PyCon CZ 2019, June 14-16, Ostrava

Organized by community for community

5^th PyCon CZ is organized by volunteers from Czech Python community for anyone interested in Python: professionals, novices, students and hobbyist Python programmers from Czechia and abroad. Everyone gets a chance to learn, receive support, and connect with others in a friendly atmosphere.

Attendees said about PyCon CZ

Attended #pyconcz for the first time. It was one of the best tech conferences I’ve ever been to. Inspiring talks, superb venue, perfect organization and — most importantly — really great community of people. Kudos to the organizers and keep on going!

David Majda (@dmajda)

I had a lovely time at #pyconcz - thank you, organizers for your hard work!

Ann (@AE3nn)

Just want to thank @pyconcz organizers for such great event! Completely well done job! Enjoyed the conference and after party so much! Great people, even better atmosphere! #pyconcz #python

Igor Davydenko (@playpausenstop)

#pyconcz this year was awesome! Can't wait to visit next one, thanks to everyone who made it happen and who i got to talk to during the conference :)

Zue (@FerkiZue)

An extremely successful first day at #PyConCZ. To @BaraDrb and all the other organizers… Bravo! Well done. 👏

Justin Mayer (@jmayer)

Thanks @pyconcz organizers for their enormous effort to create such welcome and friendly community atmosphere and a great conference! Enjoyed it to the last bit. See you sometimes soon... #PyConCZ

Tomáš Hroch (@TomasHroch)

#pyconcz over but I am still looking on a bright side of life pic.twitter.com/RuMrinYOGi

Petr Simecek (@simecek)

Moc děkujeme pořadatelům #PyConCZ za profesionální zázemí konference a velké díky patří také retroteamu, že věnovali čas našim dětem a zasvětili je do retrogamesek 😀 Super přátelská atmosféra! pic.twitter.com/TGVtJWGJc1

Programujeme hrou (@programohrajeme)

Watch a short video from the first PyCon CZ or check talks from previous years on PyCon CZ YouTube channel.

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Keynote speakers

Jackie Kazil

Parallels Between Career Building and Home Remodeling

Jackie is a Czech-American engineer and former White House Presidential Innovation Fellow. She has worked for various major companies and government agencies like The Washington Post and The Library of Congress. She is a leader in PyLadies and sits on the Board of Directors for the Python Software Foundation. She is the creator of Mesa, an agent-based modeling library in Python and is working on her Ph.D in Computational Social Science.

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Karla Fejfarová

Of Mice and Men and Python

Karla Fejfarová is a biostatistician at the Czech Centre of Phenogenomics, where she helps other scientists with computer-related tasks: anything from tweaking Excel sheets and making plots to doing data analyses and training neural networks. Together with Petr Šimeček, she maintains the Twitter account @python_tip.

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Mislav Cimperšak

On the Edge of Leadership

Mislav Cimperšak leads teams of various sizes in several companies. He’s both remote and on-site as anything between a web developer and a team lead. He’s responsible for everything from software architecture, team management, project planning, and mentoring to straight down programming. In the last few years, he’s been rediscovering his love for DevOps.

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Josef Svoboda

Leveraging technology and laziness

Josef Svoboda is an investment manager specialising in quantitative credit investing, struggling to balance his passion for elegant mathematics with a keen scepticism of the rigor of modelling in social sciences. He is currently working for a fixed income specialist and has experience across factor portfolio construction, LDI, credit research and data analytics.