Everyday Design Patterns: Observer Pattern
(25 Minutes)
By: Aly Sivji
Experience Level: Intermediate

The Observer Pattern enables us to design event-driven systems using loosely coupled components. In this talk, we will learn how, when, and why to use this pattern; we will explore how popular PyPI packages use the pattern; and, we will design a decorator-based Observer to process GitHub events.

Every Way SpotHero Uses Python
(30 Minutes)
By: James Lamb
Experience Level: Novice

We love Python at SpotHero. In this talk, attendees will learn all the ways that SpotHero uses Python. Libraries, web services, machine learning, data processing, and more! After an overview of these use cases, the talk concludes with a set of practical suggestions for effective use of Python in different settings.

The primary goal of the talk is to expand attendees' imaginations around the wide range of use cases that Python can be a good fit for in a consumer-facing company.

Nerf Blaster Turret powered by Python
(30 Minutes)
By: Josh Martin
Experience Level: Intermediate
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In this talk, Josh will introduce you into how to choose electrical components for your next project. How to program embedded devices in Python like Raspberry PIs. How to do facial recognition with openCV.  Most importantly, why you should watch squid games, the joys of making memes and a full automatic nerf blaster.

mTLS with Python
(15 Minutes)
By: Joe Jasinski
Experience Level: Intermediate

While TLS is foundational to our security and privacy on the internet, Mutual TLS (mTLS) takes TLS to a new level by allowing both client and server to authenticate each other. This talk will provide a brief overview of TLS, describe how mTLS builds upon TLS, will show a practical Python example of how mTLS works, and discuss how service meshes and other technologies use mTLS to secure communication between services.

SSH Can Do That? All the Things You Didn't Know About SSH
(30 Minutes)
By: Mason Egger
Experience Level: Novice

Need to access resources on a closed network? Create a secure tunnel to an insecure site? SSH has you covered. Many of us use SSH every day and only scratch the surface. In this talk, we'll dive into little-known features of SSH such as user and host configurations, security measures, tunnels, and more. Attendees will learn how to configure SSH to meet their needs, how to utilize SSH to access and protect resources, and realize their everyday tools, like SSH, have much more functionality that is perceived.

Machine learning: pitfalls and opportunities
(45 Minutes)
By: Paul Ebreo
Experience Level: Intermediate

Part 1a. What is ai / ml?

Part 1b. Limitations of current approach

The current way of doing ML is necessary but limited. If we truly want "intelligence", we need a new way of doing things i.e. an AI that can think beyond its training, an AI that requires much less data, and an AI that is much more adaptable than current AI. Here we give case studies of current AI systems and biology highlighting the limitations and potential of what a real intelligent system looks like.

Part 1c. The upcoming AI / ML winter

Part 2a. What does python have to do  with ML?

Part 2b. The new approach to ML

What use is Python at all? Is it possible to conceptualize ML with or without python? In this section, I explain how Python is used to conceive AI/ML. Then I propose a new way of approaching the problem. I explain the various ways Python is used in ML from deep learning, reinforcement learning etc.

Part 3. A new way of thinking

In this section, I propose a different way of thinking of the problem and propose a solution.