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Announcing Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020 - Terri Oda

PyCon India — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We are happy to announce Terri Oda as a Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020!

Terri specializes in saying no and explaining things, which either describes her professional work as an open source security expert, her personal time as the parent of a child who always wants to know “what’s happening?” or her volunteer service bringing new contributors into Python projects through Google Summer of Code.

You can find her on twitter @terriko.

Announcing Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020 - Victor Stinner

PyCon India — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We are happy to announce Victor Stinner as a Keynote speaker for PyCon India 2020!

Victor Stinner is a Python core developer for 9 years. He is paid by Red Hat to maintain Python upstream (python.org) and downstream (RHEL, Fedora). Author of pyperf, faulthandler and tracemalloc modules, he is working on Python performance, security and stability (member of the Night's Watch, maintain Python CIs: Travis CI, AppVeyor, and the large fleet of buildbot workers). He also mentors Python contributors.

You can find him on Twitter: @VictorStinner

Announcing Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020 - S Anand

PyCon India — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We are happy to announce S Anand as a Keynote speaker for PyCon India 2020!

Anand is the co-founder of Gramener, a data science company. He is recognized as one of India's top 10 data scientists. He leads a team that automates insights from data and narrates these as visual data stories.

You can find him on Twitter: @sanand0

Announcing Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020 - James Powell

PyCon India — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 17:00:00 +0000

We are happy to announce James Powell as a Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020!

James Powell is a professional Python programmer and enthusiast. He started working with Python in the finance industry building reporting and analysis systems for prop trading front offices. He currently works as a consultant building data engineering and scientific computing platforms for a wide-range of clients using cutting-edge open source tools like Python and React. He also offers a variety of corporate training courses and coaching sessions in all areas of Python.

In his spare time, he serves on the board of NumFOCUS as co-Chairman and Vice President. NumFOCUS is the 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports all the major tools in the Python data analysis ecosystem (incl. pandas, numpy, jupyter, matplotlib, and others.) At NumFOCUS, he helps build global open source communities for data scientists, data engineers, and business analysis. He helps NumFOCUS run the PyData conference series and has sat on speaker selection and organizing committees for over two dozen conferences. James is also a prolific speaker: since 2013, he has given over seventy conference talks at over fifty Python events worldwide.

You can find him on Twitter @dontusethiscode.

Announcing Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020 - Alolita Sharma

PyCon India — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We are happy to announce Alolita Sharma as a Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020!

Alolita Sharma is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services. She leads open-source strategy and engineering for projects focused on observability and search including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Apache Lucene, and Open Distro for Elasticsearch. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her. Alolita has built and led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal, and IBM. Alolita is passionate about language technologies that enable everyone to participate in the Web's information revolution. She serves on the board of Unicode Consortium and is an invited expert on W3C and ECMA workgroups. She has served on the boards of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and SFLC.in.

You can find her on Twitter @alolita.

Announcing Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020 - Naomi Ceder

PyCon India — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 17:00:00 +0000

We are happy to announce Naomi Ceder as a Keynote speaker for PyCon India 2020!

Naomi Ceder earned a Ph.D in Classics several decades ago, but switched from ancient human languages to computer languages sometime in the last century. Since 2001, she has been learning, teaching, writing about, and using Python.

An elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi is the immediate past chair of its board of directors. She also speaks internationally about the Python community, and on inclusion and diversity in technology in general.

By day she leads a team of Python programmers for Dick Blick Art Materials, and in her spare time she enjoys sketching, knitting, and deep philosophical conversations with her dog.

She can be reached at her Twitter handle: @NaomiCeder

Help us, Help you Convince Your Boss

PyCon India — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 23:00:00 +0000

There is lots to be gained by attending PyCon India 2020. Unfortunately, it takes time to sit down and compose an email to send to your boss enumerating all of them. Now consider that at least half of our attendees attempt to do that, we would lose so many hours of productivity reinventing the wheel ;) Hence, in the spirit of Python and automation, the PyCon India Content team is here to save the day. Down below, we have composed a "Convince your boss" letter. Of course, feel free to edit the parts you need and remove some you don't.

The Letter

Dear {BOSS},

I am excited to brief you about PyCon India 2020, India's premier conference on using and developing the Python programming language that takes place online from October 2-5, 2020. About 1500+ Pythonistas from diverse fields and all over the world are bound to be in attendance for the 12th edition of this mega event.

It would be great if I can get an opportunity to attend this conference as there will be innumerable benefits for me as an individual which will in turn impact the organization as well. To list a few:

{OPTIONAL} I am particularly keen on attending this {TALK/WORKSHOP/DEVSPRINT} on {TOPIC} presented by {SPEAKER-NAME} as our {PROJECT/UPCOMING PROJECT} is based on this.

Exposure to the actionable best practices & tools that we could use in our projects, saving money and time spent exploring different options.

Provides a forum to get a sneak peek at upcoming innovations.

