Talks Schedule | PyCon 2016 in Portland, OR

# Talks PyCon 2016 is now complete — so, a huge thanks to the speakers, sponsors, volunteers, and attendees for such a great PyCon! Talk and tutorial videos & slides: * [https://www.youtube.com/c/PyCon2016](https://www.youtube.com/c/PyCon2016) * [https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2016](https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2016) This is the full schedule of talks for PyCon 2016. See also: * [Full list of talks, with abstracts](/2016/schedule/talks/list/) * [Overview of conference schedule](/2016/events/)

May 30, 2016

	Oregon Ballroom 201–202	Oregon Ballroom 203–204	Portland Ballroom 251 & 258	Portland Ballroom 252–253	Portland Ballroom 254–255
08:00AM	Breakfast
09:00AM	Welcome to PyCon
09:30AM	Keynote — Lorena Barba
10:10AM	Break
10:50AM	Machete-mode debugging: Hacking your way out of a tight spot Ned Batchelder Intermediate	File descriptors, Unix sockets and other POSIX wizardry Christian Heimes Intermediate	Thinking In Coroutines Łukasz Langa Intermediate	Seriously Strong Security on a Shoestring (CW) Kelsey Gilmore-Innis Intermediate	Python as a configuration language Guillermo Pérez Novice
11:30AM	Refactoring Python: Why and how to restructure your code Brett Slatkin Novice	Pyjion: who doesn’t want faster for free? Brett Cannon, Dino Viehland Experienced	A tale of concurrency through creativity in Python: a deep dive into how gevent works. Kavya Joshi Intermediate	When the going gets tough, get TUF going Ying Li, David Lawrence Novice	Git: A Peek Under the Hood Clara Bennett Intermediate
12:10PM	Code Unto Others Nathaniel Manista, Augie Fackler Intermediate	Here be Dragons - Writing Safe C Extensions Paul Ross Experienced	Building a Quantitative Trading Strategy To Beat the S&P500 Karen Rubin Intermediate	Designing secure systems with Object-Capabilities, Python, and Cap'n Proto Drew Fisher Intermediate	Building An Interpreter In RPython Juozas Kaziukėnas Experienced
12:40PM		Lunch		Lunch
12:55PM	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
01:40PM	Lunch	Usable Ops: How to make web infrastructure management easier. Kate Heddleston, Joyce Jang Novice	Lunch	Networking without an OS Josh Triplett Novice	Lunch
01:55PM	Awaken your home: Python and the Internet of Things Paulus Schoutsen Intermediate			Networking without an OS Josh Triplett Novice	SQLite: Gotchas and Gimmes Dave Sawyer Intermediate
02:35PM	Keeping cool, using a Raspberry PI to create a networked temperature sensor Dwight Hubbard Novice	The cobbler's children have no shoes, or building better tools for ourselves Alex Gaynor Intermediate	Finding closure with closures Thomas Ballinger Intermediate	Wrestling Python into LLVM Intermediate Representation Anna Herlihy Intermediate	Postgres present and future Craig Kerstiens Intermediate
03:15PM	Laser Cutters, 3D Printers, and Python Giles Hall Novice	Pythons in A Container - Lessons Learned Dockerizing Python Micro-Services Dorian Pula Intermediate	The Life Cycle of a Python Class Mike Graham Experienced	Memory Management in Python - The Basics Nina Zakharenko Novice	Django 1.8/1.9 and PostgreSQL: An Ever-Closer Union Christophe Pettus Intermediate
03:45PM	Laser Cutters, 3D Printers, and Python Giles Hall Novice	Break	The Life Cycle of a Python Class Mike Graham Experienced	Break
04:00PM	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
04:15PM	Break	Reinventing Django for the Real-Time Web Andrew Godwin Intermediate	Break	Playing with Python Bytecode Scott Sanderson, Joe Jevnik Experienced	Break
04:30PM	A Beginner's Guide to Deep Learning Irene Chen Intermediate		To mock, or not to mock, that is the question Ana Balica Intermediate		Build a Better Hat Rack: All Contributions Welcome Katie McLaughlin Novice
05:10PM	Visual Diagnostics for More Informed Machine Learning: Within and Beyond Scikit-Learn Rebecca Bilbro Intermediate	Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way Cory Benfield Intermediate	Better Integration Testing with Cucumber Jay Goel Novice	Let's read code: the requests library Susan Tan Intermediate	Bake the Cookies, Wear the Dress: Connecting with Confident Authenticity Adrienne Lowe Novice
05:40PM	Lightning Talks
06:40PM

