The annual Python programming conference for professionals, entrepreneurs, scientists, academics and students.
Friday
18th June
General timings
13:00-14:00
Lunch
17:30
Close
Note that all times are Windhoek time - Central African Time, UTC+2
09:00 Welcome and introductions
09:30 PyNam and the PyNam Scholars
10:00 Andrew Collier - Grokking Statistical Measures using Everyday Analogies
Andrew works at Fathom Data, a Data Science consultancy based in South Africa.
10:30 Cheuk Ting Ho - Everyone can be a super hero with coding power
Cheuk is the Developer Relations Lead at TerminusDB, and an active Python community contributor.
11:00 Martha Kamkuemah - Algorithmic Bias
Martha is studying for a PhD at Stellenbosch University, and will explore how human biases creeps into machine learning models, and what we can do about it.
11:30 Eli Holderness - Anvil: Web Apps with nothing but Python
Eli works at Anvil in Cambridge, UK; they will show us how to build everything a web application needs, with pure Python.
12:00 Michalis Panayides - Using Python to measure the expected wait in a queue with two waiting rooms
Michalis is a doctoral student at Cardiff University, studying the application of games theory to emergency medical services.
12:30 Gajendra Deshpande - Securing Django Applications
Gajendra from India will provide an overview of security in and for Django, Python's most popular web application framework..
14:00 Workshop
Cheuk Ting Ho and Arnaud Tsombe - Open-source mentored sprint
Cheuk and Arnaud will provide an interactive session to help you make your first contribution to a Python open-source project.
17:30 Close
Saturday
19th June
General timings
13:00-14:00
Lunch
17:30
Close
Note that all times are Windhoek time - Central African Time, UTC+2
09:00 Welcome and introductions
09:30 Vincent Knight - Will I have enough mana? Probabilistic modelling of a collectable card game with Python
Vincent is one of PyCon NA's oldest and most steadfast friends; in this talk he will relive some of his teenage years, bringing together mathematics, card games - and Python.
10:00 Nikoleta Glynatsi - Web scraping, text analysis, and networks can help us identify the most important Avenger
Nikoleta is a postdoctoral researcher in applied mathematics; in this talk she'll apply her mathematical powers to the 8000+ characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
10:30 Adam Johnson - Building interactive pages with htmx
Adam returns to PyCon NA to introduce htmx, a JS library that extends HTML to support more interactive use cases, without writing any JS yourself.
11:00 Fernando Masanori - Python Emergency remote teaching
Fernando is a long-time contributor to education and the Python community; in this talk he'll discuss some of the challenges presented by the pandemic lockdowns.
12:00 Lightning talks
12:30 Tangeni Shikomba - Scikit Learn, Kaggle and Jupyter Notebooks
Tangeni is from Namibia and now lives in Michigan USA; he will introduce some key data science tools and his experiences with them.
13:00 Adedapo Adedamola - S.O.L.I.D - Principles of Object Oriented and Agile Design
Adedapo from Nigeria presents five principles you can adopt to improve your software design and code.
14:00 Sam Simataa - Quality over quantity - an introduction to Software Testing
Sam is from Namibia and works in the USA as a Senior Automation Test Developer; in this talk he will discuss the value quality assurance can bring to a team and product.
15:00 Workshop
Benjamin Bengfort - Containerization: Simple and Portable Deployment and Development
Benjamin presents an interactive workshop introducing the power of Docker-based containerisation
17:30 Close