PyBerlin 53 - 🌷🌷 April event 🌷🌷

Agenda:

• 18:30 - Opening doors of the venue

• 19:00 - Welcome to PyBerlin! // Organisers

• 19:10 - Welcome from the host - Ecosia

• 19:20 - Pixi - radically new ways to deal with Conda packages // Wolf Vollprecht
In this talk we are going to explore `pixi`. Pixi is a new package manager that is built for the Conda ecosystem. It comes with a few unique features: - project based workflow with a powerful task system - globally install your favorite developer tools into encapsulated environments - build packages for Python, Rust, C++, R, and many more languages from pixi projects

Speaker's bio:
Wolf is a long-time member of the conda and conda-forge communities. He is the original author of the mamba package manager, and now founder and CEO of prefix.dev where they try to re-imagine what's possible with Conda packages

• 19:50 - Short break

• 20:20 - Building Customer Support Agents // Noam Etten
Large Language Models (LLMs) and their surrounding ecosystem have finally matured enough to be seamlessly integrated into customer-facing applications. The time is now to start automating and embedding them into real-world services! I'll share how we built our AI-powered customer support agent using Python!

Speaker's bio:
Noam studied Applied Mathematics for AI in Italy and is now putting theory into practice at Nelly Solutions!

• 20:50 - Python internals: tips to understand better the current and future state of Python // Cristián Maureira-Fredes
Did you know python has many implementations, but most people use the standard one, which is written in C? In case you did know, or didn't this talk is for you. Understanding how things works are usually a good strategy in order to make more informative decisions on "what's better" or "what's faster" when writing code. But where to start? On this talk we will go through some CPython internals, and key concepts in order to understand the current C-extension modules, and what's happening with the Rust-extensions as well.

Speaker's bio:
Python enthusiast currently working at The Qt Company. Cristián is the team lead of the Qt for Python project (offering Python bindings to the Qt/C++ framework). On his free time, Cristián is a serial confernece and community organizer, currently being a Python Software Foundation Board member and Fellow.

• 21:20 - Closing session // Organisers

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 soon!