Apache Arrow: Leveling Up the Data Science Stack By Wes McKinney Bio: Wes McKinney is an open source software developer focusing on data processing tools. He created the Python pandas project and has been a major contributor to many other OSS projects. He is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation and a project PMC member for Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet. He is the director of Ursa Labs, an not-for-profit development group focused on open source data science tools powered by Apache Arrow. Twitter: @wesmckinn Presented at the 2019 New York Conference (May 10th, 2019)