General Conference Schedule

Tutorials: Sunday, August 13

Tutorials are a separate registration and are $150 per session. Buy tutorial tickets before they sell out!

• 8:00am

  • Registration and Breakfast

    Ballroom D

• 9:00am

  • How to React the Right Way (Django + React)

    Intermediate

    Manito

    Jack McCloy

    Geoffrey Sechter

  • Catching Tweets with Django + Django REST Framework

    Beginner

    Ballroom B

    Katia Lira

  • From 0 to 100 in Django

    Beginner

    Audobon

    Asterisk Spencer

• 10:30am

  • Morning break

    Ballroom D

• 12:30pm

  • Lunch

    Ballroom D

• 1:30pm

  • Build a GraphQL API using Django

    Intermediate

    Manito

    Muranga James

  • Don't Touch That Dial! An Introduction to Channels

    Intermediate

    Ballroom B

    Ken Whitesell

  • Build and launch a website on Wagtail, in three hours!

    Beginner

    Audobon

    Tom Dyson

• 3:00pm

  • Afternoon break

    Ballroom D

Talks: Monday, August 14

• 8:00am

  • Registration

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 8:30am

  • Breakfast

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 9:00am

  • Orientation Event and "The shy person's guide to tech conferences"

    Ballrooms B and C

    Kojo Idrissa

    Ed Rivas

• 10:00am

  • Opening and Keynote - Is it too late to learn how to program?

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Alicia V. Carr

• 11:00am

  • Break

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 11:30am

  • The CoC committee is here for you

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Sasha Romijn

  • Alexa...

    All

    Ballroom A

    Heather aka. Heats

• 12:20pm

  • Exhausted octopus learns a thing!!

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Laura R. Webb

  • hunter2: A Symphony of Password Horror

    All

    Ballroom A

    Lilly Ryan

• 12:50pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Ballrooms B and C

  • Early Lunch

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 1:40pm

  • Lunch

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 2:20pm

  • Accessibility Matters: Creating a Better Web

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Lindsey Dragun

  • Python & Spreadsheets: 2017 Edition

    Beginner

    Ballroom A

    Kojo Idrissa

• 3:10pm

  • Flourishing FLOSS: Making Your Project Successful

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Anna Ossowski

  • Saved you a click (or three): Supercharging the Django admin with actions and views

    All

    Ballroom A

    Liam Andrew

• 3:40pm

  • Break

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 4:10pm

  • Don't Use My Grid System (or any others)

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Miriam Suzanne

  • Functional Programming in an Imperative World. Maybe

    Intermediate

    Ballroom A

    Derik Pell

• 5:00pm

  • Get a Jumpstart on Collaboration and Code Review in GitHub

    Beginner

    Ballrooms B and C

    Katherine Michel

  • Type UWSGI; Press Enter; What Happens?

    Intermediate

    Ballroom A

    Philip James

• 5:30pm

  • The Monster on the Project

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Tiberius Hefflin

  • Write an API for Almost Anything (or The Amazing Power and Flexibility of Django Rest Framework)

    All

    Ballroom A

    Charlotte Mays

• 7:00pm 9:30pm

  • Opening Reception - Picnic in the Park

    Forestry Shelter at Riverfront Park (map)

Talks: Tuesday, August 15

• 9:00am

  • Breakfast

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 10:00am

  • Keynote - Testing in Django

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Ana Balica

• 11:00am

  • Break

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 11:30am

  • The 10 Commandments of Community Organizing

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Jennifer Wadella

  • Serverless Django

    Beginner

    Ballroom A

    Rich Jones

• 12:20pm

  • Stumbling Through Django and How Not To

    Beginner

    Ballrooms B and C

    Melanie Crutchfield

  • Getting the most out of Django’s User Model

    Beginner

    Ballroom A

    Julia M Looney

• 12:50pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Ballrooms B and C

  • Early Lunch

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 1:40pm

  • Lunch

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 2:20pm

  • Using Django, Docker, and Scikit-learn to Bootstrap Your Machine Learning Project

