PyCon Lithuania 2024

Version 0.24 April 5, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Playing Uno Reverse with Pandas and PySpark” by Shreya Khurana

We have moved a session around: “functime: a next generation ML forecasting library powered by Polars” by Luca Baggi (April 5, 2024, 2:30 p.m., Room 203 → April 5, 2024, 11:30 a.m., Room 111).

Version 0.23 April 4, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Customizing LLMs: A Guide to Fine-Tuning Open Source Models” by Maria Jose Molina Contreras (April 5, 2024, 1:30 p.m. → April 5, 2024, 2:30 p.m.)
• “RAG on KDTree” by Jan Bartnitsky (April 5, 2024, 3 p.m., Room 228 → April 5, 2024, 3:30 p.m., Room 111)
• “Making an e-shop search bar your friend with Pinecone's hybrid search” by Martynas Venckus (April 5, 2024, 2 p.m., Room 228 → April 5, 2024, 3:30 p.m., Room 203)
• “Transforming Data Insights: Creating Dynamic Animated Stories with Python and ipyvizzu-story” by Peter Vidos (April 5, 2024, 11 a.m., Room 219 → April 5, 2024, 3 p.m., Room 228)
• “functime: a next generation ML forecasting library powered by Polars” by Luca Baggi (April 5, 2024, noon, Room 218 → April 5, 2024, 2:30 p.m., Room 203)
• “Coding a vector database from scratch” by Aurélien Massiot (April 5, 2024, 11 a.m., Room 218 → April 5, 2024, 2 p.m., Room 228)

Version 0.22 April 4, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Python Resolution Evolution: Decoupling Metadata from Downloads in Pip” by Danny McClanahan

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “The Ghosts of Distant Objects” by Ben Clifford (Room 228 → Room 111)
• “A 101 in time series analytics with Apache Arrow, Pandas and Parquet” by Zoe Steinkamp (April 4, 2024, 3 p.m., Room 219 → April 4, 2024, 3:30 p.m., Room 228)

Version 0.21 April 4, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Python mokytojai”.

Version 0.20 April 4, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Lunch”.

Version 0.19 April 3, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Deadcode - a tool to find and fix dead (unused) Python code” by Albertas Gimbutas (April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 2 p.m.)
• “Object Oriented Programing the way it should be” by Laimonas Sutkus (April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 2 p.m.)
• “Simplifying large Python projects by distributing complexity.” by Maxim Danilov (April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 3 p.m.)
• “Using Rust & PyO3 to make Pydantic v2 even faster” by David Hewitt (April 4, 2024, 2 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m.)
• “The role of Rust, Zig and C++ in the Python ecosystem” by Cristián Maureira-Fredes (April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 2 p.m.)
• “Kill All Mutants! (Intro to Mutation Testing)” by Dave Aronson (April 4, 2024, 2 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m.)

Version 0.18 April 3, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Let’s create a Python Debugger together” by Johannes Bechberger (Room 219 → Room 203)
• “Lessons Learned From Maintaining SDK in Python for Three Years” by Adam Furmanek (April 4, 2024, 11:30 a.m. → April 4, 2024, noon)

Version 0.17 April 3, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Object Oriented Programing the way it should be” by Laimonas Sutkus (Room 219 → Room 203)
• “Python Resolution Evolution: Decoupling Metadata from Downloads in Pip” by Danny McClanahan (April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m., Room 203 → April 4, 2024, 3:30 p.m., Room 111)

Version 0.16 April 1, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “What are descriptors and why does Django need them?” by Rodrigo Girão Serrão.

We have moved a session around: “Wargaming Quiz” (April 5, 2024, 5:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 5:30 p.m.)

