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Saturday
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Saturday 29 August 2026
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Ballroom 1
Ballroom 2
Ballroom 3
Lyon
9:00 am
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Conference welcome & Saturday keynote
Jack Skinner, Sophie Quinn-Graham, Nic Crouch
9:30 am
10:00 am
Morning Tea
10:00 am - 10:45 am
10:30 am
DevRel
10:45 am - 11:15 am
DevRelling in the age of GenAI
Brett Morgan
Research Software Engineering
10:45 am - 11:15 am
Your Research Code Works.. Until It Doesn’t: Rethinking Reproducibility
Zara Hassan
10:45 am - 11:15 am
from where?!? import what?!?
Alyssa Coghlan
11:00 am
DevRel
11:20 am - 11:50 am
Unlocking growth, collaboration and impact through developer communities
Michelle "MishManners" Duke
Research Software Engineering
11:20 am - 11:50 am
Things I don’t worry about as NumPy does them for me
Kai Striega
11:20 am - 11:50 am
The Virtues of Being Lazy
Peter Lovett
11:30 am
DevRel
11:55 am - 12:25 pm
Hands-on learning in the age of AI: are developer workshops still relevant
Graham Dumpleton
Research Software Engineering
11:55 am - 12:25 pm
Optimizing Scientific Python with C++, CUDA, and Serverless Compute
Alex Zinovev
11:55 am - 12:25 pm
Is storing files in Slack emojis a bad idea? Maybe. Let’s do it anyway!
Ashley Lamont
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
DevRel
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
When the demo has to land
Damian Brady
Research Software Engineering
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Why and How to Cite Software
Stephanie Chong
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
How to give your Python code to someone else
Russell Keith-Magee
1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1:30 pm
2:00 pm
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Gerrymandering Australia
Rachel Bunder
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Secret snek business
(Session not yet published)
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Knocking On A Process’s Door: Introspecting Live Python Processes
Raphael Gaschignard
DevRel
2:00 pm - 3:40 pm
DevRel Unconference
Katie McLaughlin, Gabi Amaral
2:30 pm
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm
How to make a blob breathe like a human
Peta Muir
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm
Is This Actually Getting Better? A Three-Layer Approach to Measuring AI Products
Wesley Volz
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm
Cryptic crosswords, Code golf and Learning the rules of a language
Amanda J Hogan
3:00 pm
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm
From Jupyter Notebook to Eruption: Getting Geohazard Research into Production
Yannik
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm
Switching from Sphinx to Markdown
Kattni
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm
Rise of the Machines, Rise of the Workers
jonah
3:30 pm
Afternoon Tea
3:40 pm - 4:25 pm
4:00 pm
4:25 pm - 5:15 pm
Saturday lightning talks
Nic Crouch, Daisy Leigh Brenecki
4:30 pm
5:00 pm
5:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Closing address
Jack Skinner, Nic Crouch, Sophie Quinn-Graham
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