Python has hundreds of modules built-in. In this talk, Mike Driscoll will bring you up to speed on the latest improvements to the Python programming language over the past few versions. There is a lot of learn about and this talk will only scratch the surface!

I have an important question for you. If you were absolutely successful in your current project, how long do you think your product would last? A few months? Years? Decades? It may feel like software is a fast-moving field, but the truth is that a successful software project will last a long time, and it will most likely last longer than than the individuals working on it.

This talk is about taking a deep introspection into how we write software, and what we leave behind for future maintainers.

PyLadies Lunch

The PyLadies Lunch is a great opportunity for women attending the conference who love Python, or who want to learn more about Python or PyLadies, to meet others in the same boat in a fun, relaxed environment.

We cordially invite you to join us and make new friends, forge connections, and share Python programming stories with folks from all around the Philippines.

Who: Anyone who identifies as a woman who is attending PyCon PH

The purpose of this session is to learn how to put communication skills into practice and apply them in professional and academic careers. In this session, I will explain what public speaking is, presentation mastery(styles), evaluation skills, its several varieties, and how it is performed at home, schools, colleges, corporations, job interviews, community talks, conference presentations, and at every level of career. This will aid them in both composing and preparing scripts for presentation at different events .

A discussion on moving to a field like data science/machine learning from a non-traditional/non-stem background. I will address the hurdles encountered along the way and how I overcame them as well as answering the common question of 'Do you need a STEM degree to get into ML or development?"

Continuous delivery is critical to modern software development, enabling teams to release new features and updates quickly and efficiently. However, releasing new features can also be risky, with the potential for errors and bugs to be introduced into the code. Feature flags offer a solution, allowing teams to control the release of new features and roll them out gradually or disable them quickly if necessary. This presentation is intended for DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, and organizations who are looking for new ways to improve the speed and reliability of their development process. Attendees will learn how to implement feature flags in their own development processes and how to use them to improve their software releases' speed, agility, and reliability.

Deploying and maintaining open-source packages in Python could be a daunting task as there are lots of bits and pieces that need to be set up. In this talk, I’d be going over a fundamental checklist that a developer would need to go over. We’ll also automate some things that would help to maintain your new package much easier.

Entity relationships have been subject of research in several fields such as social science (social relationships), business management (intra/inter-business relationships), and public administration (government-community relationships). Traditional methodologies consist of extensive surveys and manual extraction of available information. The representation and analysis of relationships, therefore, is severely limited by the manual preprocessing of data sources.

Recently, an interesting talk has been made about a new algorithm that could discard back-propagation, the forward-forward algorithm, we will be exploring more about it.

Learn about the client-side web and its current status. Discuss about what could possibly the Python language do if it's on the client-side web. Show some existing solutions to client-side web using pure Python. Introduce PyFyre, a Python frontend framework. Showcase what can it do, what problems did it solve, and do a short programming session to create a simple application with it.

Managing packages and dependencies in Python are an often (but hopefully not) forgotten, and sometimes painful process. Sure, it's easy with Virtual Environment, pyenv, and pip to add packages to your project, but removing packages and its dependencies can be a pain to deal with. There are also multiple files that we have to take care of, and sometimes they're hard to understand. To make our life easier, we will use Poetry, a new Python tool for managing packages and dependencies. In this talk, we will demonstrate how to use this library and show how easy it is compared with our traditional approach of Virtual Environment, pyenv, and pip.

pip install malware: it’s that easy. Almost all projects depend on external packages, but did you know how easy it can be to install something nasty instead of the dependency you want? You might remember classic typosquatting examples like goggle.com, but it’s now common to see malicious code hidden in spoofed or otherwise fraudulent PyPI packages or nested dependencies. Malware developers can also use techniques like starjacking to appear legitimate, so these unpleasant packages become even more difficult to spot. It’s estimated that over 3% of packages on PyPI could be using this technique. By the end of this talk, you’ll know how to protect yourself when installing and updating dependencies and you’ll leave with a checklist to follow to help you stay safe in future.

This talk aims at making attendees get acquainted with MPI and parallel/distributed programming in general. The session will cover the basics of concurrency, and move on to parallel programming. This talk will take the help of a powerful Python library for parallel and distributed programming, mpi4py to implement quick examples of a real-world parallelizable program that would give the attendees a sense of what to expect from MPI. The key takeaways from this talk would be identifying parallel programs, implementing them in MPI and being able to avoid common mistakes while doing so.

Co-presented with: Sarthika Dhawan