Traditional subgraph isomorphism algorithms like VF2 rely on sequential tree-search that can't leverage parallel computing. This talk introduces Δ-Motif, a data-centric approach that transforms graph matching into data operations using Python's data science stack. Δ-Motif decomposes graphs into small "motifs" to reconstruct matches. By representing graphs as tabular data with RAPIDS cuDF and Pandas, we achieve 10-595X speedups over VF2 without custom GPU kernels. I'll demonstrate practical applications from social networks to quantum computing, and show when GPU acceleration provides the biggest benefits for graph analysis problems. Perfect for data scientists working with network analysis, recommendation systems, or pattern matching at scale

LLMs have a lot of hype around them these days. Let’s demystify how they work and see how we can put them in context for data science use. As data scientists, we want to make sure our results are inspectable, reliable, reproducible, and replicable. We already have many tools to help us in this front. However, LLMs provide a new challenge; we may not always be given the same results back from a query. This means trying to work out areas where LLMs excel in, and use those behaviors in our data science artifacts. This talk will introduce you to LLMs, the Chatlas packages, and how they can be integrated into a Shiny to create an AI-powered dashboard (using querychat). We’ll see how we can leverage the tasks LLMs are good at to better our data science products.

As datasets continue to grow in both size and complexity, CPU-based visualization pipelines often become bottlenecks, slowing down exploratory data analysis and interactive dashboards. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how GPU acceleration can transform Python-based interactive visualization workflows, delivering speedups of up to 50x with minimal code changes. Using libraries such as hvPlot, Datashader, cuxfilter, and Plotly Dash, we’ll walk through real-world examples of visualizing both tabular and unstructured data and demonstrate how RAPIDS, a suite of open-source GPU-accelerated data science libraries from NVIDIA, accelerates these workflows. Attendees will learn best practices for accelerating preprocessing, building scalable dashboards, and profiling pipelines to identify and resolve bottlenecks. Whether you are an experienced data scientist or developer, you’ll leave with practical techniques to instantly scale your interactive visualization workflows on GPUs.

This talk explores how AI agents integrated directly into Jupyter notebooks can help with every part of your data science work. We'll cover the latest notebook-focused agentic features in VS Code, demonstrating how they automate tedious tasks like environment management or graph styling, enhance your "scratch notebook" to sharable code, and more generally streamline data science workflows directly in notebooks.

Data science has the power to shape industries and societies. This panel will focus on empowering underrepresented groups in data science through education, access to tools, and career opportunities. Panelists will share their journeys, discuss the importance of democratizing data skills, and explore how to make the field more accessible to diverse talent.