PyCon US 2013

The largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language.

158 speakers

Coverage of PyCon US 2013

160 sessions

Workshops Day 1 Wednesday 13th March 2013

• 9:00am Digital signal processing through speech, hearing, and Python

  presented by Mel Chua

• 9:00am A beginner's introduction to Pydata: how to build a minimal recommendation engine.

  presented by Zach Howard, Diego Maniloff and Amr Hiram

• 9:00am IPython in-depth: high-productivity interactive and parallel python

  presented by Min RK, Brian Granger and Fernando Perez

• 9:00am Python for Programmers: A Project-Based Tutorial

  presented by Christine Cheung, Katharine Jarmul and Alexandra Strong

• 9:00am Faster Python Programs through Optimization

  presented by Mike Müller

• 9:00am A hands-on introduction to Python for beginning programmers

  presented by Jessica McKellar

• 9:00am Pyramid for Humans

  presented by Paul Everitt

• 9:00am Going from web pages to web apps with Python

  presented by Asheesh Laroia and Karen Rustad

• 1:20pm Bayesian statistics made simple

  presented by Allen Downey

• 1:20pm Learn Python Through Public Data Hacking

  presented by David Beazley

• 1:20pm Python beyond the CPU

  presented by Mark Florisson, Andy Terrel and Travis Oliphant

• 1:20pm Hands-on Intermediate Python

  presented by Matt Harrison

• 1:20pm Code to Cloud in under 45 minutes

  presented by John Wetherill

• 1:20pm Analyzing Social Networks with Python

  presented by Jacqueline Kazil, Alex Kouznetsov and Maksim Tsvetovat

• 1:20pm Rapid Web Prototyping with Lightweight Tools

  presented by Andrew Montalenti

• 1:20pm Effective Django

  presented by Nathan Yergler

Workshops Day 2 Thursday 14th March 2013

• 9:00am An Introduction to scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python

  presented by Jake Vanderplas

• 9:00am Python for Data Analysis

  presented by Travis Oliphant, Peter Wang and Benjamin Zaitlen

• 9:00am Fully Test-Driven Web Development with Django and Selenium

  presented by Harry Percival

• 9:00am Shiny, Let's Be Bad Guys: Exploiting and Mitigating the Top 10 Web App Vulnerabilities

  presented by Mike Pirnat and David Stanek

• 9:00am Python Epiphanies

  presented by Stuart Williams

• 9:00am Documenting Your Project in Sphinx

  presented by Brandon Rhodes

• 9:00am Scripting: from Hard-drive to Github to PyPI

  presented by Matt Harrison

• 9:00am A Gentle Introduction to Computer Vision

  presented by Anthony Oliver and Katherine Scott

• 1:20pm Contribute with me! Getting started with open source development

  presented by Jessica McKellar

• 1:20pm Wiring up Django Packages

  presented by Audrey M. Roy, Daniel Greenfeld, Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Kenneth Love

• 1:20pm Applied Parallel Computing with Python

  presented by Ian Ozsvald and Minesh B. Amin

• 1:20pm Advanced Machine Learning with scikit-learn

  presented by Olivier Grisel

• 1:20pm Python 3 Metaprogramming

  presented by David Beazley

• 1:20pm Intermediate Twisted: Test-Driven Networking Software

  presented by Itamar Turner-Trauring

• 1:20pm Introduction to PyGame

  presented by Richard Jones

• 1:20pm Introduction to SQLAlchemy

  presented by mike bayer

• Applied parallel computing with Python

  presented by Ian Ozsvald and Minesh B. Amin

Conference Day 3 Friday 15th March 2013

• 9:00am Opening Statements

  presented by Jesse Noller

• 9:30am Keynote

  presented by Eben Upton

• 10:50am Gittip: Inspiring Generosity

  presented by Chad Whitacre

• 10:50am How to Except When You're Excepting

  presented by Esther Nam

• 10:50am Composability Through Multiple Inheritance

  presented by Łukasz Langa

• 10:50am Messaging at Scale at Instagram

  presented by Rick Branson

• 10:50am How the Internet works

  presented by Jessica McKellar

• 10:50am The Naming of Ducks: Where Dynamic Types Meet Smart Conventions

  presented by Brandon Rhodes

• 11:30am Funding and Coordinating Python Projects via Non-Profits

  presented by Bradley M. Kuhn

• 11:30am This Old Video Site: How PBS streams video - and you can too!

  presented by Edgar Roman

• 11:30am The End Of Object Inheritance & The Beginning Of A New Modularity

  presented by Augie Fackler and Nathaniel Manista

• 11:30am Rethinking Errors: Learning from Scala and Go

  presented by Bruce Eckel

• 11:30am Scrapy: it GETs the web

  presented by Asheesh Laroia

• 11:30am Windows 8 Apps and Python (Making Money in the Windows App Store)

  presented by Steve Dower

• 12:10pm So you want to write an interpreter?

  presented by Alex Gaynor

• 12:10pm Making DISQUS Realtime.

