Shiny Talks from posit::conf(2025)

A curated playlist and overview of all Shiny-focused sessions from posit::conf(2025), along with workshop materials and links.
Published

December 2, 2025

Videos from posit::conf(2025) are now available. To make it easier to explore how people are building with Shiny across R and Python, we’ve put together a curated playlist of the Shiny-focused talks from the conference. These sessions highlight practical apps, new tooling, design patterns, AI workflows, and real-world deployments built with Shiny.

Shiny Talks Playlist:

Talks included in the playlist, broken up into a few categories for easier browsing, are as follows:

Shiny + AI & Intelligent Automation

Speakers Title Link
Winston Chang (Shiny Team) Web applications with Shiny and React (and AI) thumb
Karan Gathani (Shiny Team) Old Apps, New Tricks: How AI can write Automated Tests for Shiny thumb
Regis A. James AskRADS: An AI Recommendation Agent for Maximizing Shiny Development thumb

Shiny Architecture, Performance & Data

Speakers Title Link
Alex Chisholm Keeping Data Alive: Persistent Storage Options for Shiny thumb
Melissa Albino Hegeman Get your ducks in a row… faster Shiny apps with DuckDB thumb
Barret Schloerke (Shiny Team) Observability at scale: Monitoring Shiny Applications thumb

Shiny UX, UI Design & Accessibility

Speakers Title Link
Cameron Race; Sarah Wong-Brown shinyGovStyle – accessible government design in Shiny thumb
Casey Aguilar-Gervase; Maya Gans Design of Everyday Shiny Apps thumb
Jeremy Winget, PhD Death by Dropdown? Engineer Insightful Shiny Apps thumb
Kim Schouten Modular, layout-as-code approach for customizable Shiny dashboards thumb

Shiny Extensions, Packages & Developer Tooling

Speakers Title Link
Eric Nantz shinystate: Launching collaboration and session state thumb
James Wade shinyEventLogger — logging events in Shiny apps thumb

Applied Shiny Case Studies

Speakers Title Link
Marcus Beck Shiny for ecological data workflows thumb
Hugo Fitipaldi Building a Real-Time COVID-19 Surveillance System with Shiny thumb

Shiny Workshops from posit::conf(2025)

Full workshop materials are now available, including slides, exercises, and code for all Shiny workshops.

LLMs + Shiny Workshop

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Joe Cheng & Garrick Aden-Buie

Shiny for Python Workshop

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Daniel Chen

Shiny for R Workshop

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Colin Rundel

Closing

We hope you enjoy this roundup of Shiny talks from posit::conf(2025). The Shiny community continues to explore new patterns—AI-assisted development, real-time analytics, performance tooling, design systems, and more. We hope to see you next year at posit::conf—and maybe even see your Shiny work up on stage.