Friday & Saturday: beCamp 2025, Charlottesville's Tech Unconference
Join Charlottesville's long-running annual "unconference" for technologists, creatives, and builders
It’s a busy week in the Charlottesville data science and technology community! In addition to our own Charlottesville Data Science event tomorrow night, one of the Charlottesville technology community’s most interesting and distinctive traditions is happening this weekend.
The 2025 edition of beCamp, Charlottesville’s long-running annual tech “unconference”, is taking place this Friday and Saturday. beCamp is a full-day conference for technologists, creatives, and builders — 100% planned and organized by the people who show up.
On Friday night, participants will gather at The Looking Glass Art Bar to pitch ideas for sessions, vote on their favorites, and create the conference schedule for the following day.
On Saturday, the action moves to Studio IX, where participants will carry out the conference planned the night before — learning, sharing, and connecting with peers through conference talks, round-table discussions, hands-on demos, and more.
Advance registration is required. beCamp is free to attend, powered entirely by local volunteers and sponsors.
Know anyone else who might be curious about technology, creativity, and collaboration in the Charlottesville community? Forward them this email! beCamp grows through word of mouth, so please spread the word with your own networks.
Other upcoming events around Charlottesville
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 tech professionals can use to 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.
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.