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Hello and welcome to PyLadies!
PyLadies Vancouver is a Python programming group for women in the Vancouver area. We welcome people who have never programmed before, experienced programmers, and everyone in between.
At PyLadies we welcome all women, inclusive of trans women. Further we would like to extend a special invitation to nonbinary folks, as many (but not all) of the oppressions facing women in our industry are also experienced by nonbinary individuals. Persons with any gender identity are welcome to attend our meetups, but should respect that PyLadies Vancouver is a place where women's voices are centered.
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PyLadies is an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings.
PyLadies Vancouver reside and share knowledge on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations. We encourage participation from members from Indigenous communities across Canada.
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PyLadies Vancouver July Meetup
improving, 116 W 6th Avenue Suite 300, Vancouver, BC, CAJoin PyLadies Vancouver for our July meetup, hosted at Improving Vancouver! This month we have two talks on AI agents and large language models.
⚠️ Please RSVP through Luma, not Meetup: https://luma.com/3oxfwqry
Your spot is only confirmed once you register on Luma, so we can plan for the right headcount and space.Talk 1: What Happens When Your Agent Has to Wait for a Human by Melanie Warrick
You built an agent in Python. It reasons, calls tools, handles its own steps. Then it hits a step that needs a human to approve something, and that approval might take five minutes or five days. The process sits there holding all its state in memory, waiting, until it crashes and everything the agent figured out is gone. This talk is about that moment: the agentic loop, why its state is only as durable as the process running it, and how durable execution with Temporal makes the loop survive crashes and long waits. Includes a short live demo.
Melanie has been developing AI solutions for over a decade and leads developer relations at Temporal, focused on AI and durable execution.Talk 2: A Practical Introduction to Generative AI and Large Language Models by Daniel Chen
A grounded, practical look at how generative AI and LLMs actually work: how they generate responses, why the same prompt can give different outputs, and what that means for applications that need reliability. We'll also look at how LLMs fit into real data science workflows in Python, with a focus on building intuition for what these models can and can't do.
Daniel is a Data Science Lecturer in the Statistics Department at UBC and teaches for the UBC Master of Data Science program.Support PyLadies Vancouver
The event is free to attend. If you'd like to support us, donations help keep our meetups running, and a $25 donation gets you a PyLadies Vancouver tote bag: https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=60A huge thank you to Improving Vancouver for hosting us in their space and providing pizza for the evening! 🍕
## Thank you to our venue host: Improving Vancouver
Improving Vancouver is an IT consulting and software development firm (formerly Bit Quill Technologies) based in Vancouver, BC. They specialize in application development, data engineering, and AI solutions — helping teams build modern, scalable, data-driven applications. We're grateful for their support of the local Python community.
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