Conferences / PyCon (national Python conferences)
PyCon AU 2024
Nov 22–26, 2024 · Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Conference
- PyCon (national Python conferences) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Nov 22, 2024 – Nov 26, 2024
- Venue
- Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
- Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2024.pycon.org.au
- Recorded
- 10 sponsors · 105 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Speakers: keynotes (Linda McIver, Kendra Vant) and all talks from site session data (pyconau/2024-website on GitHub), with YouTube links; affiliations parsed from bios. Ticket prices not found.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 10
Platinum 2
Silver 3
- Acorn Labs · standard
- Elastic · standard
- Google · standard
Startup 2
Other 1
- Linux Australia · auspice
Speakers and talks 105
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kendra Vant | — | Keynote | The neglected art of a relevant benchmark and why you need one | Video |
| Linda McIver | — | Keynote | From Hypnotised to Heretic: Immunising Society Against Misinformation. | Video |
| A.J. Fisher | — | Talk | Build Your Own IoT! Fun With Python and Raspberry Pi. | Video |
| Adam Graham | — | Talk | Track Closing - Scientific Python | Video |
| Adam Graham | — | Talk | Track Opening - Scientific Python | Video |
| Adam Harvey | New Relic | Talk | Quantifying Nebraska | Video |
| Alison Wong | University of Sydney | Talk | Enhancing Programming Ability with Playful Learning and Karel | Video |
| Alison Wong | University of Sydney | Talk | Looking back to move forwards: how educational literature can inspire new teaching strategies | Video |
| Amanda J Hogan | — | Talk | Track Closing - Education | Video |
| Amanda J Hogan | — | Talk | Student showcase | Video |
| Amanda J Hogan | — | Talk | Track Opening - Education | Video |
| Andrew Lonsdale | — | Talk | Avocado, Cheese, Grape, Tomato or: How I Used Python to Stop Worrying and Love Emoji in Bioinformatics | Video |
| Andrew Williams | Curtin University | Talk | Astronomy with Python, for non-astronomers | Video |
| Anna Tisch | — | Talk | Performant Python | Video |
| Anneysha Sarkar | Australian National University | Talk | Cultural and Linguistic Influences on Translation: A Study of Novels | Video |
| Anthony Baxter | — | Talk | How we used Python to try and save lives | Video |
| Anthony I. Joseph | — | Talk | from seeds import plants: using IoT to grow healthy herbs | Video |
| Artem Kolesnikov | Cover Genius | Talk | Using Multiple Databases in Django Applications | Video |
| Artur Baruchi | — | Talk | Space Django: Migrating and Redesigning a Database while Hunting for Satellites. | Video |
| Ash Bek | — | Talk | A Lazy Person's Guide to Building REST Clients or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dunder Overrides | Video |
| Aurynn Shaw | — | Talk | Track Closing - Devoops | Video |
| Aurynn Shaw | — | Talk | Track Opening - Devoops | Video |
| Caleb Brown | Talk | The perfect setup? Not setup.py! Building packages the right way | Video | |
| Carolyn Gekas | — | Talk | Transitioning from VB to Python – Mapping a 6 month journey | Video |
| Charles Turner | ACCESS-NRI | Talk | Track Opening - Scientific Python | Video |
| Charles Turner | ACCESS-NRI | Talk | Track Closing - Scientific Python | Video |
| Chelsea Finnie | REANNZ | Talk | Lowering the Gangplank: How Writing Songs Relates to Templating | Video |
| Christopher Neugebauer | — | Talk | Lightning Talks (Saturday) | Video |
| Christopher Neugebauer | — | Talk | Lightning Talks (Sunday) | Video |
| Christopher Neugebauer | — | Talk | Let's make a working implementation of async functions in Python 2.1, also, why you might want to use a more recent version of Python | Video |
| Clinton Roy | — | Talk | Adding File System context to pathlib | Video |
| Damien George | University of Melbourne | Talk | Teaching Digital Technologies in Australian schools with Python and the Kookaberry | Video |
| Dan Draper | — | Talk | How to secure, break, and re-secure an encrypted data vault using Python and PostgreSQL | — |
| Dan Draper | — | Talk | Fast, highly effective database security using searchable encryption (without the yak shave) | Video |
| David Andersson | — | Talk | Simplifying Python Web App Operations: Automating K8s Ops with Open Source | Video |
| Dr Jack Simpson | Endgame Economics | Talk | ML ain’t your only hammer: adding mathematical optimisation to the data scientist’s toolbox | Video |
| Draga Doncila Pop | — | Talk | Explore, annotate, and analyse multidimensional image data with napari | Video |
| Edward Schofield | — | Talk | Better dataframes | Video |
| Edwina Mead | University of Technology Sydney | Talk | From Keyword Chaos to Clarity: Conquering a Complex Systematic Review with Python | Video |
| Eliz So | — | Talk | Cultural and Linguistic Influences on Translation: A Study of Novels | Video |
| Emily Massahud | Australian Synchrotron | Talk | From minutes to seconds: Capillary auto-alignment with python and opencv | Video |
| Emily Tour | University of Melbourne | Talk | Introducing Potnia: A Python language library for the conversion of ancient texts to Unicode | Video |
| Evan Kohilas | — | Talk | DevOops Lightning talks | Video |
| Evan Kohilas | — | Talk | Who tests the testers? Making and testing pipelines | Video |
| Felipe Tavares | — | Talk | Wait, is Wi-Fi just blinking lights? | Video |
