Events
| Jul 24, 2026 | What even is code quality anymore? Steering your coding assistant to larger Python projects | talk | PyData PyCon Yerevan Yerevan, Armenia |
Matthew Honnibal |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Coming soon | keynote | PyData PyCon Yerevan Yerevan, Armenia |
Ines Montani |
| Jun 13, 2026 | Coming soon | workshop | Py4AI Pavia, Italy |
Matthew Honnibal Ines Montani |
| Jun 13, 2026 | Vibe NLP for Applied NLP Slides |
talk | Py4AI Pavia, Italy |
Ines Montani |
| Jun 07, 2026 | Vibe NLP for Applied NLP Slides |
talk | PyData London London, UK |
Ines Montani |
| May 28, 2026 | Guest lecture: Vibe NLP | talkacademic | TH Köln Cologne, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Panel: Open Source as a Business — Models, Paths, and Practice | discussion | PyCon DE & PyData Darmstadt, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Vibe NLP for Applied NLP Slides |
talk | PyCon DE & PyData Darmstadt, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Panel: Evolution, Revolution, or Illusion? The Future of Python and Coding in the Age of AI | discussion | PyCon DE & PyData Darmstadt, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 14, 2026 | Feminist AI LAN Party Resources |
workshop | PyCon DE & PyData Darmstadt, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Efficient data development: Optimizing annotation workflows Slides Summary |
talk | Morningstar | Ines Montani |
| Dec 10, 2025 | PDFs bezwingen: Dokumentenanalyse über reinen Text hinaus Slides Summary |
talkgerman | Bitkom AK Legal Tech Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Guest lecture: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing with spaCy and Prodigy Slides |
talkacademic | Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
Matthew Honnibal Ines Montani |
| Nov 15, 2025 | Panel: AI and its Impact | discussion | PyCon Ireland Dublin, Ireland |
Ines Montani |
| Nov 15, 2025 | Building AI with AI Slides |
keynote | PyCon Ireland Dublin, Ireland |
Ines Montani |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Feminist AI LAN Party Resources |
workshop | PyData Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Ines Montani |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text Slides Summary |
talk | Build with AI Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Jun 07, 2025 | Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text Slides Video Summary |
talk | PyData London London, UK |
Ines Montani |
| Jun 05, 2025 | Applied NLP in the Age of Generative AI: Future-Proof Strategies for Banking and Finance Slides |
keynote | ECONDAT London, UK |
Ines Montani |
| May 14, 2025 | Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text Slides Summary |
talk | PyBerlin Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| May 05, 2025 | Developer Trends in 2025 Audio Video |
podcast | TalkPython Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Apr 24, 2025 | AI in Reality Fireside Chat: Enterprise AI & Open-Source Innovation Video |
discussion | PyCon DE & PyData Darmstadt, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text Slides Summary |
talk | PyCon DE & PyData Darmstadt, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Feminist AI LAN Party Resources Summary |
workshop | PyCon DE & PyData Darmstadt, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Applied NLP in the Age of Generative AI Slides Video |
talk | Google Developer Groups Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 13, 2025 | KI ohne Ketten: Warum Open Source gegen Big Tech gewinnen kann Audio Video |
podcastgerman | UNMUTE IT Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Apr 10, 2025 | KI zwischen Freiheit und Kontrolle: The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized Slides |
talkgerman | data:unplugged Münster, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Mar 07, 2025 | Künstliche Intelligenz: Technologie der Zukunft – und warum Open Source die Karten neu mischt Slides |
talkgerman | Heise KI-Woche 2025 | Ines Montani |
| Jan 25, 2025 | What the history of the web can teach us about the future of AI Slides Video Summary |
keynote | PyCon+Web Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Jan 09, 2025 | Streaming spaCy: Pilot Video |
stream | Streaming spaCy | Matthew Honnibal |
