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Our sponsors would love to get in touch with you, so please have a look and visit them at their sponsor exhibit channel on Discord or contact them via the links and email addresses given on the page.
Job ad emails
We will also send out job ad emails to attendees who have agreed to receiving these emails. If you are interested, please log in, go to your profile and enable the recruiting email option in the privacy section:
Note that we will not give your email addresses to sponsors, but only send out these emails on behalf of them.
We would like to remind you how you can configure your tickets and profiles, so that we get the right information for on-boarding you on our Discord server in the coming days and your communication preferences.
This is especially important in case you bought tickets for other people. Without having the registered on our website and assigned a ticket, we cannot on-board them to our Discord server.
Log in to the website
The first step to administer your tickets and account is to log in to the website. If you don’t have an account yet, you can register easily using email and password or Google authentication.
Please avoid creating multiple accounts, since this can easily cause confusion and merging accounts is currently not possible.
Assigning tickets to other people
If you are the buyer of the tickets, you can now assign the tickets to other people, e.g. in your company.
In order to assign tickets, the people you want to assign them to need to have an account on our system. Please tell them to register with the EuroPython website and provide you with the email address they use to register.
Once they have registered and you have the email address they used, you can then go to the ticket section and reassign the ticket:
Click on “Assign ticket” and then enter the email address of the person to assign the ticket to:
Clicking save will then transfer the ticket to the new user.
Configuring your ticket
If you have bought a ticket or have been assigned a ticket, please check the configuration of the ticket.
This will take you to a form where you can find the name as we will need it for the Discord registration, expected days of attendance and a (funny) tagline to put on the badge.
Printing your invoice
If you have bought tickets on the website, you will find the invoices for the tickets on your account page as well:
You can download the invoice in PDF format, print and save it to your records.
Configuring your EuroPython account
The website also provides a couple of other dialogs which allow you to configure your account:
The “Profile settings” allow you to edit the profile shown on the website. This is especially important for speakers, since their profiles will be public and associated with their presentations.
The “Privacy settings” dialog allows you to opt-in to recruiting emails from our sponsors (among other things):
If you happen to be looking for a new job or freelance opportunity, this is a good way to get more information from sponsors who will present in our recruiting session.
Siddha Ganju - 30 Golden Rules of Deep Learning Performance
“Watching paint dry is faster than training my deep learning model.” “If only I had ten more GPUs, I could train my model in time.” “I want to run my model on a cheap smartphone, but it’s probably too heavy and slow.”
If this sounds like you, then you might like this talk.
Exploring the landscape of training and inference, we cover a myriad of tricks that step-by-step improve the efficiency of most deep learning pipelines, reduce wasted hardware cycles, and make them cost-effective. We identify and fix inefficiencies across different parts of the pipeline, including data preparation, reading and augmentation, training, and inference.
With a data-driven approach and easy-to-replicate TensorFlow examples, finely tune the knobs of your deep learning pipeline to get the best out of your hardware. And with the money you save, demand a raise!
Naomi Ceder - Staying for the Community: Building Community in the face of Covid-19
Python communities around the world, large and small are facing loss - from the loss of in person meetups and conferences to the loss of employment and even the potential loss of health and life. As communities we are all confronting uncertainty and unanswered questions. In this talk I would like to reflect on some of those questions. What are communities doing now to preserve a sense of community in the face of this crisis? What might we do and what options will we have for coming events? How can we build and foster community and still keep everyone safe? What challenges might we all face in the future? What sources of support can we find? What are our sources of optimism and hope?
Alejandro Saucedo - Meditations on First Deployment: A Practical Guide to Responsible Development
As the impact of software increasingly reaches farther and wider, our professional responsibility as developers becomes more critical to society. The production systems we design, build and maintain often bring inherent adversities with complex technical, societal and even ethical challenges. The skillsets required to tackle these challenges require us to go beyond the algorithms, and require cross-functional collaboration that often goes beyond a single developer. In this talk we introduce intuitive and practical insights from a few of the core ethics themes in software including Privacy, Equity, Trust and Transparency. We cover their importance, the growing societal challenges, and how organisations such as The Institute for Ethical AI, The Linux Foundation, the Association for Computer Machinery, NumFocus, the IEEE and the Python Software Foundation are contributing to these critical themes through standards, policy advise and open source software initiatives. We finally will wrap up the talk with practical steps that any individual can take to get involved and contribute to some of these great open initiatives, and contribute to these critical ongoing discussions.
