Full Conference Schedule

Tutorials: Sunday, September 22

Tutorials are a separate registration and are $195 per session.

• 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

  • Lactation Room

    Santa Fe 3
• 8:00 am – 9:00 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • Early Registration

    In front of Salon A
• 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Private Dining Room
• 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

  • Build a headless content managed site, with Wagtail and Vue.js

    All

    Balboa I & II

    Tom Dyson

  • Django Real-time Chat: WebSockets, Django Channels, and Deploying to Production

    Intermediate

    Sierra 5

    Cara Borenstein

  • Hands-On Web Application Security

    Intermediate

    Cabrillo 1

    Jacinda Shelly

• 10:30 am

  • Morning break

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 12:30 pm

  • Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

  • Mastering the Django ORM

    Intermediate

    Balboa I & II

    James Bennett

  • Django bootstrapping done right

    Beginner

    Sierra 5

    Pablo García

  • Hands-On Web UI Testing

    All

    Cabrillo 1

    Andrew Knight

• 2:00 pm

  • Bag stuffing

    Drop by the Registration desk after lunch and we'll stuff bags near Rio Vista Pavilion.
• 3:00 pm

  • Afternoon break

    Rio Vista Pavilion

Talks: Monday, September 23

• 8:00 am – 6:30 pm

  • Lactation Room

    Santa Fe 3
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Private Dining Room
• 8:00 am

  • Registration

    In front of Salon A
• 8:30 am – 9:30 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 9:30 am

  • Orientation and Welcome

    All

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

• 10:00 am

  • Opening Comments

    All

    Salon A-E

• 10:15 am

  • Keynote: Building Community & Supporting Others

    All

    Salon A-E

    Matt Mitchell

• 11:00 am

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

  • Awesome Automated APIs with Automagic REST

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Timothy Allen

  • Logging and Exception Handling for Django

    All

    Salon F-H

    Ryan Sullivan

• 12:20 pm – 12:50 pm

  • The Unspeakable Horror of Discovering You Didn't Write Tests

    All

    Salon A-E

    Melanie Crutchfield

  • Building effective Django queries with expressions

    Intermediate

    Salon F-H

    Vanessa Barreiros

• 12:50 pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

  • Early Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 1:40 pm

  • Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 2:20 pm – 3:10 pm

  • Prepping Your Project for Production

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Peter Baumgartner

  • Nothingness and identity in Python and Django

    All

    Salon F-H

    Daniele Procida

• 3:10 pm – 3:40 pm

  • Forklifting Django: Migrating A Complex Django App To Kubernetes

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Noah Kantrowitz

  • Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask about Data Classes

    Beginner

    Salon F-H

    Casey Faist

• 3:40 pm

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 4:10 pm – 5:00 pm

  • Eita! Why Internationalization and Localization matter

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Nicolle Cysneiros

  • Roll Your Own Tech Job: Starting a Business or Side Hustle from Scratch

    All

    Salon F-H

    Erin Mullaney

• 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm

  • To comment or not? A data-driven look at attitudes toward code comments

    All

    Salon A-E

    Veronica Hanus

  • The promised Django Land; the tale of one team’s epic journey from Flask

    All

    Salon F-H

    Nicole Zuckerman

• 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm

  • Using a custom template loader at scale

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Dane Hillard

  • Think Like a Product Manager: Straightforward frameworks for building great products

    All

    Salon F-H

    Eleanor Stribling

• 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

  • Opening Reception

    West Lawn at the Marriott

Talks: Tuesday, September 24

• 8:00 am – 6:30 pm

  • Lactation Room

    Santa Fe 3
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Private Dining Room
• 9:00 am – 10:00 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 10:00 am

  • Opening Comments

    All

    Salon A-E

• 10:05 am

  • Your Web Framework Needs You: An Update

    All

    Salon A-E

    Carlton Gibson

• 10:15 am

  • Keynote: Burnout and Balance

    All

    Salon A-E

    Jessica Rose

• 11:00 am

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

  • Migrating legacy data to your Django project.

