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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor AirAsia!
AirAsia: Asia's leading airline was established with the dream of making flying possible for everyone. Since 2001, AirAsia has swiftly broken travel norms around the globe and has risen to become the world's best. Driven by the Dare to Dream spirit, we pride ourselves on being the region's largest low-cost carrier, serving 24 countries and over 130 destinations. As we embrace new technology to become a Tech Travel company, services like BIG Duty-Free, BIG Pay, BIG Loyalty, Teleport, ROKKI and Xcite Inflight Entertainment will be an exciting evolution, placing us ahead of the game. Are you in? AirAsia is set to take low-cost flying to an all-new high with our belief, "Now Everyone Can Fly"
Having flown over 600 Million passengers till date and 90 million passengers last year alone, we are expected to grow significantly in the coming years. AirAsia is ranked the world's best low-cost airline 11 years in a row, and in the process of transforming into a true Tech Travel company, which requires strong internal capabilities within Data, Product, Digital, and Technology. If you want to be part of this exciting journey visit us at careers.airasia.com for opportunities
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor Episource!
Episource has devoted more than a decade in building solutions for risk adjustment to measure
healthcare outcomes. As one of the leading companies in healthcare, we have helped numerous
clients optimize their medical records, data, analytics to enable better documentation of care for
patients with chronic diseases.
The backbone of our consistent success has been our obsession with data and technology. At
Episource, all of our strategic initiatives start with the question - how can data be "deployed"?
Our analytics platforms and datalakes ingest huge quantities of data daily, to help our clients
deliver services. We have also built our own machine learning and NLP platform to infuse added
productivity and efficiency into our workflow. Combined, these build a foundation of tools and
practices used by quantitative staff across the company.
What's our poison you ask? We work with most of the popular frameworks and technologies like
Spark, Airflow, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, ELK. For machine learning and NLP, we are big fans of
keras, spacy, scikit-learn, pandas and numpy. AWS and serverless platforms help us stitch these
together to stay ahead of the curve.
We are always hiring strong talent who believe in the vision to use technology to make an impact.
If our work and philosophy seems interesting to you, do drop us a note to hr@episource.com to
start a conversation today !
We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor Reckonsys!
Reckonsys Tech Labs is a boutique software development firm specializing in building Minimum Viable Products for Startups leveraging Python Stack and other emerging technologies in a cost-effective manner without compromising on the Security/Scalability of these products when Startups scale. Reckonsys also works with SME's in solving interesting challenges using a new breed of disruptive technologies.
Established in 2015, Reckonsys now has a team of 45 Engineers, an eclectic mix of Designers, Pythonistas, JavaScripters, pixel-perfect UI Developers, DevOps folks, Data Scientists and Agile practitioners, who love to deliver happiness to our clients through their work and have fun learning new things to make them more relevant in the ever-changing technology landscape.
Out of 9 Products that Reckonsys built for their clients in the last three years, 5 got funded!!
We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor ATONARP!
At Atonarp, we are revolutionising how we sense, collect, process and interpret data at the
molecular level. Our teams work out of Tokyo, Bay Area and Bengaluru with a focus on scientific
technology platforms for molecular analysis.
The ability to see materials in molecular detail opens up a world of exciting possibilities. Can a
blood test be as simple as taking temperature at home? Can haemoglobin levels be measured
without the prick of a needle? With the Atonarp Optical Spectrometer (AOS), we are finding
ways to make this and much more possible. Using nonlinear optics that provide high sensitivity
and rapid results, the AOS can probe molecules without direct contact. The day isn't far when a
small wearable accessory monitors basic metabolic levels and communicates the need to see a
doctor.
We have built one of the most intelligent and user-friendly mass spectrometers in the world -
AMS-1300 - The Smart Spectrometer. Starting with pharmaceutical lyophilisation, we now
enable powerful process analytical solutions across a range of industries - Semiconductors and
Petrochem . We use data science - statistical modelling, noise characterization, machine
learning and data analytics - to provide accurate measurements at a fraction of the cost of
traditional equipment.
Come join our team of physicists, data scientists, and opto-mechanical, hardware & software
engineers and make it happen! Take a look at our current openings and write to us.
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor GUVI!
GUVI, an IIT Madras-incubated company, is an online technical learning platform that has been started as YouTube Channel by Ex-Paypalians to share their technical learnings. It is working to make engineers employable by making difference in the way they are learning. It is an integrated Edu-Tech Platform for learning, through technical video courses, technology Skills like Python, Machine Learning and Java in vernacular languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Bengali, among others. Other courses include Android, Python, Java, C, C++, Machine Learning, Big Data, MongoDB in vernacular languages through content created by working professionals. GUVI videos have been watched by 1 Million people across the globe which motivated founders to start this as a company. Now, it is changing the way the world learns and bridging the gap between Industry and Academia. It provides personalized learning and Interactive experience for learning through gamification mechanics and bite-sized videos.
We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor Maho Jase institute of Technology (MJIT)!
