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Conference Schedule

Friday August 9

07:00PM–11:30PM: Registration and casual mixer. Come register, hang out, and meet other PyCon-goers! Food and drinks will be provided courtesy of Upverter, and the venue bar will be open!

Talks — Saturday August 10

  Colony Ballroom Terrace St. David
09:30AM

Welcome to PyCon Canada

Colony Ballroom
09:55AM Keynote
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
10:40AM
10:50AM Android: The Land that Python Forgot?
Christopher Neugebauer
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
NLTK vs Twitter: A Voyage into Linguistic Frontiers
Max Thayer
pyvideo video
Terrace
Notable Features of Python
James Powell
pyvideo
St. David
11:10AM
11:15AM UnRESTful APIs with Tastypie
Ari Lacenski
pyvideo video
Terrace
11:30AM
11:35AM
11:45AM Git Happens
Jessica Kerr
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
How to Make Friends and Influence Developers
Mahdi Yusuf
pyvideo video
Terrace
12:05PM
12:10PM The Importance of Experimentation
Juan Lavista Ferres
pyvideo video
Terrace
12:25PM
12:30PM
12:40PM 250GB of RAM for 34¢/hour: EC2 spot instances
Kamal Marhubi
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
Saturday Morning BreakfastSerial: Hacking Arduinos in Python
Swift
pyvideo video
Terrace
12:47PM Making Embeddable Web Widgets Without Iframes
Christopher Lambacher
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
12:54PM Hyperopt: A Python library for optimizing the hyperparameters of machine learning algorithms
James Bergstra
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
01:00PM

Lunch

Colony Ballroom
02:30PM PRISM-AS-A-SERVICE: Not Subject to American Law
Lynn Root
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
Communicating Sequential Processes: Multicore Programs in Standard CPython
Simon Law
pyvideo video
Terrace
Fundamentals of Python Debugging
Chris Calloway
pyvideo
St. David
02:50PM
02:55PM Supporting Everything - Python2/3, Mac/Linux/Windows
James Saryerwinnie
pyvideo video
Terrace
03:10PM
03:15PM
03:25PM Skyfield and 15 Years of Bad APIs
Brandon Rhodes
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
The Joys and Pains of Using Pyramid
Éric Araujo, Hadrien David
pyvideo video
Terrace
04:05PM
04:30PM From Source to Code: How CPython's Compiler Works
Brett Cannon
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
Diving into Open Data with IPython Notebook & pandas
Julia Evans
pyvideo video
Terrace
04:50PM
05:00PM Open source circuit simulator in Python
Shivkumar Iyer
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
A Flask of full-text search with PostgreSQL
Dan Scott
pyvideo video
Terrace
05:07PM Bloomcast - Python Facilitating Operational Oceanography
Doug Latornell
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
05:14PM A 65-Year-Old Map Nobody Has Ever Seen
Anton Dubrau
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
05:20PM
05:30PM Keynote
Hilary Mason
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
06:15PM

Closing Messages

Colony Ballroom
06:30PM
09:30AM

Welcome to PyCon Canada

Colony Ballroom
09:55AM
01:00PM

Lunch

Colony Ballroom
05:30PM
Keynote
Hilary Mason
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
06:15PM

Closing Messages

Colony Ballroom
PyLadies

PyLadies Social

Come join PyLadies for a social evening on Saturday, August 10th from 9pm–12am at Art Square Café, a short walk from the PyCon Venue.

We’ll have appetizers and sangria available for attendees. A huge thank you to Heroku and PyCon Canada for sponsoring and organizing this event!

Women conference attendees and their plus one (of either gender) are welcome.

