PyCon India, the premier conference in India on using and developing the Python programming language is conducted annually by the Python developer community. It attracts the best Python programmers from across the country and abroad.

Workshops

September 23, 2016 [Friday]

Conference

September 24-25, 2016 [Saturday-Sunday]


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Baishampayan Ghose

Baishampayan "BG" Ghose is CTO/Co-founder at Helpshift, Inc. BG is a career functional programmer with exposure to a wide variety of programming languages and paradigms. His areas of interests are Semantics of Programming Languages, Distributed Systems, Software Design and the intersection of Software, Culture and Society.

Andreas Mueller

Andreas is a Research Engineer at the NYU Center for Data Science, building open source software for data science. Previously he was a Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon, working on computer vision and forecasting problems. He is one of the core developers of the scikit-learn machine learning library, and he has been co-maintaining it for several years.

Van Lindberg

Van Lindberg is an engineer, IP and open source lawyer, and part-time natural language hacker. He is a director, general counsel, and past chair of the PSF, a director of the OpenStack Foundation, and Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Rackspace. Lindberg wrote the 'Intellectual Property and Open Source', and was named one of 'America's Top 12 Techiest Attorneys'.


SCHEDULE

Workshops are two and a half hour long hands-on sessions. Each workshop is limited to 25 participants and a
separate ticket is required to attend each workshop.

TIME AUDI 1 AUDI 2 LECTURE HALL 2
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
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Registration and Breakfast
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10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Demystifying the Django REST Framework: Web Development
By Haris Ibrahim K. V
Docker Workshop: Infrastructure
By Lalatendu Mohanty
Talking to Machines : Optimizing Neural Networks with Theano: Scientific Computing
By Kumar Krishna Agarwal
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Scaling Django with Kubernetes: Infrastructure
By Saket Bhushan
Productive Coding with PyCharm
By Paul Everitt
Building a Lie Detector: Multi-Modal Sentiment Analysis: Scientific Computing
By Mimansa Jaiswal and Sairam Tabibu

See what's going on in the Python world, meet your fellow Pythonistas, share your knowledge and experience,
make contacts, brainstorm projects, discuss prospects.

TIME AUDI 1 AUDI 2 LECTURE HALL 2
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Registration and Breakfast
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09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
Introduction and KG Award
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09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Keynote by Baishampayan Ghose
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10.15 AM - 10.45 AM
Tea Break
Tea Break
Tea Break
10.45 AM - 11.30 AM
Continuous Integration for Data Scientists
By Jaidev Deshpande
Flying A Drone
By Dinesh Kumar
Good Bye, Call Stack; Hello, Event Driven Architectures!!
By Anvith ShivaKumara
11.30 AM - 12.15 PM
Concurrency in modern Robots: Introducing the Robot Operating System.
By Shivam Vats
Building companion chatbot with Python
By Mimansa Jaiswal
11:30-11:50 Deploy Python Applications Anywhere. 11:55-12:15 Machine Learning with python (sponsored talk Microsoft)
12.15 PM - 1.00 PM
Big Data Analysis using PySpark
By Shagun Sodhani
Generators Inside Out
By Anand Chitipothu
(Sponsored Talk) Python @ Scale in GoIbibo
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Lightning Talks
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2.45 PM - 3.30 PM
Real time Sentiment Analysis with Apache Storm and Python
By Shaik Asifullah
Helix and Salt: Case study in high volume and distributed python applications
By Akhil Malik
Sponsored Talk JetBrains: Polyglot Python with PyCharm
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Tea Break
Tea Break
Tea Break
4.00 PM - 4.45 PM
Hacking the Python AST
By Suhas SG
Testing native binaries using cffi and py.test
By Noufal Ibrahim
The trends in choosing licenses in Python ecosystem
By Anwesha Sarkar
4.45 PM - 5.30 PM
Keynote by Van L
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See what's going on in the Python world, meet your fellow Pythonistas, share your knowledge and experience,
make contacts, brainstorm projects, discuss prospects.

TIME AUDI 1 AUDI 2 LECTURE HALL 2
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
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Registration and Breakfast
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9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Keynote by Andreas Muller
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10.15 AM - 10.45 AM
Tea Break
Tea Break
Tea Break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Algorithmic Music Generation
By Padmaja Bhagwat
CentOS Community Container Pipeline
By Bamacharan Kundu
Realtime microservices with server side Flux
By Ratnadeep Debnath
11.30 AM - 12.15 PM
Don't write tests, generate them!
By Puneeth Chaganti
Creating a recommendation engine based on NLP and contextual word embeddings
By Manas Ranjan Kar
11:30-11:50 Add Intelligence to your Python Apps 11:55-12:15 Put swag in your API (sponsored talk Microsoft)
12.15 PM - 1.00 PM
Financial Modelling and Simulation with Python: using Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib and Pandas
By Saurabh Jaiswal
Load testing using Locust.io
By Vinay Babu
Python in the Red Hat Family (sponsored talk RedHat)
1.00 PM - 2.00 PM
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
2.00 PM - 2.45 PM
Lightning Talks
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2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Building an automatic keyphrase extraction system using NLTK in Python
By Prastut Kumar
Building a secure IoT platform using Paho and Flask
By Jaimon Jose
Sponsored Talk Digital Ocean: Python On the Cloud
3.30 PM - 4.00 PM
Tea Break
Tea Break
Tea Break
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Python Byte Code hacks
By Vijay Kumar
MicroPython - Porting python to microcontrollers
By Aswin Venu
Deploying your python backend with (almost) zero cost
By Srinivasan R
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Feedback and Vote of thanks
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*Note: These schedules are tentative and are subjected to change as per speakers availability and/or other reasons.



VENUE

Convention Centre

Jawahar Lal Nehru University,
New Mehrauli Road, Near Munirka,
New Delhi - 110067


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