Maho Jase institute of Technology (MJIT) is a company, who trains people and make them into professionals. MJIT focus more on production readiness rather course coverage. MJIT provides not just standard training course but also carves course structure as per the requirement. MJIT conducts Classroom, Online and corporate training. MJIT trains on Cloud, DevOps, IT Service Automation, Containerization, Virtualization, Scripting and also Machine Learning. MJIT also provides the interrelation between the technologies and departments for the production readiness.
Our beloved trainees are part of many MNCs and following are few to name Cognizant, CGI, Hexaware, Accenture, Robert Bosch, Capgemini, HCL.
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor Red Hat!
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor ZeOmega!
Established in 2001, ZeOmega built, and continues to deliver, the industry's leading population health management platform, Jiva, including utilization management, case management, and disease management. Our end-to-end, interoperability-enabled platform is rapidly deployable, highly scalable, and facilitates collaboration among healthcare stakeholders. Jiva helps healthcare organizations achieve Triple Aim goals with data integration, actionable analytics, workflow automation, holistic and personalized assessments to support care planning, patient engagement, clinical quality, and provider performance measurement and management.
Headquartered in Plano, TX and with offices in Seattle, WA and Bangalore, India, ZeOmega supports over 30 million lives on the Jiva platform, employs over 500 talented individuals, hosts an extensive partner network, and serves the healthcare industry's leading health plans and other risk-bearing entities.
We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor Toyota Connected!
TOYOTA Connected leads the development of Toyota's cloud-based Connected Vehicle platforms & services. We are a Technology company primarily made up of software engineers, data scientists, and designers who have a passion for driving innovation in mobility, safety, and convenience for millions of customers across the globe!
TOYOTA Connected is currently setting up a state of the art technology center in Chennai and will be hiring over 80 engineers in the next two years.
We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor cppsecrets.com!
A Professional Handbook and Encylopedia for C++ and Python Engineers. Your small contribution can make someone life easier. A platform for C++ and Python Engineers, where they can contribute their C++ and Python experience along with tips and tricks.
Every user will be rated based on the number of views of their tips and tricks. cppsecrets.com categories the authors as Platinum, Gold and Silver Author.
Services: Workshop in Python and C++, Certification in Python, C++ and Python Support, R&D in Python and C++.
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor DeepSource!
DeepSource is a continuous quality and security tool that automates code reviews and helps developers ship good code by detecting bug-risks, anti-patterns, performance issues and security vulnerabilities before they make it to production code. With first-class support for Python, DeepSource detects 500+ issues and helps track important code quality metrics like test coverage and documentation coverage. DeepSource is trusted by engineering teams at NASA, Uber, Slack, Wingify, Qubole, among many others, and is free to use for open-source.
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor Elastic!
Elastic is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic builds self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. Since its founding in 2012, there have been more than 350 million cumulative downloads of Elastic software. The Elastic community is 100,000 members strong. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Elastic is a distributed company with more than 1,000 Elasticians working in 30 countries. Learn more at elastic.co.
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor ThoughtWorks!
ThoughtWorks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery while advocating for positive social change. There are over 5,000 ThoughtWorkers in 14 countries, and we're growing fast in every region of the world.
We work with people and organizations who have ambitious missions - whether they are in the commercial, social or government sectors. Our Agile development tools help our clients continuously improve and deliver quality software. We are focused on helping our industry improve, and believe in sharing what we learn. We do this by writing books, blogging, hosting tech events, speaking at conferences, and championing open source software.
We're looking for change makers. Opportunity creators. Bridge builders. Mind openers. Status-quo shakers. Together, we'll create a place where people have the freedom to make a real and positive impact on our world through technology.
Our mission is to better humanity through software and help drive the creation of a socially and economically just world. We bring together the most capable, driven and passionate people - we call them 'ThoughtWorkers' - to:
Run a sustainable business.
Champion software excellence and revolutionize the IT industry.
Advocate passionately for social and economic justice.
Devsprints are two days of intensive learning and development on an
open source project of your choice, in a team environment. It's a time
to come together with friends, old and new, to share what you've
learned and apply it to an open source project.
Has contributing to Open source projects been one of those plans for
you that just remained a plan? Or did you try contributing to an Open
source project but got lost somewhere in the middle due to lack of
guidance? Well, Devsprints are here to save the day! During
Devsprints, Mentors/Contributors of Open source projects guide
participants through everything, from generating the development build
to submitting a patch for a bug or improve the project's
documentation.
PyCon India provides the space and infrastructure (network, power,
tables & chairs); you bring your skills, humanity, and brainpower (oh!
and don't forget your laptop).
Who can participate?
You! It doesn’t matter if you are a newbie or an experienced
contributor, just dive in and get to work. Newbies sit with gurus, go
out for lunch and dinner together, and have a great time while
advancing their project. It is also a great opportunity to understand
and experience the ways of the open source. Although, there will be
situations when you might feel stuck, but there is nothing to worry
about as the mentors present there can provide you instant help to get
you moving. We can say this from experience, that participants of
these Devsprints have not been limited to their open source
contribution just for the conference days.They are still active
contributors. You can purchase Devsprints ticket
here.
Who can run a Devsprint?
