Julie Huang](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/julie-huang) — "Tesco AI & Data Science: From Recipes to Reality" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/BGNZLQ/ - [Kareem Hussein](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/kareem-hussein) — "Tesco AI & Data Science: From Recipes to Reality" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/BGNZLQ/ - [Michel Semaan](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/michel-semaan) — "Querying the queries: SQL Metaprogramming in Python" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/KQDKTE/ - [Kerry Parker](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/kerry-parker) — "Making tech boring to keep data exciting" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/AMGUEK/ - [Mark Cottam](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/mark-cottam) — "Making tech boring to keep data exciting" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/AMGUEK/ - [Ophelie Bleu](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/ophelie-bleu) — "When Your Dataset Has Blind Spots: Practical LLM-Based Data Augmentation" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/CHQLFU/ - [Dmitry Petrov](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/dmitry-petrov) — "From SQL to Python: Building Data Context for Agents and People" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/BAFKCL/ - [Damian Bemben](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/damian-bemben) — "The Clean Energy Graveyard: Using Python & Gemini to Map the UK's Cancelled Renewable's" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/R7UEBE/ - [Alessandra Costantino](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/alessandra-costantino) — "What We Expect from XAI - A scientist’s experience between models and users" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/9HLYEW/ - [Andrew Igdal](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/andrew-igdal) — "What Can LLMs Do with Messy Residential Electrification Data?" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/TL88MJ/ - [Thomas Ogden](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/thomas-ogden) — "No Ropes on a Boat: Coherent Forecasting" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/RTWLPY/ - [James Fielder](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/james-fielder) — "How to write a PyData proposal" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/LLVVRQ/ - [Maksym Bilychenko](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/maksym-bilychenko) — "Surviving (and Thriving) as a Data Professional in the Age of AI Agents" Source: https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/HNKFP8/ JSON: https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/events/pydata-london-2026 --- Machine-readable index: [/llms.txt](https://speakerstrail.com/llms.txt) · API spec: [/openapi.json](https://speakerstrail.com/openapi.json) · API docs: [/docs/api](https://speakerstrail.com/docs/api) · Sitemap: [/sitemap-index.xml](https://speakerstrail.com/sitemap-index.xml)