Alla Barbalat began her career as a lawyer before transitioning into tech. She is currently an organizer of PyLadies San Francisco and an avid Python user.

Benno is widely known as someone with opinions and a (possibly over-)willingness to share them. He has been working with computers professionally for over 30 years (unprofessionally for longer) and takes particular joy in examining how computers, the Internet, and all that surrounds all of these intersects with the humanity that it is meant to help.

Now retired, born in New York, raised in New Jersey, and educated in Florida and California, I've had a varied career, spanning writing 8-bit assembly language for Motorola pagers to co-founding a consulting company to marketing semiconductors. I have degrees in computer science and business and spend my days in retirement exercising, traveling with my amazing artist wife and our dog, Soda, and contributing to the Eleventy (a static website generator) community.

I organise North Bay Python. Sorry.

Dan learned to program in machine language on a 6502 with 1K of RAM. He's been a professional whitewater guide, started an ISP in the 1993-1994 era, has credits in blockbuster films courtesy of a stint at Pixar in the '90s, and has worked on a number of products that have touched your life.

He currently lives in Petaluma, where he has a day job programming, and alternates between making sawdust in his woodworking shop and calling square dances in the off hours.

Deb Nicholson is an open source software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. She is the Executive Director at the Python Software Foundation which serves as the non-profit steward of the Python programming language. She’s won the O’Reilly Open Source Award and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software for her efforts to broaden the free and open source software movement. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Spritely Institute and on the Advisory Board for Computer Science at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Freya Mehta is a software engineer at Bloomberg in London, where she works on the Derivatives Pricing Library Engineering team. In this role, she collaborates closely with quant developers and quantitative researchers to build Python and C++ layers that help power Bloomberg’s derivatives pricing and structuring systems. Prior to Bloomberg, she worked at Microsoft, working primarily with C# and Python. Freya earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from the International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad (IIIT-Hyderabad). Outside of work, she enjoys Pilates, cooking, and travelling.

Perennial developer and occasional professional, Jamie is co-founder of Teahouse Hosting, maintainer for PursuedPyBear, and xore emeritus for Xonsh.

Maker, breaker, and professional eater of bread, Joe is fascinated by the way things work. Photography, 3D printing, and a lot of other hobbies mash together into the shape of a dude who just wants to leave the world better than he found it. Find him online at @itsthejoker@hachyderm.io, @filamentcolors.xyz on bluesky, or through email at hello@joekaufeld.com.

Joelle is a network engineer for Netflix, where she uses Python to configure and monitor a network that spans the globe. She started programming on an Apple II when she was 5 and has worked in many different IT roles over her 30 year long career. She'll always enjoy infodumping to you about how computer networks work, about nearly any area of networking, such as how long-distance fiber communication works or what happens behind-the-scenes when you connect to a Wifi network (so feel free to ask her!). She holds dual degrees, one in Computer Science and the other in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, which help fuel her vision of a world where tech empowers rather than controls. Outside of work and her research interests (she is involved in research that benefits the neurodivergent and the queer communities), she loves to tinker with toy operating systems and old computing technology.

Kattni (she/her) is a creator, maker, photographer, programmer, classically trained vocalist, intermittent chef, air plant cultivator, casual knitter, and fledgling synth nerd. She is passionate about learning new things, and sharing her knowledge in an approachable way. She is tolerated by a cat and three kittens who continue to let her live with them.

She is a core development team member with the BeeWare project, where she focusses on improving the documentation and information architecture. She has orchestrated a complete shift of the documentation backend from Sphinx to MkDocs, as well as moving the website from Lektor to MkDocs. She is working on building a community around the project by, among other things, making contributing more approachable through various changes in their contribution process.

Lilinoe Harbottle is an Indigenous (Kanaka ʻŌiwi) data scientist who bridges algorithms, robotics, and healthcare. She leads AI initiatives at a San Francisco startup, architecting integrity layers for complex robotic systems. Previously at Auris Health (J&J), she enhanced medical robotic systems to improve bronchoscopy and urology procedures. A champion for open-source and inclusive tech communities, she is a Sequoyah Fellow of the American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES).

Margaret Fero is an interdisciplinary hacker who enjoys systems thinking, information flow, security, privacy, books, words, and the Internet. They are the founder of Neat Systems, a member of the NumFocus Code of Conduct Working Group, a cybersecurity instructor, a member of the Alameda County Library Advisory Commission, and more! This year’s talk draws primarily from their career as a technical writer and previous experience communicating through crisis on behalf of startups. They also love to build healthy and inclusive working environments using research-backed management practices.

In my past lives, I've enjoyed playing guitar and bass, kicking a soccer ball, or playing an occasional video game. In my career, I've been an editor at a non-profit, taught as a pre-school teacher, managed payroll for a professional baseball team, and worked as an analyst/project manager for HR systems. More recently, I've been working as a software engineer for a company called BCM One.

I also code Python by night, which is what happens when there's not enough time during the day. In the past couple of years, I've presented several talks/tutorials at PyCon US, DjangoCon US, Python Web Conference, North Bay Python, PyGotham, PyOhio, and others. Sometimes I neglect/blog on my website Python By Night, and start (or abandon) too many side projects.

Min is a co-founder of Project Jupyter, and contributor to the Jupyter project since 2006 (when it was all under IPython). Min got his PhD in computational plasma physics at UC Berkeley, while working on Jupyter on the side. Since 2013, working on Jupyter in some form or other has been most of his job. Min co-created and currently leads the JupyterHub project, starting in 2014. Min just returned to the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) to work on JupyterHub after 10 years in Norway at Simula Research Laboratory. Min contributes to Conda-Forge and various Jupyter subprojects, along with scattered open source work.

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Piper is a pythonista, game enthusiast, and web developer. You might know her from her talks given at conferences around the United States, a local tech meetup, or her open source work. She speaks on community building, game development, CS education, and trans identity in tech. She's been involved in the Python community since 2014 with previous experience as an organizer in the NYC Python user groups. You can follow her work at piper.thunstrom.dev

Saurav Jain, Apify's Developer Community Manager, excels in community building and devrel. With a history of growing Amplication's community to 40K, he now enhances Apify's developer engagement. An international speaker, he has contributed to PyCon Ireland, PyCon Italy, and more. His work bridges developers globally, fostering innovation and collaboration within the tech ecosystem. His expertise and passion for technology make him a pivotal figure in nurturing tech communities.

amanda has worked in technology and systems for over 20 years. She cares more about people than things.