You! If you are a contributor or have been involved in the
maintenance of any Open source project place, please come forward. You
can submit your proposal for your Devsprints here. This project can be
any interesting open source project which is based on Python. You
should have enough contributions to the project. Your responsibility
will be to help your team set up their development environment, list
out beginner friendly bugs and guide them on any problems. Don't
hesitate to submit your proposals. Any maintainer is welcome to add a
project. PyCon India is open for everyone.
We are happy to introduce our Gold sponsor EDII-TN!
EDII (Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute), a society established by the Government of Tamil Nadu, to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in the State. Recently State Government launched the Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation Policy which aims at creating a conducive entrepreneurial ecosystem in the state through various initiatives including upskilling of human capital, delegation programs etc. Being the nodal agency of the policy, EDII partners with various active startup and tech communities at every possible avenue to realise the vision of the policy.
Flagship Programs of EDII:
TNIGC (Tamil Nadu Innovation Grand Challenge) is an initiative to support ideas of budding startups with mentorship and funding.
TNSI (Tamil Nadu Student Innovators) is the student-centric program to discover, nurture, and fund innovative ideas from the student community that have the potential to become innovative products and successful enterprises.
IEDP (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Programme) aims to create a positive and dynamic Entrepreneurship & Innovation ecosystem within and around higher educational institutions for students.
In addition, EDII has funding schemes like IVP (Innovation Voucher Program) which aims to improve innovation in MSME/Startups by providing Financial support through various vouchers.
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor Loyalty Juggernaut!
LJI builds GRAVTY, a digital transformation cloud platform for customer engagement and loyalty management. Built ground-up on break-through technologies including Big Data, Serverless computing, Micro Services architecture, IoT, ML/AI, GRAVTY help brands maximize customer value, profitability and sustaining competitive advantage.
We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor MavenHive!
MavenHive is a Bangalore based boutique consulting firm specializing in end-to-end product development and training. They have built a team of talented people from diverse backgrounds who have come together for one mission, to "turn ideas into awesome software" !
Over the last 7+ years, they have worked with several startups and organizations from across the world realize their product vision and help them achieve major milestones in their journey. MavenHive has been a long time supporter of various tech communities in India. They are hiring polyglot, full stack devs for their fast growing team.
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor DCKAP!
DCKAP is one of the world's foremost digital commerce specialists. We build, enhance, and manage enterprise eCommerce storefronts. We power digital commerce for brands, manufacturers and distributors across the globe with a suite of leading products leveraging Python, Machine Learning allowing businesses to unleash their full potential. Our product suite, consisting of Productimize (Product Configuration Platform), Cloras (Integration Platform), flexiPIM (Product Information Management), and QA touch (Test Management) helps our customers worldwide to drive eCommerce sales and boost business growth. To learn more about us please visit www.dckap.com
We are happy to introduce our Associate sponsor Real Python!
At Real Python you'll master real-world Python programming skills from the ground up. Their large collection of Python tutorials and in-depth training materials is created, curated, and vetted by a community of expert developers. With new content published weekly, you'll always find something to boost your skills.
We are happy to introduce our InKind sponsor Xapo!
Xapo is a fast-growing, global fintech company building a way for users all over the world to send, receive, spend, and store their money globally and safely. We're firm believers that no matter who you are or where you're from, you deserve easy access to digital financial services.
Launched in 2014 by Wences Casares (CEO) & Federico Murrone (COO), Xapo has made an unparalleled investment in security infrastructure, assembled a renowned advisory board, and raised $40M from top venture capital firms in Silicon Valley & the world.
Today, we are a fully distributed team of 250+ Xapiens working from 50+ countries. At Xapo, we embrace our differences and actively foster an inclusive environment where we all can thrive. We're a flexible, family friendly environment, and we recognize that everyone has commitments outside of work. We have a goal of reaching gender parity and strongly encourage women to apply to our open positions. Diversity is not a tagline at Xapo; it is our foundation.
We are happy to introduce our Gold sponsor Innovaccer!
Innovaccer Inc. is a leading healthcare data activation company committed to making a powerful difference in the way healthcare organizations leverage Big Data to deliver patient care. Innovaccer’s aim is to make full use of all the data healthcare has worked so hard to collect with its suite of AI-enabled solutions and to right the wrongs of healthcare technology. Funded by Microsoft’s venture fund, M12, West bridge, Lightspeed Ventures, Innovaccer’s products enable over 10,000 providers to transform care delivery across 500+ locations. The company has been recognized by Forbes, Gartner, Tech Crunch, KLAS, WSJ, among others and is based in San Francisco with offices all over the United States and Asia.
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor Pipal Academy!
Pipal Academy is a collective of experienced technologists, who care deeply about the art of software development. They offer in-depth courses on niche technical topics. We regularly conduct public workshops and also offer on site corporate trainings. Our courses are targeted at professional software developers and we make sure they are hands-on and interactive. Very often the participants finish our courses with lot of excitement and joy of learning.
We are happy to introduce our Silver sponsor Pramati Technologies!