| Dec 07, 2024 | PyLadies entrepreneurs and career development Video |
discussion | PyLadiesCon | Ines Montani |
| Nov 03, 2024 | Reality is not an End-to-End Prediction Problem: Applied NLP in the Age of Generative AI Slides Video |
keynote | PyCon FR Strasbourg, France |
Ines Montani |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Accelerate your Career with Open-Source AI Video |
discussion | dotAI Paris, France |
Ines Montani |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Reality is not an End-to-End Prediction Problem: Applied NLP in the Age of Generative AI Slides Video |
talk | dotAI Paris, France |
Ines Montani |
| Oct 09, 2024 | Applied NLP with LLMs: Beyond Black-Box Monoliths Slides |
talk | PyBerlin Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Oct 02, 2024 | Taking LLMs out of the black box: A practical guide to human-in-the-loop distillation Slides Video Summary |
talk | O’Reilly Software Development Superstream | Ines Montani |
| Sep 28, 2024 | Feminist AI LAN Party: Annotation & Evaluation | workshop | Feminist AI LAN Party Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Taking LLMs out of the black box: A practical guide to human-in-the-loop distillation Slides Video Summary |
talk | InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Applied NLP in the Age of Generative AI Slides Video |
keynote | PyData Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Ines Montani |
| Aug 28, 2024 | 10 Years of Open Source: Navigating the Next AI Revolution Slides |
keynote | EuroSciPy Szczecin, Poland |
Ines Montani |
| Aug 15, 2024 | The NLP and AI Revolution with the spaCy Creators Audio Video |
podcast | Vanishing Gradients | Ines Montani Matthew Honnibal |
| Aug 09, 2024 | Practical Tips for Bootstrapping Information Extraction Pipelines Slides |
talk | DataHack Summit Bengaluru, India |
Matthew Honnibal |
| Aug 09, 2024 | Applied NLP in the Age of Generative AI Slides |
keynote | DataHack Summit Bengaluru, India |
Ines Montani |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Building the Future of NLP: Insights on spaCy, Prodigy and Generative AI Audio Video |
podcast | Leading With Data Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Jun 16, 2024 | How to uncover and avoid structural biases in evaluating your Machine Learning/NLP projects Slides Video Summary |
talk | PyData London London, UK |
Sofie Van Landeghem |
| Jun 15, 2024 | Taking LLMs out of the black box: A practical guide to human-in-the-loop distillation Slides Video Summary |
talk | PyData London London, UK |
Ines Montani |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Exploring the AI nexus with the mind behind spaCy Audio Video |
podcast | Leading With Data Podcast | Matthew Honnibal |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Towards Structured Data: LLMs from Prototype to Production Slides |
talk | U.S. Census Bureau: Center for Optimization and Data Science Seminar | Ines Montani |
| Jun 11, 2024 | spaCy meets LLMs: Using Generative AI for Structured Data Slides |
talk | Data+ML Community Meetup Budapest, Hungary |
Ines Montani |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Taking LLMs out of the black box: A practical guide to human-in-the-loop distillation Slides |
talk | Budapest ML Forum Budapest, Hungary |
Ines Montani |
| Jun 08, 2024 | The AI Revolution Won’t Be Monopolized Audio Video |
podcast | TalkPython Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Jun 01, 2024 | KI – Die künstlerische Intelligenz? Summary |
discussiongerman | Immergut Festival Neustrelitz, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| May 24, 2024 | The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs Slides Video |
talk | PyCon Italia Florence, Italy |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 24, 2024 | The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs Slides Video |
talk | PyCon DE & PyData Berlin Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 21, 2024 | The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: Behind the scenes Slides |
talk | Open Source ML Mixer Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 09, 2024 | Ines Montani on Natural Language Processing Audio Video |
podcast | Software Engineering Radio | Ines Montani |
