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PyCon Italia 2024
May 22–25, 2024 · Grand Hotel Mediterraneo, Florence, Italy
- Conference
- PyCon (national Python conferences) Data science & ML
- Dates
- May 22, 2024 – May 25, 2024
- Venue
- Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
- Place
- Florence, Italy
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2024.pycon.it
- Recorded
- 49 sponsors · 126 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Last edition in Florence before the move to Bologna. Sponsor page claim: 'more than 800 people expected'. Speakers: all scheduled talks, workshops and keynotes from the conference's public GraphQL API (https://2025.pycon.it/graphql, conference code pycon2024); affiliations conservatively parsed from speaker bios (null where not stated); talk abstracts are the elevator pitch. Video links where the schedule has a YouTube ID. Prices: admission tickets from the API (EUR, VAT incl. as listed).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal Regular Ticket | €160 | Apr 23, 2024 | pretix category: Personal Tickets; from the conference's public GraphQL API (tickets list) | 2024.pycon.it |
| Business Regular Ticket | €250 | Apr 23, 2024 | pretix category: Business Tickets; from the conference's public GraphQL API (tickets list) | 2024.pycon.it |
| Personal Late Ticket | €200 | May 21, 2024 | pretix category: Personal Tickets; from the conference's public GraphQL API (tickets list) | 2024.pycon.it |
| Business Late Ticket | €300 | May 21, 2024 | pretix category: Business Tickets; from the conference's public GraphQL API (tickets list) | 2024.pycon.it |
| Student Ticket | €60 | May 25, 2024 | pretix category: Student Tickets; from the conference's public GraphQL API (tickets list) | 2024.pycon.it |
| Business On-Desk Ticket | €350 | May 25, 2024 | pretix category: Business Tickets; from the conference's public GraphQL API (tickets list) | 2024.pycon.it |
| Personal On-Desk Ticket | €240 | May 31, 2024 | pretix category: Personal Tickets; from the conference's public GraphQL API (tickets list) | 2024.pycon.it |
Sponsors 49
Title / headline 1
- Kraken · Keystone
Bronze 3
Startup 4
Media 25
- Apogeo Editore · Media Partners
- Codemotion · Media Partners
- Django Girls Italia · Media Partners
- DjangoCon EU · Media Partners
- firenze.dev · Media Partners
- GDG Pisa · Media Partners
- GrUSP · Media Partners
- pisa.dev · Media Partners
- PLUG · Media Partners
- PyBari · Media Partners
- PyCon Lithuania · Media Partners
- PyRE · Media Partners
- PyRoma · Media Partners
- Python Biella Group · Media Partners
- Python Milano · Media Partners
- Python Pescara · Media Partners
- Python Torino · Media Partners
- Schrödinger Hat · Media Partners
- She Tech · Media Partners
- Speck&Tech · Media Partners
- theRedCode · Media Partners
- Top-IX · Media Partners
- Tripsitta · Media Partners
- WTM Italia · Media Partners
- WTM Pisa · Media Partners
Other 11
- APPBOX · Patron
- AppSignal · Patron
- Dvision Lab · Patron
- Dygma · Patron
- EuroPython Society · Diversity
- Nephila · Diversity
- Python Software Foundation · Diversity
- Seeweb · Diversity
- Sentry · Exclusive Tech Partner
- subito.it · Patron
- Thux Code · Patron
Speakers and talks 126
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Cuni | Anaconda | Keynote | Myths and fairy tales around Python performance | Video |
| Daniel Roy Greenfeld | Kraken | Keynote | Scaling Yourself: Make an Impact to Billions | Video |
| Daniele Procida | Canonical | Keynote | The attentive programmer | Video |
| Jodie Burchell | JetBrains | Keynote | Mirror, mirror: LLMs and the illusion of humanity | Video |
| Sheena O'Connell | — | Keynote | A Tale from the Trenches | Video |
| Vicki Boykis | Mozilla | Keynote | Stay Close to the Metal | Video |