  presented by Adam Hitchcock

• 12:10pm API Design for Library Authors

  presented by Chris McDonough

• 12:10pm Better Documentation Through Automation: Creating Sphinx Extensions

  presented by Doug Hellmann

• 12:10pm Kivy: Building GUI and Mobile apps with Python

  presented by Thomas Hansen and Mathieu Virbel

• 12:10pm The Magic of Metaprogramming

  presented by Jeff Rush

• 1:40pm You can be a speaker at PyCon!

  presented by Anna Ravenscroft

• 1:40pm Python: A "Toy" Language

  presented by David Beazley

• 1:40pm Python 3.3: Trust Me, It's Better than 2.7

  presented by Brett Cannon

• 1:55pm Twisted Logic: Endpoints and Why You Shouldn't Be Scared of Twisted

  presented by Ashwini Oruganti

• 1:55pm PyPy without the GIL

  presented by Armin Rigo and Maciej Fijałkowski

• 1:55pm Measuring and modeling the complexity of children's books

  presented by Jeff Elmore

• 2:35pm sys._current_frames(): Take real-time x-rays of your software for fun and performance

  presented by Leonardo Rochael

• 2:35pm Loop like a native: while, for, iterators, generators

  presented by Ned Batchelder

• 2:35pm Encapsulation with descriptors

  presented by Luciano Ramalho

• 2:35pm Visualizing Github, Part I: Data to Information

  presented by Dana Bauer and Idan Gazit

• 2:35pm Fighting Cancer with Python

  presented by Erik Evensen

• 2:35pm Using futures for async GUI programming in Python 3.3

  presented by Dino Viehland

• 3:15pm The SQLAlchemy Session - In Depth

  presented by mike bayer

• 3:15pm Python Profiling

  presented by Amjith Ramanujam

• 3:15pm Visualizing Github, Part II: Information to Meaning

  presented by Dana Bauer and Idan Gazit

• 3:15pm Music Theory and Performance Analysis with Sebastian and Czerny

  presented by James Tauber

• 3:15pm Blame it on Caesar: What you need to know about dates, times and time zones

  presented by Lennart Regebro

• 3:15pm The Guts of Unicode in Python

  presented by Benjamin Peterson

• 4:15pm Awesome Big Data Algorithms

  presented by Titus Brown

• 4:15pm Deploy your Python app in 5 min with a PaaS

  presented by Nate Aune

• 4:15pm Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python

  presented by Raymond Hettinger

• 4:30pm EduPsych Theory for Python Hackers: A Whirlwind Overview

  presented by Mel Chua

• 4:30pm Elasticsearch (Part 1): Indexing and Querying

  presented by Erik Rose

• 4:30pm If You Code, You Should Write

  presented by Brian Jones

• 5:10pm Whoosh, the open-source Python search library

  presented by Matt Chaput

• 5:10pm SimpleCV - Computer Vision using Python

  presented by Katherine Scott

• 5:10pm Planning and Tending the Garden: The Future of Early Childhood Python Education

  presented by Kurt Grandis

• 5:10pm Make More Responsive Web Applications with SocketIO and GEvent

  presented by Luke Sneeringer

• 5:10pm Write the Docs

  presented by James Bennett

• 5:10pm Functional Programming with Python

  presented by Mike Müller

• 6:00pm Salt Stack BoF OpenSpace

  presented by Thomas S Hatch

Conference Day 4 Saturday 16th March 2013

• 8:30am Lightning talks

• 9:00am Keynote

  presented by Jessica McKellar

• 9:40am What makes Python Awesome?

  presented by Raymond Hettinger

• 10:50am Boundaries

  presented by Gary Bernhardt

• 10:50am Python for Robotics and Hardware Control

  presented by Jonathan Foote

• 10:50am Python's Law

  presented by Stephen McJohn

• 10:50am Getting started with automated testing

  presented by Carl Meyer

• 10:50am 5 powerful pyramid features

  presented by Carlos de la Guardia

• 10:50am So Easy You Can Even Do It in JavaScript: Event-Driven Architecture for Regular Programmers

  presented by Glyph

• 11:30am Scaling community diversity outreach

  presented by Jessica McKellar, Asheesh Laroia, Daniel Choi and Dana Bauer

• 11:30am Who’s there? - Home Automation with Arduino/RaspberryPi

  presented by Rupa Dachere

• 11:30am Copyright and You

  presented by Frank Siler

• 11:30am Things to make writing tests easier

  presented by Chris Withers

• 11:30am Pyramid Auth Is Hard, Let's Ride Bikes

  presented by Chris McDonough

• 11:30am Cython vs SWIG, Fight!

  presented by Mark Kohler

• 12:10pm What teachers really need from us

  presented by Selena Deckelmann

• 12:10pm Building an image processing pipeline with Python

  presented by Franck Chastagnol

• 12:10pm Why you should use Python 3 for text processing

  presented by David Mertz

• 12:10pm Mobile Application Testing with Python and Selenium

  presented by Jason Carr

• 12:10pm Dispatch Magic

  presented by Ben Bangert

• 12:10pm Death by a thousand leaks: what statically-analysing 370 Python extensions looks like

  presented by David Malcolm

• 1:40pm Designers + Developers: Collaborating on your Python project

  presented by Mark Lavin and Julia Elman

• 1:40pm Solid Python Application Deployments For Everybody

  presented by Hynek Schlawack

• 1:40pm Panel: Directions for Packaging

  presented by Éric Araujo, Nick Coghlan, Jim Fulton, Daniel Holth, Jason R. Coombs and Richard Jones

