The annual Python programming conference for professionals, entrepreneurs, scientists, academics and students.
Tuesday
18th February
General timings
08:00-09:00
Registration
11:00-11:30
Morning break
13:00-14:00
Lunch
15:30-16:00
Afternoon tea
17:15
Close
09:00 Jessica Upani, conference chair
Welcome
09:30 Uendjisuvera Tjipuka and Lahja Nelumbu - PyNam and the PyNam Scholars
10:00 What could you do with Python? - demos and insights
10:30 Open space
Induction for new Python programmers
11:30 Python for beginners workshop: From zero to Python and beyond
16:00 Workshop feedback and reports
16:15 Lightning talks
Django Girls
Introduction to web application programming for women and girls
Learn more
10:30 Open space
Namibia software professionals - meet other programmers, learn about jobs and local talent, make new connections
11:30 Python helpdesk
Come with a problem, leave with a solution
Wednesday
19th February
General timings
08:00-09:00
Registration
11:00-11:30
Morning break
13:00-14:00
Lunch
15:30-16:00
Afternoon tea
17:15
Close
09:00 Welcome and introductions
09:30 Keynote: Honza Javorek - Lessons learned from 9 years of community work
Honza is a well-known European Python speaker, mentor and community organiser from the Czech Republic.
10:30 Ngatatue Mate - Composing music with Python
Learn about Foxdot, and how to compose and perform music with Python.
11:30 Ngazetungue Muheue - Creating a RESTful web API with Django
Muheue explains web application development with Django. Muheue is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and one of Namibia's international Pythonistas, having spoken at conferences in the UK and Ghana.
12:00 Daniele Procida - BrachioGraph: a year of plotting
Meet an internationally famous Python-powered drawing machine.
14:00 Matthew George - Machine learning and surfing
Matthew is from the USA; in a Django web application, he combines his interests in Python and surfing...
14:30 Panel discussion - Finding work as a programmer
How to find opportunities, working remotely and more - put your questions to our experienced team of panellists.
15:00 Ondřej Auer - Confessions of an ex-bureaucrat
Will you find a Python programming career one day? Or will it find you? Ondřej is Head of Apiary administration at Oracle; he travels from Prague to tell us about one programmer's journey.
16:00 Workshop feedback and reports
16:15 Lightning talks
11:30 Ngatatue Mate
Making music with Python
11:30 Open space
14:00 Open space
Thursday
20th February
General timings
08:00-09:00
Registration
11:00-11:30
Morning break
13:00-14:00
Lunch
15:30-16:00
Afternoon tea
17:15
Close
09:00 Welcome and introductions
09:15 Keynote: Altti Lagstedt - Digitalisation needs more than coding skills
Altti is from Finland and works for Eduix.
10:00 Gbagnon Zokora Elvis - Challenges and hopes of the Python community in Côte d'Ivoire
Working towards a new PyCon in francophone west Africa.
10:30 Vuyisile Ndlovu - PyPI in a box: Using a Raspberry Pi as a portable PyPI server
We all use PyPI - here's a way to ensure we always have access. Vuyisile is from Zimbabwe and works for Real Python; he's an author and developer.
11:30 Benjamin Akinmoyeje - Universal Acceptance readiness of open-source code
Everything that uses the Internet needs to be ready for forthcoming developments in the global top-level-domain system. Benjamin, an ICANN fellow, will talk us through what's coming.
12:00 Murangi Vakuna - Home league soccer system with Django
One of our long-time PyNam members presents a custom management application developed using Python's most popular web application framework.
12:30 Paulus Hauwanga - Benefits of Python automation in finance
Paulus discusses how businesses can use Python find ways to give repetitive tasks to computers, rather than their staff.
14:00 Victor Adelakun Omolaoye - Simulation with Python: mininet
Mininet is a Python network simulation application; Victor discusses using it to simulate a 4G mobile network.
14:30 Mariano Páscoa Mugana - The first steps of the Python community in Mozambique
Mariano travels from Maputo, where he's working towards organising Mozambique's first PyCon.
15:00 Panel discussion - The visible woman
Gender diversity at African software conferences is generally much better than it is in the west. What can the Namibian Python community do to ensure it is participates fully in this trend?
16:00 Berhane Wheeler - Creating an interactive storytelling project with Python
Berhane demonstrates how to build your own game.
16:30 Workshop feedback and reports
16:45 Lightning talks
11:30 Ngazetungue Muheue
Creating a RESTful web API with Django
14:00 Gabriel Tuhafeni Nhinda
Mobile application testathon
15:00 Saara Amukugo
The art of data science in solving real-world problems
10:30 Norah Mamane
AI in psychology and mental health issues in science
14:00 Open space