• PyCon India 2020 Keynote: James Powell

    From ABHISHEK MISHRA@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 10 18:25:47 2020
    Hi everyone,

    We are pleased to announce James Powell as the third Keynote Speaker
    of PyCon India 2020.

    About James
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    James Powell is a professional Python programmer and enthusiast. He
    started working with Python in the finance industry building reporting
    and analysis systems for prop trading front offices. He currently
    works as a consultant building data engineering and scientific
    computing platforms for a wide-range of clients using cutting-edge
    open source tools like Python and React. He also offers a variety of
    corporate training courses and coaching sessions in all areas of
    Python.

    In his spare time, he serves on the board of NumFOCUS as co-Chairman
    and Vice President. NumFOCUS is the 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports
    all the major tools in the Python data analysis ecosystem (incl.
    pandas, numpy, jupyter, matplotlib, and others.) At NumFOCUS, he helps
    build global open source communities for data scientists, data
    engineers, and business analysis. He helps NumFOCUS run the PyData
    conference series and has sat on speaker selection and organizing
    committees for over two dozen conferences. James is also a prolific
    speaker: since 2013, he has given over seventy conference talks at
    over fifty Python events worldwide.

    You can find him on Twitter @dontusethiscode.

    Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1303657849688530944

    --
    Abhishek Mishra
    On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team
    https://in.pycon.org/2020/

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