Speakers

Meet our keynotes

Sophia Yang
Sophia Yang

Sr. Data Scientist
Anaconda Inc

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She is passionate about the data science community and the Python open-source community. She is the author of multiple Python open-source libraries such as condastats, cranlogs, PyPowerUp, intake-stripe, and intake-salesforce

Jimena Bermúdez
Jimena Bermúdez

Sr. Full Stack Developer

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Jimena is the esteemed president of Python Spain and a computer engineer who takes pride and joy in her profession. Although she was once drawn to the realms of design, UI, and UX, her true passion lies in coding and architectural design

Marlene Mhangami
Marlene Mhangami

Developer Advocate
Voltron Data

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Marlene is a Zimbabwean software engineer, explorer, and speaker based in the city of Harare. She is a previous director and vice-chair for the Python Software Foundation and is currently serving as the vice-chair of the Association for Computing Machinery practitioner board

Thais Viana
Thais Viana

Product Manager
Jusbrasil

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Thais is currently leading their Search & Recommendation team. Her active engagement in the tech community, including contributions to PyLadies in Rio de Janeiro and Afropython for more than 6 years, highlights her commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion in the industry

Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe
Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe

Open Source Programs Manager

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Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe is an Open Source Programs Manager, Researcher and Community Builder who believes in the power of Open Source Community Building. Her current research focuses on Improving DEI in Open Source Community Leadership

Carolina Chavier
Carolina Chavier

Founder
The Allyance

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Caroline Therwath-Chavier est la fondatrice de The Allyance, entreprise d'expertise sur les sujets de recrutement et de diversité. Caroline est une des seules spécialistes en France du recrutement des ingénieurs dans la tech

The Speakers

sireesha chavali
sireesha chavali

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A passionate AI Engineer at Enique Solutions primarily focusing on the development of conversational AI solutions for a diverse range of clients. My technical expertise encompasses industry-leading platforms such as Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure, and Power Apps

Lidiane Monteiro
Lidiane Monteiro

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Founder of InspirAda na Computação, Software developer at LuizaLabs and Host of the podcast Cabeça de Lab. Passionate about people and knowledge, contributed to the co-founding of technology communities such as PyLadies Recife and Women Who Code Recife, participant of PyLadies Brasil, PUG- PE and Django Girls

Mariana Bocoi
Mariana Bocoi

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Mariana is part of the PyLadies Stockholm community and works as a DevOps/Infrastructure engineer. Before digging deeper into the clouds, she worked with backend development for over ten years

Pavithra Eswaramoorthy
Pavithra Eswaramoorthy

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Pavithra Eswaramoorthy is a Developer Advocate at Quansight, where she works to improve the developer experience and community engagement for several open source projects in the PyData community. Currently, she maintains the Bokeh visualization library, and contributes to the Nebari (adjacent to the Jupyter community) and conda-store (part of the conda ecosystem) projects

Débora Azevedo (Host)
Débora Azevedo (Host)

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English teacher for living and Python community member for I'm a believer in the transformative power it has on people. Came for the language as I was learning programming with Python and stayed for the community that changed my life forever

Bianca Rosa

Backend and Infrastructure Engineer at Lumos. Works with Python for over 7 years and has been involved with the Python community since then; organized several Pyladies and PythOnRio meet-ups and is the conference chair of the Python Brasil 2024 in Rio

Cecilia Tivir

Cecilia é Co-Fundadora da PyLadies Maputo e da Wansati Lab. Actualmente estudante e pesquisadora (main field: AI and Education)

Lisa Marielle Cooper

Lisa Marielle Cooper (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, disability justice advocate, and community builder. She is a co-organizer of Pyjamas Conf, the laziest 24-hour Python conference in the world, and is one of the co-founders of PyLadies Calgary, Alberta's first Pyladies chapter

Mona Obedoza
Mona Obedoza

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Mona Obedoza is a high schooler, tech enthusiast, and aspiring AI engineer, as well as a student ambassador for Women in AI Philippines and a co-leader of the Girls Can Code club in her school. She has participated and placed in numerous local and global tech competitions, and also hosts coding workshops and hackathons for students to further her mission of helping kids discover the many possibilities of how technology and AI can positively shape our world

