Last week we announced the launch of our scholarship program for those seeking financial aid to attend PyBay 2016 from August 19-21 in San Francisco. Today, we are thrilled to share that another awesome company, Twist Bioscience, a biotech start-up, has come onboard to send two scholarship award recipients to PyBay! Twist Bioscience is a biotech start-up that synthesizes DNA on silicon to expedite the design, build, test cycle to enable personalized medicines, pharmaceuticals

The accepted talks list for PyBay has been posted for a while now but I wanted to talk a little bit about what I learned from the process. We received over 90 total talk submissions for PyBay and had the task of picking out 30 or so to go along with the keynote speakers we had already lined up. To be honest I initially thought this would be a simple process of ranking the talks in rough order and selecting the top third. While we had a committee of volunteers doubtless w

We are thrilled to announce that we are launching a Diversity Scholarship program for the upcoming first ever PyBay! We are especially proud that the program launches with Clover Health, a new health insurance company dedicated to using technology to change healthcare for the better, as its first sponsor. We both think it is important to build a tech community that embraces people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences. This scholarship is just one of many initiat