Talk Schedule

Friday, October 5

1. 8:00am

   Breakfast

   Skytop
2. 9:00am

   Opening Remarks

   PennTop South
3. 9:15am

   Software Freedom And Ethical Technology

   PennTop South Karen M. Sandler
4. 10:00am

   Break

   Skytop
5. 10:15am

   A Junior Developer's Guide to Software Engineering

   PennTop South Kojo Idrissa

   Keep it secret, keep it safe! Preserving anonymity by subverting stylometry

   PennTop North Robin Camille Davis

   Making Sense of Flask APIs A Billion Requests at a Time

   Madison Evan Morikawa
6. 10:45am

   Everyday security issues and how to avoid them

   PennTop South Christian Heimes

   MFA the Right Way: One-Time Passwords with PyOTP

   PennTop North Collin Stedman

   A Crash Course on Serverless Applications in Python

   Madison James Saryerwinnie
7. 11:15am

   Python Oddities Explained

   PennTop South Trey Hunner

   Practical Cryptography

   PennTop North Kelley Robinson

   I've Been Awaiting for an URL Like You

   Madison Brian Muller
8. 12:00pm

   Lunch

   Skytop
9. 1:00pm

   Tracking the International Space Station in Django with Redis-Queue and RQ Scheduler

   PennTop South Sam Agnew

   Critical Incidents: a guide for developers

   PennTop North Lais Varejão

   Clean architecture in Python

   Madison Sebastian Buczyński
10. 1:30pm

    Best Intentions, Least Measured

    PennTop South Nicole Zuckerman

    Choose Your Own Adventure for Client Web Services with GraphQL

    PennTop North David Anderson

    A deep dive into Python stack frames

    Madison Nikhil Marathe
11. 2:00pm

    Pushing the Bounds with Descriptors

    PennTop South Owein Reese

    Great Engineering in the Worst Work Environment

    PennTop North Eyal Yavor

    Gathering Related Functionality: Patterns for Clean API Design

    Madison Paul Ganssle
12. 2:25pm

    Break

    Skytop
13. 2:45pm

    Gradient Descent, Demystified

    PennTop South Michael (Stu) Stewart

    Egad! How Do We Start Writing (Better) Tests?

    PennTop North Andrew Knight

    How to Trick SQL into Doing All the Work for You

    Madison Molly Leen
14. 3:15pm

    A worked example of using statistical and machine learning models to time series prediction

    PennTop South Rebeca Sarai

    Automating Code Quality: Next Level

    PennTop North Kyle Knapp

    Database Testing with pytest

    Madison Dan Clark
15. 3:45pm

    How Etsy Handles “Peeking” in A/B Testing

    PennTop South Kelly Shen

    Pluggable Libs Through Design Patterns

    PennTop North Filipe Ximenes

    1 + 1 = 1 or Record Deduplication with Python

    Madison Flávio Juvenal
16. 4:10pm

    Break

    Skytop
17. 4:25pm

    Interpretable Machine Learning: Methods for understanding complex models

    PennTop South Manojit Nandi

    Creative Music Applications in Python

    PennTop North Dror Ayalon

    Start ‘em young: Tips for teaching Python to kids

    Madison Gabrielle Rabinowitz
18. 4:55pm

    How to get started with Text Analysis in Python (and analyzing Donald Trump's tweets).

    PennTop South Dave Klee

    Using Python, Travis CI, and GitHub to Effectively Teach Programming

    PennTop North Gregory M. Kapfhammer

    Diversity and Inclusion for all!

    Madison Michelle Chen
19. 5:20pm

    Break

    Skytop
20. 5:30pm

    The Ministry of Silly Talks

    PennTop South

Saturday, October 6

1. 8:00am

   Breakfast

   Skytop
2. 9:15am

   The Automatic Computer and You: A Meditation Upon The History And Future Of Software Development

   PennTop South Glyph
3. 10:00am

   Break

   Skytop
4. 10:15am

   Vodka powered by Whiskeyberry PI

   PennTop South Maciej Polańczyk, Michał Gałka

   Seventeen Million Lines of Python Later: Launching a Startup in an Investment Bank

   PennTop North Garrett Walker

   How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love atomic(): Banking Blunders and Concurrency Challenges

   Madison Nick Sweeting
5. 10:45am

   The stories of the most infamous bugs

   PennTop South Ian Zelikman

   Beating Mastermind: Winning Games, Translating Math to Code, and Learning from Donald Knuth

   PennTop North Adam Forsyth

   Not so fast: Understanding Latency in Asyncio-powered Systems

   Madison Mark Vismonte
6. 11:15am

   Python Grab Bag: A Set of Short Plays

   PennTop South Jason Owen, Sumana Harihareswara

   From Coroutines to Concurrency

   PennTop North Vishal Prasad

   Computer Modeling in the Social Science of Disasters

   Madison Eileen Young
7. 12:00pm

   Lunch

   Skytop
8. 1:00pm

   We Are 3000 Years Behind: Let's Talk About Engineering Ethics

   PennTop South Hayley Denbraver

   Creating a DVR with Python

   PennTop North Michael V. Battista

   The Sum of Nothing

   Madison Christine Zhang
9. 1:30pm

   Dataclasses are here. Now what?

   PennTop South Scott Irwin

   Coding by Voice with Dragonfly

   PennTop North Boudewijn Aasman

   Large Scale Graph Mining with Spark: What I learned from mapping >15 million websites

   Madison Win Suen
10. 2:00pm

    What if Jane Austen had been an engineer?

    PennTop South Lacey Williams Henschel

    Building a Read Aloud eBook in Python

    PennTop North Max Schwartz

    Serverless machine learning in production: manage models, not servers

    Madison William Cox
11. 2:25pm

    Break

    Skytop
12. 2:40pm

    Customizing Sphinx: Simple, Normal, and Hard

    PennTop South Paul Everitt

    Understanding The Black Magic of Python Wheels

    PennTop North Elana Hashman

    Write a Git Client from Scratch

    Madison James Powell
13. 3:10pm

    A Practical Guide to Adopting Python Types

    PennTop South Roy Williams

    Scale Independent Python: How to scale your Python application without any code changes

    PennTop North Sean T Allen

    Open Source Policy Making - Challenges and Opportunities

    Madison Anderson Frailey
14. 3:40pm

    Inside the Cheeseshop: How Python Packaging Works

    PennTop South Dustin Ingram

    Memory Management in Python

    PennTop North Theresa Lee

    How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human

    Madison Michael Lynch
15. 4:05pm

    Break

    Skytop
16. 4:15pm

    Where to begin? How to End? The mental meanderings of a lifelong geek

    PennTop South Gloria W.
17. 5:00pm

    Closing Remarks

    PennTop South