Register for the PyLadies Social at Art Square »

Talks — Sunday August 11

  Colony Ballroom Terrace St. David
09:45AM

Morning Messages

Colony Ballroom
10:10AM Keynote
Karen Brennan
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
10:55AM
11:05AM Why Open Source Works
Alex Gaynor
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
Exploring the Google Analytics API
Vanessa Sabino
pyvideo video
Terrace

Open space

St. David
11:25AM
11:30AM Python and Hadoop: Big Data Application Development with PyCascading
Craig Hawco
pyvideo video
Terrace
11:45AM
11:50AM
12:00PM EduPsych Theory for Python Hackers v.2.0
Mel Chua
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
Mobile Web Performance Hits You Didn't Know About
Bijan Vaez
pyvideo video
Terrace
12:07PM Pyramid-Royal: building restful web services the easy way
Hadrien David
pyvideo video
Terrace
12:14PM Job Security (in Python)
Christopher Neugebauer
video
Terrace
12:20PM
12:25PM Switching character sets with the engine running (on the web)
Taavi Burns
video
Terrace
12:30PM Cool stuff in Augmented and Virtual Reality
Michael Kwan
video
Terrace
12:37PM Shopify Checkout
Chris Saunders
video
Terrace
12:40PM
12:42PM Ontario Beer Finder App
Dan O'Connell
video
Terrace
12:45PM

Lunch

Colony Ballroom
02:15PM The Red Balloon: Lessons on community building from the Public Lab
Dana Bauer
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
Quick Wins for Better Website Security
Dan Callahan
pyvideo video
Terrace
SASS me up, Scotty
Ricardo Vazquez
pyvideo
St. David
02:35PM
02:40PM An Overview of the Facebook cache
Yannick Gingras
pyvideo video
Terrace
02:55PM
03:00PM
03:10PM Planting Open Source Seeds
Kenneth Reitz
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
Single Artifact Deployments for Python Applications
Jason Filipe
pyvideo video
Terrace
03:30PM
03:35PM Build Your Infrastructure - with Python!
Ed Leafe
pyvideo video
Terrace
03:50PM
03:55PM
04:15PM Lessons from Classic Industrial Design for a Digital World
Linn Vizard
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
Hy: A Lisp That Compiles to Python
James King
pyvideo video
Terrace
04:35PM
04:45PM Go for Python Hackers
Greg Ward
pyvideo video
Colony Ballroom
Testing Django Projects at Scale
Ash Christopher
pyvideo video
Terrace
05:05PM
05:10PM How to Learn Python in Five Minutes
Daniel Moniz
pyvideo video
Terrace
05:15PM playSVG: scripting vector graphics with geometry
Justin Barca
pyvideo video
Terrace
05:22PM A Bad Idea in Python
Rory Geoghegan
video
Terrace
05:25PM
05:27PM Built in Numb support in Python 3-4
Christopher Lambacher
video
Terrace
05:30PM Sad Panda Needs a Hug
Nina Zakharenko
video
Terrace
05:35PM
05:45PM

Closing Ceremonies

Colony Ballroom
06:20PM
09:45AM

Morning Messages

Colony Ballroom
10:10AM
12:45PM

Lunch

Colony Ballroom
05:45PM

Closing Ceremonies

Colony Ballroom

Young Coders Workshop — Saturday August 10 and Sunday August 11

Learn how to remix and create your own websites, videos, and more with Mozilla's Webmaker tools at PyCon Canada's Maker Party for youth! Check out some of the awesome "makes" that have been created using Webmaker's HTML & CSS editing tool Thimble, and the video-editing tool Popcorn Maker:

And did we mention it's free?! Just register via Eventbrite!

Youth will be able to make, create, and collaborate at this learning lab. Using a project-based approach, youth will learn through making with the help of some awesome mentors!

Sprints — Monday August 12

Development Sprints

PyCon Development Sprints are two days of intensive learning and development on an open source project of your choice, in a team environment. It's a time to come together with colleagues, old and new, to share what you've learned and apply it to an open source project.

PyCon provides the space and infrastructure (network, power, tables & chairs); you bring your skills, humanity, and brainpower (oh! and don't forget your computer).

Sprints — Tuesday August 13

Development Sprints

PyCamp 2013 Toronto

Toronto PyCamp

Toronto PyCamp: Monday through Friday, August 12-16, 2013

PyCamp teams with the second PyCon Canada Conference! Toronto PyCamp and the PyCon Canada Conference happen on the campus of the University of Toronto. Go to the PyCon Canada weekend to see the amazing things Python can do for you, then experience a week of PyCamp.

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