Full Conference Schedule

Tutorials: Sunday, October 8 (Online)

Tutorials are a separate registration and are $199 per session. All tutorials are online this year due to venue availability in Durham.

• 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

  • Seamless Postgres Query Optimization

    Tutorial Track A

    Nikolay Samokhvalov

  • Mastering Test Driven Development in Django: A Comprehensive Guide with factory_boy and faker

    Tutorial Track B

    Kuldeep Pisda (he/him)

  • Django <3 Airflow: How to use Airflow to orchestrate workflows for your Django projects

    Tutorial Track C

    Sheena O'Connell (she/her)

• 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm

  • Collaborative Supercharge your Python and Django Development Environment with VS Code and Dev Containers

    Tutorial Track A

    Dawn Wages

  • Simplify Your Stack: Django Single-Page-Apps in 2023

    Tutorial Track C

    Stephen Mitchell

  Talks: Monday, October 16

  • 8:00 am – 9:00 am

    • Breakfast

      Grand Ballroom I-II
  • 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

    • Lactation Room

      Meeting Room 1
  • 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

    • Quiet Room

      Meeting Room 4
  • 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

    • Registration

      In front of Junior Ballroom
  • 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

    • Speaker Green Room

      Meeting Room 3
  • 9:00 am – 9:30 am

    • Orientation and Welcome

      Junior Ballroom

      Kojo Idrissa

  • 9:30 am – 9:45 am

    • Opening Remarks

      Junior Ballroom

      Peter Grandstaff

  • 9:45 am – 10:30 am

    • Keynote: Finding Purpose in Open Source Through Community Building.

      Audience level: All

      Junior Ballroom

      Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe

  • 10:30 am – 10:40 am

    • Sponsored Talk: Supercharge Your Django Dev Team: Introducing the BEST Framework

      Junior Ballroom

      Calvin Hendryx-Parker

  • 10:40 am – 11:10 am

    • Break

      Grand Ballroom I-II
  • 10:40 am – 11:05 am

    • Automate Your City Data with Python

      Online talks

      Philip James (he/him)

  • 11:10 am – 11:55 am

    • Contributing to Django or how I learned to stop worrying and just try to fix an ORM Bug

      Junior Ballroom

      Ryan Cheley (he/him)

    • HTML-ivating your Django web app's experience with HTMX, AlpineJS, and streaming HTML.

      Grand Ballroom III

      Chris May (he/him)

  • 12:00 pm – 12:25 pm

    • Meet-ups: A Grand Vision for a Humble Endeavor

      Junior Ballroom

      Deb Nicholson (she/her)

    • Vue + Django: Combining Django Templates and Vue Single File Components without compromise

      Grand Ballroom III

      Mike Hoolehan (he/him)

  • 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm

    • Lightning Talks

      Junior Ballroom

      Kojo Idrissa

    • Early Lunch

      Grand Ballroom I-II

  • 1:20 pm – 2:05 pm

    • Lunch

      Grand Ballroom I-II

  • 1:20 pm – 2:05 pm

    • How to Ride Elephants Safely: Working with PostgreSQL when your DBA is not around

      Online talks

      Richard Yen

  • 2:05 pm – 2:50 pm

    • Let's build a BeeWare app that uses Django

      Junior Ballroom

      Cheuk Ting Ho (she/her)

    • Using database triggers to reliably track model history

      Grand Ballroom III

      Wes Kendall

      Maxwell Muoto

  • 2:55 pm – 3:20 pm

    • Beyond the Basics of Migrations

      Junior Ballroom

      Charlotte Mays (she/her)

    • Custom Model Managers and QuerySets: Graduating from Django Beginner to ORM Master

      Grand Ballroom III

      Josh Thomas (he/him)

  • 3:25 pm – 3:55 pm

    • Break

      Grand Ballroom I-II
  • 3:25 pm – 3:50 pm

    • Passkeys on Django

      Online talks

      Mohamed ElKalioby

  • 3:55 pm – 4:40 pm

    • Building Powerful APIs with Django, Django Rest Framework, and OpenAPI

      Junior Ballroom

      Velda Kiara (she/her)

