Marlene Mhangami

AI Agents are contributing a growing amount of code to GitHub. Some developers are leaning into this, creating automated development pipelines, assigning issues from Slack or changing their review process to be agent first. Other developers, particularly in open source, are being overwhelmed by...

Python now powers nearly half of all new AI repositories (State of the Octoverse Report 2025.) It is the most used language for Applied AI work, from training and inference to orchestration and deployment.

VS Code is the most popular code editor in the world, and combined with GitHub Copilot, it provides AI Engineers the opportunity ton speed up their workflows with AI. In this talk we'll explore what it looks like to build an MCP server for VS Code. We'll explore prompts, tools, resources and sampling, and understand how these can be used to with high or low autonomy.

In this talk we will examine how Python programmers can be creative in the digital age. Whether it's in web development, data science or machine learning creativity is a skill that sets a good developer apart from a great one. Python as a language has been around for 32 years and it may seem...

Come meet some of the folks working on Diversity and Inclusion in the global Python Community! Join the live panel discussion to hear about the challenges and the work they do.

In this talk, I will be discussing three lessons about leadership that I learned during my time chairing Pycon Africa 2019. I will also be sharing how personal and group identity played a consistent and significant role throughout the process.