Our keynote speaker, Simon Willison, reflects on his journey with Python and his experience meeting Adrian Holovaty and building a web framework which later is known as Django. As a long time member of the Python community, Simon shares insightful advice to PyCon US attendees. Come join and meet Simon at PyCon US 2024! Bio: Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data. He currently works full-time developing open source tools for data journalism, built around Datasette and SQLite. Simon has spent the last year and a half deeply immersed in the world of Large Language Models, trying to solve the fascinating problems of how to responsibly use the technology in the two fields he knows best: journalism and software engineering. Prior to becoming an independent open source developer, Simon was an engineering director at Eventbrite. Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010. He is a board member of the Python Software Foundation and a co-creator of the Django Web Framework, and has been blogging about web development and programming since 2002 at https://simonwillison.net/ PyCon US is the largest Python community conference in the world. May 15 - 23, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Register: https://us.pycon.org/2024/registration/register Full schedule: https://us.pycon.org/2024/ Keynote speakers: https://us.pycon.org/2024/about/keynote-speakers/ This video was produced, directed, and edited by Mariatta Wijaya (https://mariatta.ca) #PyConUS #PyCon #ThePSF #Python #Community #Conference