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2026 AMLC t-shirts are available as an optional add-on with the purchase of any conference ticket. You can order shirts from the conference registration page. If you’ve already registered for the conference but didn’t get a shirt, there’s still time! Simply place a new order for your shirt from the registration form.

Join us tonight for “Low Code Data Science”

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone this evening for Low Code Data Science: Myth, Reality, and How Organizations Really Use Tools Like KNIME. Michael Powers will kick us off with a demo of marimo, a next-generation computational notebook for Python and SQL. Keith McCormick will follow with his talk about the ecosystem for low-code and no-code data science tools, how they work in practice, and the kinds of outcomes organizations are achieving with them.

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We’ll be gathering in-person at the UVA Darden School of Business. Thanks again to Darden for hosting us!

The 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is now just over three weeks away! We have 42 sessions lined up over two days featuring technical talks and hands-on tutorials from speakers at organizations like NVIDIA, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, McAfee, S&P Global, DARPA, IBM, and many more, as well as leading universities including UVA, Virginia Tech, Georgetown, Duke, and NC State.

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We’re offering Full Conference, Friday Only, and Saturday Only tickets at employer-paid, personal, and student price tiers. The conference sold out last year, so be sure to secure your tickets while they’re still available!

More upcoming events around Charlottesville

Monday, March 30: The Center for Open Science is offering a virtual “sneak peek” of the results from their SCORE program, a large-scale research study focused on replicability in scientific research. The results are set to be formally published next month as a series of articles in the Nature journal family. Please register here to receive the link to join this virtual event.

Tuesday, April 14: The Charlottesville Rust Meetup will host Sharpening Your Rust Skills for Job Interviews, featuring Simeon Fitch, Principal Software Engineer at Datashapes AI, and Brad Campbell, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at UVA.

Friday-Saturday, April 17-18: The Applied Machine Learning Conference returns to Charlottesville. A two-day event by and for practitioners, the AMLC is the signature annual event for the data science, AI, and machine learning community in Charlottesville and the surrounding region. Ticket sales are now open, and sponsorship opportunities are also available.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for Low Code Data Science: Myth, Reality, and How Organizations Really Use Tools Like KNIME. Michael Powers will kick us off with a demo of marimo, a next-generation computational notebook for Python and SQL. Keith McCormick will follow with his talk about the ecosystem for low-code and no-code data science tools, how they work in practice, and the kinds of outcomes organizations are achieving with them.

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We’ll be gathering in-person at the UVA Darden School of Business. Thanks again to Darden for hosting us!

​Come early for Keith’s capstone talk

​Keith McCormick currently serves as the Bodily Professorship in Analytics, which is a one-year visiting scholar role at the Darden School of Business. Keith will be giving his capstone talk in the same classroom as our event at 4:30 pm.

​Members of the Charlottesville Data Science community are invited to arrive early to attend the capstone talk. Keith will discuss his experiences at Darden during the academic year and the projects he has been working on.

The 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is now just over three weeks away! We have 42 sessions lined up over two days featuring technical talks and hands-on tutorials from speakers at organizations like NVIDIA, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, McAfee, S&P Global, DARPA, IBM, and many more, as well as leading universities including UVA, Virginia Tech, Georgetown, Duke, and NC State.

Buy Your Tickets

We’re offering Full Conference, Friday Only, and Saturday Only tickets at employer-paid, personal, and student price tiers. A limited edition 2026 AMLC T-Shirt is available as an optional add-on with any ticket purchase. The conference sold out last year, so be sure to secure your tickets while they’re still available!

More upcoming events around Charlottesville

Monday, March 30: The Center for Open Science is offering a virtual “sneak peek” of the results from their SCORE program, a large-scale research study focused on replicability in scientific research. The results are set to be formally published next month as a series of articles in the Nature journal family. Please register here to receive the link to join this virtual event.

Tuesday, April 14: The Charlottesville Rust Meetup will host Sharpening Your Rust Skills for Job Interviews, featuring Simeon Fitch, Principal Software Engineer at Datashapes AI, and Brad Campbell, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at UVA.

Friday-Saturday, April 17-18: The Applied Machine Learning Conference returns to Charlottesville. A two-day event by and for practitioners, the AMLC is the signature annual event for the data science, AI, and machine learning community in Charlottesville and the surrounding region. Ticket sales are now open, and sponsorship opportunities are also available.

