Schedule

Wednesday (10 oct)
Time	Cedarwood	Yellowwood
08:30 - 09:00	Welcome and Coffee
09:00 - 10:30	Introduction to Python for Data Science, Part 1 by Andrew Collier	Hello Types by Sheena O'Connell
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:00
13:00 - 13:30	Tutorial Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00	Introduction to Python for Data Science, Part 2 by Andrew Collier	Building Web Mapping Applications using GeoDjango and other FOSS GIS by Christian Christelis
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 17:30

Thursday (11 oct)
Time	Baobab	Cedarwood	Yellowwood	Open Spaces (Foyer)	Cypress
08:00 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:15	Opening Ceremony
09:15 - 10:15	Distributed microservices in the real world by Imraan Parker
10:15 - 11:15	Python as a tool for e-health systems by Diana Pholo	Playing with Python's internals by Alex Hall	Elementary, my dear Python by Erin Versfeld	Unavailable	Unavailable
11:15 - 11:35	Morning coffee / tea break
11:35 - 12:20	Reproducible Data Science with Docker by Richard Ackon	The Developer's Guide to Data Science by Helge Reikeras	Bring Django Girls Workshop to Mozambique. by Cecilia Tivir & Carina Matimbe	Open Space Placeholer	Microsoft Azure Cloud: Bring your Project
12:20 - 13:05	From Idea to Product: Customer Profiling in Apache Zeppelin with PySpark by Sarah Sprich	An introduction to concurrent programming with asyncio by Bruce Merry	A Brief Introduction to PyGame Zero by Neil Muller
13:05 - 13:55	Lunch
13:55 - 14:40	Jupyter Notebooks for Data Science by Ari Ramkilowan	Deploying and Managing Python with Kubernetes by Joannah Nanjekye	Testing in the wild by Heather Williams	Creative ideas specific to Python by Alex Hall	Unavailable
14:40 - 15:25	Teach kids (7-17) to code with python & CoderDojo by David Campey	How to deploy your Python Web App on Google Cloud Platform by James Mwai	Test your Docker images with Python by Jamie Hewland
15:25 - 15:45	Afternoon Coffee and Tea Break
15:45 - 16:15	Thursday Lightning Talks by Adrianna Pińska
16:15 - 17:00	Python on Azure by Toros Gökkurt

Friday (12 oct)
Time	Baobab	Cedarwood	Yellowwood	Open Spaces (Foyer)	Cypress
08:30 - 09:15	Friday Morning Coffee
09:15 - 10:00	So What's the Story? by Kerryn Gammie	Batteries Included by Jonatas Baldin	Python Community Development in East Africa by Linus Wamanya, et al.	Open Space Placeholer	Python for Everyone!
10:00 - 10:45	Dimensionality reduction - squeezing out the good stuff with PCA by Aabir Abubaker Kar	(Re)solving an appliance traffic dilemma with the DNS loophole by Marco Slaviero	From Zero to kind of a hero: Getting your Python side project ready for deployment by Sewagodimo Matlapeng
10:45 - 11:15	Morning Coffee and Tea Break
11:15 - 12:00	Guide to choose right deep Learning framework for your AI project by Rishikesh	Developing good ORMs is HARD! by Nickolas Grigoriadis	Two approaches to python web services by Matthew French & Kenneth Goldswain	Building Python communities in Africa by Linus Wamanya, et al.	Python for Everyone!
12:00 - 12:45	Bayesian Analysis in Python: A Starter Kit by Andrew Collier	Sanic: Async Python (uvloop) with a familiar flask like feel. by Christo Goosen	Building Rest API with Django Rest Framework by Jose Machava
12:45 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:25	My Journey into Artificial Intelligence by Blessing Malumi	Fast random number generation in Python and NumPy by Bernardt Duvenhage	Python as a tool to boost productivity in (electronic) product and system development. by Johan Hartman	Teaching coding to children (with python) by David Campey	Python for Everyone!
14:25 - 15:10	Insight into Customer Segmentation by Cornelia van der Walt	Parallel Programming with (Py)OpenCL for Fun and Profit by Gordon Inggs	Custom metadata plugins for Calibre: cataloguing an old paper library by Adrianna Pińska
15:10 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee and Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00	Friday Lightning Talks by Adam Piskorski
16:00 - 17:00	Machine Learning in Real Life by Jade Abbott
17:00 - 17:10	Closing Ceremony

Saturday (13 oct)
Time	Brave Digital Offices
09:00 - 18:00	Sprints

Sunday (14 oct)
Time	Brave Digital Offices
09:00 - 18:00	Sprints

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