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After the final review round, we are now happy to announce the complete list of more than 200 accepted sessions.

EuroPython 2017 Session List

Here’s what we have on offer:

• 5 keynotes
  
• 157 talks
• 20 trainings
• 10 posters
• 4 interactive sessions
• 5 help desks
• 2 EuroPython sessions

for a total of 203 sessions, arranged in 5 tracks from Monday, July 10, thru Friday, July 14, in addition to the Beginners’ Day and Django Girls workshops on Sunday, July 9, and the Sprints on the weekend July 15-16.

Please see the session list for details and abstracts. In case you wonder what   poster, interactive and help desk sessions are, please check the call for proposals. 

Additional help desk slots available

We have 5 additional help desk slots available. If you are interested in arranging one, please see our Call for Proposals for details and contact program@europython.eu to submit your proposal. Organizers of help desks are eligible for a 25% ticket discount.

Schedule to be announced next week

Our program work group is now working hard on scheduling all these sessions. We expect to announce the final schedule by the end of next week.

We will use the same conference schedule layout as in previous years:

• Sunday, July 9: Beginners’ Day and Django Girls workshops; registration desk opens
• Monday - Friday, July 10-14: Conference talks, trainings, keynotes, help desks, interactive sessions, etc.
  
• Saturday - Sunday, July 15-16: Sprints

A typical conference day will open the venue at 08:30, have the first session around 09:00 and end at 18:30. Lunch breaks are scheduled for around 13:15. Please note that we don’t serve breakfast.

Aside: If you haven’t done yet, please get your EuroPython 2017 ticket soon. We will switch to on-desk rates in June, which will cost around 30% more than the regular rates.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

After trainings and talks, EuroPython is going (Coco)nuts! Join us for the EuroPython social event in Rimini, which will be held in the Coconuts Club on Thursday, July 13th. 

Tickets for the social event are not included in the conference ticket. They are now available in our ticket store (listed under ‘Goodies’) for the price of 25 €. The social event ticket includes an aperitivo buffet of Italian specialties, a choice of two drinks and a reserved area in the club from 19:00 to 22:00. The club will open to the general public after that. 

Leave the conference tickets fields blank if you only want to purchase social event tickets.

Take this opportunity to network and socialize with other Python attendees and buy your social event ticket now on the registration page.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

We are pleased to announce our next keynote speakers for EuroPython 2017: Aisha Bello & Daniele Procida

About Aisha

Aisha currently serves as vice chair for the Python Nigeria community. She has helped co-organized and support a number of Django Girls workshops in Namibia & Nigeria. She also is a co-organizer for PyLadies Nigeria. She is an ardent Tech and Python community enthusiast with a strong desire and passion for social change, women’s tech education and empowerment in Africa. In 2016 she won the Django Software Foundation Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial prize for her contributions to the community. Currently she works as an Associate Systems Engineer for Cisco Systems.

About Daniele

Daniele is an avid contributor to open source software and its communities. He has been a core developer of Django for over three years and recently joined the Django Software Foundation board. He works at Divio, where he helps support and develop open source Django products. Daniele is a veteran community builder. His contribution as part of the organising committee of PyCon Namibia has been key in establishing a successful Python community in Namibia.

The Keynote: The Encounter: Python’s adventures in Africa

A genuine encounter changes both parties. In this talk Daniele and Aisha will report on the dialogue opened up by recent PyCons and other Python events in Africa. They’ll discuss Python’s impact in countries including Namibia, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, and what open-source software means for Africa at large - and what the encounter means for Python too.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

We are pleased to announce our next keynote speaker for EuroPython 2017: Katharine Jarmul.

About Katharine

Katharine Jarmul is a pythonista and founder of Kjamistan, a data consulting company in Berlin, Germany. She’s been using Python since 2008 to solve and create problems. She helped form the first PyLadies chapter in Los Angeles in 2010, and co-authored an O'Reilly book along with several video courses on Python and data. She enjoys following the latest developments in machine learning, natural language processing and workflow automation infrastructure and is generally chatty and crabby on Twitter, where you can keep up with her latest shenanigans (@kjam).

The Keynote: If Ethics is not None

The history of computing, as it’s often covered in textbooks or talks, remains primarily focused on a series of hardware advancements, architectures, operating systems and software.

In this talk, we will instead explore the history of ethics in computing, touching on the early days of computers in warfare and science, leading up to ethical issues today such as Artificial Intelligence and privacy regulation.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

We have received an amazing collection of proposals. Thank you all for your submissions! Given the overwhelming quality of the proposals, we had some very difficult decisions to make. Nonetheless we are happy to announce we have published the first 140+ sessions.

