About
PyCon India is the largest gathering of Pythonistas in India
for the Python programming language. The 12th edition of PyCon
India will be taking place online from 2nd October to 5th October 2020.
With this unique scenario at hand, we plan to make this year's
conference bigger, better, and more accessible to Pythonistas all
across the world who can watch, participate and share their views
right from the comfort of their homes.
Keynote Speakers
Alolita Sharma
Amazon Web Services
Unicode Consortium
Unicode Consortium
James Powell
Don't Use This Code
NumFOCUS/PyData
NumFOCUS/PyData
Naomi Ceder
Trans*Code
Python Software Foundation
Python Software Foundation
S Anand
Gramener
Terri Oda
Intel
Python Software Foundation
Python Software Foundation
Victor Stinner
Red Hat
CPython Core Developer
CPython Core Developer
Schedule
All the times mentioned in the schedule are in Indian Standard Time (IST) timezone.
Keynote
S Anand
12:15
Stop Writing Tests!
Zac Hatfield-Dodds | Room: Bengaluru
13:20
Serverless Computing with Python
Wesley Chun | Room: Chennai
13:20
Python & Programmable Logic Controllers - A Step by Step Guide
Jonas Neubert | Room: Hyderabad
13:20
Understand Heap Memory layout with pwndbg
Rohit Keshri | Room: Delhi
13:20
Under and Dunder - Python secret functions
Cheuk Ting Ho | Room: Bengaluru
13:55
How to build a production-ready distributed task queue management system with celery
Vishrut Kohli | Room: Chennai
13:55
Discrete Probability Distributions - Learning & Testing using tools from Fourier Analysis
Bala Priya C | Room: Hyderabad
13:55
Serverless Machine Learning 101
Tania Allard | Sponsored (Microsoft) | Room: Delhi
13:55
14:30
Publishing well-formed Python packages
Julin S | Room: Bengaluru
15:20
Predicting the Traffic Jam - Congestion-Aware Routing
Niharika Shrivastava | Room: Chennai
15:20
Programming for Accessibility
Rory Preddy | Room: Hyderabad
15:20
A deep dive and comparison of Python drivers for Cassandra and Scylla
Alexys Jacob | Room: Delhi
15:20
15:55
Keynote
Victor Stinner
16:30
17:30
Towards a more transparent AI - Decrypting ML models using LIME
Laisha Wadhwa | Room: Bengaluru
17:50
Let's build a no-code tool for small businesses to reduce churn
Padmaja Bhagwat, Bargava Subramanian | Room: Chennai
17:50
Write Prose, not just Programs
Puneeth Chaganti | Room: Hyderabad
17:50
Array Time Travel with Versioned HDF5
Arvid Bessen | Sponsored (D. E. Shaw) | Room: Delhi
17:50
A thousand Djangoes within (or Django multi-tenant)
Lorenzo Peña | Room: Bengaluru
18:25
Taking a peek under the hood - Interpreting black box models
Jennifer Nguyen | Room: Chennai
18:25
How Decorators Function
Andrew Knight | Room: Hyderabad
18:25
ApiVer – a versioning policy for libraries
Paweł Polewicz | Room: Delhi
18:25
Keynote
Naomi Ceder
19:00
20:10
Keynote
Alolita Sharma
12:15
Revolutionize the Web with Python - Brython
Antriksh Verma | Room: Bengaluru
13:20
How I built a Ray Tracer in Pure Python
Arun Ravindran | Room: Chennai
13:20
How to make continuous integration work with machine learning
Elle O'Brien | Room: Hyderabad
13:20
Pythonic Interfaces - The secret to building maintainable, quality code!
Praveen Shirali | Room: Delhi
13:20
So, You Want to Build an Anti-Virus Engine?
