Some Of Our Speakers
Wesley J. Chun is the author of the bestselling Core Python titles and the Python Fundamentals Live Lessons companion video. He is coauthor of Python Web Development with Django (withdjango.com), and has written for Linux Journal, CNET, and InformIT. Wesley is an architect and Developer Advocate at Google.
Jessica McKellar
Awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013
Raymond Hettinger
CPython contributor; instrumental in modules such as bisect, collections, decimal, functools, and itertools
Wesley Chun
Author of the bestselling Core Python titles and the Python Fundamentals Live Lessons companion video
Andrew is a Python programmer, Django core developer and Senior Engineer at Eventbrite. He's behind Django's migration and channels systems, and in his spare time enjoys mountains, archery, and cheese.
Simon Willison is an engineering director at Eventbrite, a Bay Area ticketing company working to bring the world together through live experiences. Simon works as part of a small product research and prototyping lab helping develop new concepts for Eventbrite products and features. Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010. He is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework.
Author of "Python in a Nutshell", PSF Fellow, frequent Python conference speaker, prolific StackOverflow contributor, and winner of the 2006 Frank Willison Memorial Award, Alex leads Google Cloud Platform's "1:many tech support". He's married to Anna Ravenscroft, co-author of the "Nutshell" 3rd edition, also a PSF Fellow, and winner of the Frank Willison Memorial Award in 2013.
Andrew Godwin
Django core developer behind the migration and channels systems
Simon Willison
Co-creator of the Django web framework
Alex Martelli
Author of "Python in a Nutshell" and Python Software Foundation Fellow
Armin Ronacher
Creator of Flask
Al Sweigart
Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python"
Wes McKinney
Creator of Python’s pandas library and the Ibis project
What Is PyBay?
If you are into Python, and want to demo your ideas / get the training and networking to advance your technical skills / career, you won't want to miss the opportunity to hang out with some of the world's most well known open-source contributors at PyBay.
Simon Willison, Andrew Godwin, Armin Ronacher, Wes McKinney, Alex Martelli, Wesley J Chun, and many other experts will be giving talks and they will be available at the conference's Hacker Lounges to answer your questions, maybe even sprint a little. The conference has a job fair and great food as well.
Dates: August 19-21, 2016 (Friday 5:30pm - Sunday 6:30pm)
Attendees expected: 400-500
Location: UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center
Format:
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Pre-conference workshops with Wesley Chun ("Core Python" book author) and Raymond Hettinger (CPython Core Committer)
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Keynotes from Jessica McKellar and Raymond Hettinger
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40 main talks covering Web, Data, Python Fundamentals, Internals and Performance
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Dedicated Hackers Lounges for all weekend-long sprinting and mingling with open source leaders and other devs
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Job Fair / Software Tools Expo on Sat night with reception
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Lightning talks and un-conference style Open Spaces talk slots (sign-up at conf)
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$20 access to world-class gym with outdoor rock-climbing wall, racquetball courts, swimming pool, yoga and more to keep you in top physical and mental shape
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Improv Session in open spaces on Sunday!
Cost:
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Individual: $350 Full Conf; $200 Sat Only; $175 Sun Only
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Corporate: $600 Full Conf; $300 Sat Only; $250 Sun Only
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Raymond Hettinger's workshop on Patterns for Improving Expressiveness and Eliminating Redundancy using Decorators, Descriptors, Context Managers, and Metaclasses: $225
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Wesley Chun's workshop on Network programming with Python: $150
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