Conferences / PyCon (national Python conferences)
PyCon UK 2019
Sep 13–17, 2019 · Cardiff City Hall, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
- Conference
- PyCon (national Python conferences) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Sep 13, 2019 – Sep 17, 2019
- Venue
- Cardiff City Hall
- Place
- Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2019.pyconuk.org
- Recorded
- 20 sponsors · 122 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Five days: talks Fri-Mon, sprints Tue; includes Young Coders day, Django Girls, posters. Keynotes per keynote page: Tania Allard (Microsoft), Marlene Mhangami, Cheuk Ting Ho (keynote page: data scientist at Santander), Tobias Kunze. Speakers: all sessions with speakers from the pretalx schedule export (logistics slots such as welcomes, lightning-talk blocks, AGMs and sprints left out); affiliations parsed from pretalx bios where stated, otherwise null. Prices are VAT-inclusive day-rate tables; five-day prices recorded.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Day | £6 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Unwaged, 5 days | £120 | — | incl. VAT; 1 day £48 | web.archive.org |
| Individual, 5 days | £222 | — | incl. VAT; 1 day £78 | web.archive.org |
| Standard (employer-paid), 5 days | £450 | — | incl. 20% VAT; 1 day £162 | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 20
Title / headline 1
- JPMorgan Chase · Headline
Platinum 1
- GoCo Group (GoCompare) · Platinum +
Speakers and talks 122
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheuk Ting Ho | Santander | Keynote | Do we have a diversity problem in Python community? | — |
| Dr. Tania Allard | Microsoft | Keynote | Reproducible Science: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and The Untold | — |
| Marlene Mhangami | — | Keynote | Leadership and Identity in the Pan-African Python movement | — |
| Tobias Kunze | — | Keynote | while history: continue | — |
| Aaron Balan | — | Workshop | Young Coders: Geometries & Python Turtle | — |
| Alex Chan | — | Talk | Sans I/O programming patterns – what, why, and how | — |
| Alp Inan | — | Workshop | Flask-restplus workshop for beginners | — |
| Avni Balan | — | Workshop | Young Coders: Anagrams & Python | — |
| batuhan bayraktar | — | Talk | Using Pomelo to Enhance Algorithmic Thinking | — |
| Beat Buesser | IBM | Talk | Adversarial Robustness Toolbox: How to attack and defend your machine learning models | — |
| Ben Nuttall | Raspberry Pi Foundation | Talk | Astro Pi: Python on the International Space Station | — |
| Ben Nuttall | Raspberry Pi Foundation | Talk | Young Coders: Show and Tell | — |
| Ben Nuttall | Raspberry Pi Foundation | Workshop | Young Coders: Astro Pi Mission Zero | — |
| Ben Nuttall | Raspberry Pi Foundation | Workshop | Young Coders: Hackathon & presentation prep | — |
| Can Aydin | — | Talk | Using Pomelo to Enhance Algorithmic Thinking | — |
| Can Ersoz | — | Talk | Benefits of competition based libraries for beginners in Python | — |
| Carlos Pereira Atencio | — | Talk | An Introduction to Hardware Drivers in (Micro)Python | — |
| Carlos Pereira Atencio | — | Workshop | Python on Hardware Community Showcase (Open Session) | — |
| Charlotte Feather | Deloitte | Workshop | Step Into the AI Era: Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop | — |
| Cheuk Ting Ho | Datakind | Workshop | Step Into the AI Era: Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop | — |
| Cheuk Ting Ho | Datakind | Talk | I am telling you 3 things about Chatbot (so you don't have to learn it the hard way) | — |
| Chloe Parkes | — | Talk | Depression in the Workplace; Let's talk. | — |
| Chris Withers | — | Talk | FastAPI from the ground up | — |
| Colin Bell | — | Workshop | Automating web applications with Selenium WebDriver | — |
| Damian Swistowski | — | Talk | Typed attrs dataclasses with cattrs converters for JSON REST microservices. | — |
| Dani Papamaximou | — | Talk | Automated report writing using data from a relational database | — |
| Daniel Hepper | — | Talk | Is Django too Complicated? | — |
| Daniel Rios | — | Talk | Optimizing Input: Building your own customized keyboard | — |
| Daniele Procida | — | Talk | The world's cheapest, simplest plotter | — |
