Lightning Talks

What, When & How?

Lightning talks are a space to give a short (strictly less than 5 minutes) talk to the whole conference. They're often funny, slightly strange, or informative -- and they're a great way to give a first talk at a conference.

We plan to have two sessions of lightning talks this year, on Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon

To submit a lightning talk, email a title and a one or two sentence description to team@za.pycon.org .

Thursday Lightning Talks

  • "Smells like SPA" by Sheena O'Connell
  • "A super-useful textual use case" by Kim van Wyk
  • "Graph and RAG" by Luis de Sousa
  • "Software Development for Extremely Busy Data Scientists” by Zander Horn
  • "shameless plug for City of Cape Town service alerts" by Gordon Inggs
  • "Caching at ESP (on the cheap)" by Dan Southwood-Wells
  • "CSS view transitions" by Schalk Venter

Friday Lightning Talks

  • "Ever since I was a child I knew I wanted to use Excel and work cross functionally across teams" by Muhammed Toufeeq Ockards
  • "Just Streamlit" by Binjamin Barsch
  • "Code Reviews Don't Have to Suck" by Jeremy Thurgood
  • "Diagrams worth a thousand l8nes of code" by lemuel lemuel

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