| Genevieve Buckley | — | Talk | Track Closing - Scientific Python | Video |
| Genevieve Buckley | — | Talk | Track Opening - Scientific Python | Video |
| Haggen So | Hong Kong Baptist University | Talk | As a Teacher. I have no Time to learn Programming - Streamline Assignment Marking with Python | Video |
| Harmeet Sokhi | Xero | Talk | Rethinking Data Catalogs: The Promise and Pitfalls | Video |
| Huon Wilson | ExoFlare | Talk | Follow the Postgres brick road: a journey of testing against a real database server | Video |
| J. Rosenbaum | — | Talk | AI perceptions of gender | Video |
| Jack Reichelt | — | Talk | Walking the Tree of Life – Adventures in Phylogenetics | Video |
| Jack Skinner | — | Talk | Failsafes and Safety Fails: How to crash a train and other lessons for software engineers | Video |
| John Hawkins | UNSW | Talk | Projit: An Open Source Python Tool for Decoupled Data Science | Video |
| Juan Nunez-Iglesias | — | Talk | Explore, annotate, and analyse multidimensional image data with napari | Video |
| Julian Dinsdale | — | Talk | Teaching Digital Technologies in Australian schools with Python and the Kookaberry | Video |
| Justin Warren | — | Talk | Track Closing - Devoops | Video |
| Justin Warren | — | Talk | Track Opening - Devoops | Video |
| Kabir Manandhar Shrestha | — | Talk | Introducing Potnia: A Python language library for the conversion of ancient texts to Unicode | Video |
| Kai Striega | — | Talk | Track Opening - Scientific Python | Video |
| Kai Striega | — | Talk | Track Closing - Scientific Python | Video |
| Katie Bell | MongoDB | Talk | Switching to MongoDB: The challenges of translating database schemas | Video |
| Liam Bluett | — | Talk | Embeddings: How Computers Learned to Read | Video |
| Lizzie Silver | WSP | Talk | Causal Discovery in Python | Video |
| Luke Byrnes | — | Talk | Three Django Apps in a Trenchcoat: Writing an event management website with not a lot of time | Video |
| Luke Wiwatowski | WSP | Talk | Django on AWS for chump change | Video |
| Mark Lakewood | — | Talk | Turtles all the way down: Abstractions and when we should use them | Video |
| Matt Cengia | — | Talk | Three Django Apps in a Trenchcoat: Writing an event management website with not a lot of time | Video |
| Matt Trentini | — | Talk | MicroPython: The best bits! | Video |
| Mel Makin | University of Melbourne | Talk | Commissioning tools at the Australian Synchrotron, or, how to get a bazillion dollars worth of toys to play nicely together | Video |
| Nicky Ringland | Talk | Track Opening - Education | Video | |
| Nicky Ringland | Talk | Track Closing - Education | Video | |
| Nicky Ringland | Talk | Dependency management: the cause of—and solution to—all supply chain problems | Video | |
| Nicky Ringland | Talk | Student showcase | Video | |
| Noah Kantrowitz | — | Talk | What Python Can Learn From Other Languages | Video |
| Paige Martin | ACCESS-NRI | Talk | Track Opening - Scientific Python | Video |
| Paige Martin | ACCESS-NRI | Talk | Track Closing - Scientific Python | Video |
| Paul Wayper | — | Talk | Django, REST and OpenAPI - a gentle introduction | Video |
| Peter Hall | — | Talk | Conference Opening (Sunday) | Video |
| Peter Hall | — | Talk | Conference Closing (Saturday) | Video |
| Peter Hall | — | Talk | First timers session | Video |
| Peter Hall | — | Talk | Conference Open (Saturday) | Video |
| Peter Hall | — | Talk | Closing Address (Sunday) | Video |
| Pravin vaz | — | Talk | Transitioning from VB to Python – Mapping a 6 month journey | Video |
| Renaldi Gondosubroto | — | Talk | Setting Up Your Python Community for Success: Lessons from the Melbourne Python User Group | Video |
| Renee Noble | Microsoft | Talk | How Smart is AI? – Real projects to build real understanding | Video |
| Russell Keith-Magee | — | Talk | Where am I? What am I doing? Mobile App development in Python | Video |
| Sally Gridley | — | Talk | Track Closing - Education | Video |
| Sally Gridley | — | Talk | Student showcase | Video |
| Sally Gridley | — | Talk | Track Opening - Education | Video |
| Sam Bishop | — | Talk | Notes on Over-Engineering: A Project Post-Mortem | Video |
| Sanjin Dedic | — | Talk | Coding Competition Software VS Murphy's Law | Video |
| Simon Aubury | Simple Machines | Talk | Serpents and Ducks: wrangling data with Python and DuckDB | Video |
| Stefanie Molin | Bloomberg | Talk | Getting Started with Open Source Contributions | Video |
| Stefanie Molin | Bloomberg | Talk | Data Morph: A Cautionary Tale of Summary Statistics | Video |
| Stephen Tierney | University of Sydney | Talk | Enhancing Programming Ability with Playful Learning and Karel | Video |
| Suzannah Cooper | Kraken | Talk | How to confirm that the index you added actually improves query performance | Video |
| Tennessee Leeuwenburg | — | Talk | Making an open source package - lessons learned | Video |
| Tennessee Leeuwenburg | — | Talk | Verifying and evaluating scientific results with the open source package "scores" | Video |
| Tom Eastman | — | Talk | Why UUIDs are Secretly Incredibly Fascinating | Video |
| Vishal Srivastava | — | Talk | Rethinking Data Catalogs: The Promise and Pitfalls | Video |
| Wen Jie Teo | — | Talk | Mastering RAG & Unlocking AI Potential: Build a RAG system using Python, Open-source LLMs & MongoDB Atlas | — |
| Yaakov | WiseTech Global | Talk | Track Opening - Devoops | Video |
| Yaakov | WiseTech Global | Talk | Time and Time Again | Video |
| Yaakov | WiseTech Global | Talk | Track Closing - Devoops | Video |