PyData Southampton - 22nd Meetup

Venue: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST
📢 Want to speak 📢: submit your talk proposal

Main Talks
1️⃣ Astronomers have too many images. What they really want is time series - Zac Irving
To study how celestial objects vary over time, astronomers need time series (measurements of an object's brightness over time). However, telescopes don't produce time series; they produce images. Astronomers therefore need software to reduce their telescope's images into time series. Unfortunately, this software exists in "pieces" with various open-source projects like photutils or source-extractor providing pieces of the image-to-time-series puzzle, but ultimately leaving gaps for astronomers to overcome. As such, it has typically up to telescope operators to write full reduction pipelines for their telescopes; this has resulted in rigid pipelines that cannot easily be applied to data from other telescopes.

2️⃣ Applications with Azure AI Foundry - Shubhangi Goyal
In this session, we’ll explore how Azure AI Foundry helps developers and data professionals build, customize, and operationalize AI solutions using the latest in large language models (LLMs) and Azure’s trusted infrastructure. From prompt engineering to context management, model evaluation, and deployment, we’ll walk through how the Foundry enables you to move from experimentation to production faster and more securely.

Whether you’re building copilots, domain-specific agents, or generative AI apps , this session will help you understand how Azure AI Foundry streamlines the journey from idea to impact.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the core components of Azure AI Foundry (projects, hubs, model catalog, orchestration).
• Learn how to integrate OpenAI and custom models into Azure-based applications.
• See a demo or architecture walkthrough for deploying a contextual AI app.
• Discover how Foundry connects with Azure Machine Learning, and AI Studio

⚡Lightning Talks ⚡
⚡1️⃣ TBA
⚡2️⃣ TBA

Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. You MUST use your initial/first name and surname on your meetup profile, otherwise, you will NOT make it on the guest list! 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No further confirmation required. You will NOT need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in.
If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know so we can assign your place to someone on the waiting list.

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Code of Conduct:
This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct.
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There will be pizza & drinks, generously provided by our host, Carnival UK.
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Logistics
Doors open at 6.30 pm, talks start at 7 pm. For those who wish to continue networking and chatting we will move to a nearby pub/bar for drinks from 9 pm.

Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!

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