PyData Berlin 2026 July Meetup

Welcome to the PyData Berlin July meetup!
We would like to welcome you all starting from 18:30. There will be food and drinks. The talks begin around 19.00 and the doors will close at 19:00. Make sure to arrive on time!
If you cannot attend, please cancel your spot so others are able to join as the space is limited.
Host:
Exasol is excited to welcome you to this month's version of PyData.
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The Lineup for the evening

Talk 1: Empowering Coding Agents: Automated High-Performance Distributed Computing with Exasol Python UDFs
Abstract: As LLM-based coding agents evolve, they often struggle with a critical bottleneck: moving from "code that works" to "code that scales." While agents are proficient at writing Python scripts for local execution, orchestrating high-performance distributed algorithms across massive datasets requires deep domain expertise in database internals and parallel execution models.

In this talk, we introduce a specialized Agent Skill designed to bridge the gap between generative AI and distributed high-performance computing (HPC). We demonstrate how to instruct a coding agent to leverage Exasol’s User-Defined Functions (UDFs) and Script Languages to push complex Python logic directly into the database engine.
Bio: Torsten Kilias is a Senior Staff Engineer at Exasol, where he has been driving technical innovation since 2019. His responsibilities include AI Integration, the Python ecosystem and User Defined Functions. Before joining Exasol, he spent years researching in-database text mining, focusing on how to bring advanced analytics directly to where the data lives.

Talk 2: What Actually Changed? Causal Thinking Across Attribution, Segmentation, and Growth
Abstract: Customer data is often used to explain what happened, attribution assigns credit, segmentation groups users