| Apr 09, 2024 | Connecting the Dots: Applying Generative AI | discussion | QCon London, UK |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 08, 2024 | The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs Slides Video Summary |
talk | QCon London London, UK |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 05, 2024 | The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs Slides Video |
keynote | PyCon Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 04, 2024 | Designing for tomorrow’s programming workflows Slides Video |
talk | PyCon Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania |
Matthew Honnibal |
| Jan 23, 2024 | spacy-llm: From quick prototyping with LLMs to more reliable and efficient NLP solutions Slides |
talk | AstraZeneca NLP Community of Practice | Sofie Van Landeghem |
| Dec 12, 2023 | Herding LLMs Towards Structured NLP Slides Video |
talk | Global AI Conference | Raphael Mitsch |
| Nov 30, 2023 | Active Teaching, Human Learning | talk | PyData Eindhoven Eindhoven, Netherlands |
Vincent D. Warmerdam |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Incorporating LLMs into practical NLP workflows | talk | PyBerlin Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Nov 10, 2023 | State-of-the-Art Transformer Pipelines in spaCy Video Resources |
talk | aiGrunn Groningen, Netherlands |
Daniël de Kok Madeesh Kannan |
| Nov 01, 2023 | Half hour of labeling power: Can we beat GPT? Slides Video |
workshop | PyData NYC New York, NY, US |
Ines Montani Ryan Wesslen |
| Oct 26, 2023 | Explosion, NLP, Generative AI, Entrepreneurship Video |
podcast | Learning from Machine Learning | Ines Montani |
| Oct 25, 2023 | How many Labelled Examples do you need for a BERT-sized Model to Beat GPT-4 on Predictive Tasks? Slides Video |
talk | Generative AI Summit Austin, TX, US |
Matthew Honnibal |
| Oct 11, 2023 | Natural Language Processing and Python Audio |
podcast | The Python Show | Ines Montani |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Panel: Large Language Models Video |
discussion | Big PyData BBQ Heidelberg, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Large Language Models: From Prototype to Production Video |
talk | Big PyData BBQ Heidelberg, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Sep 16, 2023 | There are no bad labels, only happy accidents | workshop | PyData Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Ines Montani Vincent D. Warmerdam |
| Sep 14, 2023 | Natural Intelligence is All You Need[tm] Video |
keynote | PyData Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Vincent D. Warmerdam |
| Sep 09, 2023 | NLP with Ines Montani Audio |
podcast | Teaching Python | Ines Montani |
| Jul 19, 2023 | Large Language Models: From Prototype to Production Slides Video Summary |
keynote | EuroPython Prague, Czech Republic |
Ines Montani |
| Jul 11, 2023 | Digital Humanities Applications of spaCy’s Span Categorizer | workshop | DH 2023 Graz, Austria |
Ákos Kádár Adriane Boyd |
| Jun 19, 2023 | spacy-llm: Integrating Large Language Models into structured NLP pipelines Slides |
talk | Belgium NLP Meetup Leuven, Belgium |
Sofie Van Landeghem |
| Jun 15, 2023 | spaCy: a customizable NLP toolkit designed for developers Slides |
talk | ODSC Europe London, UK |
Sofie Van Landeghem |
| Jun 03, 2023 | Large Language Models: From Prototype to Production Slides |
keynote | PyData London London, UK |
Ines Montani |
| May 24, 2023 | Welchen Einfluss hat generative KI auf die politische Meinungsbildung? | discussiongerman | FZI Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| May 11, 2023 | Efficient Information Extraction From Text With spaCy Video Resources |
talk | JetBrains PyCharm | Victoria Slocum |
| Apr 18, 2023 | You are what you read: Building a personal internet front-page with spaCy and Prodigy Slides Video Resources |
talk | PyCon DE & PyData Berlin Berlin, Germany |
Victoria Slocum |
| Apr 17, 2023 | Incorporating LLMs into practical NLP workflows Slides Video |
talk | PyCon DE & PyData Berlin Berlin, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 04, 2023 | Intro to NLP with spaCy for Digital Humanities Slides Resources |
workshopacademic | Princeton University | Victoria Slocum Ákos Kádár |
| Mar 15, 2023 | Modular Journalism: The new way to find stories? Audio |
podcast | The Interhacktives Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Feb 24, 2023 | NLP: From Prototype to Production Video |
