Workshop: What do we still need to learn? [no-video]

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In this interactive workshop, Paula Gonzalez Avalos, Sebastian Neubauer, a Sr Staff Data Scientist at Blue Yonder, and Dr. Kristian Rother lead a community-driven exploration into the evolving landscape of technical skills in the age of AI agents. As AI reshapes how practitioners code, search, and work, Paula, Sebastian, and Kristian facilitate a critical conversation on which competencies remain essential and which are becoming obsolete. Rather than a traditional lecture, this session utilizes a collaborative format featuring shared boards and "fishbowl" discussions to surface the most pressing concerns and opportunities facing the community. Participants will engage in real-time voting and focused debates to identify the core skills needed to navigate the current technological shift. The insights gathered during this session serve as a foundation for subsequent panel discussions, ensuring that the collective voice of the attendees influences the broader event dialogue. This workshop is an essential space for professionals of all experience levels to reflect on their career trajectories and collectively determine where to focus their energy in an increasingly automated world.

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These are troubling times. Interesting times. Exciting times. Times that challenge us to reflect on where we should be focusing our energy.

In this interactive workshop, we will start by collectively answering four thought-provoking questions on shared boards — every voice, every perspective, visible in the room. Then we vote with dots on the topics that matter most to us. The winning topics go straight into a fishbowl: short, focused five-minute discussions where a small circle talks while everyone else listens, reacts, and rotates in.

The insights and themes from this session will flow directly into the panel discussion on Thursday afternoon, so your voice carries further than this room. Come in, participate, find a seat, and let us figure this out together.

Open community space · Non-recorded · All experience levels welcome

Paula Gonzalez Avalos

About — in the speaker's own words

Data Lover, Coach, Manager.

Paula is a Scientist turned Data Scientist by years of integrating statistics, machine learning methods and data wrangling and visualization pipelines while trying to understand science. In a similar way, in a continuous effort to improve science communication, with a strong sense of design and enjoyment of public speaking, she has become an expert in data visualization, visual presentation and storytelling.

She loves to teach and now I mostly manage teams.
She is also sometimes draw science comics: https://github.com/pga99/comics

Sebastian Neubauer

Data scientist forever; Worked everywhere in Blue Yonder, messed with data science, built platforms, now exploring GenAI & AI agents. Known to always ask the question nobody else dared.

Dr. Kristian Rother

Kristian is a freelance Python trainer who wrote his first lines of Python in the year 11111001111. After a career writing software for life science research, he has been teaching Python, Data Analysis and Machine Learning throughout Europe since 2011. More recently, he has built data pipelines for the real estate and medical sector.

Kristian has translated 5 Python books and written 2 more himself, in addition to numerous teaching guides. Kristian has collected 364 stars on Advent of Code. His favorite Python module is 're'. Kristian believes everybody can learn programming.

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