| Daniele Procida | — | Workshop | But I never wanted to do DevOps! A practical, hands-on introduction to containerised web deployment for Django developers who would rather just create applications | — |
| David Chong | University of Michigan | Talk | Python in Medicine: A toolkit for exploring neonatal ventilator data | — |
| David R. MacIver | — | Talk | You are in a maze of twisty little passages | — |
| David Seddon | — | Talk | How to write readable tests | — |
| David Sim | — | Talk | One weird trick for improving your communication | — |
| David Spademan | — | Talk | Just Visiting | — |
| Devang Mehta | — | Workshop | Implementing a simple API using Django REST Framework | — |
| Dmitry Karpov | — | Talk | Massively Multiplayer Online Games with Python | — |
| Dolica Akello-Egwel | — | Poster | NeXus Constructor: Visualising the Configurations of Neutron Experiments with Qt for Python | — |
| Dom Weldon | — | Talk | Dash: Interactive Data Visualization Web Apps with no Javascript | — |
| Dustin Ingram | Talk | Static Typing in Python | — | |
| Éléonore Mayola | — | Poster | A tour of data viz in Python | — |
| Emanuil Tolev | — | Workshop | Intro to integrating search into your Django app | — |
| Emanuil Tolev | — | Talk | Awesome live API docs for under-resourced teams | — |
| Emma Delescolle | — | Talk | Trans*Code | — |
| Emma Delescolle | — | Talk | Writing micro-services in Python... Sure! But which framework? | — |
| Emma Delescolle | — | Workshop | Writing micro-services in Python... Sure! But which framework? | — |
| Frank Kelly | — | Talk | Machine Learning on the Edge | — |
| Gail Ollis | Bournemouth University | Workshop | Let's make a talk | — |
| Gil Goncalves | Unmade | Talk | So you want to be a manager | — |
| Gisela Rossi | — | Talk | Dictionaries, behind the scenes | — |
| Gönül Aycı | Bogazici University | Poster | Active Learning with Bayesian Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Recommender Systems | — |
| Gusztav Belteki | — | Talk | Python in Medicine: A toolkit for exploring neonatal ventilator data | — |
| Hannah Hazi | Stratasys | Workshop | Telling Stories With Python and Ren'Py | — |
| Hannah Hazi | Stratasys | Talk | Don't Cross The Streams: An Introduction to Virtual Environments | — |
| Irit Katriel | Bank of America | Talk | Technical Debt Remediation in a Massive Python Codebase | — |
| Isobel Weinberg | — | Workshop | Plug & train: flexible customisation and extension of python's deep learning frameworks | — |
| Jack Harper | — | Poster | NeXus Constructor: Visualising the Configurations of Neutron Experiments with Qt for Python | — |
| Jacob Unna | — | Talk | Philosophy of Refactoring | — |
| Jan Freyberg | — | Workshop | Plug & train: flexible customisation and extension of python's deep learning frameworks | — |
| Joe Hall | JPMorgan Chase | Talk | Automated Timeseries Analysis with Gaussian Processes | — |
| Kashish | MileIQ | Talk | Charming the Snake - Writing Secure Python Code | — |
| Konark Modi | — | Talk | What do travel, food & health websites have in common? Auditing websites & apps for privacy leaks | — |
| Konark Modi | — | Talk | Stranger things in Twitterverse | — |
| Laura Sach | — | Workshop | Young Coders: Presentation prep | — |
| Laura Sach | — | Workshop | Young Coders: Make stuff with junk | — |
| Leonardo Giordani | — | Workshop | TDD in Python with pytest | — |
| Leonardo Giordani | — | Talk | Clean Architectures in Python | — |
| Luke Spademan | — | Talk | Writing Beautiful Python. An overview of PEP 8 | — |
| Luke Spademan | — | Workshop | Young Coders: Cracking Codes with Python | — |
| Marco Bonzanini | — | Workshop | What are they talking about? Mining topics in documents with topic modelling and Python | — |
| Marco Bonzanini | — | Talk | Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics | — |
| Mario Orlandi | — | Talk | Real-time data acquisition, from Arduino to the web, using PubSub with Redis, Django and other friends | — |
| Mark Smith | — | Talk | More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Python Functions | — |
| Markus Holtermann | Crate.io | Talk | Logging Rethought 2: The Actions of Frank Taylor Jr. | — |
| Martijn Pieters | — | Talk | Concurrent asyncio and sanity | — |
| Martin O'Hanlon | — | Talk | Blue Dot - its a bluetooth dot | — |
| Martin O'Hanlon | — | Workshop | Young Coders: Gettin' GUI with it | — |
