June Event Recap and JuliaCon 2025 News
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our June event!
Thank you again to everyone who filled the Mill Room at COhatch Waterfront last week for our June event! Jay Palat, head of AI/ML at Mpathic, spoke with us about Panning for Gold in the Streams of Conversation, where machine learning is used to extract insights from human conversations — including the fascinating use of MITI to assess therapeutic conversations in psychedelic clinical trials. You can view Jay’s presentation slides right here!
Community News
The largest annual conference for the Julia programming language is just around the corner! JuliaCon 2025 will be held July 22-26 in Pittsburgh. Julia may not be as widely known as Python, but it’s heavily used in scientific computing, especially in academia. It’s one of the three programming languages specifically included in the PyData community, alongside Python and R.
And the good folks organizing JuliaCon are looking for local volunteers! Perks of the job include:
free lunch every day you volunteer (and possibly some other meals too)
free T-shirt and other swag
if you work a “full” set of shifts (about 12–15 hours total), your conference ticket will be covered!
Typical volunteer tasks include:
helping in conference sessions (e.g. running microphone for audience questions)
staffing the registration table
assisting attendees with wayfinding around the conference
The Julia language is an up-and-coming language for scientific computing that is easy to use like Python, but can run fast like MATLAB, C, or Fortran. In addition to sessions focusing on language internals, it features diverse topical content in a variety of fields, and lots is accessible to language newbies!
If this sounds cool to you and you want to help out, fill out THIS FORM and the JuliaCon organizers will be in touch – thanks in advance! 🙏