Schedule

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Time	Lefthand Room (Seminar Room 3)	Central Room (Seminar Room 2)	Righthand Room (Seminar Room 1)	Open Space (Breakaway Room 3)
Thursday (03 oct)
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	Open Spaces
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	Open Spaces
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