Today is the last day to register for the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference at early bird prices! We have 42 sessions lined up over two days featuring technical talks and hands-on tutorials from speakers at organizations like NVIDIA, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, McAfee, S&P Global, DARPA, IBM, and many more, as well as leading universities including UVA, Virginia Tech, Duke, and NC State.

Buy Your Tickets

Last year's conference sold out, so be sure to secure your tickets now before prices go up tomorrow. We can't wait to see you on April 17–18!

P.S. If you know colleagues or friends who might be interested in attending, please share this with them. We do our best to get the word out about the AMLC, but the #1 way attendees find out about the event is still by word of mouth from people they know!

​We’re looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for Powering the Transition: Data Science for Smarter Energy! In this double-feature, Manaar Salama, a Data Operations Analyst at RECmint, will explore how machine learning is improving solar forecasting — helping maintain grid stability and ensuring the economic viability of renewable energy. Next, Charlie Henderson, founder and CEO of Stacker Group, will dive into real-time decisioning architecture, showing how closed-loop systems can sense, decide, and act at millisecond speed. Together, these talks illuminate how data science is reshaping energy systems from the rooftop to the grid.

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We’ll be gathering in person at Vault Virginia on the Downtown Mall. Thanks again to the team at Vault for hosting us!

More upcoming events around Charlottesville

Thursday, March 5: The Charlottesville Rust Meetup will hold the third online event in their series on Tock, an open-source operating system written in Rust. This session will focus on how capsules and lower-level hardware drivers are implemented in Rust and how user-space apps interact with them.

Tuesday, March 24: Cville AI Explorers hosts a Demo Day: an opportunity to share personal projects you’re working on related to AI, demo tools you’re using, or bring up a topic for discussion with the group.

Friday-Saturday, April 17-18: The Applied Machine Learning Conference returns to Charlottesville. A two-day event by and for practitioners, the AMLC is the signature annual event for the data science, AI, and machine learning community in Charlottesville and the surrounding region. Ticket sales will open soon, and sponsorship opportunities are also available.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for Seeing in the Dark: Unlocking AI in Next-Gen Radar Applications, featuring Charlottesville’s own May Casterline of NVIDIA! May recently delivered this talk at NVIDIA’s major GTC conference in Washington, DC, and now she’s bringing it closer to home for the Charlottesville Data Science community. May will introduce NVIDIA NVRadar, a GPU-native software framework that unites digital signal processing and AI into a single, accessible workflow, opening the door for both engineers and AI practitioners to create smarter, more responsive radar systems.

We’ll be gathering in person at the TELUS Digital campus (previously known as WillowTree) at Woolen Mills. Please check the event page on Luma for directions on how to access the building. Hope to see you there!

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More upcoming events around Charlottesville

Tuesday, January 27: Cville AI Explorers hosts their January event, Transformers Explained. Nish Tahir, a Principal Applied AI Research Engineer at Telus Digital, will explore the underlying machine learning architecture that powers most modern AI systems.

Thursday, January 29: The Charlottesville Rust Meetup will hold the second online event in their series on Tock, an open-source, Rust-based operating system used to run multiple concurrent, mutually distrustful applications on embedded platforms, from security processors to automotive systems.

Friday-Saturday, April 17-18: The Applied Machine Learning Conference returns to Charlottesville. A two-day event by and for practitioners, the AMLC is the signature annual event for the data science, AI, and machine learning community in Charlottesville and the surrounding region. The Call for Proposals and ticket sales will both open soon, and sponsorship opportunities are also available.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for Forecasting Disease Outbreaks: Data Science for Epidemiology, Charlottesville Data Science’s December event! In this double-feature, Aniruddha Adiga, a Research Assistant Professor at the UVA Biocomplexity Institute, and VP Nagraj, a practicing data scientist and Ph.D. candidate at the UVA School of Data Science, will explore the role of data science in how we predict and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. We’ll be gathering in person at 6pm at the UVA School of Data Science.

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Win a Free Copy of Machine Learning for Drug Discovery

Manning Publications, purveyor of fine technology books, has graciously offered us several free copies of Machine Learning for Drug Discovery by Noah Flynn to give away to members of the Charlottesville Data Science community. Join us at tomorrow’s event for your chance to win!

