Schedule | Pycon Africa 2020

Schedule

Please note that this is our provisional schedule and is subject to change and all times listed are based off West Africa Time zone.

Welcome Address
10 a.m. WAT

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Marlene Mhangami

Welcome Address

Tutorial/Workshop
11 a.m. WAT

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Rising Odegua

Building your First Open Source Python Library

Sponsors / Network
noon WAT

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Network and meet sponsors in exhibition booths

Network and meet sponsors in exhibition booths

Break
1 p.m. WAT

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Break

Tutorial/Workshop
2 p.m. WAT

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David R. Pugh

Managing your data science project environments with Conda (+pip)

Fun activity
4 p.m. WAT

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Fun activity

Fun activity for networking and meeting others

Closing Remarks
5 p.m. WAT

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Remarks

Closing Remarks

Welcome Address
10 a.m. WAT

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Marlene Mhangami

Welcome Address

Tutorial/Workshop
11 a.m. WAT

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Leonardo Giordani

Dive into Object-oriented Python

Sponsors / Network
noon WAT

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Network and meet sponsors in exhibition booths

Network and meet sponsors in exhibition booths

Break
1 p.m. WAT

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Break

Tutorial/Workshop
2 p.m. WAT

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Psalms Kalu

Serving Deep Neural Networks through Django

Tutorial/Workshop
3 p.m. WAT

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Seth Baah Kusi

Blockchain development with python on the Tezos Blockchain platform using SmartPy Library.

Break
4 p.m. WAT

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Break

Closing Remarks
6 p.m. WAT

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Remarks

Closing Remarks

Highlights
9 a.m. WAT

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Marlene Manghami

Highlights for the day

Talk
10 a.m. WAT

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Tairu Oluwafemi

Building production-worthy websites with Django

Talk
10 a.m. WAT

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Flávio Clésio

Security in Machine Learning Engineering: Adversarial attacks and countermeasures

Talk
11 a.m. WAT

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Olaniyan Oluwasegun Emmanuel

Beginner approach to Web Scraping

Talk
11 a.m. WAT

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Serah Njambi Rono

Came for the code, stayed for the community: Lessons in building and sustaining technical communities

Talk
noon WAT

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Tania Allard

DevOps for Data Science? - automate the boring stuff and leverage the OSS ecosystem

Talk
noon WAT

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Carla Vieira

Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence to open black-box models

Break
1 p.m. WAT

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Break

Panel Session
2 p.m. WAT

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Interactive Panel Session

The Future of Open Source in Africa

Talk
3 p.m. WAT

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Vuyisile Ndlovu

PyPI in a box: Using a Raspberry Pi as a portable PyPI server

Talk
3 p.m. WAT

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Cheuk Ting Ho

Untangle Spaghetti Python Paths - How to manage your Python enviroments

Talk
4 p.m. WAT

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Aisha Bello

Switching Careers: From Jupyter to the Cloud

Talk
4 p.m. WAT

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Aly Sivji

Busy Beaver: Chicago Python's Community Engagement Slack bot

Keynote
5 p.m. WAT

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Adekanmbi Olubayo

Lightning talk
6 p.m. WAT

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Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks

Highlights
9 a.m. WAT

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Marlene Manghami

Highlights for the day

Talk
10 a.m. WAT

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Leonardo Giordani

Clean Architectures in Python

Talk
10 a.m. WAT

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Emeka Boris Ama

Simplifying topic modeling with Python

Talk
11 a.m. WAT

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Gajendra Deshpande

Deceptive Security using Python

Talk
11 a.m. WAT

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Robson Júnior

Mastering a data pipeline with Python: 6 years of learned lessons from mistakes to success.

Panel Session
noon WAT

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Interactive Panel Session

Entrepreneurship and Python

Break
1 p.m. WAT

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Break

Talk
2 p.m. WAT

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Reuven M. Lerner

Generators, coroutines, and nanoservices: Understanding and using

Talk
2 p.m. WAT

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Thomas Ayih-Akakpo

Turn django-admin into a lightweight dashboard

Talk
3 p.m. WAT

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Jasveen Sandral

How drastically will NLP (as a computer software) change our life in the near future?

Talk
3 p.m. WAT

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Chukwudi Nwachukwu

Sqlraw- Migrating Databases in Raw SQL

Talk
4 p.m. WAT

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Amber Vanderburg

The Innovation Ninja

Talk
4 p.m. WAT

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Nikkie

How to automate PyCon staff activities with Python! ~In PyCon JP staff activities, I automated operation about Slack and Google Drive using AWS~

Keynote
5 p.m. WAT

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Joannah Nanjekye

Lightning talk
6 p.m. WAT

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Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks

Highlights
9 a.m. WAT

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Marlene Manghami

Highlights for the day

Talk
10 a.m. WAT

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Abimbola Olawale Victor

A Deep Dive into Interactive Geospatial Visualization in Python using IpyLeaflet

Talk
10 a.m. WAT

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Miroslav Šedivý

A Day Has Only 24±1 Hours

Talk
11 a.m. WAT

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Ric da Silva

Building a serverless computation environment with Python

Talk
11 a.m. WAT

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Steven Kolawole

Streamlit: The Fastest Way to build Data Apps

Sponsored Workshop
noon WAT

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Sponsored Workshop/Talk

Sponsored Workshop/Talk

Session
1 p.m. WAT

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Scott Hanselman

Technical Content Creation and Personal Productivity

Keynote
2 p.m. WAT

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William Hakizimana

Talk
3 p.m. WAT

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William Galindez Arias

Deploy your Machine Learning Bots like a boss with CI/CD

Talk
3 p.m. WAT

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Dustin Haffner

Visualizing the Rubik's Cube in Python

Talk
4 p.m. WAT

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Débora Azevedo

How PyLadies Brazil became the biggest PyLadies chapter of the world

Talk
4 p.m. WAT

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Vince Knight

Modelling epidemics with Python

Keynote
5 p.m. WAT

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Lorena Mesa

Closing Remarks
6 p.m. WAT

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Closing Remarks

Closing Remarks

Tutorial/Workshop
9 a.m. WAT

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Humble Data

Free-to-attend introductory Python/Data workshop

Meet the team.

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