Talk Schedule

Friday, October 4

1. 8:00am

   Breakfast

   Skytop
2. 9:00am

   Opening Remarks

   PennTop South
3. 9:20am

   The Python Use Spectrum

   PennTop South Kojo Idrissa
4. 10:00am

   Break

   Skytop
5. 10:15am

   Open source sustainability: what does this mean for Python?

   PennTop South Keenan Szulik

   Taming Irreversibility with Feature Flags

   PennTop North Hugo Bessa

   Eita! Why Internationalization and Localization matter

   Madison Nicolle Cysneiros
6. 10:45am

   Archiving the Internet Before it All Rots Away

   PennTop South Nick Sweeting

   Can you keep a secret?

   PennTop North Aaron Bassett

   The promised Django Land; the tale of one team’s epic journey from the country of Flask to Django Land

   Madison Nicole Zuckerman
7. 11:15am

   Maintaining a Python Project When It’s Not Your Job

   PennTop South Hynek Schlawack

   Absolutely Awesome Automated APIs

   PennTop North Timothy Allen

   Ask the Ecosystem: Lessons from 200+ FOSS Applications

   Madison Mahmoud Hashemi
8. 12:00pm

   Lunch

   Skytop
9. 1:00pm

   How I Solved my NYC Parking Problem with Python

   PennTop South Jessica Garson

   Building Docs Like Code: Continuous Integration for Documentation

   PennTop North Mason Egger

   Recreating "The Clock" with Machine Learning and Web Scraping

   Madison Kirk Kaiser
10. 1:30pm

    Advanced SQL with SQLAlchemy

    PennTop South Ryan Kelly

    To comment or not? A data-driven look at attitudes toward code comments

    PennTop North Veronica Hanus

    Less Talk, More Rock: Transfer Learning with Natural Language Processing

    Madison Ryan Micallef
11. 2:00pm

    User focused API design

    PennTop South Renato Oliveira

    Why Good Developers Write Bad Tests

    PennTop North Michael Lynch

    Learning with Limited Labeled Data

    Madison Shioulin Sam
12. 2:25pm

    Break

    Skytop
13. 2:45pm

    The Benefits and Dangers of Face Recognition Technology

    PennTop South Manojit Nandi

    Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): hands-on to making new data (and some pretty pictures)

    PennTop North Nabeel Seedat

    Building effective Django queries with expressions

    Madison Vanessa Barreiros
14. 3:15pm

    Can Neural Networks Help Me Become a Better Parent?

    PennTop South Andrew Hao

    What physics can teach us about learning

    PennTop North Marianne Hoogeveen

    Beyond Unit Tests: End-to-End Web UI Testing

    Madison Andrew Knight
15. 3:45pm

    Ethics & Bias Detection in the Real World

    PennTop South Ethan Cowan

    How to Effectively Reduce AI Pipeline Runtime

    PennTop North Hichame El Khalfi, Deepshikha Gandhi

    Django + ElasticSearch without invalidation logic

    Madison Flávio Juvenal
16. 4:10pm

    Break

    Skytop
17. 4:25pm

    Static Typing in Python

    PennTop South Dustin Ingram

    You Don't Need Neural Nets - How Simpler Algorithms Can Solve Your Problems With Less Headache

    PennTop North Gabe Levine, Jonathan Arfa

    Memoizing recursive functions: How decorators are more elegant than I imagined

    Madison Abid H. Mujtaba
18. 4:55pm

    Convincing an entire engineering org to use (and like) mypy

    PennTop South Annie Cook

    Using NLP To Reduce Wealth Flowing Into Local Human Trafficking Economies

    PennTop North Rob Spectre

    None, null, nil: lessons from caching and representing nothing with something

    Madison Felice Ho
19. 5:20pm

    Break

    Skytop
20. 5:30pm

    The Ministry of Silly Talks

    PennTop South

Saturday, October 5

1. 8:00am

   Breakfast

   Skytop
2. 9:30am

   Accepting your successes

   PennTop South Piper Thunstrom
3. 10:00am

   Break

   Skytop
4. 10:15am

   Why should I write code when I can write code that writes code?

   PennTop South James Powell

   PPB: Unbearably Fun Game Development

   PennTop North Casey Faist

   1000x faster data manipulation: vectorizing with Pandas and Numpy

   Madison Nathan Cheever
5. 10:45am

   Improving PyPI's security with Two Factor Authentication

   PennTop South William Woodruff

   Make You An Async For Great Good!

   PennTop North Mark Smith

   Using Dash to Create Interactive Web Apps for Non-Technical Audiences

   Madison Joseph Willi
6. 11:15am

   Spatial thinking with Python

   PennTop South Sangarshanan

   Dungeons & Dragons & Python: Epic Adventures with Prompt-Toolkit and Friends

   PennTop North Mike Pirnat

   Distributed Machine Learning with Python

   Madison Brad Miro
7. 12:00pm

   Lunch

   Skytop
8. 1:00pm

   Pull Requests: Merging good practices into your project

   PennTop South Luca Bezerra

   What is deployment, anyway?

   PennTop North Katie McLaughlin

   A Time Traveler's Perspective on Software Developer Code of Ethics

   Madison Moshe Zadka
9. 1:30pm

   Jane Doe will help you improve your project

   PennTop South Rebeca Sarai

   Poetry: "dependency management and packaging made easy"

   PennTop North Samuel Roeca

   Sprints - Let’s do more of those!

   Madison Jacob Deppen
10. 2:00pm

    The Cat's Alive! Add Some Weirdness To Your Code With Quantum Computing

    PennTop South Jorn Mossel, Marianne Hoogeveen

    A Tale of Two Factors: A Deep Dive into Two Factor Authentication

    PennTop North Kelley Robinson

    How to size up a Python project for data freelancing

    Madison Susan Sun
11. 2:30pm

    The blameless post mortem: how embracing failure makes us better

    PennTop South Christopher Wilcox

    Analyzing the Evolution of Irish Traditional Music using Python

    PennTop North Neehaarika Velavarthy

    Python, Governments, and Contracts

    Madison Froilan Irizarry, José Padilla
12. 3:00pm

    Break

    Skytop
13. 3:15pm

    Oh, the Humanities! Interdisciplinary Thinking in Python

    PennTop South Lisa Tagliaferri

    The magic of Python

    PennTop North Darshan Markandaiah

    Beyond cProfile: performance optimization with sampling profilers and logging

    Madison Itamar Turner-Trauring
14. 3:45pm

    Serverless Deep Learning with Python

    PennTop South Alizishaan Khatri

    The Adventures of A Python Script

    PennTop North Dema Abu Adas

    Interact with your code: Using interactive widgets in Jupyter Notebooks

    Madison Ridhi Kapoor
15. 4:15pm

    Generating Nintendo Music Over the Phone with Magenta

    PennTop South Sam Agnew

    Airflow in Practice: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DAGs

    PennTop North Sarah Schattschneider

    Build your Python Extensions with Rust!

    Madison Paul Ganssle
16. 4:40pm

    Break

    Skytop
17. 5:00pm

    Because Equity: Python FTW

    PennTop South Meg Ray