Adam lives in London. He is a core developer of the Django Project, one of the world's most successful web application frameworks. He's an active contributor to numerous open-source projects, and has special expertise in MySQL for Python.

Dr Anicia Peters is the Executive Dean for the Faculty of Computing and Informatics at NUST, and Chair of Namibia Women in Computing. Her work on gender inclusivity in software is taught at universities around the world. She's an ardent advocate of teaching programming through Python.

Adeshola is a Data Scientist at Terragon Group, Lagos. He is currently collaborating with a friend to build an experimentation platform where several tests can be carried out to optimise campaign performance in advertising technology. When he is not glued to a computer screen, he spends time watching football and playing video games.

Cheuk is a Data Scientist based in London, UK.

Python is her tool to manipulate data, building intelligence models, carrying out analysis and creating reports. This is her first visit to PyCon Namibia.

Francois heads up IMS, a company focused on creating software solutions for the efficient distribution of medicines in Namibia.

He is also the founder of BDGAS, an open-source project built on Apache Spark used for executing
audit data analytics on Big Data sets.

Mate is the Vice President of PyNam. He's a computer programmer and musician. He studies Computer Science at the University of Namibia.

Lately, he has been discovering the programming in live music performance.

Enrica works in Berlin as a senior data engineer at Delivery Hero, where she develops and maintains large scale data pipelines using Python. Her interests include Big Data Architecture, Process Automation and Machine Learning - and outside software: travelling, baking cakes and playing basketball.

Petrus is a Software Engineer from Cape Town.

He likes building startups, travelling around the African continent, and harping on about the potential for software and design to solve everyday problems.

Sandrine is from France and lives and works in London.

She is a mathematician and data scientist, and is currently working in financial services using machine learning to create solutions for her company.

Juan is an Aerospace Engineer based in Barcelona. He works at Satellogic, developing Python tools for geospatial data processing and satellite operations. In his spare time he contributes to open source and chairs the Python España non-profit organisation.

Emanuil lives in London and works as a Community Engineer at Elastic, the search company. He co-ran a small consultancy where he used Python and Ruby in web apps for Open Science. Today he tries to strengthen tech communities and convince more people to mentor newcomers to tech.

Muheue is a final-year Computer Science student at the University of Namibia. He's also the graphic designer of the Python Namibia Society.

He loves programming in Python and is a great fan of the Raspberry Pi.

Cleopatra works at Flutterwave in Nigeria, developing and enhancing payment systems. She contributes to developer communities across Africa, and has a particular interest in financial technology and technology in Africa.

Daniele works at Divio, where he helps make Docker-based Django deployment accessible to more people than ever before. He's a member of Django's core development team, and is active in the international Python open-source community. This is his fifth PyCon Namibia.

José Machava is a software engineer at Xindiri, where he uses Python and Django. He's also an instructor at Colegio Kutiva, and teaches Django web development.