| Adarsh Kumar | — | Talk | Let’s make the world a better place: Python for Social Good | Video |
| Adrian Garcia Badaracco | — | Talk | Modern observability for Python | Video |
| Adrian Garcia Badaracco | — | Talk | Logfire - Uncomplicated Observability | Video |
| Adrin Jalali | — | Talk | Dynamically generated methods with a non-generic signature | Video |
| Alan Franzoni | Aiven | Talk | Typing at scale: statically type-checking a large codebase | Video |
| Alessandro Romano | — | Talk | Pandas, Polars and the DataFrame Consortium. | Video |
| Alexander Hendorf | — | Talk | Ten Years of Community Organizer | Video |
| Andrea Ambu | — | Panel | Advent of Python | Video |
| Andrea Purgato | — | Talk | Data VS Engineers: a long lasting story | Video |
| Andrii Soldatenko | — | Talk | Debugging python applications inside k8s environment | Video |
| Anton Caceres | — | Talk | Enhancing AsyncIO for Complex Applications | Video |
| Anže Pečar | — | Talk | Self hosting your side projects with Django and duct tape | Video |
| Armuzza | — | Talk | Django, Metadati e Inspire: come catalogare dati geospaziali grazie a Python | Video |
| Artem Kislovskiy | — | Talk | Simplifying Python Code through the Lens of Functional Programming | Video |
| Artur Patoka | — | Talk | Testing for Ghosts in the Machine: Assuring 'Good Enough' Software Quality in AI-based systems | Video |
| Aya Elsayed | Bloomberg | Workshop | No More Raw SQL: SQLAlchemy, ORMs & asyncio | — |
| Bernice Waweru | — | Talk | Tricking Neural Networks : Explore Adversarial Attacks | Video |
| Bryce Beagle | — | Talk | Importing Without "import": Behind the Scenes of importlib | Video |
| Carlo Bertini | — | Talk | Zero waste: trucchi per riciclare (la memoria) meglio | Video |
| Cesare Placanica | — | Talk | Sviluppare operatori kubernetes "Pythonicamente" | Video |
| Cheuk Ho | OpenSSF | Talk | Acknowledging Women’s Contributions in the Python Community Through Podcast | Video |
| Christian Heitzmann | — | Talk | Documenting Python Code | Video |
| Christian Staudt | — | Talk | AI on a Microbudget - Methods of Machine Learning Miniaturization | Video |
| Damian Wysocki | — | Talk | Blue-Green Deployment in Action: A Real Case Study | — |
| David Berenstein | — | Talk | 🧼 From GPU-poor to data-rich: data quality practices for LLM fine-tuning | Video |
| David Seddon | Kraken | Talk | Crabs in Snakes! | Video |
| Davide Brunato | SISSA | Talk | Abstract tricks: how abstract base classes can help you to solve difficult challenges. | Video |
| Davide Poggiali | — | Talk | streamlit vs gradio: which to pick? | Video |
| Egon Ferri | Immobiliare.it | Talk | Computer Vision IRL: dall'idea al deploy on-premise | Video |
| Emiel Veersma | — | Talk | From Pixels to Plots: Transforming Lives of African Smallholder Farmers through Geospatial Data | Video |
| Erik Wrede | — | Talk | Rewrite everything in Rust? What we learned from introducing Rust in Strawberry-GraphQL | Video |
| Fabio Lamanna | — | Talk | Sit back, relax, and enjoy the talk: a journey through FlightRadar24 with Python | Video |
| Fagani Hajizada | DataRobot | Talk | Building a self-service kubernetes platform for python developers | Video |
| Federica Previ | — | Talk | Data VS Engineers: a long lasting story | Video |
| Florian Haas | Cleura | Talk | Quit Simplifying! | Video |
| Francesco Panico | — | Talk | Zero waste: trucchi per riciclare (la memoria) meglio | Video |
| Gintare Statkute | Bloomberg | Workshop | Memray 101: Demystifying memory profiling in Python | — |
| Giuseppe Mastrandrea | — | Workshop | Train-Prey-Deploy: the journey of a ML model from the cradle to the online | — |
| Hemangi Subodh Karchalkar | EPAM | Talk | From Pydantic V1 to V2 | Video |
| Ievgen Burdin | — | Talk | From Domain to Delivery: End-to-End Clean Architecture in Python | Video |