Version 0.15 April 1, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Wargaming Quiz”
• “Reception”

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Data Ingestion and Big Data” by Mauro Pelucchi

Version 0.14 March 30, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Scaling, Refactoring and fixing a Django MVP for Production” by Dr Piotr Gryko
• “Python behind the scenes of Danske Bank's Cloud Migration at Scale” by Romualdas

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Parallel Thinking, Singular Success: Lessons from Feature Engineering on Big Data” by Carsten Frommhold
• “Decoding FastStream: A Deeper Dive into the Event Streaming Library” by Tvrtko Sternak

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Cracking the Code: Decoding Anti-Bot Systems!” by Fabien Vauchelles (April 3, 2024, 11 a.m. → April 3, 2024, 11:30 a.m.)
• “Data Ingestion and Big Data” by Mauro Pelucchi (April 3, 2024, 3 p.m. → April 3, 2024, 1:30 p.m.)
• “Encode OSS: Funding open source development” by Tom (April 3, 2024, 4:30 p.m. → April 3, 2024, 3:30 p.m.)
• “Object Oriented Programing the way it should be” by Laimonas Sutkus (April 4, 2024, 1 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m.)
• “How we Develop and Maintain a Modern Python Service at Mozilla: Merino as Example” by Tadas Korris (April 3, 2024, 3:30 p.m., Room 111 → April 3, 2024, 2:30 p.m., Room 203)
• “Saying bye to the Keyboard, Hello to Alexa with Python AWS Lambda” by Laysa Uchoa, Yuliia Barabash (April 3, 2024, 3 p.m. → April 3, 2024, 2:30 p.m.)
• “µDjango 2.0, an asynchronous microservices technique.” by Maxim Danilov (April 3, 2024, 11:30 a.m., Room 111 → April 3, 2024, 1:30 p.m., Room 203)
• “Your proposal: Data Harvest: Unlocking Insights with Web Scraping” by Yuliia Barabash (April 3, 2024, 11:30 a.m. → April 3, 2024, 11 a.m.)
• “Lessons (I Wish I Knew These Before) from Migrating a Farm of Django Projects from On-Premises to AWS with Kubernetes” by Justinas Kuizinas (April 3, 2024, 2 p.m. → April 3, 2024, 1:30 p.m.)
• “Django + HTMX: Democratise Full Stack Web Development” by Eimantas Nėjus (April 3, 2024, 3 p.m., Room 203 → April 3, 2024, 11:30 a.m., Room 111)

Version 0.13 March 28, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “OpenSearch, Python, and Serverless for Modern Search Applications” by Laysa Uchoa.

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Building Machine Learning Microservices & MLOps using UnionML” by Shivay Lamba, Gaurav Pandey
• “PySecOps” by Soundharya Khanapur, Shivani Shetty
• “Streamlining Django Deployment with Pulumi and Github Actions” by Joseph Anyetei Sowah
• “Flyte: Open Source, Robust and End-to-End Cloud Native Machine Learning & Data Processing Platform” by Shivay Lamba, Gaurav Pandey

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Data Ingestion and Big Data” by Mauro Pelucchi (Room 218 → Room 228)
• “Your proposal: Data Harvest: Unlocking Insights with Web Scraping” by Yuliia Barabash (April 3, 2024, noon → April 3, 2024, 11:30 a.m.)
• “Cracking the Code: Decoding Anti-Bot Systems!” by Fabien Vauchelles (April 3, 2024, 3 p.m. → April 3, 2024, 11 a.m.)
• “How to Utilize Machine Learning for Better Web Scraping” by Tadas Gedgaudas (April 3, 2024, 11:30 a.m. → April 3, 2024, noon)
• “Mastering Web Scraping: Unleash Your Data Extraction Wizardry!” by Fabien Vauchelles (April 3, 2024, 11 a.m. → April 3, 2024, 2:30 p.m.)

Version 0.12 March 26, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Your proposal: Data Harvest: Unlocking Insights with Web Scraping” by Yuliia Barabash.

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Deadcode - a tool to find and fix dead (unused) Python code” by Albertas Gimbutas (April 4, 2024, 1 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m.)
• “The role of Rust, Zig and C++ in the Python ecosystem” by Cristián Maureira-Fredes (April 4, 2024, 1 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m.)
• “Simplifying large Python projects by distributing complexity.” by Maxim Danilov (April 4, 2024, 1 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m.)
• “Kill All Mutants! (Intro to Mutation Testing)” by Dave Aronson (April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 2 p.m.)
• “Using Rust & PyO3 to make Pydantic v2 even faster” by David Hewitt (April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 2 p.m.)
• “Python Resolution Evolution: Decoupling Metadata from Downloads in Pip” by Danny McClanahan (April 4, 2024, 1 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m.)