Pramati Technologies, a privately held software company, builds independent technology businesses focused on profitable, well-defined markets in digital, social, mobile, and cloud computing. Among its ventures are the low-code platform vendor WaveMaker Inc., the micro-apps platform SpotCues Inc., and the enterprise innovation services company Imaginea Technologies Inc. Pramati seeds ideas through its Mountain View based startup accelerator arm, Pramati Prism that nurtures and scales them into profitable ventures. The portfolio includes the strong authentication service provider ThumbSignin, the delivery automation platform HyScale, micro-conversions solution Chatlets.ai, and the API management platform Apitive. Pramati Technologies started as a pioneering Java middleware company in 1998 and since has continued to invest in products and services in frontier technology areas. It has 1500+ employees with offices in Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mountain View, and London.
We are happy to introduce our Gold sponsor Ericsson!
Ericsson is one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to service providers, with about 40% of the world’s mobile traffic carried through our networks. We enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt and scale, making our customers successful in a fully connected world. For more than 140 years, our ideas, technology and people have changed the world: real turning points that have transformed lives, industries and society as a whole.
We are happy to introduce our Gold sponsor HappyFox!
HappyFox is a SaaS-based customer support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and an intuitively designed live chat software. Recently, we launched an AI chatbot solution and a Business Intelligence product for enterprises.
HappyFox has been rated as the ‘Best Help Desk Software’ by PC Magazine for the last 4 years in a row. We serve over 12,000 companies in over 70 countries across education, media, e-commerce, retail, IT, manufacturing, non-profit, government, and many other verticals.
At HappyFox, we strongly believe in the simplicity of design and delivering tangible value upfront. We strive to bring “happy” back into the support function of any organization. Our thoughtfully built products focus on the productivity and success of its users.
HappyFox is headquartered in Irvine, California. The product and engineering teams work their magic from the HappyFox Product Studio in Chennai, India. For more information visit https://happyfox.com.
We are happy to introduce our in-kind sponsor Sticker Mule!
Sticker Mule is the fastest & easiest way to buy custom printed products. Powered by a 100% remote team, we operate in 17 countries and ship worldwide to thousands of customers. We provide free online proofs, free artwork help, free worldwide shipping, blazing fast turnaround and 24/7 customer support.
We are happy to introduce our Platinum sponsor Indeed!
At Indeed, we help people get jobs, but it's more than just our mission. It’s a promise that extends to all our employees, as well as job seekers and employers. As the world’s #1 job site, we take pride in helping people get to where they want to be in their careers. Whether you’re still in school or looking for your next opportunity to make an impact, Indeed is dedicated to helping people explore their passions while giving them the tools to succeed with Indeed and beyond.
Hello Pythonistas, in this blog, we will discuss about posters and walk you through the process of making a great poster presentation at PyCon India 2019.
What is a Poster?
Posters are graphical summary of projects or ideas. They are usually presented with an A0 size poster, but any creative ways are always welcome. The poster session provides an opportunity to network with the conference attendees and acts as a starting point for further discussions. While talks generally need to appeal to a wide section of the community, posters can cover niche topics.
PyCon India 2019 will be having a poster presentation session at post lunch, day 1 (12 October 2019). During the poster presentation session you will be provided with a poster board that can hold an A0 size poster, and a table to place your laptop, for demos. Conference attendees interested in your topic, will stop by, during which you can give them a brief presentation / demo.
The following pictures of the poster session at PySangamam 2018, might
give you a better idea of the poster session. Click on the image to
enlarge.
Why do a poster presentation at PyCon India?
Now, let’s get into the actual process – The Preparation.
How to prepare a Poster?
First, ensure that you select a good title. Conference attendees will use it to determine which posters to attend. Make sure it brings in audience who will be interested in your poster.
Second, for the poster itself, here are a few tips for creating the poster:
* While textual representation is good, graphical representation will attract more eyes
* Make sure the contents are properly sized and spaced in the poster so that it is viewable from decent distance
* Provoke the reader's curiosity which will open up space for further discussions
* Provide links for the attendees to know more about the topic and connect with you / the community
You can refer to the following real poster presentation proposals for inspirations.
Once your proposal gets selected, you will have time till 11 October 2019 to practice. Get your poster ready and improvise your micro talk. You may even improve your poster. Don't slog but iterate for betterment.
On 12 October 2019,
Reach the venue 45 minutes in advance so that you can set up your poster and get comfortable at the venue.
What next? Unleash the presenter in you!
See you at PyCon India 2019!
If you had missed to buy the conference tickets, no worries. Once your proposal is selected by our Review Panel, you can contact us to get the speaker ticket. This will cover two days of PyCon India (12th and 13th October 2019).
For questions, contact the coordinators through email:
We are happy to introduce our Gold sponsor Mad Street Den!
Mad Street Den is a Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence Company building the AI architecture of the future. Founded by a Neuroscientist - Designer duo, the company's mission is to build models of generalizable intelligence on scale, that can be deployed through meaningful applications across industries to billions of people across the globe. In 2016, Mad Street Den launched it's flagship brand - Vue.ai. Vue.ai is an end-to-end retail automation platform that is redesigning the future of fashion retail with Artificial Intelligence. Using Image Recognition and Data Science - we extract catalog data, analyze it with user behavior and help your marketing, product and cataloging teams get actionable insights that improve customer experiences, drive conversions and reduce costs. The company recently won the 2019 Venture Beat AI Innovation Awards in the Computer Vision Category, in San Francisco, USA.
