Valerio Maggio is a Researcher, and a Data scientist Advocate at Anaconda. He is well versed in open science and research software, supporting the adoption of best software development practice in Data Science. He has been recently awarded a fellowship from the Software Sustainability Institute focused on developing open teaching modules on Privacy-Preserving Machine learning technologies.

Valerio is also an open-source contributor, and an active member of the Python community. Over the last twelve years he has contributed and volunteered in the organisation of many international conferences and community meet-ups like PyCon Italy, PyData, EuroPython, and EuroSciPy.

All his talks, workshop materials and open source contributions are publicly available on his [Speaker Deck](https://speakerdeck.com/leriomaggio) and [ GitHub](https://github.com/leriomaggio) profiles.