Version 0.11 March 25, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “How to Utilize Machine Learning for Better Web Scraping” by Tadas Gedgaudas
• “Encode OSS: Funding open source development” by Tom

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Channeling your inner tech blogger” by Keren Kenzi

We have moved a session around: “Cracking the Code: Decoding Anti-Bot Systems!” by Fabien Vauchelles (April 3, 2024, 11:30 a.m. → April 3, 2024, 3 p.m.)

Version 0.10 March 21, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “RAG on KDTree” by Jan Bartnitsky
• “Aligning and Using an Open-Source LLM” by Monika Venčkauskaitė
• “503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned” by Rodrigo Girão Serrão

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Building advanced back-office interfaces using Django & HTMX” by João Lucas Pires

We have moved a session around: “A 101 in time series analytics with Apache Arrow, Pandas and Parquet” by Zoe Steinkamp (April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 3 p.m.)

Version 0.9 March 18, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Unleashing Python's potential with MAX Platform” by Antanas Daujotis.

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Python package creation using bleeding edge toolset” by Albertas Gimbutas (April 4, 2024, 1 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 11 a.m.)
• “Simplifying large Python projects by distributing complexity.” by Maxim Danilov (April 4, 2024, 11 a.m. → April 4, 2024, 1 p.m.)
• “Designing for tomorrow's programming workflows” by Matthew Honnibal (April 4, 2024, 11:30 a.m. → April 4, 2024, noon)

Version 0.8 March 18, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “ML Model Serialization: Improving Efficiency and Flexibility” by Jonas Jarutis
• “Python package creation using bleeding edge toolset” by Albertas Gimbutas

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Debugging that Bugger : Cleanly Handling the Errors” by Priyanshi Goel

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Deep Dive into Asynchronous SQLAlchemy - Transactions and Connections” by Damian Wysocki (April 4, 2024, 3 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 3:30 p.m.)
• “Building Open Climate Change Information Services in Python” by Trevor James Smith (April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 3 p.m.)
• “The Ghosts of Distant Objects” by Ben Clifford (April 4, 2024, 3 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 3:30 p.m.)
• “Pointers? In My Python?” by Eli Holderness (April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 3 p.m.)

Version 0.7 March 12, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Python Resolution Evolution: Decoupling Metadata from Downloads in Pip” by Danny McClanahan
• “Playing Uno Reverse with Pandas and PySpark” by Shreya Khurana
• “Opening”

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Building modular plugin-based Python distributions with Plux” by Harsh Bardhan Mishra
• “Building your Python Cloud & Serverless applications locally using LocalStack!” by Harsh Bardhan Mishra

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Data Ingestion and Big Data” by Mauro Pelucchi (April 3, 2024, noon, Room 219 → April 3, 2024, 3 p.m., Room 218)
• “A 101 in time series analytics with Apache Arrow, Pandas and Parquet” by Zoe Steinkamp (April 5, 2024, 1:30 p.m., Room 218 → April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m., Room 219)
• “Channeling your inner tech blogger” by Keren Kenzi (April 3, 2024, 1:30 p.m. → April 3, 2024, noon)

Version 0.6 Feb. 8, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “LLMs: when to use them and when to avoid them” by Arjan Egges.

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Deep Dive into Asynchronous SQLAlchemy - Transactions and Connections” by Damian Wysocki (April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 3 p.m.)
• “Debugging that Bugger : Cleanly Handling the Errors” by Priyanshi Goel (April 4, 2024, 2 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m.)
• “Pointers? In My Python?” by Eli Holderness (April 4, 2024, 2 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m.)
• “The Ghosts of Distant Objects” by Ben Clifford (April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 3 p.m.)
• “Building Open Climate Change Information Services in Python” by Trevor James Smith (April 4, 2024, 2 p.m. → April 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m.)

