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Schedule

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Thursday, October 09, 2025

08:00 - 08:45
Ballroom
Registration & Tea/Coffee
08:45 - 09:05
Ballroom
Welcome & Announcements
09:05 - 09:50
Ballroom
Keynote: Dawn Gibson
by Dawn Gibson
09:50 - 09:55
Ballroom
Platinum Sponsor Spotlight: Valkey
09:55 - 10:30
Ballroom
Tea/Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15
Ballroom
AI Agents in Python: From Basics to Multi-Agent Systems
by Dirk Brand
Gala A
Python in the Trenches: From ERP to Everyday Impact
by Paul Ontong
11:15 - 12:00
Ballroom
Not losing our RAG: a thoughtful approach to knowledge bots
by Gordon Inggs
Gala A
Stop Scrolling, Start Searching: How I Built a Voice Note Search Engine with Python
by Andile Mbele
Gala B
Build It Once, Ship It Everywhere: Creating Reusable Python Packages
by Joseph Njogu
12:00 - 12:30
Ballroom
More than a Search Engine: Using Tools and Structured Outputs to Get the Most Out of Your Chatbot
by Jason Perlow
Gala A
Is Web Scraping Legal?
by Saurav Jain
Gala B
Streamlining Python Development with uv
by Steve Yonkeu
Boundary (Workshops)
Introduction to Valkey + Python
by Kyle Davis
12:30 - 13:30
Ballroom
Lunch
13:30 - 14:15
Ballroom
Sponsor Talk: Building Agentic AI applications using the open source Strands Agents SDK
by AWS
Gala B
Automated Testing Without the Pain
by Jeremy Thurgood
14:15 - 14:45
Ballroom
Ethically Hacking LLMs, AI agents - what threat actors can do to your training data that powers your agents to execute code remotely.
by Thembaletu Mbangcolo
Gala A
Beyond Code: Understanding the Emotional Dynamics of Python Communities
by Cecilia Tivir
Gala B
Setting up Robust Test Automation Frameworks with Python & Selenium
by Muti Aaron
Boundary (Workshops)
Getting Started with Plotnine: Data Visualisation with the Grammar of Graphics
by Hassan Kibirige
14:45 - 15:15
Ballroom
Pocket Polyglot Mzansi: Machine Translation for Local Languages on the Edge
by Stefan Strydom
Gala A
What does it mean to treat developers as consenting adults?
by Vanessa Mohr
Gala B
Multiple and predicative dispatch
by David Mertz
15:15 - 15:45
Ballroom
Tea/Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30
Ballroom
Framing a Python Career in a Tech Hype through Education
by Binyamin Barsch
Gala A
Qiskit & Qubits: A Hands-On Intro to Quantum Computing with Python
by Zenas Awuku
Gala B
Mastered python but still stuck? The hidden power of soft skills in your codebase.
by Sumaiya Nalukwago
16:30 - 16:35
Ballroom
Moving Rooms
16:35 - 17:20
Ballroom
Lightning Talks
17:20 - 17:30
Ballroom
End of Day Announcements