Jessica McKellar - Python in Prison: how open source can change a criminal justice system
The
United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with
over 2.2 million people behind bars in our prisons, jails, juvenile
facilities, and detention centers.
The
system is racist and ineffective, but how do we change something so big
and so economically entrenched, especially as software engineers?
Let’s
look at how Python classes in US prisons are transforming
rehabilitation and re-entry, and talk about what we can do as
individuals and as an open source community to dismantle an unjust
system.
Conference tickets are available on our registration page. We hope to see lots of you at the conference from July 23-26. Rest assured that we’ll make this a great event again — even within the limitations of running the conference online.
The shop is run on the Spreadshirt platform and so Spreadshirt will handle all payments, invoicing and shipping.
Since we’re running EuroPython 2020 as an online event, we will not be giving out conference bags or t-shirts this year, as we do for the in-person event. Instead, we give you the opportunity to choose among the many products we have put up in the shop, and order the color and size completely individually.
Any profit this creates will go towards the EuroPython 2021 financial aid budget, so will be put to good use.
Save 15% until July 5
Spreadshirt is giving a 15% discount on the prices until July 5, 23:59 UTC, so if you’re ordering in the next few days, you can still get your shirt in time for the conference.
Unfortunately, they don’t support shipping to the US, Australia, Brasil and a few other countries on their European shop system.
Since the US taxation system is too complex for us to handle at the moment, we have not created a corresponding US shop yet. We will look into this later this year.
After the 2nd CFP, we found that we had so many good talk submissions that we were able to open a fourth track. Together with the newly added slots for the Indian / Asian / Pacific and Americas time zones, we now have a fully packed program, with:
We are proud to have reached almost the size of our in-person event with the online version of EuroPython 2020.
Never miss a talk
All talks will be made available to the attendees as live Webinars, with easy switching between tracks, as well as online streams, which will allow rewinding to watch talks you may have missed during the day.
Conference Tickets
Conference tickets are available on our registration page. We have simplified and greatly reduced the prices for the EuroPython 2020 online edition.
As always, all proceeds from the conference will go into our grants budget, which we use to fund financial aid for the next EuroPython edition, special workshops and other European conferences and projects:
We hope to see lots of you at the conference in July. Rest assured that we’ll make this a great event again — even within the limitations of running the conference online.
Sprints
On Saturday and Sunday, we will have sprints/hackathons on a variety of topics. Registration of sprint topics has already started. If you would like to run a sprint, please add your sprint topic to the wiki page we have available for this:
If registrations continue as they currently do, we will have a few hundred people waiting to participate in your sprint projects, so this is the perfect chance for you to promote your project and find new contributors.
Participation in the sprints is free, but does require registration. We will provide the necessary collaboration tools in form of dedicated Jitsi or Zoom virtual rooms and text channels on our Discord server.
EuroPython is your conference
EuroPython has always been a completely volunteer based effort. The organizers work hundreds of hours to make the event happen and will try very hard to create an inspiring and exciting event.
However, we can only provide the setting. You, as our attendees, are the ones who fill it with life and creativity.
We are very much looking forward to having you at the conference !
Our program work group (WG) has been working hard over the last week to select the first batch of sessions for EuroPython 2020, based on your talk voting and our diversity criteria.
We’re now happy to announce the first 60 talks, brought to you by 61 speakers.
Tomorrow, we will open the second CFP to fill the additional slots we have added for the Americas, India/Asian/Pacific time zones. This will then complete the program for EP2020, with over 80 sessions by more than 80 speakers waiting for you — from all over the world !
Waiting List
Some talks are still in the waiting list. We will inform all speakers who have submitted talks about the selection status by email.
Full Schedule
The full schedule will be available shortly after we have completed the second CFP, later in May.
Conference Tickets
Conference tickets are available on our registration page. We have simplified and greatly reduced the prices for the EP2020 online edition.
As always, all proceeds from the conference will go into our grants budget, which we use to fund financial aid for the next EuroPython edition, special workshops and other European conferences and projects:
We hope to see lots of you at the conference in July. Rest assured that we’ll make this a great event again — even within the limitations of running the conference online.
