Tomorrow: Join us for "Design Your Meaningful Tech Career" and Win a Free Copy of "Build a Career in Data Science"
Learn about practical tools and mindset shifts that tech professionals can use to stay calm, collected, and direct their energy to what matters most
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.
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.