May 31, 2016

	Oregon Ballroom 201–202	Oregon Ballroom 203–204	Portland Ballroom 251 & 258	Portland Ballroom 252–253	Portland Ballroom 254–255
08:00AM	Breakfast
08:30AM	Lightning Talks
09:00AM	Python Language — Guido van Rossum
09:40AM	Keynote — Parisa Tabriz
10:20AM	Break
10:50AM	Documentation-driven development - lessons from the Django Project Daniele Procida Novice	Click: A Pleasure To Write, A Pleasure To Use Sebastian Vetter Intermediate	The New Mobile Web: Service Worker, Push, and App Manifests Dan Callahan Intermediate	Unit Tests, Cluster Tests: A Comparative Introduction Renee Chu Novice	What Is and What Can Be: An Exploration from `type` to Metaclasses Dustin Ingram Intermediate
11:30AM	Publish your code so others can use it in 5 easy steps Marko Samastur Novice	xonsh Anthony Scopatz Intermediate	HTTP/2 and Asynchronous APIs Davey Shafik Intermediate	Better Testing With Less Code: Property Based Testing With Python Matt Bachmann Intermediate	Python Typology Matthias Kramm Intermediate
12:10PM	What You Need to Know About Open Source Licenses Felix Crux Novice	How I built a power debugger out of the standard library and things I found on the internet Doug Hellmann Novice	HTTP Can Do That?! Sumana Harihareswara Novice	Prototyping New APIs with Flask David Baumgold Intermediate	Exception and error handling in Python 2 and Python 3 Alex Martelli Novice
12:40PM		Lunch	HTTP Can Do That?! Sumana Harihareswara Novice	Lunch
12:55PM	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
01:40PM	Lunch	Putting 1 million new words into the dictionary Manuel Ebert Intermediate	Lunch	Shipping Software To Users With Python Glyph Intermediate	Lunch
01:55PM	Advanced DNS Services for Securing Your Application and Enhancing User Privacy Melinda Shore Intermediate		Discovering the world of Python through music Ria Baldevia Novice	Shipping Software To Users With Python Glyph Intermediate	Build Serverless Realtime Data Pipelines with Python and AWS Lambda Mercedes Coyle Intermediate
02:35PM	Kalman Filters for non-rocket science Elizabeth Ramirez Intermediate	When is it good to be bad? Web scraping and data analysis of NHL penalties Wendy Grus Novice	IPython Notebook in Data Intensive Communities: Accelerating the process of Discovery Frances Haugen, Patrick Phelps Novice	Reliably Distributing Compiled Modules Paul Kehrer Experienced	Remote Calls != Local Calls: Graceful Degradation when Services Fail Daniel Riti Intermediate
03:15PM	Statistics for Hackers Jake Vanderplas Novice	Trainspotting: real-time detection of a train’s passing from video Chloe Mawer Intermediate	From Developer to Manager Sean O'Connor Novice	Diving into the Wreck: a postmortem look at real-world performance Geoff Gerrietts Novice	The Report Of Twisted’s Death or: Why Twisted and Tornado Are Relevant In The Asyncio Age Amber Brown Experienced
03:45PM	Statistics for Hackers Jake Vanderplas Novice	Break	From Developer to Manager Sean O'Connor Novice	Break
04:00PM	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
04:15PM	Break	Get Instrumented: How Prometheus Can Unify Your Metrics Hynek Schlawack Novice	Break	Python Sorted Collections Grant Jenks Intermediate	Break
04:30PM	Structured Data from Unstructured Text Van Lindberg Intermediate		The computer science of marking computer science assignments Katie Bell Experienced	Python Sorted Collections Grant Jenks Intermediate	Why can't we be friends: do corporations and FOSS really mix? Lynn Root, Noa Resare Novice
05:10PM	Web Design for Non-Designers Tracy Osborn Novice	A tale of two cellphones: Python on Android and iOS Russell Keith-Magee Intermediate	Teaching Python: The Hard Parts Elana Hashman Intermediate	Oneliner-izer: An Exercise in Constrained Coding Chelsea Voss Intermediate	Dispelling the 'Genius Programmer' myth through code review Ashwini Oruganti Novice
05:40PM	Lightning Talks
06:30PM	PyLadies Charity Auction
09:00PM

June 1, 2016

	Oregon Ballroom 201–202	Oregon Ballroom 203–204	Portland Ballroom 251 & 258	Portland Ballroom 252–253	Portland Ballroom 254–255
08:00AM	Breakfast
08:30AM	Lightning Talks
09:00AM	Python Software Foundation — Van Lindberg
09:20AM	Keynote — Cris Ewing
10:00AM	Poster Session / Job Fair / Lunch — Expo Hall
01:10PM	Magic Wormhole: Simple Secure File Transfer Brian Warner Intermediate	Write an Excellent Programming Blog A. Jesse Jiryu Davis Novice	Computational Physics with Python: Planetary Orbits from Newton to Feynman Pramod Gupta Novice	See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go Andrey Petrov Experienced	More Than Binary: Inclusive Gender Collection and You Anne DeCusatis Novice
01:50PM	Small Batch Artisanal Bots: Let's Make Friends Elizabeth Uselton Novice	What can software engineers learn from the medical field? Laura Rupprecht Novice	Python for Public Health: Building Statistical Models of Ciliary Motion Shannon Quinn Intermediate	Accelerating healthcare transactions with Python and PyPy Brian Corbin Novice	Antipatterns for Diversity Naomi Ceder Novice
02:30PM	Revitalizing Python Game Development: Packaging, Performance, and Platforms Jacob Kovac Intermediate	User Research for Non-Researchers Jane Davis Novice	Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy Larry Hastings Experienced	Diff It To Dig It Sep Dehpour (Seperman) Novice	Improving Learning Resources and Community for Deaf Sign Language Users through Deaf Awareness Sarah Jessica Leivers Novice
03:10PM	Keynote — K Lars Lohn
03:50PM	Final Remarks and Conference Close
04:00PM
04:10PM	Sprint Pitches
04:30PM	“Introduction to Sprints” workshop — Oregon Ballroom 201–202
06:00PM