BayPiggies May 2026 - AI Agent REPLs, Side hustles, PyCon

BayPIGgies... in-person at SAP Labs in Palo Alto!

IMPORTANT NOTE: We are starting 30 minutes earlier than usual

IMPORTANT NOTE 2: SAP requires all registrations be completed in advance - and will email you prior to the event -- so no last minute registrations will be honored, and no walk-ins will be allowed.

**RSVP here on Meetup by the evening of Monday May 25**

Announcements:

• Bay Area Python Association updates
• We have new PSF fellows from the Bay Area: Chris Brousseau, Karen Dalton, Phebe Polk, James Abel
• PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach, CA May 13-19 https://us.pycon.org/2026/

Schedule:

• 6:00 Register and Refreshments
• 6:30 Welcome + Announcements
• 6:35 Lightning Talk - Popular Python Packages Series
• 6:40 Short Talk - PyCon 2026 Recap
• 6:50 Short Talk - Side hustle infrastructure
• 7:10 Main Talk - Give Your Agents REPLs
• 7:45 Networking
• 8:00 Wrap-up

**** Talks *****

"Side hustle infrastructure" - presented by Phebe Polk
Side hustles, and side hustle scams, are common on Instagram. Have you ever wondered what kind of infrastructure powers them? Wonder no more.
Phebe Polk is our 2026 PyBay conference chair!

"Give Your Agents REPLs" - presented by Kyle Kelley
LLM agents can write Python all day. The problem is they have the memory of a goldfish. Every run starts from scratch: re-import the libraries, re-load the dataframe, re-fit the model, re-discover what you already told them. Notebooks fix that. This talk is about handing a Python REPL to an agent so state actually sticks around, outputs are rich, and a human can watch (and intervene) in the same document in realtime. Live demos in nteract.
Kyle Kelley is a Principal Engineer at Anaconda, formerly Netflix, Rackspace.

Important attendance note: SAP requires everyone to sign a confidentiality and security disclosure to maintain confidentiality and adhere to SAP's physical security protocols during your visit to SAP's facility. This applies to all guests. All attendees must show a Government-issued ID, and sign the SAP Security form to enter the event.

Register by Monday (midnight) May 25!

Thank you, SAP Labs, for sponsoring and hosting this month's meeting!

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