Sponsors and partners
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Community Platinum Partners
EuroPython Society
The EuroPython Society (EPS) is a Swedish non-profit organization which organizes EuroPython conferences, supports the Python community in Europe.
The EPS was formed in 2004, with the mission to turn EuroPython into a successful Python conference series for the years to come. In 2016, we have extended our mission to further the use of the programming language Python in Europe and organize events centered around the programming language Python to support this.
Python Software Foundation
The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. The majority of the PSF’s work is focused on empowering and supporting people within the Python community.
The PSF has active grant programs that support sprints, conferences, meetups, user groups, and Python development efforts all over the world. In addition, the PSF underwrites and runs PyCon US, the primary Python community conference. Being part of the PSF means being part of the Python community. Recently we changed the PSF to an open membership organization, so that everyone who uses and supports Python can join.
To learn more, visit PSF’s page about https://www.python.org/psf/membership.
Coffee partner
FLYR for Hospitality (formerly Pace Revenue)
FLYR for Hospitality, formerly Pace Revenue, is revolutionising the hospitality industry with a commercial operating system that puts the power of machine learning and the latest data science in the hands of hospitality revenue managers.
Our Industry-leading AI-driven decision intelligence and business intelligence suite, is driving the next level of revenue management, empowering hospitality operators to make optimal commercial decisions in real-time.
Learn more at https://flyr.com/hospitality/
Afterparty partner
HTTPie
Making APIs simple and intuitive for all those building the tools of our time.
Silver Sponsors
Ataccama
Ataccama is a Czech-Canadian software company that develops the globally successful Ataccama ONE platform, designed for advanced management and governance of corporate data. This solution has been positioned in the elite Gartner Magic Quadrant as a leader in the field of data quality solutions. It encompasses all the tools for automated data quality management, cataloging, linking, integration, and subsequent reporting, all powered by cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence.
The democratization of access to data, particularly for large datasets, opens up a simple path for companies from mid-level to enterprise to create a Data Quality Fabric, a central hub for effective data work with added value in the form of data quality management. Ataccama has branches in 10 countries around the world, with the largest development center located in the Czech Republic, and the main headquarters situated in Toronto, Canada.
Among their clients are companies such as T-Mobile, Avast, Raiffeisenbank, and Heineken. In June 2022, Ataccama secured approximately $150 million in a series-A investment round from the global Bain Capital Tech Opportunities fund, in exchange for a minority stake. These funds will be used to achieve global expansion, develop the data platform, and also to recruit top-tier Czech and Slovak developers.
Imper
When data‑driven‑sales and AI power meet B2B
We have been on the market for many years – we have 2000 clients not only in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but all over Europe. We are a SaaS company and we primarily help our clients through 2 applications: Leady and Merk – that means that we do not do custom development, but we have 2 apps that we work on permanently and we try to make them state of the art.
Although we are already a fairly large company, we pride ourselves on a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, with dog‑friendly offices, regular teambuilding sessions and great breakfasts during the week.
Join our IT crew, where data‑driven‑sales and AI power ignite your IT skills. We’re more than just data providers – we’re creators of opportunities. And one of them is waiting for you right now!
Leadhub
Leadhub is a self-funded Czech e-mail marketing and marketing automation tool used by thousands of e-shops. Our goal is to make it as simple as possible for new and upcoming e-shops to start communicating with their customers via beautifully personalized emails, relevant pop-ups, and web layers, and through social networks, all without breaking the bank on an expensive onboarding process.
Leadhub achieves this by collecting tens of millions of events every day and aggregating them in real time, while minimizing infrastructure costs. Our small, friendly team of developers, based in Prague, leverages a diverse range of skills, experiences, and backgrounds to make strategic decisions about the best technologies to suit our needs. Whether it’s cloud or bare-metal, Python or C++, mature technology or an in-house specific hack, we aim to utilize anything that will enhance our product and make it more affordable for our customers.
Python is the backbone of our tech stack, and we can’t wait to meet other Python enthusiasts at PyCon CZ 2023!
Lynt
Lynt is a digital marketing agency that connects marketing with technology. Our team of marketers, developers, and sysadmins helps our customers grow in many areas.
Our marketing campaigns benefit from automation. We help to improve the performance and security of websites and servers or deploy advanced analytics. We analyze customers’ data and provide valuable insights into their businesses.
Our interdisciplinary skills and knowledge help us to get a complex view of the problems in mind and to deliver the right solutions to the right problems.
OLC Systems
OLC systems s r.o. was founded in 2000 as a Czech software company. It currently employs more than 50 experienced developers, mostly developing applications in Python.
