posit::conf(2025)

Author

Peter Ehmann & Nick Giangreco

Published

September 19, 2025

Introduction

Colleagues

  • Peter Ehmann (PMQTS)

  • Nick Giangreco (PMQTS)

  • Ryan Yu (BDM - stat programming)

  • Sri Pavan Vemuri (BDM - stat programming)

  • Regis James (DADS)

  • Marina Lehmkuhl (BICS)

Sessions

Session Day Time Attendee
R/Pharma Summit Monday, Sept 15 9am-5pm Peter & Nick
Pharmaverse for Regulatory Submissions Tuesday, Sept 16 9am-5pm Peter
Programming with LLM APIs Tuesday, Sept 16 9am-5pm Nick
Keynote: RStudio -> Positron (Jonathan McPherson) Wednesday, Sept 17 9:00am Peter & Nick
Positron Wednesday, Sept 17 10:20am Peter
Shiny for Humans Wednesday, Sept 17 10:20am Nick
Lightning Talks Wednesday, Sept 17 1:00pm Peter
Shiny for Humans Wednesday, Sept 17 1:00pm Nick
Quarto Wednesday, Sept 17 2:40pm Peter
Get Your Ducks in a Row (Databases) Wednesday, Sept 17 2:40pm Nick
AI and human intelligence (Joe Cheng & Hadley W) Wednesday, Sept 17 4:00pm Peter & Nick
The Psychology of Technologists Thursday, Sept 18 9am Peter & Nick
Big Organization Change Management Thursday, Sept 18 10:20am Peter
The Power of Presentation Thursday, Sept 18 10:20am Nick
ML and Statistical Models Thursday, Sept 18 1:00pm Peter
Beautiful, Effective, and Accessible Data Visualization Thursday, Sept 18 1:00pm Nick
Enterprise Data Platforms Thursday, Sept 18 2:40pm Peter & Nick
Trustworthy Data Visualization Thursday, Sept 18 4:00pm Peter & Nick

Events

Session Day Time Attendee
rPharma meetup at SKOL Brewery Sunday, Sept 14 7-9pm Peter & Nick
rPharma social event at White Oak Monday, Sept 15 6-8pm Peter & Nick
Welcome Reception Tuesday, Sept 16 5-7pm Peter & Nick
Georgia Aquarium Wednesday, Sept 17 7-9pm Peter & Nick

Companies

Organizations we interacted with:

  • Biotech/Pharma

  • CROs

    • Flatiron Health

    • Denali

    • Syneos

    • Atorus

    • Wu Consulting

    • Appsilon

      • using teal & LLM to generate quick/simple Shiny apps

  • Posit Connect

    • Joe Roberts (Posit Connect)

      • Error: “Database is locked.” - just keep trying to publish, not an error with code

      • Getting metrics from API - Regis made an app, but API data formatting changed

    • Lulu Li (rep)

    • Suzanne Dunham

    • Katherine Malewski