Aditya Mehra is a Senior Software Architect. Graduated in Computer Science Engineering, he has a rich experience in IT of over 17 years . He has already presented several talks at Python conferences throughout the world.
He is publishing weekly newsletter on python and technology and writes in medium and other public platforms.
Aditya actively supports python community with mentorship and teaching and has volunteered in multiple Python events in India and the USA
- Introducing Immortal Objects: building block towards a multi-core Python runtime.
Anton Lee is a PhD student and research assistant at the University of Wellington, studying continual learning in artificial intelligence. As a research assistant, he is a maintainer of the CapyMOA open-source data-stream learning project.
- Data Stream AI
Ash is a Senior Data Analyst at Sharesies. With a strong background in SQL and deepening expertise in Python developed over the past two years, Ash is passionate about leveraging data to create impactful commercial use cases and drive those around him to be more data driven. He leads the development and maintenance of Sharesies self-service analytics tool, Theia, and collaborates across Sharesies and with external business customers to extract meaningful insights. Ash is dedicated to empowering users by making data accessible and actionable.
- Unlocking insights: leveraging open source software for self-service analytics
Ben loves using Python every day in his work as a data scientist to help organisations get more from their data, and he has a passion for teaching others how to get stuff done with Python.
He recently co-delivered the first-ever PyNoon lunchtime Python training course, and has presented at KiwiPycon and other conferences on a range of technologies.
Ben has over 12 years experience in software development and he previously worked as the original software architect for NZ security software startup DataMasque.
For his recently completed PhD thesis, Ben developed machine learning algorithms that can be applied despite common data deficiencies in collaboration with Fisher & Paykel Appliances.
- Labtech: Concurrency and caching in Python for busy scientists
- Exploratory data analysis with Python - Part 2/2
- Exploratory data analysis with Python - Part 1/2
I'm a developer at Catalyst .NET and Master of Artificial Intelligence student at the University of Canterbury. I've been heavily involved with participating, and planning, programming contests since 2021. I won the New Zealand Programming Contest in 2022, as well as placing 3rd and 2nd in 2021 and 2023. Internationally, I competed in the ICPC Regionals Contest last year in Sydney, obtaining a Silver Award. I'm interested in mathematical problem solving and algorithmic optimization.
- Learnings and Challenges with Competitive Programming in Python: NZPC and ICPC
Chelsea is a Network DevOps Engineer working at REANNZ. She is also a committee member of Python New Zealand (NZPUG) and is heavily involved with this year's Kiwi PyCon. She's passionate about automation, just making things easy for yourself, and thinks Python is just great in a lot of ways for so many different things. She also likes singing sea shanties so if we're lucky she might sing one for us.
- I love templating and you should too!
Christopher Neugebauer is an Australian developer, speaker, and serial community conference organiser, who presently lives in the United States.
He serves as a Director of the Python Software Foundation, and is co-organiser of the acclaimed North Bay Python conference, a boutique one-track conference run in unusual venues — include an old vaudeville theatre, and more recently a barn on a farm — in Petaluma, California.
Christopher is also a contributor on the open source Pants build system, helping make Python’s testing, correctness, and style tools accessible and fast for developers, no matter how big their codebase.
- On the Use and Misuse of Decorators
Curtis first started using Python 1.4 back in 1998, and has never looked back.
He first started using Django soon after it was made open source, and was invited onto the (now defunct) core team in 2014.
- Understanding PEG parsers with Parsimonious
Dr. David Thompson is a senior software developer at Catalyst in Ōtautahi Christchurch, and has been using Python for fun, academia and profit since the late '90s. Recent problem domains include: elections, earthquakes, enrolments, education and some other things that do not begin the the letter E.
- Testing Everything* Everywhere** All at once***
Deb Nicholson is an open source software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. She is the Executive Director at the Python Software Foundation which serves as the non-profit steward of the Python programming language. She’s won the O’Reilly Open Source Award and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software for her efforts to broaden the free and open source software movement. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Spritely Institute and on the Advisory Board for Open@RIT. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Keynote: Let's Future-Proof Python
My name is De-Graft Nana Baisie Affail. Born and Raised in Ghana in the Western Part of Africa. I completed my Bachelors degree in the field of Information Technology at the University of Cape Coast which was the best University in west Africa in the year 2021. I am now studying my masters in the field of Software systems at Masaryk University which is one of the best Universities in the world and currently in my 4th semester. After my education, I will like to go back to my country Ghana to teach Programming in the secondary schools and tertiary to.
- Teaching Programming in Python in West African Secondary Schools
Dr Keith-Magee is the founder of the BeeWare project, a project developing GUI tools and libraries to support the development of Python software on desktop and mobile platforms. He joined the Django core team in 2006, and was President of the Django Software Foundation for five years. He is a frequent speaker at Python and Django conferences around the globe, sharing his experience as a FLOSS developer, community maintainer, and (unsuccessful) startup founder. In his day job, he is a Principal Engineer at Anaconda, working on BeeWare in the OSS team.
“Whither Python?”
The first version of the Python programming language was released 33 years ago. The computing world that existed then is radically different to the world that exists today - and as a result, the language, community and users of Python have changed as well.
In this keynote, Dr Keith-Magee will reflect on how Python, and computing as a whole, has changed over the years. He will also look at what hasn’t changed - and make some predictions about what the future may hold for Python.
- Keynote: Whither Python?
Elliot started attending PyCons in 2010 and has been using Python ever since, most recently in his role as Software Engineer at Crown Equipment (picking things up and putting them down). In his free time, he has written games, a vocabulary application, and translation tools.
