Talk Schedule

Friday, October 6

1. 8:00am

   Breakfast

   SkyTop
2. 9:00am

   Opening Remarks

   PennTop South
3. 9:10am

   Building a rigorous, inclusive, and sustainable CSforAll movement in NYC and beyond

   PennTop South Michael Preston
4. 10:00am

   Break

   SkyTop
5. 10:15am

   The Evolution of API Design: from RPC to GraphQL

   PennTop South Eric Baer

   Creating a Bittorrent Client using Asyncio

   PennTop North Ahmed Abdalla

   Confessions of a Python packaging noob

   Madison Steven Saporta
6. 10:45am

   From Monolithic to Serverless with AWS Step Functions

   PennTop South Scott Triglia

   Context propagation for Python concurrency models

   PennTop North Emanuele Palazzetti

   Managing Complexity: Config As Code, Custom Ansible Modules, and You

   Madison Zach Marine
7. 11:15am

   High Performance Microservices

   PennTop South Peter Sperl

   Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Web Authentication in Python

   PennTop North Randall Degges

   Create Single Python Executables for Easy Deployment

   Madison Angela Fox
8. 12:00pm

   Lunch

   SkyTop
9. 1:00pm

   Psychology of Estimation: Faster is not always better

   PennTop South Amin Yazdani

   Spark Streaming for World Domination (and other projects)

   PennTop North Win Suen

   Algorithmic fairness and algorithmic discrimination

   Madison Manojit Nandi
10. 1:30pm

    Scaling Sparta: Military Lessons for Growing A Dev Team

    PennTop South Emily Freeman

    Tracing the flow of knowledge using Pyspark

    PennTop North Jessica Cox, Corey Harper

    An Introduction to the Raft Distributed Consensus Algorithm

    Madison Laura Hampton
11. 2:00pm

    Code Review, Forwards and Back

    PennTop South Sumana Harihareswara, Jason Owen

    Try-Monads With Big Data Using PySpark

    PennTop North Jordan Yaker

    Indexing all the things: Building your search engine in Python

    Madison Joe Cabrera
12. 2:25pm

    Break

    SkyTop
13. 2:40pm

    Nim: A New Option for Optimizing Inner Loops

    PennTop South Z. D. Smith

    Keep On Mockin' In The Real World

    PennTop North Andrew Burrows

    Loop better: a deeper look at iteration in Python

    Madison Trey Hunner
14. 3:10pm

    A Python and a Gopher walk into a bar - Embedding Python in Go

    PennTop South Massimiliano Pippi

    Next Level Testing Revisited

    PennTop North James Saryerwinnie

    Avant-Garde Regular Expressions

    Madison James Cropcho
15. 3:40pm

    The Fastest FizzBuzz in the West: How to Make Your Own Programming Language

    PennTop South Dustin Ingram

    Automated testing with pytest and fixtures

    PennTop North Steven Saporta

    Functions Within Functions: An Intro to Decorators and Closures

    Madison Eric Fulmer
16. 4:05pm

    Break

    SkyTop
17. 4:25pm

    Intellectual Property for Engineers

    PennTop South Noah Kantrowitz

    Dask for task scheduling

    PennTop North Matthew Rocklin

    Build your own "Not Hotdog" deep learning model

    Madison Brendan Sudol
18. 4:55pm

    Monkey Patching My Life: Being a Trans Python Developer

    PennTop South Piper Thunstrom

    PySHED: a Python framework for Streaming Heterogeneous Event Data

    PennTop North Christopher J. Wright

    bqplot - Seamless Interactive Visualizations in the Jupyter Notebook

    Madison Dhruv Madeka
19. 5:20pm

    Break

    SkyTop
20. 5:30pm

    The Ministry of Silly Talks

    PennTop South

Saturday, October 7

1. 8:00am

   Breakfast

   SkyTop
2. 9:10am

   The Other Async

   PennTop South David Beazley
3. 10:00am

   Break

   SkyTop
4. 10:15am

   Valuing Job Offers - Finance 101 with Python

   PennTop South Aaron Hall, MBA

   Building a “Pun Generator” in Python

   PennTop North Max Schwartz

   Shipping secret messages through barcodes

   Madison Karina Ruzinov
5. 10:45am

   How to Identify, Train and Grow Junior Developers

   PennTop South John Healy

   Darth Linguo, building an ungrammatical corpus by corruption

   PennTop North Pablo González Martínez

   Fixing web data in production: best practices for bad situations

   Madison Aaron Knight
6. 11:15am

   Fixing the Tech Interview

   PennTop South James Bennett, Nicole Zuckerman

   Natural Language Processing from Scratch

   PennTop North Bruno Gonçalves, Noemi Derzsy

   Threat Modeling Python Web Apps written with Flask and Django

   Madison Jared Smith
7. 12:00pm

   Lunch

   SkyTop
8. 1:00pm

   import madness # how to implement mergesort from scratch using only import statements

   PennTop South George London

   Music Synthesis in Python

   PennTop North Dror Ayalon

   There's a sign for that!

   Madison Heather Shapiro
9. 1:30pm

   The 8 things that happen at the "." between an object and the attribute

   PennTop South Andy Fundinger

   Automated Video Editing with Stitcher

   PennTop North Peter Karp

   Those Who Care, Teach!

   Madison Kenneth Love
10. 2:00pm

    Start Being Static with MyPy

    PennTop South Mark Koh

    Machine Music: Exploring Machine Learning By Generating Music Or How To Teach A Computer To Rock Out

    PennTop North Gabe Levine, Jonathan Arfa

    Why you (!) should teach kids how to code

    Madison Tobias "Tobi" Schraink
11. 2:25pm

    Break

    SkyTop
12. 2:40pm

    Running Vintage Software: PyPI's Aging Codebase.

    PennTop South Ernest W. Durbin III

    Finding the narrative in networks with python

    PennTop North Leah Guthrie

    Fighting Human Trafficking with Code

    Madison Alexandra Wilde
13. 3:10pm

    Python for Education: Emulating x86 Assembler on the Web

    PennTop South Gene Callahan

    When to avoid the subway: using python to make your commute slightly less terrible

    PennTop North Josh Laurito

    Solving a crossword puzzle the hard way

    Madison Alec Barrett
14. 3:40pm

    A Plug for Plugins

    PennTop South Mahmoud Hashemi

    Edward - Probabilistic Modeling Made Easy

    PennTop North Maja Rudolph

    Make mind-bending, interactive 3D projects with TouchDesigner and Python

    Madison Suby Raman
15. 4:05pm

    Break

    SkyTop
16. 4:15pm

    Halfway Between Heaven and Hell: securing grassroots groups

    PennTop South Leigh Honeywell
17. 5:00pm

    Closing Remarks

    PennTop South