Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy)

Join us for an exciting talk night at Github's Bellevue office!

Agenda:
5:30-6pm: Doors open/networking
6-6:10pm: Opening remarks
6:10-6:35pm: Talk #1
6:35-6:50pm: Intermission
6:50-7:05pm: Lightning talk
7:05-7:30pm: Talk #2
7:30-7:40pm: Closing remarks
After party to follow at Lucky Strike Bellevue (700 Bellevue Way NE Suite #250, Bellevue, WA 98004)

What we'll do:
This event will feature the following presentations:

Talk #1: Kicking Your Robot Out Of The Nest
Speaker: Jonathan Parke
Description: Buttons and touchscreens are great but sometimes you just need to send your embedded project out into the world. This talk will show you how to connect your Circuit Python project to the internet and how to build a simple Django project to enable two-way communication with it through a browser.

Lightning talk: Luna, Mochi, and the Graph of Seattle
Speaker: Shoumik Gandre
Description: What Dog Names Reveal About Neighborhood Identity with NetworkX, Wikidata, and Seattle Open Data

Talk #2: Weather or Not : Full Stack Data Science from Cornfield to API
Speaker: Quentin Caudron
Description: Sparse sensors. Vast fields. Thirty thousand square kilometres, eleven variables, one Gaussian Process. This talk is about what it takes to ship that model : the engineering decisions behind Polars, GPyTorch, Zarr, FastAPI, and OpenTelemetry in a production data science system.

What to bring:
Since this is a talk format meetup, you don't need a computer. Food will not be provided.

Building access:
The elevators lock at 6pm. If you arrive after 6pm we unfortunately cannot guarantee you will be able to access the event.

Parking:
There is paid parking in the Skyline garage underneath the building, accessible via 110th Ave NE between 4th and 6th going southbound only

Transit:
GitHub is near the Bellevue Downtown link station and the Bellevue transit center which provide attendees with a number of options for getting to the event.