Schedule

Wednesday (04 oct)
Time Tutorial Room
09:00 - 13:00 Airflow - beyond the basics (and also some basics)
by sheena
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Thursday (05 oct)
Time Main Hall Talk Room 1 Talk Room 2 (Remote Talks)
08:30 - 09:00 Coffee / Tea Break
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Ceremony
09:30 - 10:30 Green coding with Python
by Rudi Giesler
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 - 11:45 Packaging for your database schema, schema migration.
by Iwan Vosloo
Receipt Enhancement using Image Processing
by Verosha Pillay & Divyan Hirasen
Supercharge Your Django Apps: Unveiling Performance Secrets with the Magic of Django Silk!
by Vishrut Kohli
11:45 - 12:30 How to build a data pipeline without data: Synthetic data generation and testing with Python
by Ruan Pretorius
Unlocking Efficiency: Python-Powered DOI Creation Automation
by Sydil Kupa & Zanele Kukuma
PRQL: A Modern Language for Data Transformation
by Tobias Brandt
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15 Reaching New Heights in Python Education: Success of the 2023 Coding Summer School
by Binjamin Barsch
Open Space Introduction to Data Stream using River
by Tajudeen Akinosho
14:15 - 15:00 From Chaos to Zen: Lessons Learned from Developing User-Friendly APIs
by Stefan Van der Merwe
Effective prompt engineering for Python programmers
by Diana Pholo
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee / Tea Break
Friday (06 oct)
Time Main Hall Talk Room 1 Talk Room 2 (Remote Talks)
08:30 - 09:00 Coffee / Tea Break
09:00 - 09:45 Leveraging python in Geospatial Applications
by Admire Nyakudya
Dynamically serving REST endpoints for database stored procedures with FastAPI
by Kim van Wyk
How do domain-specific chatbots work? An Overview of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
by Cory Zue
09:45 - 10:30 Django security for novices
by Ronald Maravanyika
Don't use VSCode
by James Smith
Making Jupyter notebooks less awful
by Laura Richter
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 - 11:45 Toolsmithing: convenience through code
by Jeremy Thurgood
Building Simple yet Effective APIs for the City of Cape Town: A Python-Powered Approach
by mockards
Open Space
11:45 - 12:30 turtle-bots: simulated beginnings
by campey
No Talk Scheduled
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 13:45 Durban Maker Space
by Steve Gray
13:45 - 14:30 Lightning Talks
14:30 - 14:45 Closing
14:45 - 15:00 PyConZA 2024 venue discussion
Saturday (07 oct)
Time Sprint Venue
09:00 - 18:00 Sprints
Sunday (08 oct)
Time Sprint Venue
09:00 - 18:00 Sprints

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