Conferences / PyCon (national Python conferences)
PyCon AU 2025
Sep 12–16, 2025 · Pullman Melbourne on the Park, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Conference
- PyCon (national Python conferences) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Sep 12, 2025 – Sep 16, 2025
- Venue
- Pullman Melbourne on the Park
- Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2025.pycon.org.au
- Recorded
- 10 sponsors · 93 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Fri 12 - Tue 16 Sep (incl. specialist tracks: Data & AI, Education, Scientific Python; and sprints). Speakers: keynotes and all talks from site session data (pyconau/2025-website), with YouTube links; affiliations parsed from bios. Ticket prices not found.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 10
Platinum 1
Silver 3
- Amazon Web Services · standard
- Elastic · standard
- Google · standard
Other 4
- Electron Workshop · digital
- Kraken · digital
- Linux Australia · auspice
- Planet Innovation · digital
Speakers and talks 93
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Arwen Griffioen | — | Keynote | Ethics in AI: Building Fair and Just Intelligence Systems | Video |
| Alex Mirrlees-Black | Australian National University | Talk | Pipe-ifying Python: The how and why of interpreter hacking | Video |
| Alison Wong | — | Talk | Education Track Opening | Video |
| Alison Wong | — | Talk | Education Track Closing | Video |
| Alison Wong | — | Talk | Student Showcase | Video |
| Amanda J Hogan | — | Talk | Student Showcase | Video |
| Amanda J Hogan | — | Talk | Education Track Closing | Video |
| Amanda J Hogan | — | Talk | Education Track Opening | Video |
| Andressa de Mello Cabistani | Red Hat | Talk | Self-healing system for UI tests using ML | Video |
| Ankur Jain | Innablr - a DX1 company | Talk | The Duck and the DataFrame: A Data Engineer’s Journey with DuckDB | Video |
| Anthony Shaw | — | Talk | My AI is slow. Make it faster! | Video |
| Benno Rice | — | Talk | Skill Issue | Video |
| Boaz Ash | — | Talk | Needle in the Haystack: Applied ML for Inspections of Power Infrastructure | Video |
| Brooks Smith | — | Talk | From Matlab to Lambda: Transforming Structural Engineering Research Tools | Video |
| Caitlin Wright | — | Talk | Keeping Creativity the Focus in Visual Effects and Animation | Video |
| Caleb Brown | Talk | Unarchiving vulnerabilities and avoiding tar-pits | Video | |
| Charles Turner | — | Talk | Scientific Python Track Opening | Video |
| Charles Turner | — | Talk | Scientific Python Track Closing | Video |
| Chris Zaharia | Q-CTRL | Talk | Reinforcement Learning with Quantum Algorithms: Simulating Nematode Behaviour | Video |
| Christopher Neugebauer | — | Talk | The Death of Consequences | Video |
| Christopher Neugebauer | — | Talk | Guardrails: An Alternative View of Safely Working in Python | Video |
| Daehyok Shin | — | Talk | Going with the flow? Apache Airflow for operational-quality scientific workflows | Video |
| David Colls | MYOB | Talk | An EV trip planner for Australia | Video |
| Derek Bingham | — | Talk | How to build your own MCP powered GenAI Agents | — |
| Derek Bingham | — | Talk | The Continued Developer Evolution | Video |
| Dilpreet Singh | — | Talk | Beyond Vibes: Building Evals for Generative AI | Video |
| Dipendra Paudel | Cater Care | Talk | A Chronicle of Digital Transformation : From Kitchen Chaos to Kubernetes | Video |
| Dr Jack Simpson | — | Talk | Building an electricity market model from scratch | Video |
| Dr Tom | — | Talk | Escape the Python - Ten years of Australia's best Escape Rooms | Video |
| Dr.Swapnilsony Singh | Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand | Talk | AI for Good: Using Responsible AI to Drive Social Impact and Inclusion | Video |
| Duy Nguyen | — | Talk | Modernizing Legacy: Wrapping a 25+ Year Computational Fluid Dynamics Codebase | Video |
| Edwin Griffin | — | Talk | Capturing Flags with Microbits | Video |
| Evan Kohilas | — | Talk | Args: Amazing or Approaching? | Video |
| Genevieve Buckley | — | Talk | Scientific Python Track Closing | Video |
| Genevieve Buckley | — | Talk | Scientific Python Track Opening | Video |
| Geoff Matheson | — | Talk | The Streamlit Experiment: building web dashboards with Yr 10-12 | Video |
| Georgie Kennedy | Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research | Talk | Object-Oriented Oncology: Making Sense of Complex Patient Journeys | Video |
| Ghazaleh Niknam | University of Washington | Talk | Object-Oriented Oncology: Making Sense of Complex Patient Journeys | Video |
| Hailey Bartlett | — | Talk | Pinchy the bestest boi | Video |
| Isabelle De Backer | — | Talk | Scaling Security Anomaly Detection in Enterprise Knowledge Base with Dask | Video |
| Ishrat Zaman | — | Talk | Big Brains, Small Targets: Whole-Brain Image Analysis with Python | Video |