    Beginner

    Salon A-E

    Adolfo Fitoria

  • Prefetching for Fun and Profit

    Advanced

    Salon F-H

    Mike Hansen

• 12:20 pm – 12:50 pm

  • Static Typing in Python

    All

    Salon A-E

    Dustin Ingram

  • The blameless post mortem: how embracing failure makes us better

    All

    Salon F-H

    Chris Wilcox

• 12:50 pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

  • Early Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 1:40 pm

  • Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 2:20 pm – 3:10 pm

  • Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Luan Fonseca

  • Creating a containerized Django + React + PostgreSQL development environment

    Intermediate

    Salon F-H

    Dan Taylor

• 3:10 pm – 3:40 pm

  • Lazy Looping: The Next Iteration

    All

    Salon A-E

    Trey Hunner

  • Postgres Index types and where to find them

    All

    Salon F-H

    Louise Grandjonc

• 3:40 pm

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 4:10 pm – 5:00 pm

  • How to Hack (Legally): Python Edition

    All

    Salon A-E

    Karen Miller

  • Building a multi factor SSO for a whole country with Django

    All

    Salon F-H

    Juan Saavedra

• 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm

  • Django REST Framework: Taking your API to the next level.

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Carlos Martinez

  • Pull Requests: Merging good practices into your project

    Intermediate

    Salon F-H

    Luca Bezerra

• 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm

  • Search From the Ground Up

    Beginner

    Salon A-E

    William S. Vincent

  • Goodbye Print, Hello Debugger!

    All

    Salon F-H

    Nina Zakharenko

• 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

  • Board Game Night

    Rio Vista Ballroom Salons A-E

Talks - Deep Dives: Wednesday, September 25

• 6:00 pm

  • Closing Comments

    Salon A-E
• 8:00 am – 6:30 pm

  • Lactation Room

    Santa Fe 3
• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Quiet Room

    Private Dining Room
• 9:00 am – 10:00 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 10:00 am

  • Opening Comments

    All

    Salon A-E

• 10:05 am

  • Keynote: The Natural State of Computers

    All

    Salon A-E

    Amber Brown

• 11:00 am

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

  • Just Add Await: Retrofitting Async Into Django

    All

    Salon A-E

    Andrew Godwin

• 12:20 pm – 12:50 pm

  • The Ins and Outs of Model Inheritance

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Blythe J Dunham

• 12:50 pm

  • Lightning Talks

    Salon A-E

    Kojo Idrissa

  • Early Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion

• 1:40 pm

  • Lunch

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 2:20 pm – 3:10 pm

  • Using Django as a Micro-Framework: Hacking on the HTTP handlers and middleware (for fun and profit)

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Carlton Gibson

• 3:10 pm – 3:40 pm

  • WASM matter?

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Russell Keith-Magee

• 3:40 pm

  • Break

    Rio Vista Pavilion
• 4:10 pm – 5:00 pm

  • Generic View? What is that and why would I use it?

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Felipe Lee

• 5:00 pm – 5:50 pm

  • Understanding Django authentication

    Intermediate

    Salon A-E

    Renato Oliveira

• 5:50 pm – 6:00 pm

  • Django Software Foundation Update

    Salon A-E

Sprints: Thursday, September 26

• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Meeting Room (when not in use Quiet Room)

    Private Dining Room
• 8:30 am – 9:30 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    West Lawn at the Marriott
• 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

  • How To Start Contributing to Django

    Cabrillo 2

    Carlton Gibson

• 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

  • Introduction to Contributing to Open Source

    Cabrillo 2

    Jeffrey Eliasen

• 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • Sprints

    Cabrillo 1-2
• 11:00 am – 11:30 am

  • Break

    West Lawn at the Marriott
• 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm

  • Lunch

    West Lawn at the Marriott
• 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm

  • Break

    West Lawn at the Marriott

Sprints: Friday, September 27

• 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Meeting Room (when not in use Quiet Room)

    Private Dining Room
• 8:30 am – 9:30 am

  • Continental Breakfast

    West Lawn at the Marriott
• 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • Sprints

    Cabrillo 1-2
• 11:00 am – 11:30 am

  • Break

    West Lawn at the Marriott
• 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm

  • Lunch

    West Lawn at the Marriott
• 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm

  • Break

    West Lawn at the Marriott