PyBerlin 60 - April event

PyBerlin: April event
Sponsor: Deepset
Location: Deepset, Zinowitzer strasse 1, 10115 Berlin, 3rd floor

Agenda:
6:30 pm – Doors open: snacks, drinks, networking
6:55 pm - Welcome from PyBerlin
7:00 pm - Welcome from the sponsor - Deepset

7:10 pm – How to stay visible, relevant, and grow in Tech’s biggest shift // Valentina Scipione
The AI shift is changing what companies build, how they hire, and what they expect from engineers. Underneath all the noise, the questions that come up most are still very human ones. What should I focus on next? How do I stay relevant? What actually makes a difference when everyone has access to the same tools?
This talk cuts through four common myths about tech careers in the AI era, reframes the "AI race" narrative, and explores what genuinely sets people apart, whether they are early in their career, deep into a job search, or a senior engineer thinking about what comes next.

Speaker's bio:
Valentina Scipione is an Engineering Manager and ICF-certified Career & Leadership Coach with 12+ years of experience in tech and a background in Astrophysics. She has led full-stack teams, hired and developed engineers, and coached software and data professionals through growth and career transitions. She works at the intersection of technical leadership and human development, helping people navigate change, find clarity in uncertain environments, and grow in the age of AI.

7:40 pm - break

8:00 pm – Scheduling a small conference with the z3 solver // Ben Clifford
Ben has helped organise an annual one day academic conference for the last 7 years. At some point, it got just slightly too annoying to schedule all the talks by hand, and Ben decided to overengineer a solution using the z3 SMT solver. It worked well enough that he did it again the next year.
This talk will cover: what an SMT solver is (spoiler: you give it constraints and it find solutions to those constraints), how the conference schedule was modeled as constraints, how this is embedded in Python to give a more normal helper language, and finally how to look for better solutions rather than just any solution.

Speaker's bio:
Ben has wide interest in programming languages, and this talk brings together a couple of his big interests: Python as his main work language and z3 implementing a more formal logic language. When he's not at work, he likes bikes and LEDs.

8:30 pm – TBA//TBA
9:10 pm - closing

This event will be only in-person. Please check our Code of Conduct and official health regulation in Berlin before coming. If you feel some signs of sickness, please consider skipping this event and attending another time. We will have plenty of events in different formats in the future.
Looking forward seeing you all!