Talks Schedule

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