| Iga Karbowiak | — | Talk | Adding zero-downtime migrations strategy in SaaS project | Video |
| Ilyas Chaoua | — | Talk | Scaling Machine Learning Training and Inference | Video |
| Ines Montani | — | Talk | The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs | Video |
| Jacek Kołodziej | Allegro | Talk | GIL: What's the hassle and... should I care? | Video |
| Jan Pipek | — | Workshop | Data Analysis, the Polars Way | — |
| Jesse Carnaxide | Binghamton | Workshop | Memray 101: Demystifying memory profiling in Python | — |
| Jill Cates | Shopify | Talk | How to Handle Very Large Data with Python | Video |
| Jorge Martinez Gomez | World Food Programme | Talk | Demystifying Oauth2 Authorization framework | Video |
| Juna Salviati | — | Talk | Infiniti mondi da set finiti di tessere: un approccio "quantum" all'arte generativa | Video |
| Juna Salviati | — | Panel | Advent of Python | Video |
| Karen Jex | — | Talk | Optimising your Database for Analytics | Video |
| Katharina Rasch | — | Talk | AI on a Microbudget - Methods of Machine Learning Miniaturization | Video |
| Kristi Perreault | Liberty Mutual | Talk | Snakes and Ladders: The Ups and Downs of Python Development with AWS Lambda | Video |
| Laís Carvalho | — | Talk | Python and Freedom and Bias | Video |
| Lemaitre Guillaume | — | Talk | A Retrieval Augmented Generation system to query the scikit-learn documentation | Video |
| Leonardo Giordani | — | Workshop | TDD in Python con pytest | — |
| Lorenzo Barbieri | — | Workshop | Corso Public Speaking | — |
| Lorenzo Mele | — | Talk | Oltre il Codice: Che Ruolo ha la Filosofia nella Programmazione? | Video |
| Lorenzo Mele | — | Panel | Advent of Python | Video |
| Lorenzo Turrino | Thirdfort | Workshop | Instrumenting Python: build a full telemetry pipeline with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana | — |
| Loris Cro | Zig Software Foundation | Talk | Deinventing the Wheel | Video |
| Luca Baggi | — | Talk | functime: a next generation ML forecasting library powered by Polars | Video |
| Luca Baggi | — | Talk | Embeddings, Transformers, RLHF: Three key ideas to understand ChatGPT | Video |
| Luca Corbucci | — | Talk | Is your model private? | Video |
| Luca Gilli | — | Talk | The European AI Act: a data scientist’s perspective | Video |
| Luciano Ramalho | — | Talk | Pythonic type hints with typing.Protocol | Video |
| Luigi Giuseppe Corollo | — | Talk | Release it like a pro! | Video |
| Maciej Marzęta | — | Talk | FastAPI: Hitting the Performance Jackpot | Video |
| Mara Marzocchi | — | Talk | Sii il cambiamento che vuoi vedere nel mondo | Video |
| Marc-André Lemburg | — | Talk | Advanced parsing of structured data using Python's new match statement | Video |
| Marcelo Trylesinski | Pydantic | Talk | Logfire - Uncomplicated Observability | Video |
| Marcelo Trylesinski | Pydantic | Talk | FastAPI Internals - How does it work? | Video |
| Marco Beri | — | Panel | Advent of Python | Video |
| Marco Gorelli | Quansight | Talk | How you can write a dataframe-agnostic library | Video |
| Melhin Ahammad | — | Talk | Django 5.0: Elevating Experiences with Server-Sent Events – A Journey from Polling to Real-Time Vibe | Video |
| Mia Bajić | Ataccama | Talk | Combining Django ORM & FastAPI in a Data Visualization Tool | Video |
| Miroslav Šedivý | — | Talk | Solving Two Hard Problems in Computer Science Using Pandas | Video |
| Navid Nobani | University of Milano-Bicocca | Workshop | Essentials of Generative Models | — |
| Nefta Kanilmaz | — | Talk | Analyzing COVID-19 Protest Movements: A Multidimensional Approach Using Geo-Social Media Data | Video |
| Nicola Guglielmi | — | Talk | Da 100 a 100M utenti: come scalare le tue architetture cloud!🚀 | Video |
| Nicola Procopio | Fincons Group | Talk | Don’t get lost in Vector Space | Video |
