The R-Ladies networking event at the useR! 2025 conference is a great opportunity for new and experienced R-Ladies members to come together, build friendships, and talk about their shared interest in R. This event will be held from 6:30-7:30pm on August 8, 2025. More details are posted below.
What is R-Ladies?
R-Ladies is a worldwide organization focused on achieving proportionate representation of underrepresented genders in the R programming community. To meet this goal, we support a network of local chapters that organize events that encourage, inspire, and empower individuals to meet their programming potential. Since R-Ladies was founded in 2016, it has grown to provide training and mentoring to over 100,000 members, in 244 chapters, and 63 countries. Local chapters have held over 4,200 events focused on a wide range of topics: workshops on popular R programming libraries (e.g., data.table, Shiny) and R package development to data science panels on various topics (e.g., Ethics in Data Science, Women in Tech), hackathons (e.g., #TidyTuesday), speaking opportunities (e.g., Lightning Talks), and networking events (e.g., dinner meet-ups, book clubs). The organization also maintains a directory of speakers, an abstract review system for conferences, and a YouTube channel with recordings of events, among other valuable resources. There are many leadership, training, career development, and mentoring opportunities for professionals who join R-Ladies. Please visit the R-Ladies website to learn more about how you can get involved and/or support our mission.
What is the R-Ladies networking event?
The R-Ladies networking event at the useR! 2025 conference is a great opportunity for new and experienced R-Ladies members to come together, build friendships, and talk about their shared interest in R. This event will be held from 6:30-7:30pm on August 8, 2025. See the schedule and venue information below for more details.
Who’s invited to join?
While this event is open to all useR! 2025, we especially encourage all underrepresented genders in the R community to join us, which includes but is not limited to: cis/trans women,, trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, and agender.
Where is the event venue?
This event will be hosted in Gross Hall Rm 103 on the Duke University campus where useR! 2025 is being held. See the travel information for details on how to reach campus.
What’s the schedule?
Friday, August 8, 2025 (all times in Eastern)
| 06:30p | Welcome and R-Ladies Introduction |
| 06:35p | Networking Activity #1 |
| 06:50p | Group Photo |
| 07:00p | Networking Activity #2 |
| 07:25p | Closing Remarks |
What’s happening after the networking event?
After the networking event ends at 7:30pm, networking reception attendees are welcome to continue conversations with us at a dinner venue downtown. The location of the dinner venue will be shared with useR! 2025 attendees.
Organizing team
This event is being organized by members of R-Ladies.
Sheila Saia (she/her) - R-Ladies RTP Co-Organizer, R-Ladies Global Team
Environmental Data Scientist, Tetra Tech
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) - R-Ladies RTP Member
Survey Statistician, RTI International
Contact
For queries about this event, please contact useR2025@duke.edu.
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