6th Annual Mini PyCon 2018

On May 1st, join PyLadies for Mini PyCon 2018, an exciting version of the the largest annual gathering for the community that uses and develops the open-source Python programming language.

Come check out talks from local Pythonistas, who submitted their proposals at PyCon 2018.

All PyPeople are welcome. Please note all attendees should abide by the Code of Conduct (http://www.ladynerds.org/code_of_conduct/)

A huge thank you to Yelp (https://www.yelp.com/) for hosting us and providing food and drinks!

Schedule:

6:00pm: Check in, eat, and mingle
6:30pm: Talks start, short Q&A after each
7.00pm - Doors close. After this time we are no longer letting attendees in.
9:00pm Wrap up

Talks:

Speaker: Deanna Hood, Open Source Robotics Foundation
Title: Diving into the Python ROS interface: How does it communicate with other languages?
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Speaker: Joyce Jang, Shift
Title: Build Teams as an Engineer
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Speaker: Anna Widiger
Title: Your first NLP project: peaks and pitfalls of unstructured data
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Speaker: Alaina Kafkes, Medium
Title: Exploring the Linguistics Behind Regular Expressions
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Speaker: Lisa Roach, Facebook
Title: Demystifying the Patch Function
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Speaker: Sara Packman, Clover Health
Title: The Journey Over the Intermediate Gap
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** If you submitted a proposal at PyCon 2018, identify as a woman or non-binary and you are interested in presenting your talk during our event, please let us know at sf@pyladies.com! We are aware that the selection process was extremely difficult, so we are interested in both accepted and rejected talks. Thank you! **