Accepted Talks

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