Conference Schedule

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	REGISTRATION
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM	Welcome to PyCascades
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM	Guido van Rossum: BDFL Python 3 retrospective
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM	Holly Becker: Can I Use that Code? Software Licences as a User
10:55 AM - 11:20 AM	Nicholas Hunt-Walker: A Web App in Four Frameworks
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM	Break
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM	Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel: The AST and Me
12:10 PM - 12:35 PM	Nick Denny: It's a Kind of Magic
12:35 PM - 1:50 PM	LUNCH (find your own in Granville Island)
1:50 PM - 2:20 PM	Lightning Talks
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM	Stephanie Kim: Racial Bias in Facial Recognition Software
3:05 PM - 3:30 PM	Thomas W. Ballinger: Python is not Java or C++
3:40 PM - 4:05 PM	Lindsey Dragun: Bad Accessibility Happens – That Doesn’t Have to Be The End
4:05 PM - 4:35 PM	Coffee Break
4:35 PM - 5:00 PM	Anna Liao: RaspberryPy to RustyPi: Porting a Python module to Rust
5:10 PM - 5:35 PM	Brett Cannon: Setting Expectations for Open Source Participation

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM	REGISTRATION
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM	Anna Schneider: Navigating unconscious bias
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM	Sev Leonard: Can you please pass the data? IoT communication with MicroPython
10:55 AM - 11:20 AM	Kojo Idrissa: Python & Spreadsheets: Canadian Edition
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM	Break
11:35 AM - 12:35 PM	Łukasz Langa: Gradual Typing of Production Applications
12:35 PM - 1:50 PM	LUNCH (find your own in Granville Island)
1:50 PM - 2:20 PM	Lightning Talks
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM	Rachael Tatman: Character Encoding and You�
3:05 PM - 3:30 PM	Yusuke Tsutsumi: Taming the Hydra: How we Learned to Love Testing a Giant Python Codebase
3:40 PM - 4:05 PM	Karina Ruzinov: Shipping secret messages through barcodes
4:05 PM - 4:35 PM	Coffee Break
4:35 PM - 5:00 PM	Dhruv Govil: Python for Feature Film
5:10 PM - 5:35 PM	Kenneth Love: Those Who Care, Teach!
5:35 PM - 5:45 PM	Closing remarks

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sprints at Brainstation (455 Granville Street)