Speakers

Karolina Ladino

Karolina Ladino

Karo is a Product Manager, robotics engineer, MSc Data Analytics, teacher, maker, and jeweler. She co-leads PyLadies Bogotá and PyLadies Colombia initiative. She is part of Python Colombia and is a co-organizer of the PyConCo conference. She has more than 9 years of experience creating hardware for various disciplines. She loves working towards creating opportunities and spaces for personal and professional growth of people. In her free time, she draws and works on her jewelry project.

Joanna Jablonski

Joanna Jablonski

Joanna has written lots of great articles for RealPython, blogged for the Python Language Summit, and recently authored a PEP.

Anna Makarudze

Anna Makarudze

Anna Makarudze is a Software Engineer based in Harare. She has been working as the Django Girls Foundation Fundraising Coordinator since June 2017. She has also taken up the role of lead maintainer of the Django Girls website and resources since August 2020, when she became one of the members of the Board of Trustees for Django Girls Foundation.

Jessica Tegner

Jessica Tegner

Jessica Tegner is an Open Source Software Developer and Computer Science student from Denmark who has been a part of the open source world for over 13 years. She is a maintainer of pypandoc, a thin wrapper for the universal document converter pandoc.

Mona Obedoza

Mona Obedoza

Mona Obedoza is a Filipino high schooler and aspiring AI engineer who advocates teaching kids how to code through her roles as a student ambassador for Women in AI PH, co-leader of her school’s Girls Can Code club, and founder of The Purposeful Mochii. In her free time, she enjoys watching anime, reading manga and fantasy novels, and baking cookies.

Niharika Vadluri

Niharika Vadluri

Niharika Vadluri is working as a Packed Application Developer Analyst at Accenture India. She works in Retail Domain and Database Projects. She is an active open source community contributor and developer since 2018. She has been an active member and contributor in The PSF, Hackster.io, FOSSASIA and other Open source communities. She is a Toastmaster, and also loves singing.

Vicky Twomey-Lee

Vicky Twomey-Lee

Vicky Twomey-Lee organized Python Ireland user group for over 10 years, and she is still actively running community tech events around Dublin. She is an advocate for diversity in tech. She was featured on Silicon Republic’s 100 Top Women in STEM 2014 and on IrishCentral’s talented 38 women of technology for 2014.