Name: PyLadies Paris Python Talks #19
Start: 2025-03-25T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-25T21:30:00+01:00
Location: OCTO Espace Meetup

Dear PyLadies [💚](https://emojipedia.org/green-heart/)🐍

Our next **on-site** event is coming on the 25th of March featuring
𓆙 **Anna Astori** from **Cigna Group** and **Julia Wabant** \*\*.\*\*
and continuing with
[⚡](https://emojipedia.org/high-voltage) **lightning talks** where **you** can take 3 mins to talk about anything Python or tech related (more below)

**🌟Agenda** (preliminary)

18h30 - 18h45 Come and take your seat

18h45 - 19h00 Welcome by PyLadies Paris and Octo Technology

19h00 - 19h30 **Building an LLM-backed chatbot with Chainlit** by **Anna Astori**

19h30 - 20h00 **Rustyfing Python: A Synergistic Approach to High Performance** by **Julia Wabant**

20h00 - 20h20 Lightning talks

20h20 - 22h00 Snacks and Networking

**🌟 Anna Astori** from Cigna Group
**Talk Title**: **Building an LLM-backed chatbot with Chainlit**
**Abstract**: If you’re interested in Generative AI, building a chatbot application sounds exciting, right? But creating the web UI can quickly become overwhelming, especially if you don't have much experience. That’s where Chainlit comes to the rescue! In this talk, you’ll see how you can quickly build pretty sophisticated interactive chatbots and integrate generative AI models using Chainlit. We’ll also cover features such as testing and debugging, streaming responses, and more advanced backend settings.
**About Anna:** Anna Astori is a Software Engineer. She is also a co-organizer of PyLadies Boston, Women Techmakers Ambassador, and formerly the Director for Women Who Code Boston.

**🌟Julia Wabant**
**Talk Title**: Rustyfing Python: A Synergistic Approach to High Performance
**Abstract**: This talk explores the synergistic combination of Python and Rust for high-performance software development. While Python's dynamic typing and interpreted nature excel in rapid prototyping and development, its performance limitations become apparent in complex applications. Rust, with its static typing and compilation to native code, provides a powerful solution for optimizing computationally demanding tasks. By leveraging Rust's native performance within Python projects, we achieve a compelling balance: the flexibility and ease of development offered by Python coupled with the raw speed and efficiency of Rust. This talk showcases practical examples of integrating Rust into Python projects, demonstrating how to build a single package, and ultimately achieve streamlined development, deployment, and execution.
**About Julia :** Julia Wabant is a seasoned developer with 7 years of experience building and deploying Machine Learning solutions across various industries. She has a deep understanding of the entire ML lifecycle, from data preparation to model training, deployment and monitoring. Beyond industry experience, Julia is also a passionate educator, having spent significant time in the last 4 years teaching programming, mathematics, data science and machine learning to students, developers, and executives. As a Google Cloud and AWS certified Machine Learning specialist, Julia is well-versed into both cloud platforms and their role in powering modern ML applications.

**Get ready for lightning talks:**
Many of you told us that you would like to give a talk, but your project is not mature enough.
You no longer have to worry about it. Come and practice your public speaking during the 3 minutes time-slot.
Some ideas on what you can talk about:

* Python library or function you love or which you recently discovered,
* article you've read
* your journey into Python
* conference you have attended

You can decide anytime before the start of lightning talks or you may want to prepare up to one slide (in pdf format) which you can send us the latest on the 11th of March to paris@pyladies.com

**Octo Technology** will be our host and sponsor of the food and the drinks during the networking session after the talks: thank you [💚](https://emojipedia.org/green-heart/) and special thanks to Loic from Octo n for all the support.

**Important info**

#1:❗For safety reasons, the venue's staff will check everyone's identity on site. 📝Please remember to bring an ID with you and register for the event with your real name and family name. Thank you!

#2: Please be on time. We can’t guarantee a seat once the meetup has started

\# 🔍 FAQ

Q. I'm not female, is it ok for me to attend?

A. Yes, PyLadies Paris events are open to everyone at all levels.

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