Since its inception, the focus of OLC Systems has been on software development, especially online production, inventory and sales systems, including mobile applications.
The company’s regular customers include one of the largest multinational corporations in the rubber industry, Hexpol, the retail company Mobil Pohotovost, Palacký University in Olomouc, the Czech Floorball Union, the Judicial Academy of the Ministry of Justice and others.
Průša research
Prusa Research was founded as a one‑man startup in 2012 by Josef Prusa, a Czech hobbyist, maker and inventor. As time went by, the Prusa i3 design became one of the most popular FDM 3D printer designs adopted by many manufacturers and hobbyists across the world thanks to its open‑source nature.
Now, there are more than 700+ people working in Prusa Research and we ship over 9000 printers worldwide directly from our HQ in Prague every month.
We are staying faithful to our roots. Our award‑winning Original Prusa i3 3D printers are still open‑source and plenty of their parts are printed by other 3D printers – that’s why we also have “The Farm”, a large hall with more than 600 printers that create parts for other printers!
Pure Storage
Pure Storage uncomplicated data storage, forever.
Pure delivers a cloud experience that empowers every organization to get the most from their data while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it.
Pure’s commitment to providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility to meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are deploying traditional workloads, modern applications, containers, or more. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.
Today, several hundred engineers at the Prague R&D center make a significant contribution to Pure’s global innovation engine, and further accelerate time-to-market for its solutions. All innovations underline the importance of the Czech Republic to Pure’s global business, firmly placing Prague at the heart of Pure’s innovation efforts.
Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Rossum
Rossum (the name comes from Czech writer Karel Čapek’s play “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) is capable of extracting data (from documents) six times faster than the human rate. Last year alone it managed to save companies across a number of sectors over one billion keystrokes, the equivalent of 150 years of human labor. Today, the company automates document communication for customers on five continents and a client roster that includes Siemens, Bosch, Cushman & Wakefield, Veolia, and, here in the Czech Republic, Alza, Kofola, and Mattoni.
After tripling our revenue in 2020 and securing Eastern Europe’s largest-ever Series A funding of $100M in 2021, we plan to further expand our market share and invest heavily across our Go-to-market teams & our research and development backbone.
Our product is number #1 in its category.
Learn more about Rossum on Expats.cz, Forbes & TechCrunch
Sentry
For software teams, Sentry is essential for monitoring application code quality.
From Error tracking to Performance monitoring, developers can see clearer, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications — from frontend to backend. Loved by nearly 4 million developers and 90,000 organizations worldwide, Sentry provides code-level observability to many of the world’s best-known companies like Disney, Cloudflare, Eventbrite, Slack, Supercell, and Rockstar Games.
Learn more at sentry.io or follow Sentry on GitHub, Twitter, Dribbble or LinkedIn.
Bronze Sponsors
Kiwi.com
Kiwi.com is an online travel agency with groundbreaking Virtual Interlining technology and a focus on exceptional customer service.
Partners
Faculty of Information Technology CTU in Prague
The Faculty of Information Technology is the youngest faculty of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Its mission is to provide top technical education in the major fields of informatics, focusing on informatics and communication technologies at bachelor, master and doctoral level, and to conduct research and development comparable with that carried out at leading European faculties of information technology.
junior.guru
Junior Guru je rozcestník a komunita pro začátečníky v programování. Především pak pro ty, kteří se do IT rekvalifikují z jiných oborů.
Najdeš tam příručku plnou rad jak změnit kariéru, katalog kurzů, nabídky práce pro juniory, tématický podcast a nakonec i Discord, kde můžeš vše prodiskutovat a kde bývají zajímavé přednášky.
Provozovatelem Junior Guru je Honza Javorek, který se dlouhodobě dobrovolnicky věnuje české Python komunitě.
PyData Prague
PyData Prague aims to unite data analysts, engineers, scientists, and others involved in the usage, developments, and support of open source technologies in the area of scientific computation. These include pandas, numpy, IPython, R, matplotlib, Julia, Jupyter, and other related projects, most of which are supported by NumFOCUS.
We spread and discuss knowledge revolving around these topics during our meetups, in which you are most encouraged to participate, eventually by giving a talk.
Connectivity Partner
Ubiquiti Networks
Ubiquiti is focused on democratizing network technology on a global scale — aggregate shipments of nearly 85 million devices play a key role in creating networking infrastructure in over 200 countries and territories around the world. Our professional networking products are powered by our UISP and UniFi software platforms to provide high-capacity distributed Internet access and unified information technology management, respectively.