PyOhio 2026
Carol Willing is a three-time Python Steering Council member, a Python Core Developer, PSF Fellow, Project Jupyter, and napari core team. As part of the Jupyter core team, Carol was awarded the 2017 ACM Software System Award for Project Jupyter's lasting influence. She has received the Frank Willison Award for technical and community contributions to Python and the Python Community Service Award.
She's also a leader in open science and open-source governance serving on Quansight's Board and pyOpenSci's Advisory Board. She's driven to make open science accessible through open tools and learning materials. When not building things, you can find her checking out the sea life in her local tidepools.
Christopher Neugebauer is an Australian developer, speaker, and serial community conference organiser, who presently lives in the United States.
He serves as a Director of the Python Software Foundation, and is co-organiser of the acclaimed North Bay Python conference, a boutique one-track conference run in unusual venues — include an old vaudeville theatre, and more recently a barn on a farm — in Petaluma, California.
Julie (Juliana) Novic, PhD, AIGP, is an AI transformation strategist with a responsible AI practice dating to 2018. She holds a doctorate in Anthropology from Arizona State University and the IAPP AI Governance Professional certification. Her work combines ethnographic research methods and experience building AI/ML solutions with hands-on AI strategy and governance to surface the organizational barriers that technical assessments miss. She has built AI governance frameworks formally adopted by regulated-industry clients. She co-leads Cleveland AI & Data, a 4,000-member AI community connecting business leaders and practitioners across Northeast Ohio. Her approach treats organizational readiness and people as seriously as technology, because that's where AI transformation succeeds or fails