- Python Package Management - Rye Is All You Need
Ethan McKee-Harris, aka Skelmis, is a security consultant by day and Python developer by night.
He spends his days hacking web applications and bypassing voice authentication systems.
Beyond that, Ethan is an avid Python open source developer with experience on both sides of the metaphorical 'security fence'.
- An introduction to web application security through Python - Part 1/2
- An introduction to web application security through Python - Part 2/2
Dr Glenn Ramsey is an experienced Python practitioner and software engineer. He has been involved with Kiwi Pycon since its second year and has presented on diverse Python related topics including multithreaded GUIs, design patterns, using MicroPython on a microcontroller and plain text accounting.
In his professional career he works mainly in C++ and Python on desktop, mobile, server, embedded and engineering modelling software projects and has an interest in control systems, instrumentation and data collection.
His personal interests include energy systems, horse training and riding and dirt bike trail riding.
- MicroPython for the Internet of Things - Part 1/2
- MicroPython for the Internet of Things - Part 2/2
Grant has been an enthusiastic user of Python for many years and has delivered numerous conference talks, meetup presentations, and training sessions on the language. Grant's open source statistics application, SOFA Statistics (over 300,000 downloads to date) is completely written in Python as is the forthcoming replacement SOFA Lite. More recently, Grant has collaborated with Ben Denham to launch the Lean Python (When Of Python) initiative aimed at ensuring Python lives up to its original promise of simplicity and elegance. Grant currently works in the Tech Insights team at 2degrees and was part of the Data Science Team at Qrious where he processed hundreds of billions of records using PySpark and Python.
- Python 4 hour Crash Course - Part 2/2
- Modern Python - Better Python (the Horrors of My Earlier Code)
- Python 4 hour Crash Course - Part 1/2
Jack is a consultant CTO For Hire, specialising in all things web and APIs. He consults to small and growing software companies on patterns and practices for scaling teams and technology. He’s spent the past decade growing technical communities as a speaker, organiser, facilitator and coach.
- Failsafes and Safety Fails: How to crash a train and other lessons for software engineers
Katie McLaughlin (@glasnt) is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google Cloud. They are a Director of the Django Software Foundation, and an Honorary lifetime member of the New Zealand Python User’s Group, and were awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2017. When they're not changing the world, they enjoy cooking, running, making tapestries, and seeing just how well various application stacks handle emoji.
- Present like a pro
Senior Software Engineer with a background in backend for SaaS products from Christchurch, New Zealand with a focus on inclusivity and diversity in both the programming and wider communities. Enjoys knitting and other forms of crafting in their downtime.
- Weaving algorithms: the threads that bind the python and textile communities
Avid hacker, programmer and interested in all the weird and wacky things technology can do. With experience in industry in areas across software development, security and eventually ending up running DevOps Engineering at FNZ he has a passion and focus on improving technology education. Being involved in technology education for the past 7 years running code clubs and coaching robotics teams he now founded and runs Tūhura Tech which is a charitable trust focused on pre-tertiary technology education across the greater Wellington Region.
- Better Grades with Python
Richard Littauer is an organizer of SustainOSS and the host of the Sustain Podcast. As a full-stack developer and open source community consultant, he has interfaced with thousands of different projects in dozens of communities. He likes birds.
- Using iNaturalist, eBird, and Python to become a community scientist
Richard is a platform developer at Sharesies, where he uses Python to enhance developer tools, implement self-service infrastructure, and assist teams in developing novel software solutions for business challenges. His background includes a PhD in computer graphics focused on editable motion capture solutions, a post-doctoral fellowship that delivered a self-optimising compiler eliminating dynamic type-checking overheads, and a stint developing navigation schemes for a VR film. Outside of work, Richard dedicates time to his young family, engages in occasional CodeWars challenges, and dreams up ideas for a future FinTech focused on tackling the struggle of budgeting.
- Unlocking insights: leveraging open source software for self-service analytics
Professional software developer, Amateur rocket scientist and astronomer. Loves Python, Django, cats, working on their personal software and hardware projects, everything space, playing games of all kinds, and tinkering with 3D Printers.
- Mistakes Programmers Believe About Gender
Seth is a Software Developer based in Wellington, New Zealand. Seth has a background in electronics and interest in embedded systems.
- Mechatronics as code
Simon is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Trade Me with a background in software development with Python. Previously Simon was a contributor to OpenStack, an open source cloud platform written in Python which sparked his joy for Cloud and DevOps. Coming from a software development background Simon approached his cloud Journey like learning python - through writing code to build and automate cloud infrastructure.
- Pipelines for Securing your Python Development Lifecycle
Stefanie Molin is a software engineer at Bloomberg in New York City, where she tackles tough problems in information security, particularly those revolving around data wrangling/visualization, building tools for gathering data, and knowledge sharing. She is also the author of “Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas: A Python data science handbook for data collection, wrangling, analysis, and visualization,” which is currently in its second edition and has been translated into Korean and Chinese. She holds a bachelor’s of science degree in operations research from Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, as well as a master’s degree in computer science, with a specialization in machine learning, from Georgia Tech. In her free time, she enjoys traveling the world, inventing new recipes, and learning new languages spoken among both people and computers.
- Data Morph: A Cautionary Tale of Summary Statistics
Tim McNamara is one of the world's leading Rust educators and runs a consultancy specialising in training customers how to use the language called accelerant.dev. Previously the global head of Rust language education at AWS, he has helped introduce hundreds of thousands of developers to Rust as author of the world-renowned textbook Rust in Action, host of a popular YouTube channel and international speaker. He has held positions in his career, spanning AWS, Canonical, the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure, and a number of data science consultancies.
- import rust