2017年的useR!會議將在美麗的比利時舉辦，聽這次的主辦人講，吸引大家來比利時唯一的東西便是生產全世界最多且最美味啤酒的地方了，今年會議的舉辦時間為7/4-7/7號，此次由比利時分析公司OpenAnalytics的Tobias Verbeke、Hasselt University統計系的Ziv Shkedy教授、英國Warwick University統計系的Heather Turner、OpenAnalytics的Matthias Verbeke作為籌辦委員。

今年會議的教學主題有下面這些：

Joaquin Vanschoren, Heidi Seibold and Bernd Bischl: OpenML: Connecting R to the Machine Learning Platform OpenML
Stephanie Kovalchik: Sports Analytics with R
Karline Soetaert, Thomas Petzoldt: environmental modeling using R.
Hana Ševčíková: Introduction to parallel computing with R
Martyn Plummer: Introduction to Bayesian inference with JAGS
Gabor Csárdi: R package development with R-hub
Charlotte Wickham: purrr
Edzer Pebesma: Spatial data in R: new directions
Dirk Eddelbuettel: Extending R with C++: Motivation, Introduction and Examples
Colin Gillespie: Efficient R Programming
Toby Dylan Hocking, Rebecca Killick: Introduction to optimal changepoint detection algorithms
Francois Michonneau, Tracy K. Teal: Data Carpentry: Open and Reproducible Research with R
Arun Srinivasan: data.table for beginners
Signe M. Jensen, Christian Ritz: Dose-response analysis using R
Bhaskar V. Karambelkar: Geospatial visualization using R
Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton: Introduction to Natural Language Processing with R