Announcing PyCon APAC 2017 Keynote Speaker Wes McKinney

Note from organizers 2017-06-22: Wes has withdrawn from keynoting for PyCon APAC 2017, and in his place we have invited Luis Miguel Sanchez to keynote for us.


 

We are excited to announce our first keynote speaker for PyCon APAC 2017, Wes McKinney, well known as the author of Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython

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Wes McKinney

Wes is a software architect at Two Sigma Investments in New York City.He is the creator of the pandas project and wrote the book “Python for Data Analysis”. He is a PMC member for the Apache Arrow and ApacheParquet projects. Wes was previously a software engineer at Clouderaand, before that, the co-founder and CEO of DataPad.

We’re delighted to give him hearty welcome to Kuala Lumpur for PyCon APAC and looking forward to seeing him soon.

PyCon APAC is happening this year from 26 August to 27 August 2017 at Connexion@Nexus Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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