Conferences / PyCon (national Python conferences)
PyCon AU 2019
Aug 2–6, 2019 · International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Conference
- PyCon (national Python conferences) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Aug 2, 2019 – Aug 6, 2019
- Venue
- International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney
- Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2019.pycon-au.org
- Recorded
- 21 sponsors · 85 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 2 Aug specialist track day (Security & Privacy, DjangoCon AU, Education, Science & Data), 3-4 Aug main conference, 5-6 Aug sprints. Speakers: keynotes and all talks from the site's talk pages (site source on GitHub), with video links; affiliations parsed from bios where stated. Run under the auspices of Linux Australia.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student (Sat/Sun) | A$80 | — | github.com | |
| Student (Fri/Sat/Sun) | A$120 | — | github.com | |
| Specialist Track Day (Fri only) | A$150 | — | github.com | |
| Enthusiast (Sat/Sun) | A$390 | — | github.com | |
| Enthusiast (Fri/Sat/Sun) | A$490 | — | github.com | |
| Professional | A$690 | — | github.com | |
| Contributor | A$990 | — | github.com |
Sponsors 21
Platinum 3
Other 15
- Auth0 · Sponsors
- Biarri · Sponsors
- Data61/ CSIRO · Sponsors
- Django Software Foundation · Sponsors
- Elastic · Sponsors
- Grok Learning · Sponsors
- HENNGE · Sponsors
- ICTE NSW · Sponsors
- kmo · Sponsors
- Linux Australia · Auspice
- Medius Health · Sponsors
- Onepoint · Sponsors
- Planet Innovation · Sponsors
- Stripe · Sponsors
- yubico · Sponsors
Speakers and talks 85
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurynn Shaw | — | Keynote | Creating Lasting Change | Video |
| Brandon Rhodes | — | Keynote | The Antipodes | Video |
| VM Brasseur | — | Keynote | The real costs of Open Source Sustainability | Video |
| "Alex" | — | Talk | Stealing Chrome cookies without a password | Video |
| Adam Harvey | — | Talk | What PHP learned from Python | Video |
| Alistair | — | Talk | Machine Learning and Cyber Security - Detecting malicious URLs in the haystack | Video |
| Amanda J Hogan | Australian Computing Academy | Talk | Pretty vector graphics - Playing with SVG in Python | Video |
| Andrew Godwin | Eventbrite | Talk | Just Add Await: Retrofitting Async Into Django | Video |
| Andrew Leech | — | Talk | Profiling Pathogens with (micro) Python | Video |
| Andrew Williams | — | Talk | 3D Rendering with Python | Video |
| Anthony I. Joseph | — | Talk | Using comedy as an excuse to play with python-programmed microcontrollers | Video |
| Ben Chu | — | Talk | Python Applications in Infrastructure Planning and Civil Engineering | Video |
| Ben Dechrai | — | Talk | Opening Doors with JSON Web Tokens | Video |
| Ben Taylor | — | Talk | Using Python to make learning Python better | Video |
| Benno Rice | — | Talk | The New COBOL | Video |
| Brenda Wallace | — | Talk | When software and law are the same thing | Video |
| Bruce Fuda | Australian Computing Academy | Talk | Teaching Python with tiny, occult pandas | Video |
| Carey Li | — | Talk | Using Python, Flask and Docker To Teach Web Pentesting | Video |
| Chris Wilcox | Talk | Shipping your first Python package and automating future publishing | Video | |
| Christopher Neugebauer | — | Talk | Fantastic Blocks And Where To Hide Them | Video |
| Craig de Stigter | — | Talk | How I auto-refactored a huge OSS project to use pytest | Video |
| Daniel Porteous | Meta | Talk | No time to idle about: Profiling import time in Python | Video |
| Dave Bracken | — | Talk | Automagically marking Python course work and assessments in seconds! | Video |
| Debbie Zukerman | — | Talk | Using comedy as an excuse to play with python-programmed microcontrollers | Video |
| Donna Zhou | — | Talk | A Programmer's Guide to Public Speaking | Video |
| Dustin Ingram | Talk | Building a Sustainable Python Package Index | Video | |
| E. Dunham | Mozilla | Talk | Rust's Recipes for Code and Community | Video |
| Erin Zimmer | Shine Solutions | Talk | Anatomy of a Browser | Video |
| Evan Brumley | WSP | Talk | Tunnel Snakes Rule! Bringing the many worlds of Python together to monitor Melbourne's biggest infrastructure project. | Video |
| Georgios Bekiaris | — | Talk | Not a long time ago, in a galaxy not very far away, an astronomer and a computer scientist walk into a bar... | Video |
| Graham Dumpleton | — | Talk | Building an interactive training environment using JupyterHub | Video |
| Graham Williamson | Penten | Talk | Devpi for teams | Video |
| Jack Reichelt | — | Talk | What makes Micro:bits different? | Video |
| Jakub Nabaglo | Triplebyte | Talk | What not to do, and how to do it | — |
