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Thursday
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Thursday 27 August 2026
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Ballroom 1
Ballroom 2
Ballroom 3
9:00 am
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Conference welcome & Thursday 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
Platform Engineering
10:45 am - 11:15 am
Kubernetes as LEGO: Building Platforms one block at a time
Dipendra Paudel
10:45 am - 11:15 am
Productivity: a dialogue
Benno Rice, Daisy Leigh Brenecki
Data & AI
10:45 am - 11:15 am
AI-assisted coding, Python and dbt: taking Chronos live in two days
Jay Stein, serg
11:00 am
Platform Engineering
11:20 am - 11:50 am
Talk under construction
(Session not yet published)
11:20 am - 11:50 am
Solutions and Other Problems
Lilly Ryan
Data & AI
11:20 am - 11:50 am
Ship Reliable RAG: Evals That Grow with Your Retrieval Complexity
Ravi Vats
11:30 am
Platform Engineering
11:55 am - 12:25 pm
TOGA: Checklists and Safety Measures for "Yoloing" in Prod
Chelsea Finnie
11:55 am - 12:25 pm
Enterprise Grade Accessibility for Everyone
Erin Zimmer
Data & AI
11:55 am - 12:25 pm
Additional data needed to predict title
(Session not yet published)
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
Platform Engineering
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Developing Problem Solvers under Pressure: SREs, DBREs and Ponies <3
Zoe
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Global Instructing Lock pending
(Session not yet published)
Data & AI
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
From Pixels to Points: Inferring Archery Scores with Computer Vision
Jacob Seiler
1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1:30 pm
2:00 pm
Platform Engineering
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
From On-Prem to the Cloud and Back Again
Luke
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
An Intro to Glue Work
Jade Edward
Data & AI
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Please Don't Put That in a Dict: Better Data Models in Python
Arshia Sharma
2:30 pm
Platform Engineering
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm
What Happened in Production?! Instrumenting with OpenTelemetry
David Bell
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm
Goodbye GIL: Exploring the Free-threaded mode in Python
Adarsh Divakaran
Data & AI
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm
Stop Prompting, Start Composing: Agent Skills in Practice
Marty Kieliszek
3:00 pm
Platform Engineering
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm
Just Enough Reliability
Shaun O'Keefe
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm
Adventures in FastAPI: A Choose-Your-Own PyCon Talk
Jack Reichelt
Data & AI
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm
When AI Screens for Blindness: Equity Evaluation Using Python
Dr Reju Sam John
3:30 pm
Afternoon Tea
3:40 pm - 4:25 pm
4:00 pm
4:25 pm - 5:25 pm
Thursday lightning talks
Daisy Leigh Brenecki, Nic Crouch
4:30 pm
5:00 pm
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