Schedule

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Time	Lefthand Room (Seminar Room 3)	Central Room (Seminar Room 2)	Righthand Room (Seminar Room 1)	Open Space (Breakaway Room 3)
Friday (04 oct)
09:30 - 09:45	Coffee / Tea Break
09:45 - 10:15	Coffee / Tea Break
10:15 - 11:00	Made you look: Using Siamese Neural Networks for Building Change Detection at the City of Cape Town by Jolanda Becker	Building a Thriving Tech Community by Adeline Makokha	Harnessing the Power of Community: Lessons from Speedrunning for the Python Ecosystem and Beyond by Nunudzai Mrewa	Open Spaces
11:00 - 11:15	Professional Software Isn’t by Marco Slaviero
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee / Tea Break
11:30 - 12:15	Applying AI with Python by Alex Conway	Adventures in Garbage Collection by Bruce Merry	Kafka in practice: Lessons learned at Takealot by Johan Beyers	Open Spaces
12:15 - 13:00	Great Expectations About Data Quality by Ariella Rink	Implementing an HPy Backend for Cython by Du Toit Spies	Maintaining a PLC communication library called python-snap7 without owning a PLC by Gijs Molenaar	Open Spaces
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:45	You don't need a data service, you just need an object store and some JSON files by Gordon Inggs	Beyond the Pause: Exploring the Inner Workings of Python’s `sleep()` by Rupali Kavale	Bridging Language Barriers: Making Programming Education Accessible to All by Mthetho Sovara	Open Spaces
14:45 - 15:30	Duck, Duck, Python: OLAP Data with DuckDB by Luis de Sousa	Building a Code Search Engine: Using NLP to Find Similar Methods Across Libraries by Divya Rani	& robotics for all! by :David Campey	Open Spaces
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee / Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30	Lightning Talks
16:30 - 17:15	Using Coding Skills to Make Passive Income by Cory Zue
17:15 - 17:30	Closing Ceremony