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What would once have been magical is now becoming common place. In this talk, I'll show how to write a Python app that takes a text snippet (like "cat" or "man jumping") and finds images that match.

Nowadays, if you attend an event you're bound to end up with a catalogue of photographs to look at. Formal events are likely to have a professional photographer, and modern smartphones mean that it's easy to make a photographic record of just about any gathering.

At an event, a photographer can take many photos. Which ones do you appear in? Find out how to search for faces using Python, OpenCV, OpenAI and, yes, PostgreSQL®. Python ties it all together, and PostgreSQL's pgvector extension allows making SQL queries to find photos with my face.

Apache Kafka® is the de facto standard in the data streaming world for sending messages from multiple producers to multiple consumers, in a fast, reliable and scalable manner.

Apache Kafka® is the de facto standard in the data streaming world for sending messages from multiple producers to multiple consumers, in a fast, reliable and scalable manner. Come and learn the basic concepts and how to use it, by modelling a fish and chips shop!