PyCon Africa

Provisional schedule

Please note that this is our provisional schedule and is subject to change.

Details of workshops and other sessions for Wednesday and Saturday will be added in forthcoming days.

08.30

Registration

09.00

Beginners day
Installation parties for Django Girls and new Python users
Strongly recommend for those new to Python. Required if you plan to attend workshops and tutorials and do not already have Python installed.

International visitors' tour of Accra
Visit the sights and markets of Accra in the company of the Ghanaian conference hosts.

08.30

Registration

09.00

Django Girls
Registration required

Workshops and tutorials

Morning

  • Rising Odegua
    Data visualisation for insights

Afternoon

  • Patrick Nsukami
    From iterators to coroutines and beyond

Workshops and tutorials

Morning

  • Kojo Idrissa
    A junior developer's software engineering tutorial

Afternoon

  • Loek van Gent
    Crash test dummies - Learn how to write tests

08.30

Registration

09.00

Marlene Mhangami
Welcome to Pycon Africa

09.15

Moustapha Cisse Head of Google AI Center Accra
Keynote

10.00

Meili Triantafyllidi
Lessons learned from 6 years in Pyladies Berlin

Kelechi Ogueji
Aligning word vectors of Nigerian languages for better translation

10.30

Break

11.00

Felipe de Morais 
AfroPython: Empowering black people using Python in Brazil

Candy Tricia Khohliwe
Web Virtual Reality and A-frame

11.30

Nicholas Del Grosso
Unraveling the Spaghetti: Tips for Refactoring Your Code

Tairu Oluwafemi
Chatbots on Steroids

12.00

Kelvin Oyana 
Bridging the talent gap between Python communities and industry

Eyitemi "insaida" Egbejule
The Jinja Ninja: Exploiting Jinja Template Engine for Code Execution

12.30

Daniele Procida
The world's cheapest, simplest plotter

13.00

Lunch

14.00

Jessica Upani
Is this Python thing really working?

14.30

Maurizio Boscaini
Pygame in High Schools

Aseda Owusua Addai-Deseh
A Reintroduction to Data Science

15.00

Chiamaka Nwolisa
Musings of a Frontend Developer: Building APIs with Python

Jef Colbi: Ninagram
How I mixed Django and Telegram in one soup!

15.30

Panel

16.00

Break

16.30

Anna Makarudze Vice-President, Django Software Foundation
Keynote

17.15

Lightning talks

17.45

Close

08.30

Registration

09.30

Marlene Mhangami
Introduction

09.45

Ewa Jodlowska Executive Director, Python Software Foundation
Keynote

10.30

Flavio Percoco
Inheriting code and I don't mean classes

Kwadwo Agyapon-Ntra
Deep Learning on Steroids - Using Transfer Learning to Accelerate Model Performance

11.00

Break

11.30

Aaron Yankey
Python Side of Vim

Sherin Thomas: PyTorch, RedisAI & Hangar
The missing pieces of a complete deep learning workflow

12.00

Kuda Siziva
How to avoid burnout

Dustin Haffner
Currying in Python: How to hack new syntax into your favorite language

12.30

Loek van Gent
Make 'em pay: Connecting multiple African payment service providers

Enock Seth Nyamador
Geo+Python: A Shallow Dive into GIS Development

13:00

Adeyinka Adegbenro
Accessibility Testing: Making Information and Software available to all and sundry

13.30

Lunch

14.30

Anthony Shaw
Standing out in a world of 20 million developers

Larry Ndumbe
Your Journey to the Unknown: A tale of how I debunk new codebases

15.00

Ngazetungue Muhue
How Python rises in Nambia

Prudence Attablayo
Python for Cybersecurity

15.30

Erick M'bwana
Unit testing and mocking in Python​​​​​​​

Daniel Phiri
Python Powered Disease Classification Web Application

16.00

Kojo Idrissa Board member, Django Events Foundation North America
Keynote

16.45

Break

17.15

Lightning talks

18.00

Close

08.30

Registration

09.00

Sprints and collaboration
Working together on code

Topics include:

  • Building the African Python community

Workshops and tutorials

Morning

  • Tendai Marengereke 
    Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) with Python - Developing Maltego Transforms

Afternoon

  • Kelvin
    Building Real Time Web applications With Django Channels

Workshops and tutorials

Morning

  • Daniele Procida and friends
    Organising your own Python community conference

Afternoon

  • Samuel Asirifi and  Kenneth Matovu
    ​​​​​​​Building Binary Analysis Tools to find Vulnerabilities and Backdoors in Binaries with Python