We are happy to introduce our Gold sponsor Visible Alpha!
Visible Alpha is transforming the way Wall Street firms collaborate on research, financial models and other services. With more than 500 employees globally, the rapidly growing company combines advanced data correction methodologies, a secure distribution network and sophisticated analytical tools on the front end to drive efficiencies and transparency into the research process and help firms generate alpha in new and differentiated ways. Visible Alpha has relationships with 600+ sell-side firms and works on four financial content sets - models, research, events and interactions. We specialize in large scale financial data processing and generate deep analytics from that data. Visible Alpha is backed by some of the largest and most respected banks in the world, including Bank of America, Citi, Exane BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Jefferies, Macquarie, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada, Santander, UBS and Wells Fargo. For more information on Visible Alpha, please visit http://www.visiblealpha.com/.
We are happy to announce that Devi A S L is a keynote speaker
for PyCon India 2019!
Devi is an independent software consultant, based in Bangalore.
She is a long term Pythonista and her work spans diverse domains ranging
from developing high-performance math libraries and cryptography to
architecting complex web applications.
Through her work that has surpassed over a decade, she has experienced diverse
work cultures at small startups, MNCs and remote teams where she has been
through the lows and highs women in tech from different perspectives.
She has been an active member of the PyCon India community since its
inception, as a volunteer and a speaker.
She can be reached at her Twitter
handle: @asldevi.
We are happy to introduce our Gold sponsor Amazon Web Services!
For 13 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 165 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 66 Availability Zones (AZs) within 21 geographic regions, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
We are happy to introduce our Gold sponsor JetBrains!
JetBrains creates professional software development tools for coding in Java, Kotlin, C#, C++, Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript and more languages, as well as advanced team collaboration tools. At JetBrains, code is our passion. For over 18 years we have strived to make the strongest, most effective developer tools on Earth. By automating routine checks and corrections, our products speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover and create. Today, more than 1000 JetBrains colleagues work out of Prague, Munich, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Boston, and Novosibirsk. Five million customers in 225 countries trust our tools daily. Kotlin, our own programming language, became an official language for Android development in 2017.
We are happy to introduce our Platinum sponsor AQR Capital India Services LLP!
AQR is a global investment firm built at the intersection of financial theory and practical application. We strive to deliver concrete, long-term results by looking past market noise to identify and isolate the factors that matter most, and by developing ideas that stand up to rigorous testing. By putting theory into practice, we have become a leader in alternative strategies and an innovator in traditional portfolio management since 1998.
At AQR India, our employees share a common spirit of academic excellence, intellectual honesty and an unwavering commitment to seeking the truth. We’re determined to know what makes financial markets tick – and we’ll ask every question and challenge every assumption. We recognize and respect the power of collaboration and believe transparency and openness to new ideas leads to innovation.
The workshop tickets are open, the list of workshops are provided
below. Each workshop is 2.5 hours duration. There are a total of 6
parallel tracks, with two workshops in each track, one in the morning
and one in the afternoon. You can attend a maximum of two workshops,
morning and afternoon.
The ticketing platform is designed to allow booking of only one
morning ticket and one afternoon ticket. But if you are booking
tickets in two separate purchases, ensure that you are not booking two
workshops in the same session i.e. two morning or two afternoon.
Attending Workshops and Devsprints
It might be possible to attend one workshop and the devsprints. If
you book two workshops, you will be able to attend the devsprints only
on the second day.
We are happy to announce that Jake VanderPlas is a keynote speaker
for PyCon India 2019!
Jake VanderPlas is a long-time user and contributor to the Python data
science ecosystem, and author of the Python Data Science Handbook. An
astronomer by training, he currently works as a software engineer at
Google in Seattle, WA. Recently, his efforts have been focused on data
visualization tools, particularly the Altair and Vega-Lite libraries.
He can be reached at his twitter
handle: @jakevdp.
PyLadies @ PyCon India blog series consists of articles that share the experiences of women who have been a part of previous PyCon India conferences. In this blog post, we talk to Aroma Rodrigues, who did a talk at PyCon India 2018.
Aroma Rodrigues
Aroma Rodrigues is an alumnus of National Institute of Technology Warangal and is currently working as a software engineer for JP Morgan Chase & Co, Mumbai. Her talk on Demystifying Terms and Conditions using NLP in Python at PyCon India 2018 was both informative and enthralling. Read on to find out more about her Python journey and her experience of being a part of PyCon!
PyLady: How would you describe your journey into the world of Python?
