One Week Left: Submit Proposals to Speak at the 2026 RVATech Data & AI Summit
Submit your talk proposal by December 1 for Richmond's annual data & AI event
There’s just under one week left to submit talk proposals for the RVATech Data & AI Summit — their Call for Proposals closes at the end of the day on December 1. It would be great to see members of the Charlottesville Data Science community on stage with our friends in Richmond!
Also, it wouldn’t hurt to have a proposal or two ready for a certain marquee, Charlottesville-based data science conference coming soon! Stay tuned for any upcoming announcements…
More upcoming events around Charlottesville
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.
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.