Announcing PyBay2018’s Speakers!

PyBay2018 is only months away! We’re so excited to announce the list of speakers who will be presenting the main talks on August 17–19, 2018 in San Francisco, California.

First of all, thank you to everyone who’s taken the time to respond to our call for proposals.

Our goal was to curate a program that:

• Includes the latest developments and use of Python in various fields
• Is diverse and inclusive of everyone who’s passionate about Python and doing good things with it!

With a record number of amazing proposals and a limited number of slots this year, we had such a challenging time deciding talks. We’re pretty proud of what we’ve accomplished though, with a line-up of:

• Seasoned speakers who’ve written popular Python libraries, CTOs of startups, developer evangelists from larger companies, a first timer who’s recently graduated from bootcamp, and everything in between
• Perspectives from people living in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, WA, MA, OH, NE, TX, and 3 other continents
• 25% of speakers are women
• Excellent coverage on Python fundamentals and libraries, ML/AI/DS, DevOps/infrastructure. Some talks on performance, hardware, iOT and the people side of engineering too!

Here’s the final talk list, ordered by the speaker’s first name.

1. Deprecating the state machine: building conversational AI with the Rasa stack — Alan Nichol
2. Robots, biology and unsupervised model selection — Amelia Taylor
3. Detecting business chains at scale with PySpark and machine learning — Andrew Danks
4. Automated responses to questions about your health — Austin Powell
5. Reproducible performance — profiling all the code, all the time, for free — Bartosz Wróblewski
6. An import loop and a fiery reentry — Brandon Rhodes
7. An absolute beginner’s guide to deep learning with Keras — Dr. Brian Spiering
8. Diving into production issues at scale — Brian Weber
9. Using JupyterLab with JupyterHub and Binder — Carol Willing
10. Machine learning at Twitter: Twitter meets Tensorflow — Cibele Montez
11. Bootstrapping a visual search engine — Cung Tran
12. Airflow on Kubernetes: dynamically scaling Python-based DAG workflows — Daniel Imberman, Seth Edwards
13. Ask Alexa: how do I create my first Alexa skill? — Darlene Wong & Varang Amin
14. Finding Your Place in SRE and SRE in Your Place — David Blank-Edelman
15. Using Keras & Numpy to detect voice disorders — Deborah Hanus
16. How I learned to stop shell scripting and love the StdLib — Elaine Yeung
17. How to read Python you didn’t write — Erin Allard
18. Modern C extensions: why, how, and the future — Ethan Smith
19. Tools to manage large Python codebases — Fabio Fleitas
20. 1 + 1 = 1 or record deduplication with Python — Flávio Juvenal
21. Clearer code at scale: static types at Zulip and Dropbox — Greg Price
22. Docker for data scientists: simplify your workflow and avoid pitfalls — Jeff Fischer
23. High-performance Python microservice communication — Joe Cabrera
24. Zebras and lasers: a crash course on barcodes with Python — Jonas Neubert
25. First steps to transition from SQL to pandas — Kasia Rachuta
26. 2FA, WTF? — Kelley Robinson
27. Finding vulnerabilities for free: the magic of static analysis — Kevin Hock
28. Python services at scale — Lisa Roach
29. Parse NBA statistics with Openpyxl — Lizzie Siegle
30. Pull requests: merging good practices into your project — Luca Bezerra
31. Amusing algorithms — Max Humber
32. Production-ready Python applications — Michael Kehoe
33. Serverless for data scientists — Mike Lee Williams
34. Let robots nitpick instead of humans — Moshe Zadka
35. Deploying Python3 application to Kubernetes using Envoy — Natalie Serebryakova
36. How to make a multi-tenant microservice — Navin Kumar
37. Building Google Assistant apps with Python — Paul Bailey
38. Data science on geospatial data and climate change — Paige Bailey
39. Building an AI-powered Twitter bot that guesses locations of pictures from pixels — Randall Hunt
40. Why you need to know the internals of list and tuple — Ravi Chityala
41. Django Channels and websockets in production! — Rudy Mutter
42. Beyond accuracy: interpretability in “black-box” model settings — Sara Hooker
43. How to instantly publish data to the internet with Datasette — Simon Willison
44. Recent advances in deep learning and Tensorflow — Sourabh Bajaj
45. Service testing with Apache Airflow — Zhangyuan Hu
46. From batching to streaming: a challenging migration tale — Srivatsan Sridharan
47. The bots are coming! Writing chatbots with Python — Wesley Chun
48. asyncio: what’s next — Yury Selivanov

Please help us congratulate our PyBay 2018 speakers

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Stay tuned for the talk schedule, pre-conference workshop lineup, diversity and inclusion drive, financial aid, volunteering opportunities, and more! We’ll be sharing more announcements here and on Twitter.

Once again, tremendous gratitude to everyone who’s taken the time to submit talk proposals. We’re amazed at the breadth and the depth of your knowledge!