Simon Willison

Founder, Datasette

Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette and a co-creator of the Django web framework. He has been an influential voice in web development through his blog, simonwillison.net, since 2002. Previously, he co-founded Lanyrd, which was acquired by Eventbrite.

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AI Governance & Responsible AI

Governance frameworks, ethical principles, and practical safeguards for building and deploying AI products responsibly. Covers bias detection, prompt injection security, trust architecture, regulatory compliance, and the organizational structures needed for responsible AI. Drawn from practitioners at Humanloop, Equality AI, Deepchecks, and others.

Dr. Marie Oldfield , Adio Dinika, Lilly Ryan, Dr. Maia Hightower, Suzanne EL-Moursi, Don Marti, Sarah Novotny, Joshua McKenty, Simon Willison, John Amaral, Dr. Aleks Krotoski, Paul Biggar, Charity Majors, Sarah Sachs, Ben Woskow, Chetan Conikee

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Agentic Engineering

How teams build software when AI coding agents write the code: directing agents, what code review and validation become when code is nearly free, durable systems with disposable code, orchestrating many agents, keeping them safe inside an organization, and how roles change. Drawn from practitioners at HumanLayer, Sentry, Honeycomb, Google DeepMind, and others.

Simon Willison, Joseph Ruscio, Dexter Horthy, Jesse Vincent, Brian Douglas, Charity Majors, Adam Zimman, Heidi Waterhouse, Chad Fowler, Vitali Avagyan, Steph Hippo, Wes McKinney, Axel Backlund, Dotta B, David Cramer, Stephen Barrett, Geoff Huntley, David Crawshaw, Paige Bailey, Justin McCarthy

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Data Team Leadership

Building and scaling data teams that drive business decisions. Covers analytics org structure, north star metrics, experimentation culture, and moving teams from service requests to strategic partnership. Drawn from practitioners at dbt Labs, Amplify Partners, and others.