Speakers
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. Anna is a former Django Software Foundation board member, having served on the DSF board for 5 years from 2018 to 2022 in the roles of Director, Vice President and President. She has organised PyCon Zimbabwe 2016/2017, DjangoCon Europe 2018, DjangoCon Africa 2023 and several Django Girls events in Harare, Masvingo, Heidelberg and Zanzibar. She has also spoken at many Python conferences and DjangoCons around the world.
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. Being fully blind has not stopped her from working as a Software Engineer Intern at Uber, being a member of the first GitHub Accelerator program or having the opportunity of being a world-conference public speaker.
Joanna has written lots of great articles for RealPython, blogged for the Python Language Summit, and recently authored a PEP.
Juanita Gomez is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, where her research focuses on improving the security of scientific open source software in collaboration with the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at UCSC. She is a passionate programmer, mathematician, and open-source advocate, former developer of Spyder IDE at Quansight, and current community leader for the Scientific Python project, a community effort to better coordinate and support scientific Python libraries. She is also part of the organizing committee for the SciPy conference.
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.
Mojdeh is a PyLadies Paris co-organizer, member of PSF Code of Conduct Working Group and a co-host of PyPodcats. She has contributed to organizing several Python conferences, including EuroSciPy, JupyterCon, and PyCon DE & PyData Berlin. With a PhD in Computer Science, she is passionate about fostering diversity and inclusion in the community.
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 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.
Sheena's early career saw her working as a software engineer and technical leader across multiple startups. But it was her passion for education that led her to devote the last 5+ years to re-imagining how we teach people to code professionally. Over the last half decade she has had the opportunity to work in the non-profit space and build alternative education systems from the ground up. Along the way she has learned a lot about how to teach well, how to build organisational systems that teach well, and why traditional education systems fall short. As a founder of Prelude.tech, she provides rigorous technical training, as well as consultating, and coaching for technical educators, and organisations with education functions (for example grad programs and similar). Additionally, she leads the Guild of Educators, a community she founded to empower tech educators through shared resources, support, and evidence-based teaching practices.
Tamara is an open-source contributor and maintainer, a software engineer, and a CompLing/NLP researcher. Her expertise spans software engineering, ML/NLP, and areas including fair and responsible AI. She is a leader with proven track record of mentoring and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
With over 19 years of experience in Data and AI, Una Galyeva held various positions, from hands-on Data and AI development to leading Data and AI teams and departments. As a driving force behind PyLadies Amsterdam, a Microsoft MVP, AI4ALL Advisory board member, and Head of Artificial Intelligence, Una is passionate about challenging perspectives and inspiring others to see things differently.
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.