Up Your Python Quickly at the PyBay2018 Lightning Talk Series

PyBay2018 is a regional Python conference happening this week in San Francisco. It’s four days packed full of in-depth workshops and super informative talks about using Python to do everything from building neural network models to wrangling big data. But you can also get a quick download on a range of Python topics with the Lightning Talk Series. Check out the agenda for this Friday, Aug. 17, below. And if you’d like to give your own talk, we still have a few 5-minute slots open! Check the website for details. And make sure to grab your pass and come check out this volunteer-led event!

Eric Menendez: “Extending Kubernetes with Python”

Sarah Schattschneider: “APIs and Airflow: Piping Hot Data from 3rd Parties to Your Party”

Travis Oliphant: “XND — developer libraries for cross language, n-dimensional, data-oriented computing”

Jacob Perkins: “You too can NLP”

Sai Srirampur: “Scaling multi-tenant apps using the Django ORM and Postgres”

Aaron Wiegel: “Making Excel workbooks the easy way with Python and xlsxwriter”

Darshan Ahluwalia: “Lessons learned in optimizing our optimizer”

Yarko Tymciurak: “Community — from the inside out”

Bonnie Schulkin: “Fixtures in Python Testing”

This post is part of a series introducing the speakers at the PyBay2018 conference in San Francisco. It’s a great chance to learn and connect with an engaged and diverse community of Python developers. We hope you’ll join us!