| Mary Chester-Kadwell | Cambridge University Library | Talk | Code walk this way | — |
| Mashhood Rastgar | Sastaticket.pk | Talk | Rapid prototyping scalable Python services using AWS Chalice | — |
| Michal Grochmal | — | Workshop | Demystifying Neural Networks | — |
| Miguel Grinberg | — | Talk | Asynchronous Web Development with Flask | — |
| Mika Naylor | — | Talk | Code Styles Aren’t Black and White | — |
| Miles Cook | — | Workshop | Implementing a simple API using Django REST Framework | — |
| Natalie Jakomis | — | Talk | Data Scientist Career Path: How to find your way through the data science maze | — |
| Nick Acosta | IBM | Talk | Choosing the right Deep Learning Framework: A Deep Learning Approach | — |
| Nick Sarbicki | — | Talk | Mutability for good not evil | — |
| Nikoleta Glynatsi | — | Talk | The Fallacy of Meritocracy | — |
| Pallavi | — | Talk | Stranger things in Twitterverse | — |
| Patrick Barry | — | Workshop | Young Coders: Mutating Monsters | — |
| Petr Stehlík | Kiwi | Talk | The dos and don'ts of task queues | — |
| Qasim K | — | Talk | Automating Code Review As Much As Possible | — |
| Rafael Garcia-Dias | — | Talk | How to use Python to expose politicians? | — |
| Rana Taki | — | Talk | Using Pomelo to Enhance Algorithmic Thinking | — |
| Rebecca Vickery | Holiday Extras | Talk | The Fastest Way to Learn Data Science | — |
| Richard Izzo | — | Talk | Hangar; git for your data | — |
| Richard Louden | — | Talk | Battles with reproducibility and collaboration in large organisations | — |
| Richard Terry | Wildfish | Talk | Syntactic sugar vs maintainability | — |
| Robert Wiltshire | — | Workshop | Young Coders: Mission to Mars Rover Microbit Radio Control | — |
| Samathy Barratt | — | Talk | Regexplained - Understanding the theory of Regular Expressions | — |
| Sandrine Pataut | — | Workshop | Get to grips with pandas and scikit-learn | — |
| Sarah Townson | Science Oxford | Workshop | Hardware Hacking Workshop | — |
| Sedat yalcin | — | Talk | Benefits of competition based libraries for beginners in Python | — |
| Sedat yalcin | — | Talk | Using Pomelo to Enhance Algorithmic Thinking | — |
| Shaun Taylor-Morgan | — | Talk | Python in the browser | — |
| Shaun Taylor-Morgan | — | Workshop | Build a full-stack web app in Python with Anvil | — |
| Solveiga Vivian-Griffiths | — | Talk | Data Scientist Career Path: How to find your way through the data science maze | — |
| Spencer Organ | — | Talk | Unleashing Python from the Computer Science Curriculum | — |
| Spencer Organ | — | Workshop | Young Coders: Will it rain in Cardiff this weekend? | — |
| Sunaina Pai | — | Talk | Mock Object Library: Common Pitfalls and Best Practices | — |
| Susam Pal | — | Talk | A Tour of Matplotlib: From Bar Charts to XKCD-Style Plots | — |
| Teri Forey | University of Leicester | Talk | Research Software Engineers: Who, What, Why and a Django API | — |
| Thomas Kluyver | European XFEL | Talk | What does PEP 517 mean for packaging? | — |
| Tobias Kohn | University of Michigan | Talk | Here's Your Mistake... | — |
| Tom Easterbrook | Bournemouth University | Talk | Dev On Wheels: The Ultimate Computer Game | — |
| V Vishnu Anirudh | — | Talk | Managing Big Data in Machine Learning projects | — |
| Vinayak Mehta | Grofers | Talk | Extracting tabular data from PDFs with Camelot & Excalibur | — |
| Vince Knight | Cardiff University | Talk | Training my dog with Python | — |
| Wietse Braam | — | Workshop | Flask-restplus workshop for beginners | — |
| Yaşar İdikut | — | Talk | Benefits of competition based libraries for beginners in Python | — |
| Yeray Díaz Díaz | — | Talk | Import as an antipattern - Demystifying Dependency Injection in modern Python | — |
| Yoel Kastro | — | Talk | Benefits of competition based libraries for beginners in Python | — |
| Yoel Nasi | Hisar School | Talk | Using Pomelo to Enhance Algorithmic Thinking | — |
Sources
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190919123852/https://2019.pyconuk.org/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190921194032/https://2019.pyconuk.org/keynotes/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20191017203245/https://2019.pyconuk.org/sponsorship/our-sponsors/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190825182743/https://2019.pyconuk.org/tickets/
- https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2019/schedule/