Keynote Speakers

<hr> <h2 style="text-align: center;" id="catherine">Catherine Devlin</h2> <p style="text-align: center"> <img style="max-width: 256px; border-radius: 25px; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px; border-color: #78ACA8;" src="/2018/site_media/media/images/2018/03/30/catherine.jpg" > </p> <p> Catherine is a database administrator and server-side programmer who works at the intersection of Python with data handling. She is author of IPython's <code>%sql</code> magic. For the past four years she's gone deep into civic data at at 18F, a Federal digital startup that helps other U. S. government agencies engage the public using up-to-date software design and practice. </p> <p> Catherine fell in love with the Python language and community at PyCon 2004 and has been a regular PyCon participant, volunteer, and speaker ever since. She speaks, organizes, and teaches Python at groups and events near her home in Dayton and around the region. She was the founding chair of PyOhio and hopes you'll return to Ohio for PyOhio 2018! </p> <hr> <h2 style="text-align: center;" id="dan">Dan Callahan</h2> <p style="text-align: center"> <img style="max-width: 256px; border-radius: 25px; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px; border-color: #78ACA8;" src="/2018/site_media/media/images/2018/04/02/dan.jpg" > </p> <p> Dan Callahan is a Developer Advocate at Mozilla, where he works to ensure that the future of the Web is driven by the needs of real-world developers. He also educates developers about emerging technologies such as Rust and WebAssembly that are transforming the Web into a more capable, resilient, and interactive medium. He previously led the Mozilla Persona project. </p> <p> Dan is an internationally recognized speaker, and has attended, volunteered, or spoken at over a dozen Python conferences in North America. This year marks his ninth PyCon. Last year, he helped secure a substantial grant from Mozilla's Open Source Support program for the redevelopment of the Python Package Index. The new PyPI is now live at pypi.org, or wherever you <code>pip install</code>. </p> <hr> <h2 style="text-align: center;" id="q">Qumisha Goss</h2> <p style="text-align: center"> <img style="max-width: 256px; border-radius: 25px; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px; border-color: #78ACA8;" src="/2018/site_media/media/images/2018/04/04/qumisha.jpg" > </p> <p> Qumisha, or Q as you may call her, is a librarian at the Detroit Public Library specializing in Technology and Library Instruction. With undergraduate degrees are in History and Classical Studies, Q is a self taught Pythonista and certified raspberry pi educator. </p> <p> Q currently runs a program at the Parkman Branch of the Detroit Public Library called Parkman Coders. The program has been running for about 3 years, and its primary focus is to teach children computational thinking and to introduce them to programming using Python. </p> <hr> <h2 style="text-align: center;" id="brett">Brett Cannon</h2> <p style="text-align: center"> <img style="max-width: 256px; border-radius: 25px; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px; border-color: #78ACA8;" src="/2018/site_media/media/images/2018/04/06/brett.jpg" > </p> <p> Brett Cannon is a principal software developer at Microsoft on the Python Tools team as the developer lead on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code. A Python core developer for over 15 years, Brett has attended every PyCon US since there was a conference by that name. </p> <p> Brett lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and cat who think it's a bit unhealthy that his primary hobby happens to also be programming. </p> <hr> <h2 style="text-align: center;" id="ying">Ying Li</h2> <p style="text-align: center"> <img style="max-width: 256px; border-radius: 25px; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px; border-color: #78ACA8;" src="/2018/site_media/media/images/2018/04/09/ying.png" > </p> <p> Ying is a security-focused software engineer at Docker and a contributor to Twisted, working primarily in Go and Python. </p> <hr>