More upcoming events around Charlottesville

Friday, December 5: The UVA Conference on Ethical AI in Business will explore the opportunities and challenges presented by the rapid adoption of AI in many types of businesses across the economy. Hosted at The Forum Hotel by the UVA Darden School of Business and organized by the LaCross AI Institute, this event brings together leading researchers and business experts to share research-grounded insights, real-world case studies, and ethical frameworks for AI adoption. One of the featured speakers is Peter McCrory, currently the Head of Economics at Anthropic.

Tuesday, December 9: Cville AI Explorers will host their December meeting, featuring the talk Tuning the Tuners: Building a Multi-Agent System for Search Relevance Optimization from Eric Pugh. Eric is a co-founder of OpenSource Connections, a Charlottesville-based search & AI consulting firm, and shapes the technical direction of the OpenSearch project.

Friday, December 12: The Center for Open Science is hosting a colloquium on research integrity at the CODE Building on the Downtown Mall. At a Crossroads: Charting a Path for Research Integrity will examine this year’s significant shift in U.S. federal science policy and its implications for the trustworthiness of science and scholarship. The program will feature speakers from the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Center for Open Data Enterprise, and other organizations, as well as multiple former officials from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The event is free to attend, but advance registration is required.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for Charlottesville Data Science’s November event: Ditch the Anxiety, Make Bold Moves, and Design Your Meaningful Tech Career! Seasoned data science leader Kim Scott will share an unvarnished, behind-the-scenes look at her own career path spanning astronomy to data science to product management, including multiple leadership roles, plus she’ll share practical tools and mindset shifts that tech professionals can use to stay calm, collected, and direct their energy at what matters most.

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Enter to win Build a Career in Data Science

Manning Publications, purveyor of fine technology books, has graciously offered us several free copies of Build a Career in Data Science by Emily Robinson and Jacqueline Nolis to give away to members of the Charlottesville Data Science community.

Join us at tomorrow’s event for your opportunity to win!

Other upcoming events around Charlottesville

Friday, November 14: The UVA School of Data Science hosts Datapalooza 2025, its signature fall event bringing together faculty, students, alumni, and the community to showcase data science in action — across disciplines, industries, and the public good. It’s free to attend, but advance registration is required.

Friday, November 14 - Saturday, November 15: beCamp 2025, Charlottesville’s long-running annual “unconference” for technologists, creatives, and builders, will take place at the Looking Glass Art Bar (Friday evening) and Studio IX (Saturday). It’s entirely community-driven — no preset agenda, no panels, no keynotes. On Friday night, participants pitch and vote on ideas for sessions, then spend Saturday diving into the conference schedule they’ve created together. beCamp is free to attend, but advance registration is required.

Thursday, November 20: The Charlottesville Rust Meetup will host an online meetup focused on Tock, an open-source, Rust-based operating system used to run multiple concurrent, mutually distrustful applications on embedded platforms, from security processors to automotive systems.

Monday, December 1: The Call for Proposals for speakers at the 2026 RVATech Data & AI Summit closes. It would be great to see members of the Charlottesville Data Science community on stage in Richmond!

Wednesday, December 3: Join Charlottesville Data Science for our December event, Forecasting Disease Outbreaks: Data Science for Epidemiology. In this double-feature, Aniruddha Adiga, a Research Assistant Professor at the UVA Biocomplexity Institute, and VP Nagraj, a practicing data scientist and Ph.D. candidate at the UVA School of Data Science, will discuss the evolving methods, data sources, and technical infrastructure shaping how we predict and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. We’ll be gathering in person at the UVA School of Data Science.

Friday, December 5: The UVA Conference on Ethical AI in Business will explore the opportunities and challenges presented by the rapid adoption of AI in many types of businesses across the economy. Hosted at The Forum Hotel by the UVA Darden School of Business and organized by the LaCross AI Institute, this event brings together leading researchers and business experts to share research-grounded insights, real-world case studies, and ethical frameworks for AI adoption. One of the featured speakers is Peter McCrory, currently the Head of Economics at Anthropic.

