2025-09-12 –, Ballroom 1
The Data & AI specialist track is all about the technology, skills, and practices that engineers, data scientists, and researchers need when building effective and reliable solutions that involve data and leverage different flavours of machine learning and automation. We’re excited to hear talks that cover a wide range of topics relating to data science, data engineering, ML engineering, and modern artificial intelligence.
At the end of the day we’ll recap our highlights, insights and key takeaways. The track ‘close’ helps us tie a ribbon around our full program of talks. We’ll see where the conversation takes us, and will conclude at or before 5:40pm.
But wait! As one door closes (on the specialist tracks) another one opens! Stick around at PyCon AU for the main conference on Saturday and Sunday!
Nic is a Senior Performance Engineer in Snowflake's Applied Performance Group, working with product engineering teams to identify and implement performance improvements to real-world customer use cases. He specialises in Snowpark, which brings Python and other non-SQL languages to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
Prior to his work with Snowflake's engineering team, he has over 10 years of experience in data engineering and analytics, primarily using Python and SQL.
Nic was the Sponsorships Lead for PyCon AU '23 and '24, and this year is co-lead of the Data & AI Specialist Track. You might know him as "the jacket".
Jack is a consultant CTO For Hire, specialising in all things web and APIs. He consults to small and growing software companies on patterns and practices for scaling teams and technology. He’s spent the past decade growing technical communities as a speaker, organiser, facilitator and coach.
Jack has worn several hats at PyCon AU over the years, and one of those in 2025 is co-lead of the Data & AI Specialist Track. You might know him as "the hair".