Full Conference Schedule

Tutorials: Sunday, October 16

Tutorials are a separate registration and are $199 per session. Buy tutorial tickets before they sell out!

• 8:00 am – 9:00 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    West Lawn
• 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

  • Lactation Room

    Santa Fe 3
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Santa Fe 4
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Registration

    In front of Salon A
• 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

  • Parlez-vous Django? Internationalization with Wagtail

    Audience level: All

    Balboa I & II

    Meagen Voss

  • Build a production ready GraphQL API using Python

    Audience level: All

    Sierra 5

    Patrick Arminio

  • Effective end-to-end testing for Django

    Audience level: All

    Cabrillo 1

    Ed Rivas

• 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

  • Lunch

    West Lawn
• 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

  • “It doesn’t work” - A Djangonaut’s debugging tool kit

    Audience level: All

    Balboa I & II

    Tim Schilling (he/him)

  • Using Django for serving REST APIs with permission control and customizing the default admin panel

    Audience level: All

    Sierra 5

    Kuldeep Pisda

  • A detailed review for using Django, Channels, and HTMX to create dynamic and interactive web sites

    Audience level: All

    Cabrillo 1

    Ken Whitesell

Talks: Monday, October 17

• 8:00 am – 9:00 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    West Lawn
• 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

  • Lactation Room

    Santa Fe 3
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Santa Fe 4
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Registration

    In front of Salon A
• 9:00 am – 9:30 am

  • Orientation and Welcome

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

• 9:30 am – 9:45 am

  • Opening Remarks

    Salon A-E

    Logan Kilpatrick (he/him)

• 9:45 am – 10:30 am

  • Keynote: Come on in, the Water’s Fine: Making Python More Approachable

    Audience level: All

    Salon A-E

    Melanie Arbor (she/her)

    Jay Miller (he/them)

• 10:30 am – 10:40 am

  • Sponsored Talk: Make an IMPACT with Django

    Salon A-E

    Calvin Hendryx-Parker

• 10:40 am – 11:10 am

  • Break

    West Lawn
• 10:40 am – 11:05 am

  • Working with time series data using Django and Timescale

    Online talks

    Joaquín Scocozza

• 11:10 am – 11:55 am

  • The Django Admin Is Your Oyster: Let’s Extend Its Functionality

    Salon A-E

    Adrienne Franke

  • Django Logging Demystified

    Salon F-H

    Lee Trout

• 12:00 pm – 12:25 pm

  • Why I Didn't Start With Django

    Salon A-E

    Mario Munoz

  • Documenting Django Code in 2022

    Salon F-H

    Eric Holscher

• 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

  • Early Lunch

    West Lawn

• 1:20 pm – 2:00 pm

  • Lunch

    West Lawn
• 1:20 pm – 2:05 pm

  • factory_boy: testing like a pro

    Online talks

    Camila Maia (she/her)

• 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm

  • You Don't Need Containers to Run Django in Production

    Salon A-E

    Eduardo Felipe Castegnaro

  • Building a dev-focused learner management system with Django

    Salon F-H

    Sheena O'Connell

• 2:50 pm – 3:15 pm

  • Predict Lightning Strikes using Django and AWS

    Salon A-E

    Calvin Hendryx-Parker

  • Herding your database queries: diagnosing, improving and guarding performance of DB interactions in your Django apps

    Salon F-H

    Ilya Bass

• 3:20 pm – 3:50 pm

  • Break

    West Lawn
• 3:50 pm – 4:35 pm

  • The Django Jigsaw Puzzle: Aligning All the Pieces

    Salon A-E

    Will Vincent

  • Miracles in Anarchy

    Salon F-H

    Timothy Allen

• 4:40 pm – 5:05 pm

  • Nurturing a "Legacy" Codebase

    Salon A-E

    Karen Tracey

  • Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests

    Salon F-H

    Simon Willison

• 5:10 pm – 5:35 pm

  • Fighting Climate Change with Django

    Salon A-E

    Erin Mullaney (she/her)

  • Django from queryset to serialization

    Salon F-H

    Iuri de Silvio

• 5:40 pm – 7:00 pm

  • Welcome Reception

    West Lawn
• 5:40 pm – 6:30 pm

  • Type checking your Django code with django-types and Pyright

    Online talks

    Kyle Bebak

Talks: Tuesday, October 18

• 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

  • Lactation Room

    Santa Fe 3
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Santa Fe 4
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Registration

    In front of Salon A
• 8:30 am – 9:30 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    West Lawn
• 9:25 am – 9:55 am

  • Building Microservice Architecture for scale with Django

    Online talks

    Syed Ansab Waqar Gillani

    Syed Muhammad Dawoud Sheraz Ali

• 10:00 am – 10:10 am

  • Opening Remarks

    Salon A-E

    Drew Winstel (he/him)

• 10:10 am – 10:30 am

  • Keynote: Women of Open Source Community Africa; Emerging a Star

    Salon A-E

    Ruth Ikegah (she/her)

• 10:30 am – 10:40 am

  • Sponsored Talk: Production Django on Platform.sh: reaching operational maturity in days, not years

    Salon A-E

    Chad Carlson

• 10:40 am – 11:10 am

  • Break

    West Lawn
• 10:40 am – 11:05 am

  • I Can't Believe It's Not Real Data! An Introduction into Synthetic Data

    Online talks

    Mason Egger

• 11:10 am – 11:55 am

  • AyudaPy.org: From Weekend Project to Key Civic Movement During the Pandemic

    Salon A-E

    Marcelo Elizeche Landó

  • Keeping track of architectural-ish decisions in a sustainable way

    Salon F-H

    Juan Saavedra

• 12:00 pm – 12:25 pm

  • Scheming with CSRF: When platforms manage to break things.