Denny Perez

Software QA Analyst. Python community manager

2nd Dec | 07:50 - 08:00 | UTC/GMT
Conference Closing
2nd Dec | 00:15 - 00:30 | UTC/GMT
Welcome to PyLadiesCon
2nd Dec | 15:50 - 16:00 | UTC/GMT
Conference Closing
2nd Dec | 16:15 - 16:30 | UTC/GMT
Welcome to PyLadiesCon
2nd Dec | 08:15 - 08:30 | UTC/GMT
Welcome to PyLadiesCon
2nd Dec | 23:50 - 00:00 | UTC/GMT
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Micaela Reyes

Micaela is a Software Engineer transitioning into Data Analysis. She is deeply involved in the Python community - serves as the Director of Operations for PythonPH and is a Python Software Foundation Fellow

Judit Guimera Busquets
Judit Guimera Busquets

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I'm an engineer by heart, graduated as an aeronautical engineer in 2007 at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona) and went to work as a quality engineer for pressure vessels at Bureau Veritas in the area of Barcelona. Later on, as I wanted to go back to the aviation sector, I went back to study and graduated with a BEng in Air Transportation from City, University of London in 2013

Lynn Root

Lynn Root is the Chair of the PyLadies Global Council, a member of the Python Software Foundation, and the former Vice Chair of the PSF's Board of Directors. She is also a Staff Engineer at Spotify, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a seasoned speaker on building and maintaining distributed systems

2nd Dec | 16:00 - 16:15 | UTC/GMT
PyLadies Introduction
2nd Dec | 00:00 - 00:15 | UTC/GMT
PyLadies Introduction
2nd Dec | 08:00 - 08:15 | UTC/GMT
PyLadies Introduction
Jessica Temporal

Jessica Temporal is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Auth0 by Okta

Winnie Ke

Winnie is the Chair of PyCon Taiwan 2023. She is working as a software engineer at Applied Materials

Jessie Newman
Jessie Newman

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Jessie Newman is a software engineer with six years experience at Google working on Google Drive, Search, and Maps, and three years experience working in high frequency trading at Hudson River Trading. She was a founding co-lead of Hudson River Trading's womens employee resource group

2nd Dec | 19:55 - 20:15 | UTC/GMT
Testing in Python
Joeun Park
Joeun Park

She was a staff member of PyConKR 2015-2018, including PyCon APAC 2016. While at PyConKR, she started Young Coder, Child Care as a mother of two children

Andrea Griffiths (Host)
Andrea Griffiths (Host)

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Andrea Griffiths, a Senior Product Manager at GitHub, has over a decade of experience in developer tools. She focuses on enhancing the developer experience and advocates for user-centric solutions

Sarah Adigwe
Sarah Adigwe

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Sarah Adigwe is a Global Council Member of PyLadies and organizer of a PyLadies chapter in Nigeria, is dedicated to advancing gender diversity in the tech industry. As the Lead for Insight and Data Analytics at Touch and Pay Technologies, she combines her technical expertise with a passion for fostering inclusive environments

Ria Bhatia

Ria Bhatia is a driven and passionate software engineer at Goldman Sachs. Over the course of her career, she has worked with various database systems, prioritizing performance, data durability, and scalability

Tania Allard

Tania is a community builder and Open Source advocate at heart.

Sarah Abderemane

Meet Sarah Abderemane, also known as sabderemane, a french backend developer with few years of experience. She works at Octopus Energy France to contribute to climate change

Swarooprani Manoor
Swarooprani Manoor

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Prof.Swarooprani Manoor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Master of Computer Applications at KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, Karnataka India

Ryllari Costa
Ryllari Costa

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A proud Brazilian from the Northeast region. Software Engineer, bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará (IFCE) and master's student in Computer Science at the Federal Rural University of Semi-Arid (UFERSA) and State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), where I am developing research in artificial intelligence applied to data collection

Aparna Soneja

Aparna is a Software engineer at Accenture & an Open source advocate by passion. She not only loves to code but also creates technical content and share with her community

Marian Villa

Marian Villa es Diseñadora Senior Full-Stack. Fellow de la Real Academia de Ingeniería de Londres

Marina Moro López
Marina Moro López

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Ingeniera biomédica y futura doctora en biomedicina formada en España. Apasionada del mundo bio y de la programación

Stefanni Cavaletto
Stefanni Cavaletto

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Ingeniera especialista en Inteligencia Artificial para Google, con más de 10 años de experiencia en esta área. Fanática de los juegos de mesa y le encanta pasar tiempo de calidad con su familia

Ana Dulce Padovan
Ana Dulce Padovan

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Co-fundadora do PyLadies São Carlos, presidente da Associação Python Brasil, organizadora da Python Brasil e PSF Fellow member.