    • Hosting and DevOps for Django

      Grand Ballroom III

      Benjamin "Zags" Zagorsky (he/him)

  • 4:45 pm – 5:10 pm

    • AfroPython: Using Django to change black people life in Brazil

      Junior Ballroom

      Felipe de Morais (he/him)

    • Working with Neo4j with Django neomodel library

      Grand Ballroom III

      Dara Silvera

  • 5:15 pm – 5:40 pm

    • ^What can (the DSF | I) do for (me | the DSF)\?$

      Junior Ballroom

      Chaim Kirby

    • ✨ Modern editing experience for your Django models with Wagtail 🐦

      Grand Ballroom III

      Sage Abdullah (he/him)

  • 5:45 pm – 6:10 pm

    • The evolution of a Django Website into a radio automation back-end

      Online talks

      Ernesto Rico Schmidt (he/him)

  Talks: Tuesday, October 17

  • 7:30 am – 8:30 am

    • Virtual co-writing

      Virtual (see Slack)
  • 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

    • Lactation Room

      Meeting Room 1
  • 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

    • Quiet Room

      Meeting Room 4
  • 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

    • Registration

      In front of Junior Ballroom
  • 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

    • Speaker Green Room

      Meeting Room 3
  • 8:30 am – 9:30 am

    • Breakfast

      Grand Ballroom I-II
  • 9:30 am – 9:45 am

    • Opening Remarks

      Junior Ballroom

      Adrienne Franke

  • 9:45 am – 10:30 am

    • Keynote: Django the Dinosaur: A Story About A Web Framework.

      Audience level: All

      Junior Ballroom

      Julia Solórzano

  • 10:40 am – 11:10 am

    • Break

      Grand Ballroom I-II
  • 10:40 am – 11:05 am

    • Mixing reliability with Celery for delicious async tasks

      Online talks

      Flávio Juvenal (he/him)

  • 11:10 am – 11:55 am

    • Postgres Performance: From Slow to Pro

      Junior Ballroom

      Elizabeth Christensen

    • Building high-performance, type-safe GraphQL APIs with Strawberry and Django

      Grand Ballroom III

      Thiago Bellini Ribeiro (he/him)

  • 12:00 pm – 12:25 pm

    • Swiss Army Django: Small Footprint ETL

      Junior Ballroom

      Noah Kantrowitz

    • Empathetic testing: Developing with compassion and humility.

      Grand Ballroom III

      Marc Gibbons (he/him)

  • 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm

    • Lightning Talks

      Junior Ballroom

      Kojo Idrissa

    • Early Lunch

      Grand Ballroom I-II

  • 1:20 pm – 2:05 pm

    • Lunch

      Grand Ballroom I-II

  • 1:20 pm – 2:05 pm

    • Decoding DDD: A Three-Tiered Approach to Django Projects

      Online talks

      Pavel Sviridov (he/his)

  • 2:05 pm – 2:50 pm

    • Powering Energy Storage Beyond Excel

      Junior Ballroom

      Calvin Hendryx-Parker

    • Navigating Django's Future: Djangonaut Space

      Grand Ballroom III

      Dawn Wages

      Rachell Calhoun

  • 2:55 pm – 3:20 pm

    • Don't Buy the "A.I." Hype

      Junior Ballroom

      Tim Allen

    • Strategies for handling conflicts and rollbacks in Django database migrations

      Grand Ballroom III

      Abigail Afi Gbadago

  • 3:25 pm – 3:55 pm

    • Break

      Grand Ballroom I-II
  • 3:25 pm – 3:50 pm

    • There's More to Open Source than Code

      Online talks

      Ramón Huidobro (he/him)

  • 3:55 pm – 4:20 pm

    • All about djangoproject.com

      Junior Ballroom

      Paolo Melchiorre (he/him)

    • BDD To The Bone: Acceptance Testing with Behave and Selenium

      Grand Ballroom III

      Pat Viafore (he/him)