• 1:55pm How (Not) To Build An OSS Community

  presented by Daniel Lindsley

• 1:55pm Teaching with the IPython Notebook

  presented by Matt Davis

• 1:55pm Python at Netflix

  presented by Jeremy Edberg, Corey Bertram and Roy Rapoport

• 2:35pm Who are we? A sociological analysis of the indigenous Python tribe

  presented by Jacqueline Kazil

• 2:35pm Logical Failures

  presented by Luke Sneeringer

• 2:35pm Building full-stack scientific applications in Python

  presented by Luke Lee

• 2:35pm Chef: Automating web application infrastructure

  presented by Kate Heddleston

• 2:35pm Customizing the Django Admin: The How and the Why

  presented by Lakshman Prasad

• 2:35pm Location, Location, Location

  presented by Julia Grace

• 3:15pm Community Event Planning

  presented by Christie Koehler

• 3:15pm Let Them Configure!

  presented by Łukasz Langa

• 3:15pm Numba: A Dynamic Python compiler for Science

  presented by Siu Kwan Lam, Mark Florisson and Travis Oliphant

• 3:15pm Making Apache suck less for hosting Python web applications.

  presented by Graham Dumpleton

• 3:15pm Beyond Passwords: Secure Authentication with Mozilla Persona

  presented by Dan Callahan

• 3:15pm Realtime Tracking and Mapping of Geographic Objects using Python

  presented by Ragi Burhum

• 4:15pm All-Singing All-Dancing Python Bytecode

  presented by Larry Hastings

• 4:15pm Crypto 101

  presented by Laurens Van Houtven

• 4:15pm Python's Class Development Toolkit

  presented by Raymond Hettinger

• 4:30pm Sink or swim: 5 life jackets to throw to New Coders

  presented by Lynn Root

• 4:30pm Porting Django apps to Python 3

  presented by Jacob Kaplan-Moss

• 5:10pm Lessons Learned in Teaching Python

  presented by Christine Cheung and Alexandra Strong

• 5:10pm MTO On Blast: Using Python's Natural Language Toolkit to Model Gossip Blogs

  presented by Robert Elwell

• 5:10pm Integrating Jython with Java

  presented by Shashank Bharadwaj and Jim Baker

• 5:10pm What is the Python Software Foundation?

  presented by Brian Curtin

• 5:10pm Asset Management in Python

  presented by Robert Kluin and Beau Lyddon

• 5:10pm Dynamic Code Patterns: Extending Your Applications with Plugins

  presented by Doug Hellmann

• 5:40pm Lightning talks

Conference Day 5 Sunday 17th March 2013

• 8:30am Lightning talks

• 9:00am Keynote

  presented by Van Lindberg

• 9:20am Keynote

  presented by Guido van Rossum

• 10:00am Poster Sessions

• 1:10pm Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

  presented by Mirabai Knight

• 1:10pm Elasticsearch (Part 2): Configuration and Deployment

  presented by Erik Rose

• 1:10pm How Import Works

  presented by Brett Cannon

• 1:10pm Distributed Coordination with Python

  presented by Ben Bangert

• 1:10pm ApplePy: An Apple ][ emulator in Python

  presented by James Tauber

• 1:10pm Iteration & Generators: the Python Way

  presented by Luciano Ramalho

• 1:50pm Using Python to Code by Voice

  presented by Tavis Rudd

• 1:50pm Going beyond the Django ORM limitations with Postgres

  presented by Craig Kerstiens

• 1:50pm Become a logging expert in 30 minutes

  presented by Gavin M. Roy

• 1:50pm Worry-Free Parsers with Parsley

  presented by Allen Short

• 1:50pm "Good enough" is good enough!

  presented by Alex Martelli

• 1:50pm PyNES: Python programming for Nintendo 8 bits.

  presented by Guto Maia

• 2:30pm Internationalization and Localization Done Right

  presented by Ruchi Varshney

• 2:30pm A Crash Course in MongoDB

  presented by Andy Dirnberger

• 2:30pm Server Log Analysis with Pandas

  presented by Taavi Burns

• 2:30pm Purely Python Imaging with Pymaging

  presented by Jonas Obrist

• 2:30pm Namespaces in Python

  presented by Eric Snow

• 2:30pm Use curses, don't swear

  presented by Sean Zicari

• 3:10pm Closing Address

  presented by Jesse Noller

• 4:10pm Lightning talks

• 4:30pm Sprint introductions

Sprints Day 6 Monday 18th March 2013

Sprints Day 7 Tuesday 19th March 2013

Sprints Day 8 Wednesday 20th March 2013

Sprints Day 9 Thursday 21st March 2013

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