Schedule

Wednesday (02 oct)
Time Tutorial Room 1 Tutorial Room 2
08:30 - 09:00 Coffee / Tea Break
09:00 - 13:00 Modern web frontend development with Python, HTMX and friends
by Sheena O'Connell
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 18:00 Modern web frontend development with Python, HTMX and friends (part 2)
by Sheena O'Connell
Thursday (03 oct)
Time Lefthand Room (Seminar Room 3) Central Room (Seminar Room 2) Righthand Room (Seminar Room 1) Open Space (Breakaway Room 3)
08:30 - 09:00 Coffee / Tea Break
09:00 - 09:10 Opening Ceremony
by James Smith
09:10 - 10:10 Exploring the Adoption & Role of Open Source Software in Schools
by Robson Kanhalelo
10:10 - 10:20 Community & Contributions
by Marco Slaviero
10:20 - 10:25 Setup Change Break
10:25 - 11:10 It’s About Time: Time-Series Forecasting with Darts
by Brenden Taylor 		No Talk Level up your developer experience with Kubernetes
by Roché Compaan
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee / Tea Break
11:30 - 12:15 Leveraging the NLTK library for Translation: A Case Study of Dyula-French Translation
by Alta Saunders 		Sensor data processing on microcontrollers with MicroPython
by Jon Nordby 		A Novel Way of Creating Multi-Tenant Apps using Django... No Third Party Packages Apply!
by Shaun De Ponte 		Open Spaces
12:15 - 13:00 Monitoring and Evaluating LLM Apps with Langfuse
by Ruan Pretorius 		No Talk Streamlining HPC Operations: Integrating Django Helpdesk in Resource-Constrained Environments
by Binjamin Barsch
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Creating Personalised Images with Python's Stable Diffusion
by Divyan Hirasen & Verosha 		Accelerate your pandas workload using FireDucks at zero manual effort
by Sourav Saha 		Power to the people who teach the people to code
by Sheena O'Connell 		Open Spaces
14:45 - 15:30 Building a Decisioning Engine for Data Scientists: A Practical Guide
by Sholto Armstrong 		Differentiation Engines: The Elves behind the AI Christmas
by Rajdeep Singh 		Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Tech
by Schalk Venter
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee / Tea Break
16:00 - 16:05 Software Development at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory
by SARAO
16:05 - 16:45 Lightning Talks
16:45 - 17:00 PyCon Africa & PyConZA 2025 discussion
by Neil Muller
Friday (04 oct)
Time Lefthand Room (Seminar Room 3) Central Room (Seminar Room 2) Righthand Room (Seminar Room 1) Open Space (Breakaway Room 3)
09:30 - 09:45 Coffee / Tea Break
09:45 - 10:15
10:15 - 11:00 Made you look: Using Siamese Neural Networks for Building Change Detection at the City of Cape Town
by Jolanda Becker 		Building a Thriving Tech Community
by Adeline Makokha 		Harnessing the Power of Community: Lessons from Speedrunning for the Python Ecosystem and Beyond
by Nunudzai Mrewa 		Open Spaces
11:00 - 11:15 Professional Software Isn’t
by Marco Slaviero
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee / Tea Break
11:30 - 12:15 Applying AI with Python
by Alex Conway 		Adventures in Garbage Collection
by Bruce Merry 		Kafka in practice: Lessons learned at Takealot
by Johan Beyers 		Open Spaces
12:15 - 13:00 Great Expectations About Data Quality
by Ariella Rink 		Implementing an HPy Backend for Cython
by Du Toit Spies 		Maintaining a PLC communication library called python-snap7 without owning a PLC
by Gijs Molenaar
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 You don't need a data service, you just need an object store and some JSON files
by Gordon Inggs 		Beyond the Pause: Exploring the Inner Workings of Python’s `sleep()`
by Rupali Kavale 		Bridging Language Barriers: Making Programming Education Accessible to All
by Mthetho Sovara 		Open Spaces
14:45 - 15:30 Duck, Duck, Python: OLAP Data with DuckDB
by Luis de Sousa 		Building a Code Search Engine: Using NLP to Find Similar Methods Across Libraries
by Divya Rani 		& robotics for all!
by :David Campey
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee / Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30 Lightning Talks
16:30 - 17:15 Using Coding Skills to Make Passive Income
by Cory Zue
17:15 - 17:30 Closing Ceremony
Saturday (05 oct)
Time SKAO Offices, Black River Park (Sprint Venue)
09:00 - 20:00 Sprints
Sunday (06 oct)
Time SKAO Offices, Black River Park (Sprint Venue)
09:00 - 20:00 Sprints

Thinkst Canary
Python Software Foundation SARAO
AWS City of Cape Town
Afrolabs Centre for High Performance Computing
Black Python Devs