Announcing Our Talk Lineup!

The Django community and beyond submitted a record number of incredible talk proposals, and selecting these talks was extremely difficult. We were only able to accept 16% of the submissions we received, and appreciate the effort everyone put into their submissions; thank you! Another huge thank-you to our reviewers, without whom this list would still be weeks in the making.

We’ll also announce the tutorial schedule in just a few days, and the conference schedule will be available very soon. Congratulations to the speakers of the 41 talks below!

• Saved You a Click (Or Three): Supercharging the Django Admin with Actions and Views (Liam Andrew)
• Django vs Flask (David “DB” Baumgold)
• End-to-End Django on Kubernetes (Josh Berkus)
• Going Rogue: How Code.org Created a Curriculum Development Platform without their Engineers (Josh Caldwell)
• Overcoming the Challenges of Mentoring (Kim Crayton)
• Stumbling Through Django and How Not to (Melanie Crutchfield)
• Maybe Not the Programmers They Deserved, but the Programmers They Needed (Jessica Deaton and Megan Will)
• GraphQL in the Wild (Arianne Dee)
• Accessibility Matters: Creating a Better Web (Lindsey Dragun)
• Taking Django Distributed (Andrew Godwin)
• The Monster on the Project (Tiberius Hefflin)
• Python & Spreadsheets: 2017 Edition (Kojo Idrissa)
• Type UWSGI; Press Enter; What Happens? (Philip James)
• Serverless Django (Rich Jones)
• Live long and refactor (Sana Javed)
• Preventing Headaches with Linters and Automated Checks (Flávio Junior)
• Autopsy of a Slow Train Wreck: the Life and Death of a Django Startup (Russell Keith-Magee)
• The Beauty of ViewSets in Django Rest Framework (Buddy Lindsey, Jr.)
• Getting the most out of Django’s User Model (Julia M Looney)
• Alexa… (Heather Luna aka Heats)
• Write an API for Almost Anything (Or The Amazing Power and Flexibility of Django Rest Framework) (Charlotte Mays)
• The Power and Responsibility of Unicode Adoption (Katie McLaughlin)
• Practical Unit Testing in Django (Wayne Merry)
• Using Django, Docker, and Scikit-Learn to Bootstrap Your Machine Learning Project (Lorena Mesa)
• Get a Jumpstart on Collaboration and Code Review in GitHub (Katherine “Kati” Michel)
• Why Can’t Everyone Just Do What I Want Them To? Leadership, Management, and Working with People Who Don’t Think like You (Briana Morgan)
• Flourishing FLOSS: Making Your Project Successful (Anna Ossowski)
• Functional Programming in an Imperative World. Maybe (Derik Pell)
• Understanding JavaScript Libraries via React and the React Ecosystem (Andrew Pinkham)
• Becoming a Polyglot: Lessons from Natural Language Learning (Rebekah E. Post)
• The Shy Person’s Guide to Tech Conferences (Ed Rivas)
• The CoC Committee Is Here for You (Sasha Romijn)
• hunter2: A Symphony of Password Horror (Lilly Ryan)
• Files in Django (Josh Schneier)
• Programming Post-Progeny: A New Parent’s Perspective (Jacinda Shelly)
• Don’t Use My Grid System (Or Any Others) (Miriam Suzanne)
• Butter Smooth, Interactive Applications with Django and Websockets (Ganesh Swami)
• The 10 Commandments of Community Organizing (Jennifer Wadella)
• Exhausted Octopus Learns a Thing!! (Laura R. Webb)
• The Denormalized Query Engine Design Pattern (Simon Willison)
• Tasks: You Gotta Know How to Run ‘Em, You Gotta Know How to Safe ’Em (Filipe Ximenes)