PyCon APAC 2017 Program Schedule

Conference Schedule

The conference schedule for PyCon APAC 2017 are as follows. Depending on circumstances, we expect some minor modifications between today until conference day so check in often.

DAY 1: Saturday, 26 August 2017

Continuum Reflexion
9:00AM – 9:50AM Conference Registration
9:50AM – 10:00AM Conference Opening
10:00AM – 11:00AM Keynote Presentation

Luis Miguel Sanchez

11:00AM – 11:30AM Tea Break
11:30AM – 12:10PM

Understanding The World With The Help Of Python (Beginner)

Afeez Aziz

Message from the PSF

Younggun Kim

12:10PM – 12:50PM

Data Mining of News (Intermediate)

Amir Othman

Programming the BBC micro:bit with MicroPython – For students by students (Workshop style, Beginner)

Wang Siyin

12:50PM – 1:50PM Lunch and LT
1:50PM – 2:30PM

Document Analysis with Python
(Intermediate)

Ng Swee Meng

Using machine learning to try and predict taxi availability
(Intermediate)

Narahari Allamraju

2:30PM – 3:10PM

Python in Big Data Ecosystem
(Intermediate)

Nicholas Lu Chee Seng

Introduction to the data analysis using python
(Beginner)

Akira Nonaka

3:10PM – 3:50PM  Coding test-driven Python package with CI and cloud
(Intermediate)

Keith Yang

 Introduction to Analytics studies in real business
(Intermediate)

Natsuko Akaike

3:50PM – 4:30PM

Python: Super Power for Blended Learning
(Beginner)

Rizky Ariestiyansyah

 The Python You Don’t Know
(Intermediate)

Tzu-ping Chung

4:30PM – 5:00PM Tea Break
5:00PM – 5:30PM  Introduction to FeinCMS
(Intermediate)

Arthur Sultanbekov

 Velocity. Agility. Python.
(Beginner)

Sian Lerk Lau

5:30PM – 6:00PM LT and Conference Closing
7:00PM – 9:00PM  PyCon APAC 2017 Conference Dinner @ The Gardens Hotel and Residences

DAY 2: Sunday, 27 August 2017

Continuum Reflexion
9:00AM – 10:00AM Conference Registration
10:00AM – 11:00AM Keynote Presentation

Jessica McKellar

11:00AM – 11:30AM Tea Break
11:30AM – 12:10PM

Write Elegant Concurrent Code in Python
(Intermediate)

Mosky Liu

Silver Sponsors Panel Discussion

12:10PM – 12:50PM

Physics and Math with python – A learning adventure
(Beginner)

Praveen Patil

Beginner’s Guide to Scraping
(Workshop style, Beginner)

Gerald Quisumbing

12:50PM – 1:50PM Lunch and LT
1:50PM – 2:30PM

Training Your Dragons!
(Advanced)

Shilpa Karkera

Django From Scratch (Worskhop style, Intermediate)

Mohd Kamal Mustafa

2:30PM – 3:10PM

Learning to Steer a Car with Deep Learning
(Intermediate)

Arush Kakkar

Rage Against The Learning Of The Machine
(Intermediate)

Errazudin Ishak

3:10PM – 3:50PM Quick Intro to Neural Networks : Extracting sentiment from movie reviews
(Intermediate)

Harshdeep Singh

 Selenium Web Driver With Python
(Intermediate)

Muhammad Juwaini Bin Abdul Rahman

3:50PM – 4:30PM  Page Layout Analysis of 19th Century Thai Newspapers using Python & OpenCV
(Intermediate)

Mark Hollow

 Python’s situation in Japanese startups
(Beginner)

Hironori Sekine

4:30PM – 5:00PM Tea Break
5:00PM – 5:40PM  Lightning Talk Sessions
5:40PM – 6:00PM Conference Closing
5:30PM – 5:40PM Group Photo Session

DAY 3: Mon, 28 August 2017

Development sprints will be held at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

Time: 10AM to 6PM
Sprint Venue: Makmal Mikro 1, Blok A, FSKTM, University Malaya.

Details on the project leads for the sprint can be found here.