Aroma: I started learning Python of my own accord in my third year of college. Till then I had coded web applications for the college registrations/websites, done basic courses in C++ and just learnt Java. I took a specialization on Coursera; it was free back then. It is a very popular course by Dr Charles, who also incidentally spoke at the PyCon 2018 in Hyderabad. It was a pretty hand on course and had specific assignments designed to help a person understand the nuances of coding in Python. The capstone or the final project associated with this specialization was an end to end system to make a crawler, load data, clean up data and visualize it. At the insistence of one of my college seniors, I tried out a few Machine Learning examples off Kaggle, took the learning course on the site and some others on Coursera. My latest was the Neural Networks specialization by Andrew Ng. I used Python in my previous workplace as a scripting language. I used it to automate test cases, create sanity check scripts and basically automate a lot of manual processes, and all of this was not a part of my deliverable tasks. I also used Python for certain POCs (Proof of Concept projects) involving AWS Athena and Alexa. In my current workplace, Python is the primary language of the stack I work in. Python I believe is a very simple language. I also think that once a programmer is comfortable with say two/three languages and the basic concepts of computer problem solving, switching languages and syntax is not a big problem. I love Python's ease, all the open source libraries and features that already exist that make it a very handy language to use for a variety of purposes.
PyLady: Could you tell us a little about your motivation of submitting a CFP and the experience of giving a talk at PyCon India?
Aroma: One summer morning, my inbox was inundated with emails because of the GDPR regulations imposed by the EU. This made me think, as a citizen of India, or rather any other country out of the EU, what protection weren't we getting? What exactly were we agreeing to when we were clicking on the "I agree with these terms and conditions" button without reading any of them? Because terms and conditions are in principle a legal contract, NLP was the way to go about it. I chose Python because it already had a lot of support/features/libraries for NLP. My main motivation was to find likeminded individuals and helm an open source project because I realized over some time that my project would need more effort than what I could put in. Unfortunately, my workplace (which changed over the months from the PyCon 2018 event) does not allow it's employees to contribute to open source without vetting the project, and this one wasn't approved as it would defy their no-compete clause. My experience when presenting was a little let down as we had a few technical difficulties playing the slides. This also meant that I was swamped by people once I'd come down. So, I got to meet a lot of interesting people. Some people had very different perspectives to what I was trying to achieve and all those ideas are something I've been waiting to try out. I would also rather this project be open source because I don't want to see it monetized, I don't want the world divided in haves and have-nots when it comes to understanding legal agreements based on their financial buying power.
PyLady: How do you think attending conferences like PyCon India has helped you?
Aroma: The first conference I ever attended was GDD in Bangalore. The fact that I got to speak at one is something precious personally. I got to meet so many prominent personalities in the world of Python there. A conference is where some of the first features of a library, or an application are first unveiled. Apart from this very technical knowledge, the authors, creators and others involved in the projects are generally present there personally. Some projects presented end with a call to contribute, which apart from being a good resume point also adds to your experience and is sort of your first step into the world of open source. The diversity of perspectives when approaching a problem, not only help you in your professional life but also personal, sometimes. It's literally ground zero for the attendants to try out their networking skills and build some relationships. All the job fairs and the goodies are an added bonus.
PyLady: Any advice to fellow PyLadies?
Aroma: I believe that there is a huge gap when it comes to women and men, in general, even in today's world. For most of us technologists, it started with the girls to boys’ ratios in our colleges. It increases further as you go from being a mere technologist to a senior executive member. And that is exactly where all the decisions are taken, that's who most governments defer to, that's where the directions our lives may take are sometimes taken. This also means that around half of the population of the world is barely represented by their own when such decisions are taken. For this gap to close it is imperative that our ideas be heard.
So, my advice to you as technologists is to apply to events as such, not just to attend, but also speak. Work on your own great ideas, they do not need to be polished and "scrum ready", a small level implementation works. I've observed that women have a very different view of the world, generally a "greater good" perspective. These ideas if ever implemented would lead to the closure of the gender gap that has existed in the human world for centuries.
Lack of inclusion, diversity are not just societal problems, they are also technology problems. The fact that we, being women, are technologists today would also mean that we are one of the privileged few in this world, at least for our gender. Empowering the rest can also be a technology-based problem statement. I've been given this platform, and I feel blessed to have it, looking forward to sharing it with y'all in the near future.
The vision of PyCon India 2019 is to create an inclusive environment that promotes knowledge sharing and diversity in thoughts and ideas. If you're interested to attend, give a talk/workshop or present a poster at PyCon India 2019, please visit: in.pycon.org
The vision of PyCon India 2019 is to create an inclusive environment
that promotes knowledge sharing and diversity in thoughts and
ideas. To quote
We would like to ensure that the conference approaches everyone with
respect, and that we resolve differences peacefully. In particular, we
will proactively extend our invite to women, provide support for
students, and ensure that people with disabilities feel welcome at the
conference.
Along those lines, we would like to offer the following facilities for
women to welcome their participation:
For parents travelling with young kids, childcare services will be
provided at the venue for kids aged 5 years or below. If you want to
avail childcare for your kid, please mark the checkbox for the
same in the ticket registration page.
The organizers will arrange a Kids Corner with games,
entertainment and activities for kids of age 5 to 12. If you want
to avail Kids Corner for your kid, please mark the checkbox for
the same in the ticket registration page.
A separate room will be available for mothers of very young kids
for breastfeeding.
