Conference Schedule

5:30pm - 7:30pm

8:30am - 9:15am	Registration
9:15am - 9:45am	Welcome to PyCascades
9:45am - 10:10am	Andrew Knight: East Meets West When Translating Django Apps
10:20am - 10:45am	Froilan Irizarry and José Padilla: Python, Governments, and Contracts: providing a tool to investigate corruption
10:55am - 11:20am	Lorena Mesa, Mariatta Wijaya, and Elaine Wong: 9 Years of PyLadies: Lessons Learned and What Comes Next
11:20am - 11:35am	Break
11:35am - 12:00pm	Joanne Hastie: Programming a robot arm to paint: successes & happy accidents
12:10pm - 12:35pm	John Reese: What is a Coroutine Anyways?
12:35pm - 1:50pm	Lunch
1:50pm - 2:20pm	Lightning Talks
2:30pm - 2:55pm	Manav Mehra: Growing Plants without Soil using Python!
3:05pm - 3:30pm	Rose Judge: Plug-in to Python: Extending your applications through the use of plugins
3:40pm - 4:05pm	Fen Slattery: Digital Accessibility Beyond Legal Compliance
4:05pm - 4:35pm	Coffee Break
4:35pm - 5:00pm	Brandon Warren: Introduction to the Quantum Bit
5:10pm - 5:35pm	Mina Slater: Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Code Reviews

8:30am - 9:15am	Registration
9:15am - 9:45am	Welcome to PyCascades
9:45am - 10:10am	Terri Oda: Rock on: Building hardware and software for a MicroPython decibel meter
10:20am - 10:45am	Julia Piaskowski: Adventures in Babysitting: Web Scraping for Python and HTML Novices
10:55am - 11:20am	Kaleb Elwert: Docker Made Easy: Development and Deployment from the Same Container
11:20am - 11:35am	Break
11:35am - 12:00pm	Moshe Zadka: CPython Internals: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Loop?
12:10pm - 12:35pm	Emily Spahn: The Ethics of Aesthetics: Classifying Personal Care Products on Saftey and Substance
12:35pm - 1:50pm	Lunch
1:50pm - 2:20pm	Lightning Talks
2:30pm - 2:55pm	Kathryn Lingel: Pyambic Pentameter: generating rhyming and metered poems with Markov chains and NLTK
3:05pm - 3:30pm	Elena Oat: Testing asynchronous code
3:40pm - 4:05pm	Aadi Bajpai: Automating Away the Open-Source Maintenance Burden
4:05pm - 4:35pm	Coffee Break
4:35pm - 5:00pm	Brian Okken: Multiply your Testing Effectiveness with Parameterized Testing
5:10pm - 5:35pm	Scott Shawcroft: Python's Next Decade and Us