Schedule – WOMBAT 2026

Day 1: Tutorials

Reproducibility

A Gentle Introduction to Targets

Modern reproducibility practices for agentic analytics

Michael Lydeamore

Michael Lydeamore

Publishing

Introduction to Publishing with Quarto

Publishing your software

Fonti Kar, Dianne Cook

Analysis

Surviving Survival Analysis: A Hands-On Introduction with R

Exploratory Time Series Analysis

Mitchell O’Hara-Wild

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

Development

Getting Started with C++ for Faster Forecasting in R

Tomasz Woźniak

Modern package development with Positron + AI

Day 2: Workshop

Welcome

Keynote

Spotting the weird ones

Time Series

mixtime: Temporal data for better analytics

Mitchell O’Hara-Wild

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

The Future of Animals is in Our Hands: My Role as a Data Scientist in Wildlife Conservation

Thiyanga Talagala

Thiyanga Talagala

Immutable by design: Trace-minimised forecasts for hierarchical time series

Shanika Wickramasuriya

Shanika Wickramasuriya

Showcase

How AI Is Used in My Job: From Data to Better Business Decisions

Priya Dingorkar

Priya Dingorkar

Using an LLM Wiki for project delivery

Zola Batsaikhan

Zola Batsaikhan

TBC (Industry AI)

Conversation

In conversation: Hadley Wickham & Damjan Vukcevic on Analysis Workflows, hosted by Cynthia Huang

Cynthia Huang, Hadley Wickham, Damjan Vukcevic

Damjan Vukcevic

Artificial Intelligence

TBC (Accessible AI)

TBC (Accessible AI)

Janith Wanniarachchi

Janith Wanniarachchi

TBC (Workplace AI)

Yeasmin Khandakar

Yeasmin Khandakar

From Idea to Production: Building an Agentic Forecasting Ecosystem in the Open

Renée Rosillo, Azul Garza

Closing discussion