The PyCon US Blog

Our favorite time of the year is finally here! Registration for PyCon US 2022 is now open and we are so excited to give you the details... Health & Safety Guidelines To gather in-person again safely and protect the health and safety of our community, we have implemented COVID-19 guidelines and protocols to be followed by all attendees during the event. We ask that you  please review these guidelines  prior to registration.  Please note : The Health & Safety Guidelines will be updated based on new or current protocol suggested by the United States CDC at the time of the event. Please check our guidelines page regularly to stay up to date on current guidelines.  How to register Once you have created an account on the  PyCon US 2022 conference website , you can register via the registration button on your dashboard . Head over to our Registration Information page  to get all the details on how to register.  Registration Costs Corporate - $700 USD Individual - $400 USD Student

It's that time! PyCon US 2022’s Call for Proposals has officially opened for Talks, Tutorials, Posters, and Charlas. We are excited to gather in person again in Salt Lake City, UT, where all of our speakers will present their topics in person at the Salt Palace Convention Center . PyCon US is made by you, so we want you and your ideas at PyCon US! Please make note of the important deadline for submissions: All proposals are due December 20, 2021 AoE We need beginner, intermediate, and advanced proposals on all sorts of topics. We also need beginner, intermediate, and advanced speakers to give said presentations. You don’t need to be a 20-year veteran who has spoken at dozens of conferences. On all fronts, we need all types of people. That’s what this community is comprised of, so that’s what this conference’s schedule should be made from. For more information on where and how to submit your proposal, visit the main Speaking page on the PyCon US 2022 website . We've provided

With PyCon US 2022 planning underway, we are excited to be launching the conference website along with our sponsorship program. Our team is planning to host the event in person with an online component. Head over to the PyCon US 2022 website for details about the conference and more information about our sponsorship program. You will not want to miss the opportunity to be part of this event! If your organization depends on the Python ecosystem, check out our prospectus online, and sign up today !   The PSF's comprehensive sponsorship program allows organizations to support community programs financially and delivers a variety of benefits that provide visibility across PyCon US, pypi.org, python.org, and much more:  Outreach & Networking: Access to 2,000+ attendees interested in your products and services to generate qualified leads. Recruiting : Access to qualified job candidates. If you’re hiring, there’s no better place to find Python developers than PyCon US. Marketing :

Want to play a pivotal role in the planning and success of PyCon US? Here’s your chance! Join our team by volunteering for one of our Call for Proposal Committees. We are looking for motivated volunteers who want to contribute their time and knowledge to make this year’s conference a great success. As a committee member, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of the PyCon US staff team, meet and work with organizers, volunteers, and speakers, and share your diverse skillset with the Python community. PyCon US is seeking volunteers of all experience levels and backgrounds to join our Program, Tutorial, and Posters Committees. Learn more about each committee and where to submit your application on the PSF website . Thank you for considering this opportunity. PyCon US would not be a success without the support of community members like you!  

The PyCon US 2021 recordings are available on our YouTube channel .  Be sure to subscribe to our channel for notifications of new content. This channel will be used for all future conferences in order to keep all content in one channel. The recordings are synced with the available live captions taken during the event. There are some tutorials whose files did not align with the recordings for many unforeseen reasons. Please utilize the closed captions offered on YouTube for those without the caption files synced.  There are three tutorials that needs some fine tuning and will be available next week: Introduction to Decorators: Power UP Your Python Code / Geir Arne Hjelle Effective Data Visualization / Husni Almoubayyed A Hands-On Introduction to Multi-Objective Optimisation / Eyal Kazin We can not mention enough times our heartfelt gratitude to all the presenters of the tutorials, talks, keynote addresses, posters, workshops, summits and lightning talks for their time and efforts in

We’re pleased to announce our location for PyCon US for 2024 and 2025: It’s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! As PyCon US 2021 is taking place virtually, we’re excited to let you know about the next four years of in-person PyCon US conferences. When we announced the cancellation of our in-person events at PyCon US 2021, and confirmed our venue for 2022 and 2023 ( Salt Lake City, which we’d locked in before the pandemic even began ), we heard from so many of you that they were disappointed that we’d have to miss out on Pittsburgh entirely. We also recognize that as people are reluctant to travel long distances, we want people on the eastern side of North America to be able to look forward to another nearby PyCon with some certainty. With that in mind, we’re so pleased you’ll get another chance to take part in PyCon US and enjoy everything Pittsburgh has to offer! PyCon US will be held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh on the following dates: In 2024: May 1

2021 marks the tenth year that PyCon has granted booth space to early-stage startups that use Python in new and interesting ways. And what a decade it has been! Startup Row has given over 100 companies a platform to share what they're working on with the Python community, and the past ten years of Startup Row shows off the technical diversity and depth of the Python ecosystem. Ranging from data science and visualization, to many flavors of back-end tooling, productivity and communication platforms, super-niche software applications, and even a couple of hardware ventures, the flexibility of the Python language and its uses are on full display on Startup Row. Startup Row at PyCon 2021 Without further ado, here's the Startup Row lineup at PyCon 2021 (in alphabetical order): Bit.io is a cloud database company which allows data teams and data enthusiasts to upload, query, and share data repositories internally or with the world. Dagster is a data orchestration tool for machine l

The Salesforce team is looking forward to meeting you remotely at PyCon 2021! In the meantime, check out this case study on how they solved the challenge of assisting customer service agents in finding answers to customer problems. Problem Statement and Background The problem we are tackling here is assisting customer service agents in finding answers to customer problems accurately and fast. To answer customer questions, customer service agents typically rely on Information Retrieval (Search) systems fetching data from heterogenous data sources. These customer questions are often long text and not well-suited for a search system to handle as-is. To that end, we built a content-based recommendation system that matches incoming customer questions, in the form of a customer case or ticket, to the knowledge article that will help address the customer issue. Approach The system we built machine learns on a customer’s data corpus and returns the best matching articles when customers ask the

It is 2021! PyCon is almost here, and we are bringing the PyLadies auction to you this year! Yes, that is right. It will be in your living room or office or deck, wherever you decide to join us. Four words. Live. Virtual. Interactive. Auction. Yes, that is right. And not one, but two virtual events! We will kick off the event on Saturday, May 8, which is the weekend prior to the conference. During this event we will celebrate Pyladies over the past year (or two, because y’all know we lost a year). Then the auction will wrap up on the Saturday evening of PyCon, where items will begin to close one by one. Painting created and donated by Naomi Cedar Bidders will have one week to bid on some pretty awesome items. As you know the auction does not disappoint. With the auction items that have started to come in, we do not expect this year to be any different. Everything from amazing custom handmade fractal quilt to custom Python and Pyladies art. And just like previous auctions, there

Microsoft has been a Keystone PyCon sponsor for the past 3 years and is now proud to become a Visionary Sponsor for this year’s edition. They’re excited to share what’s new with Python at Microsoft, as well as their plans for the virtual PyCon experience this year. Check below to see what they have to say! We’re thrilled to be once more sponsoring PyCon. the event the Python team at Microsoft most looks forward to every year. Although we’re sad we still can’t see each other in person, with this year’s virtual edition we can connect with folks from all around the world, and that is truly amazing.    We’ve been working on many exciting new things over the past year, building and improving tools that can support you for all needs and in all phases of your Python development. We’re listing here a few of the things we're delighted to share out with the Python community, but we hope to talk more about them with you all during PyCon. With the goal of empowering Python development across t