The above mentioned facilities are available only for the
conference days Oct 12th and Oct 13th, 2019. If there is
sufficient demand we will consider extending this to the workshop
day and devsprint as well.
On the second day of the conference, a PyLadies Lunch will be
hosted, which is focused on the discussion regarding the
challenges, problems, solutions, and experiences among the women
in technology.
PyCon India 2019 takes the experience of the attendees in the
conference very seriously. We are committed to providing a
positive, harassment-free conference experience for every women
participant. We hope the spirit of the Python community will
transcend to create an harmonious experience. We have a strong Code of
Conduct to set the right expectations and a Reporting
Guide to effectively handle any issue that might arise.
Our team will be happy to help you and assist you to feel safe
during the duration of the event.
You may want to bring a companion/caregiver with you who will not
be attending the conference. They may just accompany you because
you are travelling from afar or you have an young kid for whom
would prefer your own caregiver. In such essential cases, you can
email us at tickets@in.pycon.org
and we will help you through the necessary details.
As stated in the vision of PyCon India 2019 team, we would like the
conference to be as inclusive as possible. Here are a few things we
can assure our physically challenged / neuro-divergent attendees, to
ensure they have a comfortable and safe environment to connect with
the Python community.
Content
We will ensure our website in.pycon.org is
accessible, and that our website follows accessibility guidelines.
We will ensure that announcements (like speaker details, schedule,
etc) that we circulate before the conference, is accessible.
We will avoid the presence of blinking text, glaring colors in the
announcements.
We will ensure that sign boards are designed with good contrast
between background and foreground, so that it is visible clearly.
Registration
For those who cannot use our ticketing platform, an alternative
booking mechanism through NEFT transfer will be provided. Please
contact tickets@in.pycon.org
During the registration, you can specify if you have a
disability. We will contact you directly to find your needs. We
will accommodate requests on a best efforts basis.
If you need a caretaker, you can specify during registration. We
can have a special discounted ticket for a caretaker to accompany
you.
Venue Accessibility
We have ensured the following at both the venues:
Main entrance, meeting rooms and lunch area are wheelchair
accessible.
Ramps near the main entrance will have "No Parking" signs to
ensure the way to ramps are not blocked.
Wheelchair accessible restrooms are available at the venue.
Doorways and important routes are at least 32 inches wide.
Stage is accessible for wheelchair users.
Empty spaces in front or back of halls for wheelchair users.
Elevators in the venue where applicable have Braille markings.
Direction signage with optional distance information.
Proper lighting in the pathways to make the navigation easier.
The pathways will be obstacle free. The stall owners, volunteers
and attendees will be briefed on the importance, of this.
Layout information and the session schedule, will be provided in
advance.
During Session/Conference
We will make lapel mic available for people with disabilities.
Keep a few chairs reserved in the front for people with visual and
hearing disabilities.
The printed session schedule will also be available
electronically, in large print.
Presenters will be reminded that all slides, videos and visual
demos will need to be described as part of the spoken
presentation.
Volunteers to help with slide advancement.
Request presenters to ensure presence of Closed Captions (CC) if
there is any video displayed.
Volunteers and Medical Support
A dedicated contact number to call in case of any need or
issue. We will share this with you a few days before the
conference.
Paramedics will be available at the venue. Their contact
information and contact information on local doctors, hospital
facilities will be provided.
Volunteers/Office Bearers will be sensitivised to the needs of the
physically challenged and neuro-divergent participants.
We hope to collect the feedback from the participants with
disabilities so that any gap in facilities can be filled in future
events and the best practices can be emulated.
If you have any specific needs, you can enquire at
contact@in.pycon.org. We are ready to
help.
There are a gazillion things to be gained attending PyCon India. Unfortunately, it takes time to sit and compose a neat little email to send to your boss enumerating them. Now consider that atleast half of our attendees attempt to do that, we would lose so many hours of productivity reinventing the wheel ;) . So PyCon India is here to save the day. We have composed a "Convince The Boss" letter to save you time. Of course, feel free to edit it as you like, remove some, add some or use as is.
Important Notes
You do not need to keep all the points. Remove ones you deem unnecessay. The shorter it is, the better the chances that your boss will read it.
Watchout for the {TEMPLATE_VARIABLES}. You need to replace them with information relevant to you. Don't let them escape you.
The Letter
Dear {BOSSNAME},
I am excited to brief you about PyCon India, India's premier conference on using and developing the Python programming language that takes place in Chennai from October 12-15, 2019. About a 1000+ of the industry's Pythonistas from different fields are bound to be in attendance for the 11th edition of this mega event.
It would be great if I get an opportunity to attend this conference as there will be innumerable benefits for me as an individual which will in turn impact the organization as well. To list a few:
{OPTIONAL} I am particularly keen on attending this {TALK/WORKSHOP/DEVSPRINT} on {TOPIC} presented by {SPEAKER-NAME} as our {PROJECT/UPCOMING PROJECT} is based on this.
Exposure to the actionable best practices & tools that we could use in our projects, saving money and time spent exploring different options.
Provides a forum to get a sneak peek at upcoming innovations.
