Data Science and Machine Learning conferences to attend in 2024

Planning for 2024 and looking for the conferences to attend? There is a myriad of great events focused on Data Science, applied Machine Learning, and MLOps! 

We made the research and selected the most interesting events and conferences for ML practitioners happening in 2024. We looked to include events of the most value to the community: the largest and most popular ones and those that are free to attend or openly publish the content after the event. We hope the list will help you plan your schedule for 2024.

If we’re missing some great events, please let us know (our Discord is the best place to do it). We’ll update this post at least once per quarter. 

Disclaimer: all information about listed events comes from their websites. We simply put it together.

DataCouncil

Austin, March 26-28, 2024
Organized by: Data Council
Price: $, content freely available afterward
Program: event schedule for 2023 and 2022

The event covers the entire data stack: from data infrastructure to data engineering, data science, machine learning, and data analytics. The conference aims to bridge the gap between them. Organizers invite open-source contributors and industry experts from data-related projects for deeply technical content. After the event, all content is published.

Previous talks are freely available on the Data Council YouTube Channel.

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Virtual, March 14, 2024
Organized by: Tecton
Price: FREE, content freely available afterward
Program: coming soon.

It is a free virtual event on data engineering for applied machine learning that targets data and ML teams. During the conference, participants will share best practice development patterns, tools of choice, and emerging architectures they use to build and manage production ML applications. Other topics include managing labeling pipelines, transforming and serving features in real-time, and serving at scale. 

Previous talks are freely available on Tecton’s YouTube channel.

MLconf

MLconf NYC: New York, dates to be confirmed
MLconf SF: San Francisco, October 24, 2024‍
Organized by: MLconf
Price: $, content freely available afterward
Program: here is the 2022 program for San Francisco.

MLconf is devoted to machine learning and data science and agnostic of any tool, platform, or company. The conference topics cover data science, data engineering, computer vision, AI research, and machine learning. The attendees are data practitioners, startup founders, professors, and students. 

Past sessions are freely available on MLconf website.

PyDATA

PyCon DE & PyDATA Berlin: Berlin, April 22-24, 2024
PyDATA NYC: New York, November 6-8, 2024
PyDATA Global: virtual, December 6-8, 2023
Organized by: NumFOCUS
Price: $, content freely available afterward
Program: here is the 2023 program for Berlin, New York and PyDATA Global.

PyDATA conferences are dedicated to data analysis tools and provide an opportunity for their users and developers to share ideas and learn from each other. Topics cover best practices, new approaches, and emerging technologies for data management, processing, analytics, and visualization. The program also includes workshops and networking with fellow members of the Python and PyData communities. 

Previous talks are freely available on the PyData YouTube Channel.

Want to see an example of the talk? Here is one from PyCon DE & PyDATA Berlin by Emeli Dral, Co-founder & CTO of Evidently AI: Detecting drift: how to evaluate and explore data drift in machine learning systems.

ODSC 

ODSC East: Boston or virtual, April 23-25, 2024
ODSC Europe: London, September 5-6, 2024
ODSC West: San Francisco, October 29-31, 2024
Organized by: Open Data Science Conference
Price: $, content freely available afterward
Program: here is the 2023 program for Boston, London and San Francisco

As organizers put it, the goal of the conference is to bring together the global data science community to encourage the exchange of innovative ideas and the growth of open source software. Conference focus areas: machine learning, deep learning, NLP, MLOps, and data engineering. The program includes training sessions, workshops, talks, networking reception, and a career expo. 

Selected talks are available on the ODSC YouTube channel.

TMLS Summit

Toronto, July 12-15, 2024
Organized by: Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS)
Price: $
Program: here is the program for 2023 and 2022.

TMLS Summit is a blend of cutting-edge research, workshops, and industry case studies. Last year’s topics included ML observability and monitoring, deployment, Kubernetes for MLOps, NLP, data analytics, and more. Though you need a ticket for the conference, there is a free career fair and startup showcase.

Data + AI Summit

San Francisco + Virtual, June 10-13, 2024
Organized by: Databricks
Price: $, content freely available afterward
Program: agenda for 2023 and the program from 2022.

The event brings together data teams to discuss data analytics, data engineering, data lakehouses, data science, machine learning, MLOps, data security, and governance, as well as academic and advanced industrial research. 

Talks from DATA + AI Summit 2022 are freely available on Databricks YouTube channel.

Southern Data Science Conference

Atlanta, dates to be confirmed
Organized by: Southern Data Science
Price: $, content freely available afterward
Program: not yet available, here is the program from 2023.

Southern Data Science Conference is a single-track Data Science event in Atlanta focused on machine learning in production. It brings together experts and researchers from industry, academia, and government institutions to present their work and share best practices in data science. Last year’s program covered reinforcement learning, data-centric AI, continuous deployment, building ML platforms, recsys, and more. 

Previous talks are freely available on the Southern Data Science Conference YouTube Channel.

Big Data LDN

London, September 18-19, 2024
Organized by: Reed Exhibitions Limited
Price: FREE, content freely available afterward
Program: not yet available, here are the 2023 speakers.

Big Data LDN is a free to attend data and analytics conference and exhibition focusing on how to build dynamic, data-driven enterprises. Delegates meet to discuss real-world case studies and discover new tools and techniques.

Previous talks are freely available on the Big Data LDN YouTube Channel.

Coalesce

Las Vegas, October 7-10, 2024
Organized by: dbt Labs
Price: $, content freely available afterward
Program: here is the 2023 agenda.

It is the analytics engineering conference that covers all facets of working with data. Topics include automation, data pipelines, data change management and accessibility, data observability, analytics career, data teams routine, and more. The conference’s focus is on the higher leverage and higher impact data work. The program also includes training sessions, workshops, and community networking.

Previous talks are freely available on the dbt YouTube Channel.

MLOps World

Austin TX + Virtual, November 7-8, 2024
Organized by: Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS)
Price: $, content freely available afterward
Program: not yet available, here is the program from 2023.

As organizers put it, the goal for MLOps World is to help companies put more models into production environments. It explores the best practices, methodologies, and principles of effective MLOps and will be interesting to those working towards a live production environment or currently working in production. 

Check out previous talks on the MLOps World YouTube channel or read the recap blog by James Le, where he summarises content from the talks he found most useful.

MLOps Summit

San Francisco, dates to be confirmed
London, dates to be confirmed
Organized by: RE-WORK
Price: $, content freely available afterward
Program: not yet available, here is the 2022 program for San Francisco and London.

The summit’s focus is creating efficient ML workflows and decreasing time to production. Participants from industry and academia will discuss how to optimize the ML lifecycle and streamline pipelines for better production. Among the covered topics are automation, architectural practices, data efficiency, ML pipelines and workflows, and deployment. 

Selected talks are available on the RE-WORK YouTube channel.

Data Natives

Berlin, May 2024
Organized by: Data Natives
Price: $, past talks are available for a fee
Program: not yet available, here is the program from 2022.

The conference is a meeting point for those excited by the boom in data science, machine learning, and all data-infused tech. The program includes talks, workshops, and startup showcases. The 2022 conference covered data economy, NLP, transformer networks, AutoML, graph databases, and augmented analytics.

Summing up

There are so many Data and Machine Learning conferences out there that choosing which to attend may be overwhelming. We listed the most interesting events to participate in 2024. Hope that helps to navigate the space and select the ones that suit your needs. Of course, the list is not the ultimate, so do not hesitate to jump to our Discord and let us know what is missing! 

We’ll be revisiting the list to keep the information up-to-date and add your suggestions.

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