Schedule

Thursday (01 oct)
Time Room 215 Room 211
08:30 - 09:15 Registration
09:15 - 09:30 Opening by Simon Cross
09:30 - 10:30 Pragmatic Python for Social Change
by Greg Kempe
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:45 Distributed pub-sub infrastructure with Apache Kafka
by Carl Scheffler
An Introduction to Image Classification
by Abuobayda Shabat
11:45 - 12:30 Python @ CloudFlare
by Gideon Redelinghuys
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Numberplate recognition using python, opencv and some other magic.
by Kobus Wolvaardt
A little scripting goes a long way: automating data processing in science
by Adrianna Pińska
14:15 - 15:00 OpenCanary: a new Python-based honeypot
by Azhar Desai
The Split-Apply-Combine Pattern for Data Science in Python
by Tobias Brandt
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea
15:30 - 16:15 Thursday Lightning Talks by Simon Cross
16:15 - 17:00 PyCon Montréal in 30 min
by Petrus Janse van Rensburg
17:00 - 17:30 Drinks and snacks after the last talk of the day
Friday (02 oct)
Time Room 215 Room 211
08:45 - 09:30 Arrival & Morning Coffee
09:30 - 10:30 "Python in Production" Panel Discussion by Simon Cross
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:45 How PyPy runs your program
by Maciej Fijalkowski
Community Security - ANPR (Automated Number Plate Recognition) on your Pi
by Bernhardt Garlipp
11:45 - 12:30 How I learnt to stop worrying and love Boost.Python
by Bruce Merry
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Property-based testing with Hypothesis
by Jeremy Thurgood
Supporting Python 3
by Neil Muller
14:15 - 15:00 The Road to Continuous Deployment
by Stefano Rivera
What's the point of Object Orientation?
by Iwan Vosloo
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea
15:30 - 15:45 Friday Lightning Talks by Simon Cross
15:45 - 16:45 Kivy Showcase: a short exploration of how Kivy is changing the world
by Richard Larkin
16:45 - 17:15 Closing by Simon Cross
Saturday (03 oct)
Time Jozihub A Jozihub B
09:00 - 23:59 SWC Day 1 Sprints
Sunday (04 oct)
Time Jozihub A Jozihub B
09:00 - 23:59 SWC Day 2 Sprints


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