podcast | Outerbounds Fireside Chat | Ines Montani |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Calmcode, Explosion, Data Science Video |
podcast | Learning from Machine Learning | Vincent D. Warmerdam |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Robust solutions with Explosion’s applied NLP philosophy Slides |
talkacademic | UNC Charlotte Charlotte, NC, US |
Ryan Wesslen Damian Romero |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Data is the new coffee Video |
talk | NormConf | Peter Baumgartner |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Group-by statements that save the day Video |
talk | NormConf | Vincent D. Warmerdam |
| Dec 08, 2022 | How the Guardian uses AI to analyse articles | discussion | JournalismAI Festival | Ines Montani |
| Dec 03, 2022 | Bulk Labelling Techniques | talk | PyData Eindhoven 2022 | Vincent D. Warmerdam |
| Dec 03, 2022 | Is it possible to have entities within entities within entities? Slides Video |
talk | PyData Global 2022 | Victoria Slocum |
| Dec 01, 2022 | Data Annotation for Humans: Creating and Refining Annotation Guidelines from a UX Perspective Slides |
workshop | PyData Global 2022 | Damian Romero |
| Nov 23, 2022 | Tools to Improve Training Data Video |
podcast | Talking Language AI - Cohere | Vincent D. Warmerdam |
| Jul 14, 2022 | Collecting high-quality adversarial data for machine reading comprehension tasks with humans and models in the loop Slides Resources |
academic | Dynamic Adversarial Data Collection (DADC) Seattle, WA, US |
Damian Romero Magdalena Anioł |
| Jun 11, 2022 | Evolution of spaCy Video |
podcast | D4 Data | Ines Montani |
| May 12, 2022 | Solutions for Advanced NLP for Diverse Languages Slides |
keynoteacademic | New Languages for NLP Princeton, NJ, US |
Ines Montani |
| Jan 27, 2022 | Creating Tools that Spark Joy with Ines Montani Video |
podcast | ZenML Pipeline Conversations | Ines Montani |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Applied NLP Thinking Slides Summary |
talk | L3-AI | Ines Montani |
| Jun 14, 2021 | Interview: Ines Montani & Sebastián Ramírez Video |
podcast | PyFest | Ines Montani |
| Jun 10, 2021 | What does “real-world NLP” look like and how can students get ready for it? Slides Video Summary |
keynote | Teaching NLP at NAACL | Ines Montani |
| Jun 04, 2021 | spaCy v3: State-of-the-art NLP from Prototype to Production Video |
talk | Bay Area NLP | Matthew Honnibal |
| Apr 30, 2021 | Building Industrial-Strength NLP Applications Summary |
podcast | Snorkel Science Talks | Ines Montani |
| Apr 22, 2021 | A Bit of AI Episode 7 Video |
podcast | A Bit of AI | Ines Montani |
| Mar 29, 2021 | Natural Language Processing mit spaCy Video |
podcastgerman | Python Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Jan 22, 2021 | Building a Data Science Startup Audio Video |
podcast | TalkPython Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Dec 28, 2020 | Python year in review 2020 Audio |
podcast | TalkPython Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Nov 24, 2020 | How to build resilient NLP applications Video |
podcast | Rasa Chats | Ines Montani Matthew Honnibal |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Building Industrial-Strength NLP Pipelines Video |
podcast | Weights & Biases | Ines Montani Sofie Van Landeghem |
| Oct 22, 2020 | spaCy v3.0: Bringing State-of-the-art NLP from Prototype to Production Video |
keynote | Global AI Live | Ines Montani |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Ines Montani brought linguistic and computers together Audio |
podcast | DevJourney | Ines Montani |
| Jul 22, 2020 | Episode 191: Live from the Manning Python Conference Audio |
podcast | PythonBytes Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Jun 18, 2020 | Designing Practical NLP Solutions Slides Video |
talk | L3-AI | Ines Montani |
| Apr 26, 2020 | Spacy, NLP & Open Source Frameworks Video |
podcast | Chai Time Data Science | Ines Montani |
| Feb 19, 2020 | Building customizable NLP pipelines with spaCy Slides |
talk | Turku.AI Meetup Turku, Finland |
Sofie Van Landeghem |
| Feb 08, 2020 | The Future of NLP in Python Slides Video Summary |
keynote | PyCon Colombia Medellín, Colombia |
Ines Montani |
| Nov 09, 2019 | Künstliche Intelligenz Beyond the Hype Slides Video |