  • 4:25 pm – 5:10 pm

    • The programmer's imagination

      Junior Ballroom

      Daniele Procida

    • Managing Content with Django

      Grand Ballroom III

      Michael Trythall

  • 5:15 pm – 5:40 pm

    • An approach to lightweight tenancy management using Django Rest Framework

      Junior Ballroom

      Eliana Rosselli (she/her)

    • What Django Deployment is Really About

      Grand Ballroom III

      James Walters (he/him)

  • 5:45 pm – 6:30 pm

    • Introduction to GitHub Actions: Understanding Key Terms and Building Your First GitHub Action

      Online talks

      Paul Gilzow (he/him/his)

  • 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

    • Board Game Night

      Junior Ballroom

  Talks - Deep Dives: Wednesday, October 18

  • 7:30 am – 8:30 am

    • Virtual co-writing

      Virtual (see Slack)
  • 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

    • Lactation Room

      Meeting Room 1
  • 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

    • Quiet Room

      Meeting Room 4
  • 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

    • Registration

      In front of Junior Ballroom
  • 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

    • Speaker Green Room

      Meeting Room 3
  • 8:30 am – 9:30 am

    • Breakfast

      Grand Ballroom I-II
  • 9:00 am – 9:25 am

    • Nothing for Us, Without Us; Breaking Unconscious Bias in Building Products

      Online talks

      Victor Ogunjobi

  • 9:30 am – 9:45 am

    • Opening Remarks

      Junior Ballroom

      Peter Grandstaff

  • 9:45 am – 10:30 am

    • Keynote: Testing Modern Web Apps Like a Champion

      Audience level: All

      Junior Ballroom

      Andrew Knight

  • 10:30 am – 10:40 am

    • Sponsored Talk: Optimizing Django deployments with a Continuous Observability Strategy.

      Junior Ballroom

      Guillaume Moigneu

  • 10:40 am – 11:10 am

    • Break

      Grand Ballroom I-II
  • 10:40 am – 11:05 am

    • Django migrations, friend or foe? Optimize your Django migrations for faster testing

      Online talks

      Denny Biasiolli (he/him)

  • 11:10 am – 11:55 am

    • Inside Out: My Journey of Understanding Inclusion

      Junior Ballroom

      Natalia Bidart (she/her)

  • 12:00 pm – 12:25 pm

    • Django's Data Science Makeover: Integrating D3.js and Bokeh for Data Visualization

      Junior Ballroom

      Drishti Jain (she/her)

  • 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm

    • Lightning Talks

      Junior Ballroom

      Kojo Idrissa

    • Early Lunch

      Grand Ballroom I-II

  • 1:20 pm – 2:05 pm

    • Lunch

      Grand Ballroom I-II

  • 1:20 pm – 2:05 pm

    • Best Practices for Making a Wagtail Site as Accessible as Possible

      Online talks

      Scott Cranfill (he/him)

  • 2:05 pm – 2:50 pm

    • How to Schedule Tasks with Celery and Django

      Junior Ballroom

      Tobias McNulty (he/him)

  • 2:55 pm – 3:20 pm

    • One database table, one model, many behaviours: Proxy model

      Junior Ballroom

      Ronald Maravanyika (he/him)

  • 3:25 pm – 3:55 pm

    • Break

      Grand Ballroom I-II
  • 3:25 pm – 3:50 pm

    • Back to the Future of Hypermedia in Django

      Online talks

      Mario Munoz

  • 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm

    • Django’s accessibility track record

      Junior Ballroom

      Thibaud Colas

  • 4:50 pm – 5:35 pm

    • Panel Discussion: Who put me in charge? Moving beyond day-to-day coding in Django

      Audience level: All

      Junior Ballroom

      Jay Miller (he/them)

  • 5:35 pm – 6:00 pm

    • Closing Remarks

      Junior Ballroom

      Peter Grandstaff

  • 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    • Django Trivia

      Virtual (#trivia in Slack)

  Sprints: Thursday, October 19

  • 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

    • Contribution Sprints

      Caktus Group

  Sprints: Friday, October 20

  • 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

    • Contribution Sprints

      Caktus Group