| Nicolò Giso | — | Talk | Exploring Art with Python: Building an Italian Art Bot | Video |
| Oliver Rew | — | Talk | Designing a Human-Friendly CLI for API-Driven Infrastructure | Video |
| Paolo Melchiorre | — | Panel | Advent of Python | Video |
| Paolo Melchiorre | — | Talk | Many ways to be a Python contributor | Video |
| Peter Bittner | — | Talk | Pythonic deployment of (Python) applications | Video |
| Pietro Mascolo | Carelon Global Solutions Ireland | Talk | I have no clue what my model is doing... | Video |
| Pietro Peterlongo | Recurse Center | Talk | Nim for Pythonistas | Video |
| Pietro Peterlongo | Recurse Center | Panel | Advent of Python | Video |
| Quazi Nafiul Islam | Sonar | Workshop | Calling Rust from Python: A Gentle Introduction to PyO3 | — |
| Raffaele Colace | — | Talk | Il software funzionante è il principale metro di misura di progresso | Video |
| Rashmi Nagpal | — | Talk | Beyond Bias: Crafting Fairness in Pythonic Machine Learning Systems | Video |
| Rhythm Patel | Bloomberg | Workshop | No More Raw SQL: SQLAlchemy, ORMs & asyncio | — |
| Ricardo Sueiras | — | Talk | Next Generation Authorisation using Cedar | Video |
| Riccardo Magliocchetti | — | Talk | Is Django async yet? | Video |
| Rodrigo Girão Serrão | — | Talk | 503 days working full time on FOSS: lessons learned | Video |
| Rodrigo Girão Serrão | — | Talk | Descriptors made easy | Video |
| Roman Prykhodchenko | — | Talk | Python-friendly cloud infrastructure management | Video |
| Ruslan Kiyanchuk | — | Talk | Mastering Cryptography in Python: Best Practices and Myth-Busting | Video |
| Scott Chacon | — | Talk | So you think you know Git: Advanced Git Tips and Tricks | Video |
| Serena Palazzo | Hoverture | Talk | A Journey through Generative AI's Frontier Python Libraries | Video |
| Shirli Di-Castro | — | Talk | AI, SQL, and GraphQL Walk into a Fertility Clinic… LLM-based Medical feature development | Video |
| Siddharta Govindaraj | — | Talk | Supercharge your code with Python's 'match' statement | Video |
| Simona Mazzarino | — | Talk | Preservare la Privacy dei Dati Personali nell'Era dell'IA: Un Approccio Pratico con Nerpii | Video |
| Simone Pulcini | — | Talk | Release it like a pro! | Video |
| Stefanie Molin | Bloomberg | Talk | Getting Started with Open Source Contributions | Video |
| Stefano Fiorucci | — | Talk | Large Language Models for Devs: from zero to your first LLM application | Video |
| Swastika Yadav | — | Talk | Understanding the Magic of Python Modules and Packages | Video |
| Thiago Bellini Ribeiro | Sendcloud | Talk | Building high-performance, type-safe GraphQL APIs with Strawberry and Django | Video |
| Tim Paine | Cubist Systematic Strategies | Talk | High Performance Data Visualization for the Web | Video |
| Tommaso Radicioni | — | Talk | RAGtime with Haystack! How to build a RAG with Haystack 2.0? | Video |
| Vaibhav Srivastav | — | Talk | Speeding up Whisper for speech recognition by 10x - Optimisations and walkthrough | Video |
| Valerio Maggio | Open Mined | Workshop | PPML: Machine learning on data you cannot see | — |
| Viktor Zagranovskyy | — | Talk | Scraping the Dungeons. Find your perfect D&D game using Scrapy and Bokeh visualisation | Video |
| Vincenzo Maritati | — | Workshop | Space Invaders: un approccio custom in Reinforcement Learning | — |
| Vinícius Gubiani Ferreira | — | Talk | PEP 683: Immortal Objects - A new approach for memory managing | Video |
| William Arias | GitLab | Talk | 🤑 Paying Off Technical Debt in the Development of Machine Learning Apps | Video |
| Yash Saboo | Bloomberg | Talk | Code More, Draw Less, and Debug Just a Little! | Video |
| Yossi Rozantsev | — | Talk | Writing Beautiful, Simple, and Safe Operations Scripts with Python | Video |
| Yullia Barabash | — | Talk | Is it me or Python memory management? 🤔💻 | Video |