Talks Schedule

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)