PythonWA Meetup December - Python Frontiers End of Year Super Panel

For our December meetup, we’re excited to host a Q&A session focused on Python Frontiers — the rapidly evolving edges of what Python can do. Python is expanding well beyond its traditional roots in data science, back-end web development, and general-purpose scripting. We’ll explore how the language is both competing and collaborating with Rust, C, and JavaScript, as well as how it’s pushing into new territories such as mobile development, front-end experiences, cloud-native ecosystems, and physical automation.

Our panel of speakers will share insights from real-world projects, discuss emerging tooling and trends, and help us understand where Python is headed next. Whether you’re curious about cross-language interoperability, the future of Python on new platforms, or how these advances might shape your own work, this session will offer a forward-looking and engaging discussion.

Our panelists

Dr Russell Keith-Magee is the founder of the BeeWare project, a project developing GUI tools and libraries to support the development of Python software on desktop and mobile platforms. He joined the Django core team in 2006, and was the President of the Django Software Foundation for 5 years. He joined the CPython core team in 2024. He is a frequent speaker at Python and Django conferences around the globe, sharing his experience as a FLOSS developer, community maintainer, and (unsuccessful) startup founder. In his day job, he is a Principal Engineer at Anaconda, working on BeeWare in the OSS team.

Bruce Cooper is a freelance developer and software architect with over 30 years experience, working in start ups, big tech, and everywhere in between. He helped launch Amazon Go, Amazon Books and Amazon One whilst he lived in the USA. These days he works as a freelance engineering consultant in Boorloo. In his spare time, Bruce likes to tinker with home automation and home brewing, sometimes crossing the streams to make beer brewing gadgets.

Andrea Zonnekus is a Senior Developer at Endava with expertise in Python, JS, AWS, data science and cloud technologies. She has delivered solutions across mining, finance, healthcare and education sectors. Passionate about innovation, Andrea actively promotes knowledge sharing and won a hackathon award. She holds degrees in Computer Science and East Asian Languages

A big thanks to our
Food sponsor: Horizon Digital
Beverage sponsor: Gage Roads
Venue sponsor: Spacecubed
Hosting sponsor:Ben Fitzhardinge