JunWei Song,
YuShiang Dang | Room: Bengaluru
YuShiang Dang | Room: Bengaluru
13:55
Time Series Forecasting on CoronaVirus Dataset
Sonam pankaj | Room: Chennai
13:55
Python Emergency Remote Teaching
Fernando Masanori Ashikaga | Room: Hyderabad
13:55
Productionizing Data Science Workloads
Anand Iragavarapu | Sponsored (EPAM) | Room: Delhi
13:55
Fun with Melding Java and Python
Stephen Payne | Sponsored (D. E. Shaw) | Room: Delhi
14:10
14:30
Build plugins using Pluggy
Kracekumar Ramaraju | Room: Bengaluru
15:20
Building an Home Automation system using PyQt, MQTT and Arduino
Harsh Mittal | Room: Chennai
15:20
Developing a Single-Sign-On Service using Django
Vibhu Agarwal | Room: Hyderabad
15:20
Static Typing in Python
Sanchit Balchandani | Room: Delhi
15:20
15:55
Keynote
James Powell
16:30
17:30
Python and cffi - Visualizing Network Traces
Abhijit Gadgil | Room: Bengaluru
17:50
Resource Utilization as a Metric for Machine Learning
Akshay Bahadur | Room: Chennai
17:50
Logging the right way!
Devi A S L | Room: Hyderabad
17:50
To Identity and Beyond
Ben Dechrai | Sponsored (Auth0) | Room: Delhi
17:50
Narrative-focused video games development with Ren'Py, an open source engine
Susan Shu Chang | Room: Bengaluru
18:25
Awesome Commandline Tools
Amjith Ramanujam | Room: Chennai
18:25
Reproducible Scalable Workflows with Nix, Papermill and Renku
Rohit Goswami | Room: Delhi
18:25
Combining NLP with Structured Data to map Clinical Entities to the relevant Section Headers in a Clinical Document
Sagar Dawda | Room: Hyderabad
18:25
Keynote
Terri Oda
19:00
Getting Started with Python
Evan Smith | Room: 1
11:30
Python for Computational Social Science with Text, Networks and clever data games
Bhargav Srinivasa | Room: 2
11:30
Meme Saheb - Using Dank Learning to Generate Original Meme Captions
Rumanu Bhardwaj | Room: 3
11:30
Hands On: Containerizing Python and Deploying to IoT and Edge Devices
David T, Vipul G | Room: 4
11:30
14:00
Python on Kubernetes: A primer
Nabarun Pal | Room: 1
15:00
Animating Data in PowerPoint
Anand S | Room: 2
15:00
Concurrency Patterns with Python
Anmol Jindal | Room: 3
15:00
Tickets
Conference
Early Bird Ticket
Sale ends by 22 August, 2020 11:59 PM (Asia/Kolkata) OR completion of 300 tickets
₹ 149
GST Applicable
Regular Ticket
Sale ends by 15 September, 2020 11:59 PM (Asia/Kolkata) OR completion of 2000 tickets
₹ 199
GST Applicable
Late Bird Ticket
Sale ends by 30 September, 2020 10:00 PM (Asia/Kolkata)
₹ 499
GST Applicable
Contributor Ticket
Sale ends by 01 October, 2020 10:00 PM (Asia/Kolkata)
₹ 1499+
GST Applicable
Workshops
Workshop Ticket
Sale ends by 03 October, 2020 12:00 PM (Asia/Kolkata) OR completetion of 200 tickets
₹ 399
GST Applicable
Devsprint
Devsprints Ticket
Sale ends by 03 October, 2020 12:00 PM (Asia/Kolkata) OR completetion of 200 tickets
Free
For all Transfer requests and Ticket queries, write to tickets@in.pycon.org. Transfer Window will be open till 30th September 2020. Read more about the policies here.
Sponsors
PyCon India is a volunteer-driven event.
Sponsoring the event helps bring the volunteers effort to fruition,
sustain, and improve the conference and grow the community.
Sponsors help us make the conference affordable,
bring more facilities to our attendees,
and maintain the inventory for the conference.
Platinum
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Microsoft is the leading platform and company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Microsoft has worked with Python communities to create tools and services which provide ease of development. This year at PyCon India, Microsoft is super excited to introduce two tracks at the Microsoft Learning Hub – Skilling and Community. The Skilling room is where you can skill-up your Cloud, Python, AI and Machine Learning knowledge. The Community room is the place to hear from the Community Leaders on both tech and non-tech topics.
Join us at the Microsoft Learning Hub at PyCon India 2020 to learn more about Microsoft Azure.
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Established in 1996 as a technological development center, D. E. Shaw India has become an integral part of the D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm. Since its inception, D. E. Shaw India has expanded its business into a broad range of software and financial activities.
