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Keynote Speaker Selection
Wes McKinney is an American software developer and businessman. He was the CEO and founder of technology startup Datapad. He is the creator and "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL) of the open-source pandas package for data analysis in the Python programming language, and has also authored two versions of the reference book Python for Data Analysis. McKinney is one of the co-creators of the Apache Arrow project. He worked as a software engineer for Cloudera following their acquisition of Datapad in 2014.
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Luciano is the author of "Fluent Python". He is a principle consultant at Thoughtworks. Below are a few links to his social network profiles:
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Adrian Holovaty is an American web developer, journalist and entrepreneur from Chicago, Illinois, living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is co-creator of the Django web framework and an advocate of "journalism via computer programming". His Profile & Social media link are below:
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Roger is one of the original developers of Tor. He is leading privacy researcher, coordinating developers and researchers. He is student of mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering. Here are the list of awards he won. Below are links to his profiles
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Kenneth Reitz is the author of popular Python library "Requests". Because of his contribution to Python and Open-source, he doesn't need further description.
He keynoted in PyCon India 2013.
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Brett Cannon is a Python core developer. Below are links to his profiles.
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The founder of Explosion AI and the author of SpaCy.
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Martin Fowler is an author of several popular books. He has spoken to many conferences on topics like design of enterprise software, software development. He is one of the initial Agile signatory members. Below are links to his profiles.
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Tim Graham is a full-time Django fellow working under Django Software Foundation. He is popular for his contributions to Django framework. Below are links to his profiles.
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Jennifer Helsby is a lead developer at SecureDrop project. She is a TOR core member. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Astrophysics. Below are links to her profiles.
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Awesome speaker and one of the greatest explainer of key python concepts.
Note: He was the keynote speaker in 2011.
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Armin Ronacher is the creator of the Flask Web Framework and principal software engineer at sentry.io. Below are a few links to his social network profiles:
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She's a Python Core Developer.
She received the PSF Community Service Award in Q3 2018. 1 She was the second female CPython Core developer, one of only 5 today. She has given a talk at PyCon about what being a CPython Core Developer means. 2
She has done a lot toward improving CPython's development workflow and making CPython development more accessible to first time contributors. She is also the author of PEP 581. She's a co-organizer of the PyLadies Vancouver Meetup and a co-chair of PyCascades.
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Limor Fried is an American electrical engineer and owner of the electronics hobbyist company Adafruit Industries, which designs and resells open source electronic kits, components, and tools, mainly for the hobbyist market. As part of their work at Adafruit, she maintains an education friendly derivate of MicroPython, called CircuitPython. She runs weekly live show "Ask an Engineer" and "Show and Tell", to promote engineering, especially among women and children.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6EReqtFR0Y - Meet the Makers: Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limor_Fried - Wiki
- https://www.ladyada.net/ - Personal Blog
- https://github.com/ladyada - Github
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She is the chair of the Python Software Foundation , co-founder of the Trans Code, a super active PyLady, a great teacher (will be able to help during the sprints also) and above all a super amazing, helpful human being.
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The other co-founder of Explosion AI and Core contributor to spaCy. She was a keynote speaker at EuroPython 2018.
- Web: https://ines.io/
- Github: https://github.com/ines
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/_inesmontani
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Devi is an independent software consultant and a trainer with an experience of more than 12 years in the industry. She has given couple of talks and a workshop at PyCon India before, which were very well received. She has done M.Tech in Computational Science from IISc, before which she tried out teaching mathematics.
She is a consistent and valuable part of Python India community. I remember PyCon India 2012 when I first met this mom of 2, she was one of (unfortunately) very few women Python programmer in our community. She is giving courage to many of us, the women in our community. Now it is high time that I think we should appreciate her and let all the newbies and everyone be inspired.
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The main reason I propose him is because of his impact on the up and coming generation as well as his commitment in helping them grow. This point was driven home when for the DjangoGirls workshop this month, one of the mentors was one of his students. To inspire and teach someone to grow and get them to a position where they can help others is an extremely important and admirable trait.
I don't know if he fits the bill exactly on all the criteria that Anand Pillai mentioned in one of the earlier emails, but from his own personal technical open source contributions, to his sincere & passionate effort in mentoring people, to his approachable attitude all contributes to a keynote worthy character for mainly the younger generation of programmers to look up to, communicate with, and learn from.
Oh yeah, and I recently figured out he is quite an awesome artist too.
Website: http://www.sayanchowdhury.com/
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Imran runs E2E’s cloud computing operations and initiatives using his extensive experience in cloud computing, networking, and open-source software. During the initial stages of his career, he worked on Wireless Network protocols (IEEE 802.11) and he continued pursuing his interest in Wireless Network Protocols by researching and submitting his thesis in MS in Information and Communication (by Research). Imran has been an avid user and supporter of Open Source and has deployed FOSS solutions on different domains for leading organizations and educational institutions. At E2E Networks, he follows the same Open Source passion to help teams create innovative, creative, efficient, and reliable products and solutions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-imran-k-r-b115157/ https://www.e2enetworks.com/team/mohammed-imran/
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He having good number (15+) of experience using python person and for many conferences key note speaker and on recent time he is one speaker AGILE DAY 2019.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-verma-india/
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(https://twitter.com/ChristianHeimes). He is Python core developer/PSF fellow, Security engineer and he works as principal software engineer at RedHat. I have attended his keynote last year, he spoke about security and python, it was quite good.
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He's a maintainer of PyPI, organizer for the PyTexas conference and a member of the Python Packaging Authority. He's given multiple talks related to Python and software development in general and would bring an interesting perspective IMO.
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She's the co-chair of PyCascades 2019 (with Mariatta), the lead maintainer of urllib3, the lead maintainer of packaging.python.org and a member of the Python Packaging Authority and Packaging Working Group.
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He did contribution to Mathematical Tool called sage which uses python. A mathematician using python in Teaching. It is good to have people like him giving keynote.
Website: https://www.imsc.res.in/~amri/
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Anand Babu Periasamy is the creator of GlusterFS (Gluster the company behind it, was acquired by RedHat) and MinIO. He is an ardent supporter of "Free" Software, and he is an early contributor to the GNU project. His current work, MinIO, is built around Go, but he is a polyglot, and his all round perspective about programming languages and will be a great addition to the conference. He will also be a great inspiration to the participants, in terms of building businesses around free and open source software.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abperiasamy/
- YourStory: https://yourstory.com/2016/02/ab-periasamy/
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He has been instrumental in organizing SciPy India for about 10 years now, I think having him as a speaker would be a good idea. In addition to his credentials, he'd also be a great addition since the international speakers are not from academia. I've met him in person had extremely positive interactions with him.
Website: https://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu/
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