Tuesday, December 9: Cville AI Explorers will host their December meeting, featuring the talk Tuning the Tuners: Building a Multi-Agent System for Search Relevance Optimization from Eric Pugh. Eric is a co-founder of OpenSource Connections, a Charlottesville-based search & AI consulting firm, and shapes the technical direction of the OpenSearch project.

Our friends at GA-Intelligence (formerly CCRi) are hosting the “Can AI Do Puzzles” community hackathon tomorrow from 12-5pm! The event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.

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Here’s what their event page has to say:

Can AI Do Puzzles?

Come join us for a fun afternoon exploring the world of Artificial Intelligence and its ability to tackle puzzles! From logic games to crossword puzzles, come join a team to devise an experiment to find out how well different AI agents do with these seemingly simple tasks. Challenge your perception of AI’s problem-solving skills and engage in discussions with GA-Intelligence staff and community members. Don’t miss out on this thought-provoking event at 323 2nd St SE!

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone for Charlottesville Data Science’s October event tomorrow! We’ll be gathering at 6pm at the UVA School of Data Science to learn about AI-powered coding for data science from Michael Pfaffenberger, currently an AI Engineer in Walmart’s Global Tech organization.

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Enter to win Data Analysis with LLMs

Manning Publications, purveyor of fine technology books, has graciously offered us several free copies of the e-book version of Data Analysis with LLMs by Immanuel Trummer to give away to members of the Charlottesville Data Science community.

Join us at tomorrow’s event for your opportunity to win!

Upcoming events around Charlottesville

Friday, October 17: GA-Intelligence (formerly CCRi) is hosting the “Can AI Do Puzzles?” AI hackathon. From logic games to crossword puzzles, join a team and devise experiments to find out how well different AI agents do with these seemingly simple tasks. It’s free to participate, but advance registration is required.

Thursday, November 6: The Data Centric Summit & Career Fair is taking place at the CODE building on the Downtown Mall. The summit will feature keynote speakers, panel discussions, and a workshop covering a wide range of topics, including data governance, data security, AI/ML, and emerging data technologies. Most of the sessions are free to attend, but advance registration is required.

Wednesday, November 12: We’ve rescheduled Kim Scott’s talk Ditch the Anxiety, Make Bold Moves, and Design Your Meaningful Tech Career as Charlottesville Data Science’s November event! Join us at Vault Virginia on the Downtown Mall to learn about practical tools and mindset shifts that can help tech professionals stay calm, collected, and direct their energy to what matters most.

Friday, November 14: The UVA School of Data Science hosts Datapalooza 2025, its signature fall event bringing together faculty, students, alumni, and the community to showcase data science in action — across disciplines, industries, and the public good. It’s free to attend, but advance registration is required.

Friday, November 14-Saturday, November 15: beCamp 2025, Charlottesville’s long-running annual “unconference” for technologists, creatives, and builders, will take place at the Looking Glass Art Bar (Friday evening) and Studio IX (Saturday). It’s entirely community-driven — no preset agenda, no panels, no keynotes. On Friday night, participants pitch and vote on ideas for sessions, then spend Saturday diving into the conference schedule they’ve created together. beCamp is free to attend, but advance registration is required.

Are you an R user, or perhaps R curious? Our friends at the Charlottesville R Users (CRU) group are hosting their first event at 6pm tomorrow at the UVA School of Data Science. The event will feature:

• Technical presentations on practical R packaging with Docker and using AI tools in the Positron IDE

• A discussion about the group’s goals and format

• Plenty of time for meeting and networking with other R enthusiasts

If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP so the organizers can get an accurate headcount.

RSVP on Luma

If you know other R users in the area, please help spread the word!

We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for Charlottesville Data Science’s September event! Seasoned data science leader Kim Scott will present the talk Ditch the Anxiety, Make Bold Moves, and Design Your Meaningful Tech Career. We'll be gathering in person from 6-8pm at Vault Virginia on the Downtown Mall.

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We hope to see you there!

Please join Charlottesville Data Science tomorrow evening for the talk Code and the Art of Modeling Exoplanet Atmospheres from Arthur Adams, a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy at the University of Virginia. Come meet fellow members of our local data science community and learn how astronomers are using Python and machine learning to make discoveries about planets orbiting distant stars!

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We’ll be gathering in person at Vault Virginia on the Downtown Mall. We’d love to see you there!