Adam works as a security-focused software developer at the Rust Foundation working on ecosystem security, especially around improving supply chain security for crates.io and Rust releases.

Professionally, his history includes stints as a developer at New Relic, deviantART, and Sourcegraph, while his open source work includes being a project member of Rust and PHP.

In his spare time, he plays cricket, kayaks, speaks Spanish extremely badly, throws tennis balls for his golden retriever, and tries to convince people that his Australian accent is actually flawless Canadian.

Adarsh is a Python geek and an experienced Backend Developer with expertise in building APIs using Python. He is currently the Co-founder and Lead Consultant at Digievo Labs, where he provides Python and Software development consultation to global clients.

Adarsh started his Speaker journey by presenting at GraphQL Summit ‘22 and has spoken at various international Python conferences, including Pycascades '23, Europython, PiterPy, Djangocon US, and Flaskcon.

Explore his professional journey and insights on his personal website and blog.

At The World Bank Group, our team's commitment to digital excellence is unwavering, and as an Information Technology Assistant, my contribution is instrumental to this mission.
With a foundation in Computer Science, I bring a detail-oriented approach to resolving IT challenges and enhancing our digital infrastructure.
Founding TechFeminine, a platform dedicated to promoting women's digital inclusion by amplifying their perspectives on technology. It fosters community engagement, supports advocacy, and provides in-depth insights on emerging trends and issues in the tech world."

I'm Allen Y, a Backend Engineer at Strollby, UST, and a passionate Python enthusiast. I have a deep interest in open source development, async programming, and microservices concurrency. I love exploring how these technologies can be used to build scalable, efficient systems, and I'm always eager to learn and share knowledge within the tech community.

Avik is a seasoned Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer. He was first introduced to Python in 2013 during his undergrad, and has been his primary language since then. He views writing elegant Python code as an art, blending creativity with engineering precision.

Christy Heaton is a geospatial developer with over 10 years of experience working in the public and private sectors and education. As an organizer of Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source (Cugos), Maptime Seattle, and PyLadies Seattle, she promotes public open source adoption of spatial analysis and Python.

Drishti is a Software Engineer and a technology book author. She is currently based in the USA and believes in democratizing opportunities and brings knowledge of the latest developments in the fast-moving field of technology to early professionals, students, and keep them up to date and well-equipped for their professional careers. Her initiative "SkillUp with Drishti" enables students and professionals to grow in their career.
She has spoken at conferences across the globe and is also a social entrepreneur. Her non-profit organisation-Samyak Drishti Foundation works in environment, education and healthcare sectors and operates in a number of cities across India.
In her spare time, she likes to paint nature, explore new places and anchor live shows

A professional code twiddler. The computers work better after I’ve added code to them more often than the alternative.

Assistant Professor of Computational Biology Program, School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program

Liam Beckman is a software developer in the Ellrott Lab at Oregon Health & Science University

Lilinoe Harbottle is a data scientist at a startup focused on machine learning and natural language processing models. Previously, she contributed at Johnson & Johnson, emphasizing data-driven strategies and automation. A strong advocate for diversity in STEM, she is active in the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) and the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). Known for her engaging presentations, she shares insights into the transformative impact of data science and AI in technology and healthcare, inspiring others to explore these exciting fields.

Mason is currently a Sr. Technical Curriculum Developer at Temporal Technologies who specializes building community, developer-focused educational content, distributed systems, and Python. Prior to his work at Temporal he launched Developer Relations at Gretel.ai as the Lead Developer Advocate, and was a Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean specializing in Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies. He’s an avid programmer, speaker, educator, and writer/blogger. He is an organizer of PyTexas, President of the PyTexas Foundation, and actively contributes to open source projects.

Aswin is a Product Engineer at UST, specializing in the Python GraphQL ecosystem within the corporate travel domain. He is an active maintainer of several core graphql-python packages, contributing to the evolution of Python's GraphQL capabilities. A dedicated community member, Aswin has spoken at PyCon India and is deeply involved with the Trivandrum Python community, where he shares his passion for Python with his hometown.

Hi there! Currently I'm working with Kyle Ellrott's team the "Data Science Garage" at OHSU Knight Cancer Institute harmonizing large scale consortium level Bioinformatics + Biomedicine data into a community standard graph. Over the years I've been applying a multi-disciplinary and systems-level view across a spectrum of data + tools to advance domain knowledge.

In problem-solving, I frequently leverage machine learning to learn representations of data and then utilize them in downstream tasks such as data integration, general modeling, and similarity comparisons.

Parul is a Senior Production Engineer at Meta, where she works within the Python Foundation team. Previously, she worked with Interactive Computing and contributed to accelerating the machine learning (ML) authoring space. She is a CPython Triager and also an early contributor to FairLearn, an open-source Python library to help improve fairness in AI systems.

Parul is also an advocate for bridging the gender gap in technology and has mentored several aspiring technologists to build a career in the field of computer science. In her free time, Parul enjoys dancing, painting, and traveling.

Research Software Engineer at OHSU. Building ETL pipelines, UI, and tooling for genomics and cancer biology data platform!

I am a Healthcare IT Professional, with interests in EHRs, Business Processes and turning data into actionable information.

Sage Elliott is an AI Engineer who loves educating people. He's taught thousands of people during live workshops how to get started with Python, machine learning, computer vision, MLOps, and AI observability. You can usually find him in Seattle biking around to cafes.

Connect with Sage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sageelliott/

I'm Sameer Shukla, a dedicated engineer with a rich background spanning 15 years in software design and development. Beyond my role as an engineer, I am an author and researcher. I find joy in continually learning and sharing insights about cutting-edge tools and technologies through my contributions to diverse online learning platforms and esteemed international journals.

Sev is a technologist, educator, and musician with a focus on data platforms and jazz. He's worked at Intel, Oregon Health & Science University, a few Bay Area startups, and his training and consulting business, The Data Scout. He's an O'Reilly contributor, including the author of Cost-Effective Data Pipelines and an invited speaker on data & AI. He loves cats, the forest, and baked goods.

With a background in Architecture and Development Tadeh has supported building large scale projects with diverse teams for over 10 years. By promoting open dialogue, systems thinking, and long term planning he has improved operational efficiencies in all his endeavors. He is a course author, trainer, and open source contributor as well as a speaker at national conferences in technology, architecture, design. He loves to talk about the new possibilities with technology and innovation at everyone’s disposal while building communities along the way.

Vagrant Cascadian has been involved in FOSS projects such as Debian, Reproducible Builds and GNU Guix since the beginning of the current millennia. In the physical world, Vagrant gets thrown around at Aikido dojos and runs small-scale DIY solar projects.

Velda Kiara is a passionate software developer and technical writer with a love for crafting Python code, particularly for Django. She actively contributes to open-source projects, sharing her knowledge and enhancing both code and documentation.
Beyond her technical contributions, she contributes to Djangonaut Space by writing Django News Updates and maintains the Django Debug Toolbar among other projects.
She equally serves as a Django Events Foundation North America director, the organization that organizes DjangoCon US which she also volunteers for. Her dedication and technical contributions to Python and Django communities have earned her recognition as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Python and Web technologies.

Yash is a computer science student and a computing researcher at the University of Calgary. His interest in Distributed Systems and Performance, along with his passion for Open Source Observability, drives him to speak about these topics at tech conferences around the world. Outside of his technical pursuits, Yash enjoys cycling and trekking.