talkgerman | Zündfunk Netzkongress Munich, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Nov 08, 2019 | spaCy meets Transformers Video |
talk | Hacking Machine Learning Munich, Germany |
Ines Montani |
| Oct 13, 2019 | Let Them Write Code Slides Video |
keynote | PyCon India Chennai, India |
Ines Montani |
| Oct 12, 2019 | Using spaCy with Hugging Face Transformers Slides Video |
talk | PyCon India Chennai, India |
Matthew Honnibal |
| Oct 09, 2019 | spaCy and the future of multi-lingual NLP Slides |
talk | META Forum Brussels, Belgium |
Ines Montani Matthew Honnibal |
| Oct 01, 2019 | Entity linking for spaCy: Grounding textual mentions Slides |
talk | Belgium NLP Meetup Brussels, Belgium |
Sofie Van Landeghem |
| Jul 18, 2019 | Episode 139: f"Yes!" for the f-strings Audio |
podcast | PythonBytes Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Jul 06, 2019 | spaCy and Explosion: past, present & future Slides Video |
talk | spaCy IRL 2019 Berlin, Germany |
Matthew Honnibal Ines Montani |
| Jul 06, 2019 | Applied NLP: Lessons from the Field Slides Video Summary |
talk | spaCy IRL 2019 Berlin, Germany |
Peter Baumgartner |
| Jul 06, 2019 | Entity linking functionality in spaCy Slides Video |
talk | spaCy IRL 2019 Berlin, Germany |
Sofie Van Landeghem |
| Jun 03, 2019 | The Brains behind spaCy Audio Summary |
podcast | DataHack Radio | Matthew Honnibal Ines Montani |
| May 09, 2019 | Practical transfer learning for NLP with spaCy and Prodigy Video |
talk | Infoshare Gdansk, Poland |
Ines Montani |
| May 07, 2019 | Practical Natural Language Processing with spaCy and Prodigy Audio |
podcast | TWIML AI Podcast | Ines Montani |
| Mar 25, 2019 | Practical transfer learning for NLP with spaCy and Prodigy | talk | Women in Data Science Poznań, Poland |
Ines Montani |
| Mar 09, 2019 | Building a software business with Python Video Resources |
podcast | TalkPython | Ines Montani |
| Jan 28, 2019 | Practical transfer learning for NLP with spaCy and Prodigy Slides |
talk | Applied Machine Learning Days Lausanne, Switzerland |
Ines Montani |
| Jan 16, 2019 | Frag deinen Kühlschrank: Wie künstliche Intelligenz die Welt verändert Video |
interviewgerman | ARD alpha Documentary | Ines Montani |
| Jan 15, 2019 | Where Do Corpora Come From? Audio |
podcast | NLP Highlights Podcast | Matthew Honnibal Ines Montani |
| Nov 22, 2018 | The AI Revolution will not be Monopolized Slides |
talk | Hack Talks Helsinki, Finland |
Ines Montani |
| Jul 26, 2018 | How to Ignore Most Startup Advice and Build a Decent Software Business Slides Video |
keynote | EuroPython Edinburgh, Scotland |
Ines Montani |
| Jul 26, 2018 | Building new NLP solutions with spaCy and Prodigy Slides Video |
talk | EuroPython Edinburgh, UK |
Matthew Honnibal |
| Jul 07, 2018 | Building new NLP solutions with spaCy and Prodigy Video |
talk | PyData Berlin Berlin, Germany |
Matthew Honnibal |
| May 28, 2018 | Rapid NLP annotation Video |
talk | Data Science Summit Tel Aviv, Isarel |
Matthew Honnibal |
| May 28, 2018 | Embed, encode, attend, predict Slides Video |
talk | Data Science Summit Tel Aviv, Isarel |
Matthew Honnibal |
| May 05, 2018 | Teaching AI about Human Knowledge Slides |
talk | PyDays Vienna, Austria |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Increasing Data Science Productivity: spaCy & Prodigy Video |
talk | SF Machine Learning Meetup San Francisco, CA, US |
Matthew Honnibal Ines Montani |
| Apr 12, 2018 | Rapid NLP Annotation Through Binary Decisions, Pattern Bootstrapping and Active Learning Slides Video |
talk | TomTom Founders Festival Charlottesville, VA, US |
Ines Montani |
| Apr 12, 2018 | Embed, Encode, Attend, Predict: A four-step framework for understanding neural network approaches to Natural Language Understanding problems Slides Video |
talk | TomTom Founders Festival Charlottesville, VA, US |
Matthew Honnibal |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Why Python’s the best language for AI (and how to make it even better) Video |
keynote | PyCon Israel Ramat Gan, Israel |
Matthew Honnibal |
| Dec 11, 2016 | spaCy with Matthew Honnibal Audio |
podcast | Python Podcast | Matthew Honnibal |
| May 21, 2016 | Designing spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP Video Resources |
talk | PyData Berlin Berlin, Germany |
Matthew Honnibal |