Dawn Wages
Dawn Wages is a community-centered technologist, open source advocate, and software engineer whose work bridges scientific computing, ethical technology, and inclusive community building. She currently serves as Lead of Community & Developer Relations at Anaconda, where she supports the Python ecosystem through education, outreach, and infrastructure advocacy.
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Anaconda
Lead, Community and Developer Relations
@BajoranEngineer
Session
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Opening Invocation (5 min)
- Set the scene: "A lone notebook awakens..."
- Introduce the metaphorical framework: blending myth and method
- Emphasize the power of a single line of code: import numpy as np -
Gathering the Companions (8 min)
- pandas: data transformation and alchemy
- matplotlib: visual storytelling as insight
- scikit-learn: predictive modeling and machine learning magic
- Celebrate Python’s ecosystem as a creative collective -
Trials and Tribulations (7 min)
- Dependency hell and version conflicts
- Irreproducibility: the ghost haunting modern science
- Real-world anecdotes of scientific setbacks and rebirth -
Scaling the Quest (8 min)
- Transition from local to global scale: desktops to clusters
- Use cases in genomics, quantum simulations, climate models
- GPUs, terabytes of data, and the limits of traditional workflows -
The Fellowship Forged (7 min)
- Role of Anaconda and the packaging commons
- Containerized environments: Docker, Conda, and reproducibility
- Accelerators, solvers, and the modern scientific toolkit -
The Transformation (3 min)
- From humble notebook to catalyst of discovery
- How Python enables breakthroughs across disciplines
- Celebrate the rise of computational explorers -
Call to Action & Closing (2 min)
- Reframe: Every scientific revolution starts with a spark of code
- Invite the audience to write their own epic
- Leave with a sense of wonder and creative empowerment