Here’s what we have on offer so far:

• 100 talks
• 19 trainings
• 10 posters
• 2 interactive sessions
• 5 help desks
• 2 EuroPython sessions

for a total of 138 sessions in addition to the 3 keynotes we have already announced.

More sessions to come

More sessions will be announced early next week and the full schedule will follow. In total, we will again have more than 200 sessions waiting for you.

Please see the session list for details and abstracts. In case you wonder what  poster, interactive and help desk sessions are, please check the call for proposals.

Aside: If you haven’t done yet, please get your EuroPython 2017 ticket soon. We will switch to on-desk rates in June, which will cost around 30% more than the regular rates.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

We are pleased to announce our next keynote speaker for EuroPython 2017: Armin Ronacher

About Armin Ronacher

Armin Ronacher has founded a number of Python open source projects. Most notably, he is the creator of Flask, a popular Python web microframework. He is an experienced speaker at developer conferences and runs a popular blog where he shares his thoughts on open source, software development, and Python. In 2014, he received the Python Software Foundation Community Service Award for his work in the Python Open Source community.

Armin cares about well designed systems and APIs. He is currently working on Sentry, an open source crash reporting tool.

The Keynote: A Python for Future Generations

A journey through the current Python interpreter, some of the effects of its
leaky abstraction on the language design and how we could evolve the language to future proof it. Covers some practical and not so practical ideas based on experience in the JavaScript and Rust ecosystem.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

Thank you all for participating in last week’s talk voting. We have again broken a record, with more than 13,353 cast votes, a 22% increase compared to last year. We had almost 400 submissions to vote on.

Users voted on 47 sessions on average, with more than 50% of the users casting 24.5 or more votes (median):

A total of 284 users participated in the talk voting, compared to 254 users last year, so more than 20% of our attendees do like to actively participate in the selection of the talks. A pretty good indicator of how vibrant our community is.

The program work group will now evaluate the voting results and select the first set of highest rated talks before going into the review phase to work on the remaining talk submissions.

We plan to announce this first batch in the coming days.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

We are pleased to announce our next keynote speaker for EuroPython 2017: Jan Willem Tulp.

About Jan Willem Tulp

Jan Willem Tulp is an award winning data experience designer from The Netherlands. With his one-man company TULP interactive he creates custom data visualizations. 

Jan Willem has created visualizations for organizations such as Google, Scientific American, Nature, Popular Science, World Economic Forum, Unicef, Unesco, ESA and Philips. 

He speaks regularly at international conferences, and teaches a workshop on data visualization design. His work has been published in books and magazines and has been exhibited internationally. He has been a judge on visualization contests, such as National Science Foundation vizzies (USA) and Malofiej (Spain).

The Keynote: How to create inspiring data visualizations?

Many times data visualizations need to communicate insights clearly and effectively. But sometimes the goals of a visualization go beyond that: they need to inspire and engage people. 

But how do you draw them in? What is the process behind creating a creative data visualization? 

During this talk, I will show some of my projects, and explain a little about the process behind it.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2017 Team
http://ep2017.europython.eu/
http://www.europython-society.org/

Following some good suggestions from our community, we have updated the UI for the talk voting page to improve the usability:

• not voted is now the default value
• not interested is now being saved to the database (you may now use this to track better what you have reviewed already)

More about the talk voting in the original announcement.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2017 Team
http://ep2017.europython.eu/
http://www.europython-society.org/

We are pleased to announce our first keynote speaker for EuroPython 2017: Tracy Osborn.

About Tracy

Tracy Osborn is a designer, developer, and entrepreneur living in Toronto, Canada.

Tracy holds a Bachelors degree in Art & Design. She taught herself how to do websites as a kid, learned how to program and launched WeddingLovely, an online wedding planner to help them track, plan, and design their perfect wedding day.

She’s also the author, designer, and publisher of Hello Web App, a self-published book series on beginner web app development with Python and Django.

She’s been an active member and developer of the Django Software Foundation for three years. In her spare time, she’s an avid outdoorswoman and would love to go on a hike with you.

The Keynote: The Different Roads We Take

We’ve all taken different routes to get to where we are today, and we’re not all currently on the same road going the same place. Tracy Osborn will talk about the idea of the “Python engineer,” her (long and full of bumps and potholes) journey to learning and teaching Python, and the harmful myths about learning programming and the paths available when you do so.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2017 Team
http://ep2017.europython.eu/
http://www.europython-society.org/