| Jim Mussared | Grok Learning | Talk | It's dark and my lights aren't working (an asyncio success story) | Video |
| Johan van der Meer | QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute | Talk | Learn to control your brain: Brain Computer Interfacing with Python | Video |
| Jon Manning | — | Talk | Let's Build a Symbolic Analyser And Automatically Find Bugs | Video |
| Justin Warren | — | Talk | Data Sharing in Modern Australia | Video |
| Kylie Mathers | — | Talk | Flying by the seat of our pants - our journey of teaching python using drones | Video |
| Leo Broska | — | Talk | Using Dash by Plotly for Interactive Visualisation of Crime Data | Video |
| Lightning Talk Czar | — | Talk | Saturday Lightning Talks | Video |
| Lightning Talk Czar | — | Talk | Sunday Lightning Talks | Video |
| Lily Wang | Australian National University | Talk | The universe as balls and springs: molecular dynamics in Python | Video |
| Luke Miller | — | Talk | Volumetric Performance Capture and Playback: A Workflow with Python | Video |
| Maia Sauren | — | Talk | Changing what’s normal: how to transfer concepts between groups | Video |
| Mario Areias | — | Talk | Threat Modeling the Death Star | Video |
| Mark Harris | — | Talk | cuDF: RAPIDS GPU-Accelerated Dataframe Library | Video |
| Mark Smith | — | Talk | It's Pythons All The Way Down: Python Types & Metaclasses Made Simple | Video |
| Markus Holtermann | Crate.io | Talk | Logging Rethought 2: The Actions of Frank Taylor Jr. | Video |
| Mars Geldard | — | Talk | Insights into Social Media Data using Entropy Theory | Video |
| Martin Burgess | — | Talk | Forecasting Australia's 2019 Election with PyMC3 | Video |
| Matt Trentini | — | Talk | Extending MicroPython: Using C for good! | Video |
| Melanie Crutchfield | — | Talk | The Unspeakable Horror of Discovering You Didn't Write Tests | Video |
| Merrin Macleod | — | Talk | Environment Variables: how software impacts climate change | Video |
| Michael Kelly | Versent | Talk | Orchestrating complex (not complicated) tasks using AWS serverless and Python | Video |
| Michał Gałka | — | Talk | Micropython Gotchas | Video |
| Nina Zakharenko | Microsoft | Talk | Goodbye Print Statements, Hello Debugger! | Video |
| Noah Kantrowitz | Ridecell | Talk | Forklifting Django: Migrating A Complex Django App To Kubernetes | Video |
| Opal Symes | — | Talk | You might not need gender! | Video |
| Paris Buttfield-Addison | — | Talk | Building, designing, teaching and training simulation environments for Machine Learning | Video |
| Parth Shandilya | LNMIIT | Talk | Web Accessibility In Django | Video |
| Paul Kehrer | — | Talk | Best Practices for Cryptography In Python | Video |
| Renee Noble | University of Washington | Talk | Concept to Classroom: Creating fun differentiated programming projects | Video |
| Richard Jones | — | Talk | Lessons learned building Python microservices | Video |
| Robert Lechte | — | Talk | Instant-feedback, instant-debugging Python coding | Video |
| Russell Keith-Magee | — | Talk | WASM matter? | Video |
| Sam Hames | QUT | Talk | You don't always need NumPy | Video |
| Sarah Young | Microsoft | Talk | How to lose a container in 10 minutes | Video |
| Sean Johnson | — | Talk | Securing your AWS Identity Management pipeline with PyTest | Video |
| Tennessee Leeuwenburg | Bureau of Meteorology | Talk | How to get everyone to get on board with software security: practical tips and suggestions. | Video |
| Thomi Richards | — | Talk | Post-mortems: Building better software together. | Video |
| Tim Savage | — | Talk | Safely eval Python syntax using the AST module | Video |
| Tobias Kunze | — | Talk | Pony, Cat, and Paw: Getting Started with the Open Source Menagerie | Video |
| Tom Eastman | — | Talk | Using Python, Django, and ruthlessness to protect people from social media harassment. | Video |
| Trapsilo Bumi | — | Talk | Making Acquaintances with Exotic Encodings | Video |
| Trent Lloyd | — | Talk | Tracing, Profiling & Debugging in Production (eBPF) | Video |
| Trey Hunner | — | Talk | Python Oddities Explained | Video |
| Various Speakers | — | Talk | The Security Panel | — |
| Varun Nayyar | — | Talk | Understanding GPUs | Video |
| Veatrissa L. | — | Talk | Machine Learning and Cyber Security - Detecting malicious URLs in the haystack | Video |
| Veronica Hanus | — | Talk | "Git hook[ed]” on images & up your documentation game | Video |
| Vinayak Mehta | — | Talk | Extracting tabular data from PDFs with Camelot & Excalibur | Video |
| Yaakov Smith | WiseTech Global | Talk | New Phone, Who Dis?: Human Authentication in the Digital Age | Video |
| Zac Hatfield-Dodds | Australian National University | Talk | Sufficiently Advanced Testing | Video |
| Zain Afzal | — | Talk | Using Python, Flask and Docker To Teach Web Pentesting | Video |