Talks

10 Dazzling, Joyful, Astounding, Nifty, Glorious, Outstanding features in Django
Tim Schilling
Anonymous Functions (and Other Ways to Annoy Your Coworkers)
Joe Kaufeld
Atoms to AI: Building a Quantum Capacitor Surrogate with Python and GNNs
Terry Howald
Beyond Vibe Coding: A Spec-Driven AI Workflow for Serious Development
Benjamin Patch
Building Agents That Do Not Give Attackers a Free Ride Through Your Infrastructure
Advait Patel
Building AI Agents in Python: A Step-by-Step Guide with Strands Agents
Morgan Willis
Color Me Pythonic: Extracting Dominant Colors from Images with PIL and K-Means
Veronica k McNeece
Don't Blame the Type Checker: Finding Who Is Right When Python Type Checkers Disagree
Benedek Kaibas, Gregory M. Kapfhammer
Don’t Write Polars Code with a Pandas Accent
Joram Mutenge
Failed Experiments in Vibe Coding
Al Sweigart
Go Hybrid - Find the Results LIKE Can't
Jamal Hansen
In Defense of Thoughtful Testing: Rethinking Quality in the Age of AI-Generated Code
Rodrigo Silva Ferreira
Lights! 2: Electric Boogaloo
Mike McCaffrey
LLM Token Healing and Regex: Free Gains You Leave on the Table
Abraham Owodunni
My Model Works Locally. Why Is Production Lying to Me?
Dinky Mishra
Narrow GPU Acceleration With Python
Cole Sutyak
Python and S3 Vector Store for Inexpensive Search
Michael James Robellard
Root Access: Using Python to Keep My Garden Alive
Bianca Ploss
Speeding Up Clinical Trial Analysis with Python
James Austrow
Testing the Parts You Don’t See: Pseudo-Tested Native Code in Python Libraries
Issei Hasegawa, Gregory M. Kapfhammer
Textual Healing: Building Real-World Terminal UIs with Python
Eddie Cosma
The LangGraph Trap: Why Your Agentic Python App Will Fail in Production
Kamal Singh Bisht
The Missing Import: Building Data Models with dbt
Carrie Minerich
This Is Not the NaN You Are Looking For
Dan Shernicoff
What If Voyager Launched in 2026 — and Ran Python?
Cliff Jenkins
Why Your AI Model Lies: Debugging Healthcare Predictions with SHAP and Python
Krishna Mridha
Your AI Pipeline Is Burning Money and You're Calling It "Good Enough"
Andrew Plassard
Your Data Is Too Sensitive for an API: Fine-Tuning an Open-Source LLM for Production Document Parsing
Ross Katz
Your VLM Is Hallucinating Your Genes
Ethan Hill
“Oh, You’re Right” Is Not a Review: Orchestrating Agentic AI That Proves What It Checked
Calvin Hendryx-Parker