JuliaCon 2020 (times are in UTC)

NumFOCUS and Julia project finances
07-30, 18:45–19:30 (UTC), BoF

The Julia project is fiscally sponsored at NumFOCUS. In this session, we will discuss the projects income and expenditures, including the finances for JuliaCon.


Income for the Julia project comes primarily from JuliaCon sponsorships, and some individual contributions. Expenditures is primarily the organisation of JuliaCon, as well as smaller events and hackathon. Join the BoF channel on Discord.

Avik Sengupta is VP Engineering and head of Julia Computing's European headquarters in London. Avik is the head of product development and software engineering at Julia Computing, contributor to open source Julia and maintainer of several Julia packages. Avik is the author of Julia High Performance, co-founder of two artificial intelligence startups in the financial services sector and creator of large complex trading systems for the world's leading investment banks. Prior to Julia Computing, Avik was co-founder and CTO at AlgoCircle and at Itellix, director at Lab49 and head of algorithmic solutions at Decimal Point Analytics. Avik earned his MS in Computational Finance at Carnegie Mellon and MBA Finance at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.