Maaya Ishida
Maaya Ishida

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I have organized PyLadies Tokyo since 2014. And I'm one of the staffs the PyLadies Caravan project supported by PyCon JP Association which means road show at outside Tokyo

Mariana Oliveira
Mariana Oliveira

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Sou Mariana Oliveira! Graduanda em Engenharia da Complexidade na Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, faço parte do Pyladies Recife e apaixonada por Tecnologia e a Cultura Maker!. Estou me especializando na área de Robótica/ IoT, usando Python como linguagem base para o desenvolvimento de softwares e utilizando sistemas embarcados como Raspberry Pi e Arduino como base de desenvolvimento de novos hardwares

Pri Boyano

Sou a Pri, Bióloga, estudante de Tecnologia da Informação, mãe de um menino e de vários gatos. Voluntária na organização da comunidade Pyladies Bioinfo BR, apaixonada por Dados e Biologia

2nd Dec | 21:50 - 22:10 | UTC/GMT
Pyladies Bioinfo Brasil
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Data scietist in pharmaceutical company

Sarah Huang (Host)
Sarah Huang (Host)

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Product Owner, CSPO, Top 10 Asia Forbes

Lorena Mesa (Host)

I’m an open source advocate, a data engineer and data scientist, Python educator, conference speaker, and a supporter of responsible, ethical technology. I make it simple for people to discover, use, and contribute to open source by creating tech that enables you to sort through the noise and find projects that speak to you

Cosima Meyer

Cosima Meyer works as a data scientist at IBM where she aims to make machine learning explainable. As an active member of PyLadies and R-Ladies and Google‘s Women Techmakers Ambassador, she strives to bring the two communities together and make the contributions of underrepresented backgrounds in tech more visible

HanaPoulpe
HanaPoulpe

Hana (she/they), former dev at amazon (python, AWS, database, dev ops, you name it), back-end dev at Kraken Tech. Work mainly with python, likes to think of testing and making code predictible

2nd Dec | 13:00 - 13:20 | UTC/GMT
Survival Guide to typing in python
Rossana Suarez

Ingeniera en Sistemas, Tech Lead DevOps, #AWSHero, #GitlabHero y #DockerCaptain Su experiencia como Mentor y Content Creator, así como su canal de YouTube 295devops

2nd Dec | 17:15 - 17:35 | UTC/GMT
IAcelearando despliegues poderosos
Mariatta

Mariatta is a Python core developer where she focuses on improving the workflow and documentation. She is active in the Python community as an advisor for the Global PyLadies, and PyCon US Chair

2nd Dec | 07:50 - 08:00 | UTC/GMT
Conference Closing
2nd Dec | 00:15 - 00:30 | UTC/GMT
Welcome to PyLadiesCon
2nd Dec | 15:50 - 16:00 | UTC/GMT
Conference Closing
2nd Dec | 16:15 - 16:30 | UTC/GMT
Welcome to PyLadiesCon
2nd Dec | 08:15 - 08:30 | UTC/GMT
Welcome to PyLadiesCon
2nd Dec | 23:50 - 00:00 | UTC/GMT
Conference Closing
Beatris Mendez Gandica
Beatris Mendez Gandica

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Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, Founder, Speaker, and Latina

Yodra López

Software Engineer, trabaja actualmente en Science4Tech como desarrolladora, profesora en programas de emprendimiento juvenil de Programación web FullStack, co-fundadora de en AdaLoveDev, comunidad de desarrolladoras que promueven el papel de las mujeres en el sector y streamer en CodingIsCaring donde comparte y promueve las buenas prácticas en la programación.

Joanna Jablonski
Joanna Jablonski

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I help developers learn because I like code, words, and people.

Bilge Yücel

Bilge is a developer advocate at deepset, working with Haystack, an open source LLM framework. With over two years of experience as a Software Engineer, she developed a strong interest in NLP and pursued a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence at KU Leuven with a focus on NLP