Technology is at the core of our business. Our talented and innovative engineers engage in informed problem-solving to process large data sets into useful analytics and forecasts using a combination of technology and deep domain knowledge.
At D. E. Shaw India, our goal is to cultivate an environment of continuous learning and development that enables exceptional people to do their best work.
Gold
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Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has leveraged its software engineering expertise to become a leading global product development, digital platform engineering, and top digital and product design agency. Through its ‘Engineering DNA’ and innovative strategy, consulting, and design capabilities, EPAM works in collaboration with its customers to deliver next-gen solutions that turn complex business challenges into real business outcomes. EPAM’s global teams serve customers in more than 30 countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. As a recognized market leader in multiple categories among top global independent research agencies, EPAM was one of only four technology companies to appear on Forbes 25 Fastest Growing Public Tech Companies list every year of publication since 2013 and was the only IT services company featured on Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list of 2019.
Interested to explore Opportunities at EPAM, please fill out this form or scan below QR code.
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Auth0 provides a platform to authenticate, authorize, and secure access for applications, devices, and users. Safeguarding more than 4.5 billion login transactions each month, Auth0 secures identities so innovators can innovate, and empowers global enterprises to deliver trusted, superior digital experiences to their customers around the world.
Silver
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DeepSource continuously analyzes source code changes to find and fix issues categorized as security, performance, anti-patterns and bug-risks. It integrates with GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket and runs analysis on every commit and pull request, discovers and fixes potential issues before they make it to production. With support for Python, Go, Ruby and JavaScript and guaranteed less than 5% false positives in results, DeepSource is trusted by open-source teams at NASA, Slack, Intel, DGraph among many others to ship good code. Free to use for open-source projects and small teams.
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Toyota Connected is enabling improved safety and convenience with a cloud-based digital connected mobility intelligence platform. We are leveraging vehicle data and artificial intelligence to change the way people interact with vehicles. We are a team of data scientists, engineers, and designers who share the vision of transforming Toyota from an automotive giant to a mobility company with cutting-edge technology. We work on improving people’s lives. This requires an insatiable curiosity about people. It also needs an amalgamation of passion, creativity, and innovation. We provide an inspiring environment for our teams to grow and be able to create smooth experiences for people. Millions of people around the world drive a Toyota or a Lexus. Our mission is to ensure that their drives are safer and more connected.
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Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
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GitHub is a development platform inspired by the way you work. From open source to business, you can host and review code, manage projects, and build software alongside 50 million developers.
Automate from code to cloud using GitHub Actions, host your container images using GitHub Container Registry and bring GitHub collaboration tools to your small screens with a fully-native mobile and tablet experience with GitHub for mobile.
GitHub is home to the world’s largest community of developers and their projects - whether you’re making your first commit or sending a Rover to Mars, there’s room for you here, too.
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Sponsoring PyCon India is a proud moment for us since the conference was pivotal in bringing the Essentia Team together.
To say the least, our founders met at PyCon India 2012, and the community helped us get discovered by prospective clients with a word-of-mouth marketing.
We also have to mention that we have had the chance to hire and mentor some of the most amazing talents from the PyCon community.
This sponsorship is a small token of showing gratitude and support for nurturing and helping a start-up thrive.
Thank you PyCon India.
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JetBrains is a global software vendor that creates professional software development tools and advanced collaboration solutions trusted by 8 million users.
Since 2000, JetBrains has built a catalog of 28 products, including IntelliJ IDEA, ReSharper, PhpStorm, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, YouTrack, Kotlin, and Space, a new integrated team environment.
Startup
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Pipal Academy is a collective of experienced technologists, who care deeply about the art of software development. We offer in-depth courses on niche technical topics.
We regularly conduct public workshops and also offer on site corporate trainings. Our courses are targeted at professional software developers and we make sure they are hands-on and interactive. Very often the participants finish our courses with a lot of excitement and joy of learning.
Community Partners
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AFROST ( Association for Promotion of Free and Open-Source Technologies)
was born with a vision to support and sustain the Free and Open Source
Software communities and their culture.
We are a group of technology enthusiasts who have benefited and grown as
leaders by living and learning in FOSS communities. AFROST strives to give
back by helping to sustain and support in growing these communities.