WOMBAT 2025
The Annual Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team.
29th-30th September 2025
Monash University (downtown), 750 Collins St, Melbourne
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together analysts from academia, industry and government to learn and discuss new open source tools for business analytics and data science. The theme of this year’s event is designing data driven discoveries, which will feature tutorials and talks on statistical software, research collaboration, and impactful data analysis. You should come if you are an analytics professional, or leading a team of analysts or a developer of new open source tools.
Registration
Attendance will be limited to 20 participants (in-person and online) for each of the 8 tutorials on day 1, and 100 participants (in-person only) for day 2’s workshop. We will also have a rich collection of hex stickers available on both days for all to choose from to decorate your laptop!
Registrations opening soon.
Schedule
Please note that all session times are in AEST.
Mon 29 Sep - Tutorials
08:30 A.M. - 09:00 A.M.
Coffee and Registration
09:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
Morning tutorial (session 1)
10:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.
Morning tea break
11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Morning tutorial (session 2)
12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
Lunch (on your own)
1:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Afternoon tutorial (session 1)
3:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
Afternoon tea break
3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Afternoon tutorial (session 2)
Tue 30 Sep - Invited Talks
08:30 A.M. - 08:45 A.M.
Coffee and registration
08:45 A.M. - 09:00 A.M.
Welcome
09:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.
Keynote
10:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
Morning tea
10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Invited talks - Communications and reporting
12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Lunch
1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
Invited talks - Software & Tooling
2:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Afternoon tea
3:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.
Panel discussion - Data Science Teams and Workflows
4:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Closing discussion