Version 0.5 Feb. 5, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Dancing with Design” by Robert Smallshire.

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Advanced API Design for Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Data-Intensive Distributed Systems” by Santosh Nikhil Kumar

Version 0.4 Feb. 1, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Keynote by Daniel Roy Greenfeld” by Daniel Roy Greenfeld
• “Designing for tomorrow's programming workflows” by Matthew Honnibal

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Grokking Event-Driven Web App with Python” by Tung Hoang (Room 111 → Room 228)
• “Decoding FastStream: A Deeper Dive into the Event Streaming Library” by Tvrtko Sternak (April 4, 2024, 11:30 a.m., Room 111 → April 4, 2024, noon, Room 203)

Version 0.3 Feb. 1, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “analyzing stdf production test data in the silicon manufacturing industry using construct” by Franz Haas
• “Customizing LLMs: A Guide to Fine-Tuning Open Source Models” by Maria Jose Molina Contreras
• “The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs” by Ines Montani
• “Data Ingestion and Big Data” by Mauro Pelucchi
• “🧼 From GPU-poor to data-rich: data quality practices for LLM fine-tuning” by Gabriel Martín Blázquez, David Berenstein
• “Object Oriented Programing the way it should be” by Laimonas Sutkus
• “A 101 in time series analytics with Apache Arrow, Pandas and Parquet” by Zoe Steinkamp
• “Parallel Thinking, Singular Success: Lessons from Feature Engineering on Big Data” by Carsten Frommhold
• “Building Open Climate Change Information Services in Python” by Trevor James Smith
• “Saying bye to the Keyboard, Hello to Alexa with Python AWS Lambda” by Laysa Uchoa, Yuliia Barabash
• “Transcend the Knowledge Barriers in RAG: Setup, Chat State, and More” by Isaac Chung
• “Transforming Data Insights: Creating Dynamic Animated Stories with Python and ipyvizzu-story” by Peter Vidos
• “functime: a next generation ML forecasting library powered by Polars” by Luca Baggi

Version 0.2 Jan. 27, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Data Version Control Done Right with Python and Unity” by Einat Orr, Nir Ozeri
• “Speed up open source LLM-serving with llama-cpp-python” by Isaac Chung
• “The Ghosts of Distant Objects” by Ben Clifford
• “Let’s create a Python Debugger together” by Johannes Bechberger
• “Building and Scaling an AI Startup with Async Django” by Dr Piotr Gryko
• “Building your Python Cloud & Serverless applications locally using LocalStack!” by Harsh Bardhan Mishra
• “Mastering Web Scraping: Unleash Your Data Extraction Wizardry!” by Fabien Vauchelles
• “Using Rust & PyO3 to make Pydantic v2 even faster” by David Hewitt
• “Deep Dive into Asynchronous SQLAlchemy - Transactions and Connections” by Damian Wysocki
• “Simplifying large Python projects by distributing complexity.” by Maxim Danilov
• “Deadcode - a tool to find and fix dead (unused) Python code” by Albertas Gimbutas
• “Streamlining Django Deployment with Pulumi and Github Actions” by Joseph Anyetei Sowah
• “Building advanced back-office interfaces using Django & HTMX” by João Lucas Pires
• “Keynote Polars” by Ritchie Vink
• “Grokking Event-Driven Web App with Python” by Tung Hoang
• “Django + HTMX: Democratise Full Stack Web Development” by Eimantas Nėjus
• “FastDjango: Conjuring Powerful APIs with the Sorcery of Django Ninja” by Julius Boakye
• “The role of Rust, Zig and C++ in the Python ecosystem” by Cristián Maureira-Fredes
• “Streaming DataFrames: A New Way to Process Streaming Data in Python” by Tomáš Neubauer
• “Making an e-shop search bar your friend with Pinecone's hybrid search” by Martynas Venckus
• “Flyte: Open Source, Robust and End-to-End Cloud Native Machine Learning & Data Processing Platform” by Shivay Lamba, Gaurav Pandey
• “How we Develop and Maintain a Modern Python Service at Mozilla: Merino as Example” by Tadas Korris
• “[MLOps] CI/CD in the age of Machine Learning” by Emmanuel-Lin Toulemonde
• “µDjango 2.0, an asynchronous microservices technique.” by Maxim Danilov
• “Data Processing with Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg” by Tomas Peluritis
• “Lessons (I Wish I Knew These Before) from Migrating a Farm of Django Projects from On-Premises to AWS with Kubernetes” by Justinas Kuizinas
• “Building Machine Learning Microservices & MLOps using UnionML” by Shivay Lamba, Gaurav Pandey
• “Watsonx: A GenAI platform that's built for business” by Robert Dzisevič
• “Introduction to Polars DataFrames - how to supercharge your data workflows” by Marco Gorelli
• “Django FTL: Resolving bottlenecks on the path to high performance.” by Maxim Danilov