    Intermediate

    Ballrooms B and C

    Lorena Mesa

  • Why can't everyone just do what I want them to? Leadership, management, and working with people who don't think like you

    All

    Ballroom A

    Briana Morgan

• 3:10pm

  • Going Rogue: How Code.org Created a Curriculum Development Platform Without their Engineers

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Josh Caldwell

  • The Power and Responsibility of Unicode Adoption

    All

    Ballroom A

    Katie McLaughlin

• 3:40pm

  • Break

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 4:10pm

  • End-to-End Django on Kubernetes

    Intermediate

    Ballrooms B and C

    Frank Wiles

    Josh Berkus

  • Live Long and Refactor

    Intermediate

    Ballroom A

    Sana Javed

• 5:00pm

  • Programming Post-Progeny: A New Parent's Perspective

    Beginner

    Ballrooms B and C

    Jacinda Shelly

  • Django vs Flask

    All

    Ballroom A

    David "DB" Baumgold

• 5:30pm

  • Maybe Not the Programmers They Deserved, but the Programmers They Needed

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Jessica Deaton

    Megan Will

  • Files in Django

    Beginner

    Ballroom A

    Josh Schneier

• 7:00pm 9:30pm

  • Board Game Night

    Ballroom B

    Ken Whitesell

Talks: Wednesday, August 16

• 9:00am

  • Breakfast

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 10:00am

  • Keynote - Anxiety, Self-Advocacy, and Promoting Yourself

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Tracy Osborn

• 11:00am

  • Break

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 11:30am

  • Taking Django Distributed

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Andrew Godwin

  • GraphQL in the wild

    Intermediate

    Ballroom A

    Arianne Dee

• 12:20pm

  • Becoming a Polyglot: Lessons from Natural Language Learning

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Rebekah E Post

  • Preventing headaches with linters and automated checks

    Intermediate

    Ballroom A

    Flávio Junior

• 12:50pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Ballrooms B and C

  • Early Lunch

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 1:40pm

  • Lunch

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 2:20pm

  • The denormalized query engine design pattern

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Simon Willison

  • Butter smooth, interactive applications with Django and Websockets

    Intermediate

    Ballroom A

    Ganesh Swami

• 3:10pm

  • Overcoming the Challenges of Mentoring

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Kim Crayton

  • Practical Unit Testing in Django

    All

    Ballroom A

    Wayne Merry

• 3:40pm

  • Break

    Riverfront Exhibit Hall

• 4:10pm

  • Autopsy of a slow train wreck: The life and death of a Django startup

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Russell Keith-Magee

  • The Beauty of ViewSets in Django Rest Framework

    Intermediate

    Ballroom A

    Buddy Lindsey, Jr.

• 4:40pm

  • Tasks: you gotta know how to run 'em, you gotta know how to safe' em

    All

    Ballrooms B and C

    Filipe Ximenes

  • Understanding JavaScript Libraries via React and the React Ecosystem

    Beginner

    Ballroom A

    Andrew Pinkham

• 5:20pm

  • Closing

    Ballrooms B and C

Sprints: Thursday, August 17

• 8:30am 9:30am

  • Breakfast

    Ballroom D

• 9:00am 5:00pm

  • Sprints

    Ballroom A

• 11:00am 11:30am

  • Break

    Ballroom D

• 12:45pm 1:45pm

  • Lunch

    Ballroom D

• 3:15pm 3:45pm

  • Break

    Ballroom D

Sprints: Friday, August 18

• 8:30am 9:30am

  • Breakfast

    Ballroom D

• 9:00am 5:00pm

  • Sprints

    Ballroom A

• 11:00am 11:30am

  • Break

    Ballroom D

• 12:45pm 1:45pm

  • Lunch

    Ballroom D

• 3:15pm 3:45pm

  • Break

    Ballroom D