| Izy Hogan | — | Talk | Data Structures: A learning journey | Video |
| Jack Reichelt | — | Talk | Why Teach the "Why"? | Video |
| Jack Skinner | — | Talk | Data & AI Track Closing | Video |
| Jack Skinner | — | Talk | Data & AI Track Opening | Video |
| Jenya Bogacheva | — | Talk | The Birdwatcher’s Guide to Optimised Tabular Data Pipelines | Video |
| Jo Basevi | — | Talk | Scientific Python Track Opening | Video |
| Jo Basevi | — | Talk | Scientific Python Track Closing | Video |
| Justin Warren | PivotNine | Talk | Sustaining Open Source Software: Tools for Change | Video |
| Kai Striega | — | Talk | Scientific Python Track Closing | Video |
| Kai Striega | — | Talk | Scientific Python Track Opening | Video |
| Kathy Reid | Deakin University | Talk | Your datasets, under your control: Introducing the Mozilla Data Collective | Video |
| Lilly Ryan | — | Talk | Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Reality | Video |
| Maddie Mackey | — | Talk | The Lab - Lessons from an Autism-Inclusive Learning Space | Video |
| Melanie Hampel | Australian Synchrotron | Talk | On the Fly and On the Flight: Scientific Data Analysis Beyond the Beamline | Video |
| Michael Gribben | — | Talk | Beyond the Hype: Using AI Coding Agents Today | Video |
| Michael Pegios | — | Talk | Going with the flow? Apache Airflow for operational-quality scientific workflows | Video |
| Michaela Wheeler | — | Talk | High altitude balloon imagery decoding in the browser with C, JS, and Python | Video |
| Michelle Mei-Ling Sandford | — | Talk | Code Without Barriers: Inclusive Python Development with AI | Video |
| Mimoune DJOUALLAH | — | Talk | Life Beyond Pandas: Workflows with DuckDB, Daft, Polars, and Datafusion | Video |
| Muhammad Sakib Khan Inan | Deakin University | Talk | Time Series Analysis in Python: Easy Tools for Scientific Insight | Video |
| Neha | University of Washington | Talk | Hierarchical Clustering: Finding the awkward reunions | Video |
| Nic Crouch | — | Talk | Data & AI Track Closing | Video |
| Nic Crouch | — | Talk | Data & AI Track Opening | Video |
| Nick Moore | — | Talk | The Primordial Code | Video |
| Nicky Ringland | — | Talk | Education Track Closing | Video |
| Nicky Ringland | — | Talk | Student Showcase | Video |
| Nicky Ringland | — | Talk | Education Track Opening | Video |
| Nicky Ringland | — | Talk | Myths developers believe about open source security | Video |
| Nitish | GoDaddy | Talk | Building Production-Ready MCP Servers: From Protocol to Patterns | Video |
| Noah Kantrowitz | — | Talk | The Long Hello World | Video |
| Patrick Sunter | Australian Bureau of Meteorology | Talk | Going with the flow? Apache Airflow for operational-quality scientific workflows | Video |
| Rachel Bunder | — | Talk | What emergency service volunteering has taught me about incident management | Video |
| Ramon Perez | Menlo Labs | Talk | Building with Multiple Languages: A Python-First Approach | Video |
| Renee Noble | Microsoft | Talk | What’s in a Name? – Fuzzy Matching Techniques for Proper Nouns | Video |
| Renee Noble | Microsoft | Talk | Who_Dunnit.xlsx – Teaching Python through Data Investigation | Video |
| Rubaiath E Ulfath | RMIT University | Talk | Time Series Analysis in Python: Easy Tools for Scientific Insight | Video |
| Russell Keith-Magee | — | Talk | Taking wheels mobile | Video |
| Ruth Luscombe | — | Talk | Tips and tricks: data science prototype into production | Video |
| Sam | — | Talk | I learned everything about the match statement so you don't have to | Video |
| Sarah Reichelt | — | Talk | Escape from Tutorial Hell | Video |
| Sheena Nasim | — | Talk | Scaling Python-Powered Machine Learning With Snowflake | Video |
| Simon Merrick | Stronghold Pay | Talk | Reducing the "Oops Factor": Pipelines for a Secure Python Development Lifecycle | Video |
| Stephen Tierney | University of Washington | Talk | Taking Back the Streets: NaviLens and the Fight for Open Navigation | Video |
| Sujatha | — | Talk | Catching them all: teaching fundamental OOP concepts with Pokemon | Video |
| Suzannah Cooper | — | Talk | Developer-friendly jobs across time zones when "out of hours" no longer exists | Video |
| Tarun Jain | AI Planet | Talk | MCP for dummies: Feed more context to LLM | Video |
| Tennessee Leeuwenburg | Bureau of Meteorology | Talk | PyEarthTools: Machine learning for Earth system science | Video |
| Tim Zhang | — | Talk | Myths developers believe about open source security | Video |
| Tishampati Dhar | CSIRO Data61 | Talk | Modernizing Legacy: Wrapping a 25+ Year Computational Fluid Dynamics Codebase | Video |
| Vivek Katial | Multitudes | Talk | A case study on building our first LLM feature – how to balance speed + quality | Video |
| Vladimir Roudakov | — | Talk | Takeaways from teaching Python in college | Video |
| Zain Afzal | Qwilr | Talk | Found Font Family | Video |