After participating in several other online events in Europe, we found that there is a lot of interest in these events from other time zones as well. This is a real advantage of running an online event: without the need to travel, joining an event becomes much easier.
To make it possible for speakers from the Americas and India/Asia/Pacific regions to give talks at EuroPython 2020 as well, we have decided to extend the schedule and provide extra slots in the CEST morning and the evening hours, so that we can have almost 80 talk slots available, and run a second CFP with specific emphasis on submissions from outside the central European time zones.
Submitting a talk
We will run this second CFP from May 11 until May 24.
To submit a talk, please visit our CFP page on the website. This has all the necessary details on how to submit a talk.
We would also welcome submissions for helpdesks and posters, regardless of time zone, since we haven’t received any in the first CFP.
Results from the first CFP
The results from the first CFP will be announced on Sunday (May 10).
Now, just as many other in-person events, running the online version required a lot of research, experimentation, gaining knowledge in using online conference tools and finding a concept which would allow us to carry over as much of the in-person conference experience to the online version as possible.
This is an on-going effort, but we believe that our existing research will help other Python events go online as well and want to share this knowledge with you.
Running Online Conferences
The two central documents we have are:
EuroPython 2020 - Online Conference Tools This covers research on a lot of different tools available out there, our experience with them, hints and tips on how to use them effectively (esp. for Zoom and Discord).
EuroPython 2020 - Virtual Conference Concept Since we had to start afresh with the conference concept, we ran and still are running a brainstorming phase to come up with ideas and are now starting to materialize these into a concept, which we’ll use as basis for running EuroPython this year.
If you have questions around these documents and their content, feel free to contact us at helpdesk@europython.eu.
Sharing our Zoom Webinar and Pro licenses
In addition to sharing our research, we’d also like to share the Zoom Webinar and Pro licenses we have with other events, where possible. We have already shared them with:
The only thing we ask is that some of our work group members can participate in the event as co-host to observe and help, since we need to train and gain more experience in using these tools. As a bonus, we can also help with the configuration and share our existing experience.
Reach out to enthusiastic Python developers, users and
professionals worldwide by presenting your company at the first online
EuroPython conference ever, from July 23-26!
Sponsoring
EuroPython guarantees you highly targeted visibility and the opportunity to present yourself and your company in a professional and
innovative environment.
We have updated our in-person conference sponsor packages to the
new online format and lowered the prices, giving you an excellent
opportunity to reach out to attendees and even run your own virtual
rooms, text channels, talks and training sessions throughout the conference and sprint days.
You will also be able to post job ads on our website and the conference chat system, as well as get a mention and opportunity to give away digital swag via our virtual exhibit page.
In addition, as a sponsor of EuroPython 2020, you will directly help promote the
work of a great open-source community which has become a powerhouse of
technological development and innovation.
In order to keep things simple for the EuroPython 2020 online version, we have significantly reduced the ticket prices and refactored the ticket structure to just two ticket types and two categories:
Conference & sprint tickets
The conference & sprint ticket includes admission to the EuroPython 2020 main conference (July 23-24) and sprints days (July 25-26).
Business conference ticket: EUR 175.00 incl. 0% Swedish VAT (for people using Python to make a living)
Personal conference ticket: EUR 95.00 incl. 0% Swedish VAT (for people enjoying Python in their free time or as a freelancer)
Sprint-only tickets
Admission to the sprint days (July 25-26) is free of charge, but we still require you to register and “buy” tickets, since that way we can send out the conference details using our ticketing system:
Business sprint ticket: EUR 0.00 incl. 0% Swedish VAT (for people using Python to make a living)
Personal sprint ticket: EUR 0.00 incl. 0% Swedish VAT (for people enjoying Python in their free time or as a freelancer)
Full details
Please see our registration page for full details on the available tickets.
With conference tickets, you will also be able to participate in the talk voting which is still available until Sunday, April 26 23:59:59 CEST.
Talk voting is your chance to tell us what you’d like to see at EuroPython 2020.
Sprints-only tickets are not eligible for talk voting, but if you have bought a ticket for one of the previous EuroPython conferences, you can still vote after logging in to the website.
Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant
For Python Core Developers, we have put a special grant in place, which will allow core developers to get free tickets to the conference.
If you want to sign up, please check our grant page for details on how to apply.
