January 31, 2023

PyCascades 2023 - Speakers Announced

View this email in your browser

March 17th - 20th @ SFU Harbour Centre

Speakers Announced 🎙️

Out of the many wonderful submissions we received (over 120!!), we had the difficult task of choosing just 20 talks. We'd like to thank everyone who submitted a talk and we encourage you all to submit again next year!

We're happy to feature the following speakers:

• Anthony Harrison - SBOMs are coming. How will Python help?
• Asher Sterkin - Cloud Infrastructure From Python Code: How Far Could We Go?
• Brett Cannon - Python’s syntactic sugar
• Brian Okken - Sharing is Caring - Sharing pytest fixtures
• Cheuk Ting Ho - Untangle Python Spaghettis - Deep dive into environments and dependencies management
• Christopher Neugebauer - Practicality Beats Purity: The Zen of Python’s Escape Hatch?
• Colin Dietrich - Writing an I2C sensor driver
• Don Kirkby - Tightening your feedback loop with live coding
• Gajendra Deshpande - Security Best Practices for Django Applications
• Justin Castilla - What’s that smell? Detecting air quality with Python, Raspberry Pi, and Redis
• Max Kahan - Fear the mutants. Love the mutants
• Niharika Vadluri - Building Games on BBC micro: bit using Embedded Python
• Ria Bhatia - Demystifying SQLite with Python
• Richard Rowland - Why “Hello World” is a Massive Operation - From Python code to Stack Virtual Machine
• Robin Reynolds-Haertle - Using Lark to parse text
• Sarah Kaiser - Eternal sunshine of the spotless development environment
• Syed Ansab Waqar Gillani, Syed Muhammad Dawoud Sheraz Ali - Analysing the looping mechanisms with Python Lists
• Terri Oda - Vulnerability scanning for free (as in puppies)
• Zach Lipp - Implementing Distributed Tracing

Other Notes 📝

Grants Application Closing ⏲️

Our financial aid application closes next Monday, February 6th, 2023, AoE. Anyone hoping to attend the conference can apply, although grants awards are prioritized for speakers and sprint organizers. If you are interested in financial aid, please fill out this application: bit.ly/PyCascades2023FinancialAidForm

Become a Volunteer 🙌

Want to help make this conference amazing? We need volunteers! Volunteering will be done in shifts, so you’ll still get a chance to soak up talks, chat with other attendees, and drop by the evening social & Monday sprints. No prior experience is required! To sign up, use one of the following forms depending on how you're attending:

In-Person: bit.ly/PyCascades2023VolunteerFormInPerson
Remote: bit.ly/PyCascades2023VolunteerFormRemote

Lead a Sprint 👩‍💻

We'll be holding a full day of sprints on Monday, March 20th this year after the conference. Sprints are a way for project maintainers to connect with contributors to help tackle issues and develop together (see the projects from last year). Are you a maintainer of an open source project, or know someone who is? Please fill out our interest form or send us an email at sprints@pycascades.com, we'd love to have your project at PyCascades!

Tickets Available 🎟️

Ticket sales are open! Our ticket prices will be $75 for students, $125 for enthusiasts, and $250 for professional attendees in-person. Remote tickets will be $10 for students, $25 for enthusiasts, and $50 for professional attendees.

Since this is our first conference back in-person after several years, we've chosen a venue where we feel we can comfortably establish and enforce health & safety protocols for all our attendees. As such, we have a limited number of in-person tickets. Tickets might go quick, so mark your calendars! We will also offer a remote ticket option that does not have a cap in attendee count.

Get your tickets now!

Thanks to our sponsors for their support 💜