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Debugging that Bugger : Cleanly Handling the Errors” by Priyanshi Goel (April 4, 2024, noon → April 4, 2024, 2 p.m.)
• “Lessons Learned From Maintaining SDK in Python for Three Years” by Adam Furmanek (April 4, 2024, 11:25 a.m. → April 4, 2024, 11:30 a.m.)
• “Channeling your inner tech blogger” by Keren Kenzi (April 3, 2024, 3:30 p.m., Tutorials 1 → April 3, 2024, 1:30 p.m., Room 218)
• “DataFrame interoperatiblity - what's been achieved, and what comes next?” by Marco Gorelli (April 5, 2024, 10 a.m. → April 5, 2024, 11 a.m.)
• “Kill All Mutants! (Intro to Mutation Testing)” by Dave Aronson (April 4, 2024, 10 a.m., Room 203 → April 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m., Room 228)
• “Building modular plugin-based Python distributions with Plux” by Harsh Bardhan Mishra (April 4, 2024, 10:30 a.m. → April 4, 2024, 11 a.m.)
• “Decoding FastStream: A Deeper Dive into the Event Streaming Library” by Tvrtko Sternak (April 4, 2024, 10 a.m., Room 228 → April 4, 2024, 11:30 a.m., Room 111)
• “Advanced API Design for Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Data-Intensive Distributed Systems” by Santosh Nikhil Kumar (April 3, 2024, 3:30 p.m., Room 228 → April 3, 2024, 1:30 p.m., Room 203)
• “Coding a vector database from scratch” by Aurélien Massiot (Room 228 → Room 218)
• “Cracking the Code: Decoding Anti-Bot Systems!” by Fabien Vauchelles (April 3, 2024, 4:25 p.m., Room 203 → April 3, 2024, 11:30 a.m., Room 228)
• “Revenue based scoring in `GridSearchCV`: a case for the new metadata routing in scikit-learn” by Adrin Jalali (April 5, 2024, 10:30 a.m., Room 228 → April 5, 2024, noon, Room 203)
• “The pragmatic Pythonic data engineer” by Robson Junior (April 5, 2024, 10 a.m. → April 5, 2024, 11 a.m.)
• “PySecOps” by Soundharya Khanapur, Shivani Shetty (April 3, 2024, 3 p.m. → April 3, 2024, noon)
• “Generative AI in Lithuanian language” by Vytautas Bielinskas (April 5, 2024, 11 a.m., Room 203 → April 5, 2024, noon, Room 228)
• “Pointers? In My Python?” by Eli Holderness (April 4, 2024, 11 a.m., Room 203 → April 4, 2024, 2 p.m., Room 111)
• “Write-Audit-Publish Pattern in Modern Data Pipelines” by Tomas Peluritis (April 5, 2024, 10:30 a.m. → April 5, 2024, 11:30 a.m.)
• “Pythonic Insight: Navigating the Depths of Observability.” by Francis Billa (April 3, 2024, 4 p.m., Room 228 → April 3, 2024, 11 a.m., Room 203)

Version 0.1 Jan. 8, 2024

We released our first schedule!