From gmail at yudocaa.in Tue Sep 8 08:22:52 2020 From: gmail at yudocaa.in (Sayan Chowdhury) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 17:52:52 +0530 Subject: [PyDelhi] [X-POST] PyCon India 2020 Keynote: Naomi Ceder Message-ID: Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce Naomi Ceder as the first Keynote Speaker of PyCon India 2020. About Naomi ----------- Naomi Ceder earned a Ph.D in Classics several decades ago but switched from ancient human languages to computer languages sometime in the last century. Since 2001, she has been learning, teaching, writing about, and using Python. An elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi is the immediate past chair of its board of directors. She also speaks internationally about the Python community, and on inclusion and diversity in technology in general. By day she leads a team of Python programmers for Dick Blick Art Materials, and in her spare time, she enjoys sketching, knitting, and deep philosophical conversations with her dog. She can be reached at her Twitter handle: @NaomiCeder Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties[0] [0] https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1301484301125447682 -- Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/ From gmail at yudocaa.in Wed Sep 9 10:06:15 2020 From: gmail at yudocaa.in (Sayan Chowdhury) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 19:36:15 +0530 Subject: [PyDelhi] [X-POST] PyCon India 2020 Keynote: Alolita Sharma Message-ID: Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce Alolita Sharma as the second Keynote Speaker of PyCon India 2020. About Alolita ------------- Alolita Sharma is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services. She leads open source strategy and engineering for projects focused on observability and search including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Apache Lucene and Open Distro for Elasticsearch. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her. Alolita has built and led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal and IBM. Alolita is passionate about language technologies that enable everyone to participate in the Web's information revolution. She serves on the board of Unicode Consortium and is an invited expert on W3C and ECMA workgroups. She has served on the boards of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and SFLC.in. You can find her on Twitter: @alolita. Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1303297549978275840 -- Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/ From abhi.mishra922 at gmail.com Thu Sep 10 09:38:19 2020 From: abhi.mishra922 at gmail.com (ABHISHEK MISHRA) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:08:19 +0530 Subject: [PyDelhi] [XPOST] PyCon India 2020 Keynote: James Powell Message-ID: Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce James Powell as the third Keynote Speaker of PyCon India 2020. About James ----------- James Powell is a professional Python programmer and enthusiast. He started working with Python in the finance industry building reporting and analysis systems for prop trading front offices. He currently works as a consultant building data engineering and scientific computing platforms for a wide-range of clients using cutting-edge open source tools like Python and React. He also offers a variety of corporate training courses and coaching sessions in all areas of Python. In his spare time, he serves on the board of NumFOCUS as co-Chairman and Vice President. NumFOCUS is the 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports all the major tools in the Python data analysis ecosystem (incl. pandas, numpy, jupyter, matplotlib, and others.) At NumFOCUS, he helps build global open source communities for data scientists, data engineers, and business analysis. He helps NumFOCUS run the PyData conference series and has sat on speaker selection and organizing committees for over two dozen conferences. James is also a prolific speaker: since 2013, he has given over seventy conference talks at over fifty Python events worldwide. You can find him on Twitter @dontusethiscode. Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1303657849688530944 -- Abhishek Mishra On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/ From abhi.mishra922 at gmail.com Fri Sep 11 07:59:29 2020 From: abhi.mishra922 at gmail.com (ABHISHEK MISHRA) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:29:29 +0530 Subject: [PyDelhi] [XPOST] PyCon India 2020 Keynote: S Anand Message-ID: Hi everyone, We are happy to announce S Anand as the fourth Keynote speaker of PyCon India 2020. About Anand ----------- Anand is the co-founder of Gramener, a data science company. He is recognized as one of India's top 10 data scientists. He leads a team that automates insights from data and narrates these as visual data stories. You can find him on Twitter: @sanand0 Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1304020252271849472 -- Abhishek Mishra On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/ From gmail at yudocaa.in Sun Sep 13 15:01:21 2020 From: gmail at yudocaa.in (Sayan Chowdhury) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:31:21 +0530 Subject: [PyDelhi] [X-POST] PyCon India 2020: The Talk Schedule is Out! Message-ID: Hi everyone, The PyCon India 2020 talk schedule is out![0] The sheer amount of proposals we received from you all over the last couple of days exceeded all our wildest expectations. The review committee along with all the volunteers worked quite hard to make the deadlines work. The schedule has been released a day before the deadline which signals us that we are on track as we move forward according to the plan. All these efforts go on to accomplish one outcome. An awesome PyCon India keeping you at its epicentre! As we are releasing the talk and keynotes schedule, be sure to look out for the release of workshops and information about many more events in the coming days on Twitter and on our mailing list. Our rehearsal team is working double-time to get all the speakers in top shape for making this year's PyCon India experience amazing for everyone. To check the schedule you can visit the schedule page[1] or the homepage as well. See you, folks, in 18 days! [0] https://in.pycon.org/blog/2020/announce-schedule.html [1] https://in.pycon.org/2020/schedule/ -- Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/