    Audience level: All

    Salon A-E

    Katie McLaughlin (she/they)

  • Django Migrations: Pitfalls and Solutions

    Audience level: Intermediate

    Salon F-H

    Benjamin "Zags" Zagorsky

• 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

  • Early Lunch

    West Lawn

• 1:20 pm – 2:00 pm

  • Lunch

    West Lawn
• 1:20 pm – 2:05 pm

  • How To Be a Postgres DBA in a Pinch

    Online talks

    Elizabeth Garrett Christensen

• 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm

  • Explaining EXPLAIN: A dive into PostgreSQL's EXPLAIN plans

    Salon A-E

    Richard Yen

  • Django Through the Years

    Salon F-H

    Andrew Godwin

• 2:50 pm – 3:15 pm

  • Lint All the Things!

    Salon A-E

    Luke Lee

  • Method Resolution Order (MRO) in Python

    Salon F-H

    Sanyam Khurana

• 3:20 pm – 3:50 pm

  • Break

    West Lawn
• 3:20 pm – 3:45 pm

  • Lessons Learned Teaching Undergraduate Astronomy with a Video Game

    Online talks

    Andrew Mshar

• 3:50 pm – 4:35 pm

  • Just enough ops for developers

    Salon A-E

    Peter Baumgartner

  • A Management Layer for Scalable, Multitenant Django

    Salon F-H

    Addison Hardy

    James Ray

• 4:40 pm – 5:05 pm

  • Your First Deployment Shouldn't Be So Hard!

    Salon A-E

    Eric Matthes

  • Astrodigenous: an online portal for Indigenous sky-knowledge resources in Canada

    Salon F-H

    Dr. Heidi White

• 5:10 pm – 5:35 pm

  • Tips and tricks for optimizing Django response times

    Salon A-E

    Carmela Beiro

  • The Software Supply Chain and You: How to Build and Ship More Secure Django Apps

    Audience level: Beginner

    Salon F-H

    Lisa Tagliaferri

• 5:40 pm – 6:05 pm

  • Security Best Practices for Django Applications

    Online talks

    Gajendra Deshpande

• 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

  • Board Game Night

    Salon A-E

Talks - Deep Dives: Wednesday, October 19

• 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

  • Lactation Room

    Santa Fe 3
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Santa Fe 4
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Registration

    In front of Salon A
• 8:30 am – 9:30 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    West Lawn
• 9:30 am – 9:45 am

  • Opening Remarks

    Salon A-E

    Logan Kilpatrick (he/him)

• 9:45 am – 10:30 am

  • Keynote: State of the Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)

    Audience level: All

    Salon A-E

    Simon Charette (he/him)

• 10:30 am – 10:40 am

  • Sponsored Talk: An Introduction to Summit Technology Group

    Salon A-E

    Thulasidharan LG

    David Graves

• 10:40 am – 11:10 am

  • Break

    West Lawn
• 10:40 am – 11:05 am

  • The Best of Both Worlds: Using Vue and Django Together in a Hybrid Approach

    Online talks

    Brent O'Connor

    Joshua Weaver

    Levi Mann

• 11:10 am – 11:55 am

  • Hidden gems of Django Admin

    Salon A-E

    Maxim Danilov

• 12:00 pm – 12:25 pm

  • Async Django: The practical guide you've been **awaiting** for.

    Salon A-E

    Carlton Gibson

• 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

  • Early Lunch

    West Lawn

• 1:20 pm – 2:00 pm

  • Lunch

    West Lawn
• 1:20 pm – 2:05 pm

  • Modern apps with Django, HTMX, Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js

    Online talks

    Andrej Baranovskij

• 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm

  • Why large Django projects need a data (prefetching) layer

    Salon A-E

    Flávio Juvenal (he/him)

• 2:50 pm – 3:15 pm

  • A pythonic full-text search

    Salon A-E

    Paolo Melchiorre (he/him)

• 3:20 pm – 3:50 pm

  • Break

    West Lawn
• 3:20 pm – 3:45 pm

  • Integrating React in the Django way!

    Online talks

    Jiten Sidhpura (he/him)

• 3:50 pm – 4:35 pm

  • Home on the range with Django - getting comfortable with ranges and range fields

    Salon A-E

    Jack Linke

• 4:40 pm – 5:05 pm

  • How to turn your Website into an App (and why maybe you shouldn't!)

    Salon A-E

    Russell Keith-Magee (he/him)

• 5:10 pm – 5:40 pm

  • Panel Discussion: The State of Django

    Salon A-E

    Dawn Wages

• 5:40 pm – 6:00 pm

  • Closing Comments

    Salon A-E

• 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm

  • Full Text Search with Django and PostgreSQL: More Facets, Less Dependencies!

    Online talks

    Jason Judkins

    Colin Copeland

Sprints: Thursday, October 20

• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Santa Fe 4
• 8:30 am – 9:30 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    West Lawn
• 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

  • Getting started contributing to Django.

    Cabrillo 1-2

    Carlton Gibson

• 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • Sprints

    Cabrillo 1-2
• 11:00 am – 11:30 am

  • Break

    West Lawn at the Marriott
• 12:30 pm – 1:10 pm

  • Lunch

    West Lawn at the Marriott
• 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

  • Break

    West Lawn at the Marriott

Sprints: Friday, October 21

• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Santa Fe 4
• 8:30 am – 9:30 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    West Lawn
• 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • Sprints

    Cabrillo 1-2
• 11:00 am – 11:30 am

  • Break

    West Lawn at the Marriott
• 12:30 pm – 1:10 pm

  • Lunch

    West Lawn at the Marriott
• 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

  • Break

    West Lawn at the Marriott