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Closing Keynote · 25 September 2026 · 17:55 – 18:45 UTC+1

Closing Keynote

The day closes with Kirstie Whitaker — founder of The Turing Way and Executive Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science — on why reproducibility matters more than ever as AI reshapes how research gets done.

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17:55 · Keynote · 40 min

Kirstie Whitaker

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), US

Everything old is new again: the deepened importance of reproducibility in the age of AI

Kirstie Whitaker is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). At BIDS she supports the delivery of innovative open source software and infrastructure to benefit science and society.

She is a Jupyter Distinguished Contributor and a maintainer for JupyterHub and Jupyter Book. She is the founder of The Turing Way, a collaboratively created guide for reproducible, inclusive, collaborative, and ethical data science. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience (2012) and is a Fulbright Scholarship alumna.