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PyTN Profiles: Jon Banafato and TEDxNashville

Speaker Profile: Jon Banafato (@jonafato)

Jon Banafato is a Python developer and event organizer living in NYC. He would love to see you attend PyGotham.

Jon will be presenting “What’s in your pip toolbox?” at 11:00AM Saturday (2/4) in the Auditorium. pip is a great tool, but dependency management doesn't stop there. Jon will explore several tools that work with pip to make managing your dependencies easier, faster, and safer. They’ll cover generating dependencies in a better way, maintaining your requirements.txt for the long-term, and exploring existing Python environments. Afterward, you'll never want to pip freeze > requirements.txt again.

Sponsor Profile: TEDxNashville (@TEDxNashville)

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED Talks has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events in Nashville that bring people together to share a TEDTalks-like experience. Our event is called TEDxNashville, where x = independently organized TED Talks event in Nashville. At our TEDxNashville event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events in Nashville are self-organized.

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PyTN Profiles: Adrienne Lowe and Meeple Mountain

Speaker Profile: Adrienne Lowe (@adriennefriend)

Adrienne Lowe is a former personal chef from Atlanta who documents her experience learning Python & teaching others to cook at Coding With Knives "Coding with Knives"). Her project marries her lifelong passion for culinary arts with her experience with programming and open source software. She has given talks at PyTennessee, DjangoCon Europe, DjangoCon US, PyCon, ELAConf, and her local Python user groups PyATL and PyLadiesATL, which she co-organizes. She is the organizer of Django Girls Atlanta. Adrienne works as Director of Advancement for the Django Software Foundation and is the Chair of Corporate Sponsorship for Write the Docs Conferences. She is the tech editor for the second edition of O'Reilly's Head First Python. Adrienne works as a Software Engineer at Emma, Inc.

Adrienne will be presenting “From Support to Engineering: Bridging the gap and growing together” at 11:00AM Saturday (2/4) in the Room 100. How to land your first engineering job when you’re self-taught is one of the biggest mysteries in tech, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s explore an option that’s not often discussed, but that has great success: starting in customer support! Learn how the experience of providing technical support & training helps aspiring engineers develop powerful empathy, communication, & troubleshooting skills.

Sponsor Profile: Meeple Mountain (@meeplemountain)

The coordinators of your PyTN Saturday night gaming party! Meeple Mountain delivers board game reviews, board game news, editorial content and other articles relating to tabletop board games that are fun for adults and children alike. We also host a monthly board game night in Nashville with nearly 80 attendees.

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PyTN Profiles: Keynoter Sarah Guido and Intellovations

Speaker Profile: Sarah Guido (@sarah_guido)

Sarah is a data scientist who loves Python, machine learning, large-scale data, and the startup world. She is an accomplished conference speaker, community organizer, and an O'Reilly Media author. She currently resides in New York City and attended the University of Michigan for grad school.

Sarah will be presenting our opening keynote this year.

Sponsor Profile: Intellovations (@ForecastWatch)

Intellovations builds intelligent and innovative software that helps you understand, communicate, and use your data to make better decisions, increase productivity, and discover new knowledge.

We specialize in large-scale data collection and analysis, Internet-based software, and scientific and educational applications. We have experience building systems that have collected over 500 million metrics per day from Internet-based hardware, have created powerful desktop Internet-search products, and have used genetic algorithms and genetic programming for optimization.

Intellovations' main product is ForecastWatch, a service that continually monitors and assesses the accuracy of weather forecasts around the world, and is in use by leaders in the weather forecasting industry such as AccuWeather, Foreca, Global Weather Corporation, MeteoGroup, Pelmorex, and The Weather Company.