PyCon SE 2020 Track: Keynotes & Announcements

Conference opening and welcome.

Samira Ali Gomes was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden and is now based in London, UK. She is a social entrepreneur and has worked with and created many initiatives to create impact for different communities. She is the founder and Events and Production Manager of EMMSTechnology, a non-profit to empower and educate WOC in the tech industry, and the founder of Made in Orten, an initiative which aims to help young POC enter the communication industry. A Hyper Island alumni, and currently a Programme Manager at Impact Hub Kings Cross, Samira has worked extensively with the professional development of women and people of colour in different fields, and uses her skills from working in tech and communication to empower and enable impact and change.

Ákos Hochrein, software engineer, engineering manager and book enthusiast. He worked at various companies both on the frontend and the backend to deliver highly available and scalable solutions. Now he is managing a team of 9 people at Prezi to the same as he has done for about a decade. He is also the author of the book "Designing Microservices with Django." In his free time, he likes to read, play video games and go to IKEA to debate about wardrobes.

Closing messages for day 1 from the organizer.

A welcome for second day.

Alex is a freelancing consultant and speaker via Hultnér Technologies AB. He's been hacking on hardware and software since early childhood and loves to solve problems. Python has been his primary focus for the past 5 years. Alongside consulting he's performing workshops and courses. He's currently making an online course on Property-Based Testing in Python. He is an avid speaker who's previously spoken at PyCon SE, and recently at EuroPython, PiterPy, FlaskCon, Python Pizza, and various other conferences. Check out some of his recent talks on YouTube.

The battle against the covid-19 pandemic is unfortunately not over, as can be seen by the increased resurgence of new cases during the summer 2020 in many countries. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies are racing to research effective vaccines against the virus. As these vaccines might go through accelerated approval procedures, evidence towards their safety might be more uncertain than usual. Generally, safety concerns of vaccines and, more broadly, medicines, can manifest in unexpected forms, making them harder to be recognized, assessed and acted upon in a timely fashion. Therefore, effective post-marketing surveillance strategies are of great importance for public health. As senior data scientist at the Uppsala Monitoring Centre , Lucie has focused on extracting meaningful information about medicine safety from different data sources, including social media. Now as Head of Data Science, she leads a team of talented data scientists on a journey to advance the science of pharmacovigilance, together with research pharmacists and medical doctors, to improve patient safety worldwide in collaboration with WHO. In her presentation Lucie will introduce the main challenges in post-marketing surveillance and demonstrate her group's recent research developments to answer these challenges.

Closing message for PyCon Sweden 2020.