That time is upon us again, folks. PyCon India is back, it's online and the call for proposals has officially opened!

We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor Grofers!

Grofers is India's largest low price online supermarket in the grocery space.

We use our in-house technology platform to manage a network of over 5,000 partner stores that enable us to run a fast and lean supply chain - from manufacturers straight to customers in 16 cities. We utilize our efficient supply chain to deliver over 25 million products to customers every month. A majority of these products belong to our 8 in house brands.

At Grofers, we obsess over technology that creates value for our customers. Our tech team works with every part of Grofers to design, build, operate, and ship innovative solutions in a fast, iterative way. Tech at Grofers is where creative and customer-obsessed engineers collaborate to do great work.

Learn about the tech it takes to be India's largest online grocery company at lambda.grofers.com - our engineering blog. We are powered by the open-source movement and actively host our experiments at github.com/grofers

Check out the open positions: http://grofers.careers/tech

We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor Instazen!

Instazen is building a next generation SaaS product to power small and medium enterprises.

Founded last year and based in Pune, the company has a young and energetic team busy working on hard, real world problems and building innovative solutions. They are a technology driven company with focus on solving complex data intense problems and have chosen Python and Javascript as their primary stack with ML and Data Science. They are looking for hardcore programmers, data scientists and product hats for their fast growing team.

Website Link: http://instazen.com

We are happy to introduce our Gold sponsor Merit!

Merit is a tight-knit team of tech lovers and problem solvers who thrive on getting a job done well, on time and on budget.

Our combination of exceptional talent, flexible resources and cost-effective delivery sees us power some of the world's most trusted B2B data products.

We buck the trend of off-shore companies by guaranteeing clear communications channels, ex-pat management teams and dedicated account managers based in the UK.

We are also entirely flexible with our resources - able to quickly scale teams up and down in response to our client's needs, as well as always providing 'shadow' teams

The fact our prices tend to be half the cost of UK rates, serves our clients pretty well too!

Website Link: https://www.meritgroup.co.uk

We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor Zilogic Systems!

Zilogic Systems is a product-realization company specializing in embedded technologies. We cater to Embedded platforms, IoT, Automotive and Wireless industries. We are a single source for hardware, firmware, system software, application software and test automation engineering expertise.

Instituted in 2007, we have been serving the industry for more than a decade. Over the years, we have nurtured the use of open source software in embedded systems, which historically has been dominated by proprietary software tools. We contribute by submitting patches to poular open source projects, releasing software and tools under open source licenses, and by running workshops and meetups related to Linux in embedded systems.

Website Link: http://www.zilogic.com

We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor AppViewX!

AppViewX is revolutionizing the way NetOps and SecOps teams deliver services to Enterprise IT. The AppViewX Platform is a modular, low-code software application that enables the Automation and Orchestration of Network Infrastructure and Certificate Management using an intuitive, context-aware, visual workflow. It quickly and easily translates business requirements into automation workflows that improve agility, enforce compliance, eliminate errors, and reduce cost.

Website Link: https://www.appviewx.com/

We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor Larsen and Toubro Infotech!

LTI (NSE: LTI, BSE: 540005) is a global technology consulting and digital solutions Company helping more than 350 clients succeed in a converging world. With operations in 30 countries, we go the extra mile for our clients and accelerate their digital transformation with LTI's Mosaic platform enabling their mobile, social, analytics, IoT and cloud journeys. Founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited, our unique heritage gives us unrivaled real-world expertise to solve the most complex challenges of enterprises across all industries. Each day, our team of more than 28,000+ LTItes enable our clients to improve the effectiveness of their business and technology operations, and deliver value to their customers, employees and shareholders.

Website Link: https://www.lntinfotech.com

We are happy to introduce our Platinum sponsor Microsoft!

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity 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 set up its India operations in 1990. Today, Microsoft entities in India have over 9,000 employees, engaged in sales and marketing, research, development and customer services and support, across 11 Indian cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. Microsoft offers its global cloud services from local data centers to accelerate digital transformation across Indian start-ups, businesses, and government organizations. In 2016, Microsoft opened one of its eight Cybersecurity Engagement Centers in the country, to address security needs of both public and private sectors.

Website Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/python

We are happy to introduce our Gold sponsor Bloomberg!

Bloomberg is building the world's most trusted information network for financial professionals. Our 5,500+ engineers are dedicated to advancing and building new systems for the Bloomberg Terminal to solve complex, real-world problems. We trust our teams to choose the right technologies for the job, and, at Bloomberg, the answer is often Python. We employ an active community of more than 2,000 Python developers who have their hands in everything from financial analytics and data science to contributing to open source technologies like Project Jupyter. We also sponsor and host many events for the Python community.

Asia-Pacific is one of the company's fastest-growing regions and we have been expanding our Engineering presence in the region to support our clients. Bloomberg's Engineering office in Pune was established in 2014. Over the last couple of years, headcount in the office has grown and the number of teams working there has doubled. These software engineering teams work on many critical business areas, including asset, investment, and portfolio management software, as well as exchange trading connectivity software. An ever-increasing number of their projects are being undertaken exclusively in Python.

Website Link: https://www.techatbloomberg.com

We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor KLA!

KLA Corporation develops industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. We provide advanced process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. In close collaboration with leading customers across the globe, our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers design solutions that move the world forward.

Website Link: https://www.kla.com