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Thanks to This Year's Keynote Speakers<\/h3><\/div>\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row opacity_bg_pattern=”0.1″][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1617310084578{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_id=”NaomiCedar”]<\/p>\n

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Naomi Ceder<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Naomi Ceder earned a Ph.D in Classics several decades ago, but switched from ancient human languages to computer languages sometime in the last century. Since 2001, she has been learning, teaching, writing about, and using Python. An elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi is the immediate past chair of its board of directors. She also speaks internationally about the Python community, and on inclusion and diversity in technology in general. By day she leads a team of Python programmers for Dick Blick Art Materials, and in her spare time she enjoys sketching, knitting, and deep philosophical conversations with her dog.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1617310084578{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row opacity_bg_pattern=”0.1″][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1617310084578{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

David Beazley\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

David Beazley (@dabeaz) is the author of the Python Cookbook (O’Reilly), the Python Essential Reference (Pearson), and the recently published Python Distilled (Pearson). Having used Python for more than 25 years, he first got started by using it to control physics software at Los Alamos National Laboratory–ultimately leading to the first port of Python to a supercomputer. He is currently an independent researcher and educator who teaches advanced computer science courses (https:\/\/www.dabeaz.com\/courses.html<\/a>).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text el_id=”DavidBeazley”]<\/p>\n

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Travis Oliphant <\/b>|\u00a0 FOUNDER & CEO\/CTO AT QUANSIGHT<\/h2>\n

Travis is a well-known leader in the Python Data community having authored or led the creation of industry cornerstones such as NumPy, SciPy, Numba, Conda, XND, NumFOCUS, and PyData. Prior to Quansight, he founded Anaconda and established the industry-standard platform for data science and machine learning.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” opacity_bg_pattern=”0.1″][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1617310084578{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” opacity_bg_pattern=”0.1″][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1617310084578{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Chelle Gentemann <\/b>| OCEANOGRAPHER & SCIENTIST<\/h2>\n

Chelle is a passionate advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity.\u00a0 She co-chaired the National Academies\u2019\u00a0Report on Open Source Software Policy Options<\/a>\u00a0for NASA Earth and Space Sciences, and in addition to being a full time oceanographer, also leads NASA ESDS Program\u2019s development of open source and open science best practices for NASA researchers. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, she has worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives. She is the lead scientist on a proposed new NASA satellite, Butterfly. Her more recent research focuses on using cloud computing for interdisciplinary science, air-sea interaction research, and geophysical algorithm development. She has served on scientific committees, notably as co-chair of a standing committee for the National Academy of Sciences and has presented to a federal house committee on NASA\u2019s implementation of scientific community priorities.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text el_id=”ChelleGentemann”]<\/p>\n

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Joe Schmid <\/b>|\u00a0 CTO AT SYMPHONYRM<\/h2>\n

Joe Schmid is Chief Technology Officer at SymphonyRM, a provider of machine learning powered products that help healthcare organizations proactively engage patients. Prior to his current role, Joe lead platform engineering at Victrio (acquired by Verint), a provider of machine learning-based fraud detection systems with card issuers, banks, and merchant acquirers. Joe has served in a number of other engineering roles at technology companies in the areas of data analytics, fraud detection, speech recognition, and mobile computing.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” opacity_bg_pattern=”0.1″][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1617310084578{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” opacity_bg_pattern=”0.1″][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1617310084578{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”48px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Grant Gelven <\/b>| STAFF DATA SCIENTIST<\/h2>\n

Grant is a data scientist at Walmart Global Tech, product developer, and expert number cruncher with a decade of experience in solving problems with data. Most of Grant\u2019s work is centered around building artificially intelligent applications driven by machine learning models deployed in cloud-based micro-services architectures.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text el_id=”GrantGelven”]<\/p>\n

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Jie Lou <\/b>|\u00a0 MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER<\/h2>\n

Jie is a Machine Learning Engineer at SymphonyRM. In the past two years, she has helped the team successfully build scalable machine learning and data pipelines. These Dask powered ML workflows has enabled the team to deliver the products efficiently and reliably. She graduated from Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon with a Master degree in Information Systems Management in 2019.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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