Specialist Tracks Combined Opening Address
Part of the All Things Data! specialist track
This year, all four special tracks will share a combined opening address!
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Katie (they/she, @glasnt) is currently Secretary of the Django Software Foundation, and a Python Software Foundation Fellow. They have previously been a Director of the Python Software Foundation, and core organiser of PyCon AU and PyConline. They were awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2017, and Honorary Lifetime Member of the New Zealand Python User's Group in 2022. When they’re not running all the things, they enjoy cooking, making tapestries, and seeing just how well various application stacks handle emoji.
Jack is the founder of FrontGate, Partnerships Lead at Everest Engineering and Principal Consultant at CTO For Hire. That is to say he's a wearer of many hats. When not working with APIs, he's posting photos of his puppy on ~~Twitter~~ and changing his hair colour just to keep it fun.
Lilly is a software security specialist, digital rights activist, broadcaster, public speaker, and Co-Director of PyCon AU 2023. She is a fierce advocate for consumer privacy rights, a human-centred web, and making tech knowledge accessible to all.
Data and Software Engineer. During working hours mainly working with Business Intelligence in the Microsoft Stack in Azure and Power BI. During free time building side projects for fun and for profit using Python, JavaScript and Docker.