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Starting Your Data Science Journey
By: Aaron Yang
Experience Level: Novice

There have been great talks in chipy showcasing the amazing new technologies people are using with python, but we often forget where we first started. Some of you all are coming to Chipy for the first time and hoping to take your first steps into the world of tech. This talk will be targeted towards people looking to transition their career or the rest of us looking to find community in the continual gauntlet of developing our skills in the tech industry. I'll be showcasing my process and my thoughts on developing your skills.

Empowering Early-Career Developers
By: Mercedes Bernard
Experience Level: Novice

How can teams invest in and grow their less experienced developers into team-leading senior devs? I believe the first step is empowering them. On my team, we’ve created a process for each team member to lead and own one of our core features. Our early-career developers are learning client management and team leadership skills that they wouldn’t usually get to practice until they stepped into a senior role. In this talk, I’ll share what we’ve learned and a framework for you to create a process tailored to your team so you can provide your early-career developers the opportunities they need to become successful, senior team members.

Plug-n-Stream Player Piano: Signal Processing With Python
By: JP Bader
Experience Level: Intermediate

Digital Signal Processing and Player Piano don't normally come together in the same sentance. Player Pianos that are 100+ years old are awesome artisan artifacts, but they don't play digital formats very well. This talk will show how we take a 100+ year old technology and marry it to the digital age via Python libraries and precision lasers! In this discussion we will cover how we are creating our own "Plug-n-Stream Player Piano". We will take a look at the different digital signal processing Python libraries, their functionality, and requirements for converting audio streams to piano playable audio files.

Python @ PricewaterhouseCoopers
By: PwC AI Team

Kay and Kevin from PwC will discuss how they use AI and Python in their every day work to help PwC internally and our external clients to solve their toughest problems with unique solutions.

Python @ Ascent
By: Spencer Allee
Experience Level: Intermediate

Ascent uses Python for most of its data science, data engineering, and machine learning / NLP - I'll give an overview of some of our key apps and use cases.

Python at Nielsen
By: Jordan Bettis

Jordan will discuss how Nielsen uses Python to connect and process massive amounts of data in a next generation environment.

Python Powered Business - Quicket Solutions
By: Bryan Chance
Experience Level: Novice

Python powered platform at Quicket Solutions.

Python at ActiveCampaign
By: Ben Levin
Experience Level: Novice

ActiveCampaign is using Python to transition from a PHP monolith to scalable microservices that can keep pace with the demands of our rapidly-growing customer base, as well as to train and deploy customer-facing ML models.

Python at Imaginary Landscape
By: Noel Taylor

Noel from Imaginary Landscape will discuss, and demonstrate, 'Iscape Search', a homegrown web scraper and search engine designed to replace the discontinued Google Site Search

Python at Blick Art Materials
By: Naomi Ceder
Experience Level: Novice

Blick uses a wide range of technologies across over 70 stores nationwide and on 2 e-commerce sties, and Python (and Flask & Django) powers the systems we use to price our almost 90,000 items competitively.

Doctors, Devices, Drugs, and Django - Python at a Healthcare Startup
By: Scott Sexton
Experience Level: Novice

At Lumere, we make software to help hospitals get the clinical data they need to make decisions leading to better outcomes and lower costs. We use python to power our web application, data science tools, and research platform. Why did we decide on python, and how has it enabled us to grow?

Omega Grid's Python Blockchain
By: Killian Tobin
Experience Level: Intermediate

Omega Grid created a python blockchain to help utilities manage all the new solar panels, electric vehicles, and batteries on the grid. We are also running a python backend for our public facing rewards platform. We launched the rewards platform on Jan 1 in Burlington, VT as part of a peak shaving program.

Python@Panopta
By: Jason Abate
Experience Level: Intermediate

Python has been one of the fundamental technologies for Panopta's global monitoring infrastructure. I'll cover some of the more interesting ways we've used Python over the years, and our plans going forward.

Python at Impossible Objects
By: Len Wanger
Experience Level: Intermediate

Impossible Objects is an award winning manufacturer of 3D printers for the industrial market. We use Python extensively throughout the organization from MIS systems, data analysis to preparing models and running our printers. This talk is an overview of how Python is used throughout the organization.