Program Chair
Kirstie Whitaker
Executive Director
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Kirstie Whitaker is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), where she supports the delivery of innovative open source software and infrastructure to benefit science and society. She founded The Turing Way, a collaboratively created Jupyter Book for reproducible and ethical data science, and maintainer for JupyterHub and Jupyter Book. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience (2012), is a Fulbright Scholarship alumna (2008), and a Jupyter Distinguished Contributor (2026).
Lahari Chowtoori
TPM II, AI/ML Open Source
AWS
Lahari is an Open Source TPM for AI/ML at AWS, working at the intersection of open source and AI. She drives initiatives bringing tools like Jupyter AI and Strands Agents to global developer communities, and tracks the open source AI ecosystem including MCP, LangChain, and agent frameworks to quantify protocol adoption trends. She's spoken at OSS Summit EU, PyTorch Conference, JupyterCon, OSS NA, and MCP Dev Summit.
program Committee
Paul Ivanov
Senior Software Engineer
Google Deepmind
Paul Ivanov currently owns and operates Stoic Hedgehog LLC. He has previously worked at Citadel, Noteable, Bloomberg, Disqus, and UC Berkeley. Paul is a long time open source scientific Python ecosystem participant: most recently as a member of the Jupyter Software Steering Council, program co-chair of the SciPy conference, and has previously served as a core developer of Matplotlib, IPython, and Jupyter projects. Away from the keyboard, you'll find him either biking or beekeeping.
Mike Krassowski
Senior Software Engineer
OpenTeams
Mike Krassowski is a JupyterLab maintainer and a Jupyter Distinguished Contributor with contribution footprint thought the ecosystem. At OpenTeams he splits his attention between client work, Jupyter maintenance, fostering open-source collaborations, and building for the future in which AI has increasingly bigger role in the interactive computing, data analysis and research. He has an academic background in bioinformatics; his PhD research focused on multi-omic correlates of endometriosis-associated pain and its comorbidity with bladder pain syndrome.
Neha Singla
Senior Software Engineer
Apple
Neha Singla is a software engineer with Data platform team in Apple who provides Jupyter notebooks solutions at scale to help data scientists/data engineers at Apple build great data products. She is working with Apple for 3+ years and have experience building platforms at scale with Amazon, AWS and Microsoft