Our program: now available for you to read
Hello pyfriends!
We’re extremely excited to share with you the full list of talks for this year’s North Bay Python, which is happening April 25th-26th, in a barn on a ranch in the glorious lower Petaluma Valley, California (buy a ticket).
North Bay Python is an event for humans at the center of software development, and our program truly reflects that. As a tech conference, we have some tech talks: learn about niche features of Python, new developments in multi-language architecture, and even learn how to philosophize about errors.
But we’re not just a tech conference: we want to help our community understand the world that our work helps shape: this year we have a talk on using Python to improve reliability in MedTech; tools and techniques to protect our communities in times of crisis; case studies of scaling projects; talks about finding joy in our free time or retirement; even a history of square dancing (?)!
And finally, we’re skipping a focus on ever-shifting trends in AI (other conferences do that better than us) and instead focusing on the human impact of our industry’s turn towards AI: how software development is changing (or not), how we as an industry cope with large scale changes, and how open development can provide alternatives.
There’ll also be at least 2 stunt talks. It wouldn’t be North Bay Python otherwise.
Read the titles of our confirmed talks below, or read the abstracts on our website. Once you've done that, consider buying a ticket so that you don't miss out on seeing these in person!
—Chris and the North Bay Python team
The full list of talks:
- The Ironies of Automation in the "Age of AI" by amanda casari
- Running Resistance Tech on a Shoestring by Philip James
- Designing Python APIs for Data You Don’t Control by Saurav Jain
- Python as Orchestrator: When to Glue, When to Compute by Freya Bhushan Mehta
- While I've changed gears every 4-5 years, in retirement, I've managed to find my web development tribe by Bob Monsour
- An Economy of Empathy by Mario Munoz
- "What is Correct?" and is that even the right question any more? by Christopher Neugebauer
- Anonymous Functions (and Other Ways to Annoy Your Coworkers) by Joe Kaufeld
- Network Mythbusting by Joelle Maslak
- No Project Scope Survives Contact with Users by Min Ragan-Kelley
- State of Exception(s) by Benno Rice
- Works on My Robot: Bridging the MedTech Reality Gap by Lilinoe Harbottle
- Bumbling into BeeWare: From typo-fix to core developer by Kattni
- Modern Western Square Dancing: dancing for math nerds by Dan Lyke
- The Python Community Needs More Cats by Deb Nicholson
- Python Playtesting: Crafting the Perfect Board Game by Alla Barbalat
- Crisis (Technical) Communication: Teaching Survival Skills You Didn’t Know You Had by Margaret Fero
- Cursed Comedy by Jamie Bliss and Piper Thunstrom
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