Plotly Newsletter, May 2025
Spring is in full bloom, and so are the Plotly activities! Building on a busy April, we have a range of in-person and virtual events lined up. Keep reading to see what’s coming up.
In this newsletter:
- New Webinar: Infra, and Modules, and AI, oh my!
- May Events Recap
- Upcoming Events
- Community Spotlight
- Plotly User Story Spotlight
- Resources
- Plotly Careers
🤖 New Webinar: Infra, and Modules, and AI, oh my!
Join us on June 26 at 12pm EDT to discover how teams are using Dash Enterprise to build production-ready data applications — fast. We’ll walk through key platform features, real-world customer use cases, and how AI is transforming the way teams develop and deploy data apps.
🦋 May Events Recap
Empowering Data Analysts and Database Professionals: Harnessing Dash Enterprise for Smarter Insights
Discover how Dash Enterprise helps analysts and database professionals build smarter, interactive data apps. From creating charts using plain language to speeding up coding with AI and designing custom dashboards, Dash makes development faster and easier.
Elevate Your Analytics
In our latest webinar, we showcased how Plotly Dash Enterprise 5.7 is transforming AI-powered data app development — helping teams work faster, automate workflows, and deploy secure, production-ready dashboards with ease.
Missed the webinar? Watch the full recording.
Gartner Data & Analytics Summit
At the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London, UK, the Plotly team engaged with attendees by inviting them to bring their CSV data. We then showed them firsthand how Dash Enterprise, enhanced with AI, could rapidly create functional data apps. Zahin Rahim, Data Scientist at UK Power Networks, presented how applied AI and analytics are transforming infrastructure at scale, with lessons for any data professional tackling high-impact, real-world problems.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth!
ODSC East
The Plotly team had a wonderful time at ODSC East in Boston! We had amazing presentations from Shorelight’s CIO and EVP, Basil Cleveland, and our very own Mingo Sanchez, Senior Sales Engineer. It was also a pleasure to connect in person with so many members of our open-source community. Thank you for stopping by and sharing how you’re using Plotly!
🤩 Upcoming Events
Check out all of the exciting events the Plotly team is headed to! For a full list, sneak a peek at our events page.
Databricks DATA + AI Summit
Join us in San Francisco at this year’s largest data, analytics, and AI conference: Data + AI Summit! The Plotly team will be at Booth #F612, alongside thousands of data leaders, engineers, scientists, and architects. Stop by to explore how data and AI are converging to drive innovation and see how Plotly can help power your next big AI projects.
Tune into the following sessions for more Databricks with Plotly insights:
- Optimizing Smart Meter IIoT Data in Databricks for At-Scale Interactive Electrical Load Analytics
Presented by Dave Gibbon, Plotly - Real-Time Market Insights — Powering Optiver’s Live Trading Dashboard with Databricks Apps and Dash
Presented by Huy Nguyen, Optiver - Building Real-Time Trading Dashboards With DLT and Databricks Apps
Presented by Matt Slack and Matthew Moorcroft from Databricks - Using Databricks to Power News Sentiment, a Capital IQ Pro Application
Presented by Debbie Connolly, S&P Global
🤝 Community Spotlight
➡️ Figure Fridays — Each Friday, Plotly Community Manager, Adam Schroeder posts a new dataset and a sample figure, and challenges the community to build graphs and data apps. From improved figures to complete Dash apps, the creativity in the Plotly Community has been outstanding. Ready to get involved? Learn more about the initiative and start creating!
➡️ Dash Club 18 — Our bi-monthly newsletter, curated by Adam Schroeder and Chris Parmer, Plotly’s Chief Product Officer, is focused on the community. When you subscribe, you’ll receive Dash cheat sheets, tips, and exclusive previews of upcoming features, along with the latest open-source updates. You can also find our articles on LinkedIn and Medium!
➡️ Plotly Community Meetup in San Francisco — Connect with fellow data professionals and the Plotly team at this fun, in-person meetup. Hear from Community Manager Adam Schroeder and Technical Account Manager Rob Calvin as they preview cutting-edge R&D work with generative AI and data apps. Stick around for open discussions, networking, and great food at Sool Bar & Lounge. Hope to see you there on June 10!
🔦 Plotly User Story Spotlight
“Dash Enterprise gives us the flexibility, control, customer customizability, and scalability we need to deliver high-quality, interactive reports at large scale every month — something no other tool could match.”
— Julio Sanchez Hernandez, Architecture and Development, SOPRIS TECHNOLOGIES
Read the story of how SOPRIS TECHNOLOGIES built a scalable PDF reporting engine with Dash Enterprise that automated complex report generation at scale, cutting manual work by 90%. If you’d like your Dash story to be featured in an upcoming spotlight, reach out to us at marketing@plot.ly.
📚 Resources
Catch up on blog posts and user stories, deep diving into key topics for data science teams:
- An Introduction to Agentic Analytics
- uv Package Manager Quirks a Year Into Adoption
- SOPRIS TECHNOLOGIES Builds Scalable Reporting Engine with Plotly Dash Enterprise
- Plotly Showcases AI-powered Platform for Interactive Data Application Development at Leading Industry Events in May and June 2025
- Plotly Honored as Bronze Stevie Award Winner In 2025 American Business Awards
💼 Join the Plotly team
We’re welcoming a season of growth with exciting new openings:
The Plotly Community also has job postings from around the world looking for Plotly and Dash skills. Check them out!
👋 Thanks for reading!
Thanks for joining us for this month’s round-up. Stay tuned for more exciting updates from Plotly next month.
