Speaker Profile: Anna Ossowski
When Anna was introduced to Python she instantly fell in love with programming and the community which changed her whole life. She is now working on becoming an awesome developer and building a career in the field. In a former life Anna got a degree in English and Catholic Theology and worked as a translator for WikiHow. Anna is passionate about diversity and community outreach. She wants to encourage more people to discover the wonderful world of programming, especially women. Anna is a Django Girls organizer and runs the Your Django Story interview series on the Django Girls blog.
Speaking at 1:00PM on Sunday about Django Girls: A success story.
How do you bring more women into the Python and Django community? In this talk I will present Django Girls, a non-profit organization that brought several hundred of new women into the community, and turns workshop attendees into new female leaders and mentors. I will talk about our mission and story, our workshops and materials, future goals and projects, and how you can do the same.
Speaker Profile: Simon Willison
Simon Willison directs the architecture team at Eventbrite, a Bay Area ticketing company working to bring the world together through live experiences. The architecture team is responsible for Eventbrite’s public-facing API as well as internal initiatives to help Eventbrite scale and take on new technical challenges.
Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010. He is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework.
Speaking at 1:00PM on Sunday about Migrating to microservices.
Learn how Eventbrite is making the transition from a single, monolithic codebase to a collection of microservices - while continuing to ship new features.
Speaker Profile: Jenny Cheng
After graduating with a computer science degree from MIT, Jenny Cheng has engineered new strains of E. coli, built mobile apps for Harvard Medical School, and doodled cartoons for her blog, Caret Dash Caret. She currently lives in Brooklyn and changes the way glasses are designed and sold at Warby Parker.
She loves 3D printing, open source projects, and helping out with the local Pyladies chapter, whenever possible.
Speaking at 1:00PM on Sunday about 3D Print Anything with the Blender API.
3D printing is an awesome manufacturing process that makes physical objects from 3D models. Learn how to create and manipulate 3D models using Python, Blender (an open source graphics suite), and the Blender API. You’ll leave this talk with the basics to help you 3D print objects for the real world.
Speaker Profile: Celia La
Celia La is a software engineer at Knewton, and co-organizer for NYC Python, PyGotham, and Write/Speak/Code. In her free time, Celia enjoys biking, cooking and sketching.
Speaking Sunday at 1:00PM about Twitter Network Analysis with NetworkX.
Twitter’s network is fascinating because of its connectivity: there are hashtags, followers, retweets, and replies. Using the network analysis tool NetworkX, we’ll look at how to make sense of these channels. We’ll cover the basics of network theory, including types of networks and how measure influence, and we’ll apply those measures to our investigation of Twitter’s network.
Speaker Profile: James Powell
I’m a Python programmer, a Python enthusiast, and a strong believer in the Python community.
I run NYC Python which is the second largest Python-specific meetup in the world. It is a very active community and one that I am enormously proud of. We host office hours every week, study groups and workshops every weekend, and a headline night-of-talks for 100 people every other Thursday.
I’m the president of Big Apple Py, a not-for-profit we are creating to help promote programming in NYC and to support groups like NYC Python and Flask NYC.
In 2014, I chaired three conferences in: a conference “for Python Quants” in NYC on March 14, a follow-up in London on Nov 28, and PyGotham, NYC’s regional conference on Aug 16-17.
I also sat on the speaker selection and organising committee for PyData Silicon Valley, PyData Berlin, PyData NYC, and PyData London. I’ve spoken at PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyGotham, PyCon Canada, PyCon Finland, PyCon Spain, PyCon Sweden, PyCon Ireland, and at local meetup events in NYC.
Speaking Sunday at 1:00PM about Generators Will Free Your Mind.
Generators are one of the most notable features of Python and are a critical component of Python 3’s driving focus on iterability as a core protocol. This talk introduces basic concepts surrounding generators, generator expressions, and coroutines, then dives into ways that generators can improve our code: not just in terms of performance but also by offering us better ways to model our problems.
Sponsor Profile: O’Reilly Media (@oreillymedia)
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