Talks Schedule

Talks: Monday, October 15

Tutorials are a separate registration and are $195 per session. Buy tutorial tickets before they sell out!

• 8:00 am

  • Registration

    In front of Salon A

• 8:00 am 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Santa Fe 3

• 8:30 am 9:30 am

  • Breakfast

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 9:00 am

  • Orientation and Welcome

    All

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

• 9:30 am

  • Opening Comments

    All

    Salon A-E

• 9:40 am

  • Keynote with Chloe Condon

    All

    Salon A-E

    Chloe Condon

• 10:30 am

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 11:00 am

  • BDD (Behavior Driven Development) Testing for Django Apps

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Le Xiao

  • Wagtail CMS - Making Django More User (and Developer) Friendly

    Beginner

    Salon F-H

    Sara Heins

• 11:30 am

  • A Python-Driven Web App Framework with Django, Channels, and React

    Advanced

    Salon A-E

    Kendall Chuang

    Henry Olson

  • Code Review Skills for Pythonistas

    All

    Salon F-H

    Nina Zakharenko

• 12:20 pm

  • An Intro to Docker for Djangonauts

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Lacey Williams Henschel

  • Herding Cats with Django: Technical and social tools to incentivize participation

    All

    Salon F-H

    Sage Sharp

• 12:50 pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

  • Early Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 1:40 pm

  • Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion

    Balsamic glazed chicken, cavatappi with roasted vegetables in marinara sauce, minestrone soup, caprese and Caesar salads, desserts

• 2:20 pm

  • Containerless Django: Deploying without Docker

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Peter Baumgartner

  • Transfer those Skills! How to Identify, Communicate, and Sell your Transferable Skills when Switching Careers

    Beginner

    Salon F-H

    Caroline Taylor

    Rebekah Post

• 3:10 pm

  • Building Workflows With Celery

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Josue Balandrano Coronel

  • Autonomous Vehicles, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and yes, Django!

    All

    Salon F-H

    Ken Whitesell

• 3:40 pm

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 4:10 pm

  • Elasticsearch: Accelerating the Django Admin

    All

    Salon A-E

    Kate Kligman

  • Auto-generating an API using PostgreSQL, Django, and Django REST Framework

    Intermediate

    Salon F-H

    Mjumbe Poe

• 5:00 pm

  • Packaging Django Apps for Distribution on PyPI

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Laura Hampton

  • A Bossy Sort of Voice: Uncovering gender bias in Harry Potter with Python

    All

    Salon F-H

    Eleanor Stribling

• 5:30 pm

  • It's about time

    All

    Salon A-E

    Russell Keith-Magee

  • Becoming a Multilingual SuperHero in Django

    All

    Salon F-H

    Sanyam Khurana

• 6:30 pm 8:00 pm

  • Opening Reception

    Our opening reception is on the West Lawn at the Marriott. Light appetizers and non-alcoholic drinks will be served.

Talks: Tuesday, October 16

• 8:00 am 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Santa Fe 3

• 9:00 am 10:00 am

  • Breakfast

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 10:00 am

  • Opening Comments

    All

    Salon A-E

• 10:05 am

  • Your web framework needs you!

    All

    Salon A-E

    Carlton Gibson

• 10:15 am

  • Keynote with Anna Makarudze

    All

    Salon A-E

    Anna Makarudze

• 11:00 am

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 11:30 am

  • Simpl framework, big impact!

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Joseph Lee

    Jane Eisenstein

  • Finally Understand Authentication in Django REST Framework

    Intermediate

    Salon F-H

    William S. Vincent

• 12:20 pm

  • Introduction to Django and GraphQL

    All

    Salon A-E

    Patrick Arminio

  • Here Come The Robots - Django and Machine Learning

    All

    Salon F-H

    Tom Dyson

• 12:50 pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

  • Early Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 12:50 pm

  • Women & Non-Binary Table Talks Luncheon

    Balboa I & II

    Microsoft's Cloud Advocates

• 1:40 pm

  • Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion

    Carne asada or chicken tacos, tortilla soup, Southwest salad, rice & beans, desserts

• 2:20 pm

  • JavaScript for Python Developers

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Žan Anderle

  • When your wetware has too many threads - Tips from an ADHDer on how to improve your focus

    All

    Salon F-H

    Aaron Bassett

• 3:10 pm

  • Serverless Django with Zappa

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Dane Hillard

  • One Engineer, an API, and an MVP: Or how I spent one hour improving hiring data at my company.

    All

    Salon F-H

    Nicole Zuckerman

• 3:40 pm

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 4:10 pm

  • Fundamentals of Kubernetes for Django developers

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Graham Dumpleton

  • Python on your phone: Building mobile apps with Kivy

    Intermediate

    Salon F-H

    Derek Payton

• 5:00 pm

  • "Normalize until it hurts; denormalize until it works" in Django

    All

    Salon A-E

    Flávio Juvenal

  • We Are 3000 Years Behind: Let's Talk About Engineering Ethics

    All

    Salon F-H

    Hayley Denbraver

• 5:30 pm

  • What's in a Name? Your Guide to the Wacky World of DNS

    Beginner

    Salon A-E

    Ashley Sullins

  • Building a Community for All People

    All

    Salon F-H

    Jennifer Konikowski

• 6:00 pm

  • DSF, PSF, DEFNA, and DjangoCon US Organizers Meet and Greet

    Marriott Lobby

• 6:00 pm 10:00 pm

  • Board Game Night

    Salon E

Talks: Wednesday, October 17

• 8:00 am 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Santa Fe 3

• 9:00 am 10:00 am

  • Breakfast

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 10:00 am

  • Opening Comments

    All

    Salon A-E

• 10:05 am

  • Keynote with Mariatta Wijaya

    All

    Salon A-E

    Mariatta Wijaya

• 11:00 am

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 11:30 am

  • Django REST Framework: Moving Past the Tutorial to Production

    All

    Salon A-E

    Drew Winstel

  • Anatomy of Open edX - a modern online learning platform serving over 35 million users

    Intermediate

    Salon F-H

    Nate Aune

• 12:20 pm

  • Easier Classes: Python Classes Without All The Cruft

    All

    Salon A-E

    Trey Hunner

  • Pseu, Pseu, Pseudio. Pseudonymization in Django.

    Beginner

    Salon F-H

    Frank Valcarcel

• 12:50 pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

  • Early Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 1:40 pm

  • Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion

    Herb garlic roast chicken, soup of the day, salad bar, desserts

• 2:20 pm

  • Strategies for Zero Down Time, Frequent Deployments

    All

    Salon A-E

    Nick Humrich

  • Unique ways to Hack into a Python Web Service

    All

    Salon F-H

    Tilak T

• 3:10 pm

  • ORM: The Sequel

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Katie McLaughlin

  • How to give a damn, and stand out

    All

    Salon F-H

    Amber Wanner

• 3:40 pm

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 4:10 pm

  • Data internationalization in Django

    Beginner

    Salon A-E

    Raphael Michel

  • Bespoke communication devices for kids with autism built with Django and Raspberry Pi

    All

    Salon F-H

    Muriel Green

• 4:40 pm

  • The Power of GeoDjango

    All

    Salon A-E

    Anna Kiefer

  • Real Life Accessibility: Have you HEARD your site?

    All

    Salon F-H

    Mike Herring

• 5:10 pm

  • "State of Django" Panel

    All

    Salon A-E

    Simon Willison (moderator)

• 6:00 pm

  • Closing Comments

    Salon A-E