Provides a platform to unmask the rationality behind the trending technologies like ML/AI, automation, web development, software development, IoT, and more that uses Python.

Learning technologies from a wide array of talks, workshops, keynotes, and developer sprints each presented by inspiring and enthusiastic industry experts, community leaders, and many young minds delving into important concepts and new technologies.

Opportunity to network or even able to hire like-minded people from diverse backgrounds including programmers, enthusiasts, researchers, entrepreneurs scholars, and many more.

A chance to spread the word about our company and create goodwill about the opportunities and incentives the employees are given. This will be the ideal way to attract future employees from a diversified talent pool.

{OPTIONAL} As an {employee}, attending the conference will also demonstrate to the tech community that our company believes in providing more such opportunities very seriously.

PyCon India's committed to keeping the event inclusive and easily accessible by all. Hence, due to the online nature of the conference, we have kept the ticket prices to a bare minimum this year. The ticket includes access to 2 days of PyCon India 2020 keynotes & talks.

I would be happy to write a post-conference report detailing what I've learned and to recommend any changes that we could implement to improve our practices. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I hope we make use of this opportunity for the benefit of our company.

Thank you,{YOURNAME}

Credits

The article is loosely based on PyCon India 2019's version of Convince your Boss

PyCon India 2020 tickets are live! Grab those limited Early Bird tickets!

PyCon India — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:00:00 +0000

PyCon India is a grass-roots, volunteer-driven conference. What that means is every year for the past 12 years Python communities across the nation have come together to help plan, organize, manage, and run the conference. It's the country's largest premier conference for the Python programming language unparalleled in the opportunities, knowledge, and networking potential it fosters.

With over 250+ proposals coming in globally, this year PyCon India 2020 is set to be the biggest one yet. The conference will be having a packed schedule of workshops, keynotes, talks, and dev-sprints strung together through 3 parallel tracks. Any person who has a conference ticket is eligible to attend the Devsprints. Although the Developer Sprints are free, we would be having registrations beforehand to manage the logistics.

We have started with the ticket sales of our mega event and the details for the same are available on PyCon India official website. To make the event inclusive and accessible to all, we have kept the ticket prices to a bare minimum, namely.

Rush to grab your early bird tickets now from Townscript!

Types of Tickets

Early Bird

An Early bird ticket reserves your seat for 2 days of the conference, with the pricing of INR 149 (GST excluded), the sale of early bird tickets ends in 5 days after their release or when the sale of tickets has been completed, whichever comes earlier.

Regular

A regular ticket reserves your seat for 2 days of the conference, with the pricing of INR 199 (GST excluded), the sale of regular tickets begins after the sale of early bird tickets ends till the sale of tickets have been completed.

Late Bird

A late bird ticket reserves your seat for 2 days of the conference, with the pricing of INR 499 (GST excluded), the sale of the late bird begins after the sale of regular tickets ends till the ticket sales for the conference close. These are unlimited in number.

Contributor

A Contributor ticket is for anyone to purchase who would like to support the conference in the years to come. The contributor ticket reserves your seat for 2 days of the conference, with the pricing of INR 1499 (GST excluded), the sale of these tickets start right from day 1 and are unlimited in number.

Workshop

Workshop tickets are released and sold separately, we will update this column and the website as we release more information regarding the same.

Devsprint

Devsprints at PyCon India are free and open to everyone. You don't need any ticket for participating in the dev sprints. Although we do need folks to register before the event happens to take care of the logistics. We will be using Zulip for collaboration and will update this section once we have a concrete process in place.

For more updates regarding tickets, please check back this blog, our official twitter account @pyconindia, or our mailing list! For any queries, we are happy to help out on Zulip.

Looking forward to seeing you folks at the conference!!

We have liftoff! The final schedule is out!

PyCon India — Sat, 20 Sep 0014 00:00:00 +0000

2020 has been a rollercoaster for all of us. Our team had setbacks, we pushed through them, and what a ride it has been for all of us helping to make PyCon India 2020 a huge success.

The sheer amount of proposals we received from you all over the last couple of days exceeded all our wildest expectations. The review committee along with all the volunteers worked quite hard to make the deadlines work. The schedule has been released a day before the deadline which signals us that we are on track as we move forward according to the plan. All these efforts go on to accomplish one outcome. An awesome PyCon India keeping you at its epicenter!

As we are releasing the talk and keynotes schedule, be sure to look out for the release of workshops and information about many more events in the coming days on Twitter and on our mailing list. Our rehearsal team is working double-time to get all the speakers in top shape for making this year's PyCon India experience amazing for everyone.

Checkout the PyCon India 2020 schedule

As a final note, we are nearly out of our regular tickets. Be sure to grab yours before stocks last as tickets to the conference are limited. If you haven't bought your ticket yet, the only thing you be left with is regret when they all would go out of stock! So be sure to buy your PyCon India ticket now.

We will see you folks in 18 days!