Provides a platform to unmask the rationality behind the trending technologies like ML/AI, Automation, Web development, Software development, IOT and more that use Python.
Learning technologies from a wide array of talks, workshops, keynotes speech, developer sprints each presented by inspiring and enthusiastic industry experts, community leaders and many young minds delving into new technologies.
Opportunity to network with like-minded people from diverse backgrounds including geek programmers, enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, scholars, intellectuals and many more.
A chance to spread the word about our company and create goodwill about the opportunities and incentives the employees are given. This will be the ideal way to attract future employees from an diversified talent pool.
{OPTIONAL} As a {WOMAN/PERSON WITH VISUAL DIFFICULTIES, etc}, attending the conference will also demonstrate to the tech community that our company takes diversity in our workforce very seriously. Innovative thinking and better products come from teams that are diverse covering more ground.
There is an Early Bird ticket offer on for the first 300 tickets sold before 30th June 2019 and it costs only Rs 1100. Booking later (or after the first 300 tickets) would cost Rs 1600. The tickets include access to all PyCon India keynotes & talks, sponsor showcase, community spaces, an official PyCon India T-shirt along with lunch and high-tea in the evening for both days (12th-13th October).
I would be happy to write a post-conference report detailing what I've learnt and to recommend any changes that we could implement to improve our practices. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I hope we make use this opportunity for the benefit of our company.
We are happy to announce that David Beazley is a keynote speaker
for PyCon India 2019!
David Beazley is an independent computer scientist, educator, and
researcher living in Chicago. He is the author of the Python Cookbook
(O'Reilly) and Python Essential Reference (Addison-Wesley) and has
been involved with Python since 1996.
We are glad to introduce our first keynote speaker Ines Montani.
Ines is a developer specialising in applications for AI technology.
She’s the co-founder of Explosion and a core developer of spaCy, one of
the most popular libraries for Natural Language Processing in Python,
and Prodigy, an annotation tool for radically efficient machine teaching.
She can be reached at her twitter handle:
@explosion_ai.
PyCon India is a community run event. What
that means is, there is no one person or organization behind the
event. People who love the language come together and help in ways
they can, to run the event. And here is the opportunity for you to
be a part of the community.
But before you register to volunteer, there are few things you should
be aware of -
Volunteering takes time and effort, sometimes a lot of it. Online
activities like handling social networks or handling registrations
etc take a lot of time. So if you're volunteering, make sure you
can allocate sufficient time.
If you're volunteering for offline activities e.g. on spot
registration or settings up stages or handling video recording,
anything that has to be done on the venue during the event, there
is a good chance that you won't be able to attend the sessions. If
someone needs you, you have to be there.
Volunteering is not a free way into the event. At PyCon India,
everybody buys a ticket. Even the event organizers buy tickets. We
volunteer because we love Python and PyCon, and want the event to
be awesome.
If you're still interested in volunteering, here is what you should do next:
Register for volunteering in this
form. The
corresponding workgroup lead will get in touch with you, when he /
she needs support.
You can pro-actively "Watch" the following repos for activity and
track the progress being made. If you can contribute to any of the
issues, please feel free to pitch-in.
Hope this article has served as a starting point for volunteering. If
you have any questions, please drop a mail to the mailing list, but
make sure to check the mailing list
archives, for answers,
before posting.
The vision of PyCon India 2019 team is to create a responsible and
inclusive framework, that brings together Pythonistas from diverse
backgrounds and provides them multiple avenues to interact
effectively, so that the beauty and the magic of the community can
happen.
Responsible
As much as we want to run a great conference, we would also like to
take all possible steps to ensure that the impact on the environment
is minimized. We will take steps to ensure that food wastage is
reduced, single-use anything is avoided, and we will proactively
recycle waste generated during the conference.
Inclusive
We would like to ensure that the conference approaches everyone with
respect, and that we resolve differences peacfully. In particular, we
will proactively extend our invite to women, provide support for
students, and ensure that people with disabilities feel welcome at the
conference.
Diverse
Python as a language has become an indispensible tool, not just to
programmers, but to people from various backgrounds like system
administrators, security researchers, test automation engineers,
educators, hardware designers, doctors, scientists, mathematicians,
accountants, etc. We would like to ensure that the conference reflects
the diverse nature of the community itself. We believe that diversity
will result in cross-pollination of ideas, knowledge, and experiences,
making the conference richer, and the community stronger.
Multiple Avenues
While talks form the core of the conference, we understand people have
different ways of expressing themselves. Some would be good at doing a
talk, others would prefer showing a demo of their work, there will
also be some others who would like to just interact by writing more
code. So apart from the talks, the conference will have posters,
workshops, dev. sprints, lightning talks, open spaces, and a lot more
ways for people to interact, and benefit from the event.
Beauty and Magic of the Community
We all know that during the conference, people get to share their
ideas and learn from others. But that benefit is just the tip of an
ice-berg. There is lot more to it. People get inspired from other
people's work, make new friends, reconnect with old friends, get their
first job, and so on. These bonds and relationships open up doors to
endless possibilities. After the conference, the world will not be
quite the same place, and we are teaming up to make that magic happen!
