Erika Fille Legara Ph.D.

Program Director, Master of Science in Data Science, Asian Institute of Management

Erika Fille Legara is the Program Director of Asian Institute of Management's Master of Science in Data Science, the first of its kind in the Philippines. She's also a former scientist at the Singapore government’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) who took part in data-driven research on urban systems, supply chain and logistics, among others.

Al Sweigart

Author of several Python books including Automate the Boring Stuff, InventWithPython.com

Al Sweigart is the author of several Python books, including Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. His books are freely available under a Creative Commons license at https://inventwithpython.com. He lives in San Francisco and his cat weighs 12 pounds.

Younggun Kim

Former Director, Python Software Foundation

Younggun Kim is an open source advocate and software engineer with 20 years of experiences. Also, he worked as a Board Director of Python Software Foundation for the 2016-2017 term. He is serious about developer team culture that wins.

Joshua Arvin Lat

Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Complete Business Online

Joshua Arvin Lat is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Complete Business Online. For the past couple of years, he has been sharing his knowledge in several conferences around the country to discuss effective strategies for companies and professionals.

Philamer Sune

Lead Developer, AI company based in NY

More than half a decade of experience working with the country's top Phackers as Lead Developer. Currently working in , building their own proprietary models to enable Machine Learning algorithms for their product (guess what?), chatbots™!

Prashanth Raghu

Software​ ​Consultant, Sen-Sei Technologies

I am Prashanth Raghu, my​ ​ interest​ ​ in​ ​ python​ ​ began​ ​ back​ ​ in​ ​ 2009​ ​ when​ ​ I ​ ​ was studying​ ​ at​ ​ PES​ ​ University,​ ​ Bangalore.​ ​ I ​ ​ was​ ​ selected​ ​ to​ ​ be​ ​ a ​ ​ part​ ​ of​ ​ a ​ ​ three​ ​ member​ ​ team​ ​ to​ ​ HEIG-VD, University​ ​ of​ ​ Applied​ ​ Sciences,​ ​ Switzerland​ ​ to​ ​ develop​ ​ a ​ ​ hybrid​ ​ cloud​ ​ application.​ ​ It​ ​ was​ ​ developed​ ​ in python​ ​ with​ ​ the​ ​ web​ ​ front​ ​ end​ ​ designed​ ​ in​ ​ PHP.​ ​ I ​ ​ worked​ ​ at​ ​ Citrix​ ​ Systems​ ​ R&D​ ​ India,​ ​ Bangalore​ ​ between 2011-2013​ ​ as​ ​ a ​ ​ software​ ​ developer.​ ​ I ​ ​ was​ ​ a ​ ​ Google​ ​ Summer​ ​ of​ ​ Code​ ​ scholar​ ​ for​ ​ the​ ​ year​ ​ 2014​ ​ interning for​ ​ OpenStack​ ​ foundation​ ​ ( ​ ​ My​ ​ work:​ ​ https://github.com/openstack/zaqar/tree/master/zaqar/storage/redis​​ ​ ). ​ I ​ ​ studied​ ​ at​ ​ National​ ​ University​ ​ of​ ​ Singapore​ ​ and​ ​ did​ ​ my​ ​ Masters​ ​ in​ ​ Wireless​ ​ Computation​ ​ with​ ​ a ​ ​ research paper​ ​ between​ ​ 2013-2014.​ Mid 2015 I ​ ​ decided​ ​ to​ ​ do​ ​ something​ ​ of​ ​ my​ ​ interest​ ​ ​ and​ ​ opened​ ​ up​ ​ the source​ ​ code​ ​ of​ ​ python​ ​ 2.7.​ ​ I ​ ​ was​ ​ amazed​ ​ at​ ​ the​ ​ simplicity​ ​ yet​ ​ profoundness​ ​ of​ ​ the​ ​ architecture​ ​ and decided​ ​ to​ ​ share​ ​ my​ ​ views​ ​ with​ ​ the​ ​ world.​ ​ And​ ​ the​ ​ result​ ​ of​ ​ my​ ​ efforts​ ​ for​ ​ a ​ ​ month​ ​ has​ ​ resulted​ ​ into​ ​ the book​s ​ “Internals​ ​ of​ ​ Cpython​ ​ 2.7”​ ​ and​ ​ “Internals​ ​ of​ ​ Cpython3.6”​ ​ available​ ​ as​ ​ a ​ ​ free​ ​ download​ ​ under​ ​ CC​ ​ 4.0 at http://intopython.com. I ​currently​ ​work​ ​as​ a ​ ​ Software​ ​ Consultant​ ​ at​ ​ Sen-Sei Technologies,​ ​Bangalore.

Sony Valdez

Trustee, PythonPH

Programmer. Gamer. Nerd. Mostly harmless.

Rolando Cruz

Software Engineer, Freelancer.com

I'm a software engineer for Freelancer.com working with the Emails infrastructure team and the Test Automation Team. We've been using Python for our core services and a few parts of our internal tooling. I like music but unfortunately, music doesn't like me.

Brian Baquiran

Managing Director for Engineering, Pez.AI

Brian Baquiran has 20 years of experience as a software architect and engineer specializing in assembling and organizing agile software development teams for rapidly building large scale server-side applications and service deployment platforms. He has led R&D teams to design, build and deploy server-side platforms to serve millions of users, beginning with Edsamail in the early dot-com era, to more recently, mobile content platforms for telco content providers across Southeast Asia. Currently, Brian is Managing Director for Engineering at Pez.AI, a machine learning and artificial intelligence research lab based in NY with operations in Manila, Philippines.

Mitchel Cabuloy

Design Director, Kirigami

Mitch is a seasoned software developer and designer. He’s currently Design Director at Kirigami and likes to pretend that he doesn’t need to get a corporate job. He’s on the Internet at @mixxorz.

Dean Christian Armada

Docker Engineer/Consultant, Zurien

Zurien is a start-up Cloud and Data Center Training and Consulting company helping clients achieve secure, reliable and robust infrastructure. Started as a Python developer then embracing Django to create web apps quickly; Not so long attempted to use the combination of AngularJS and DRF in creating SPA. Always fond of exploring and finding ways, as well as, techniques and technology combinations to make development easier and comfortable. In Zurien, he is leading the team of “Docker for Devs”.

Aditthya Ramakrishnan

Founder, Next Tech Lab

Aditthya has recently finished his bachelors degree at SRM University, India. He has previously spent a semester studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, interned at the MIT Media Lab & Carnegie Mellon University. He also started Next Tech Lab, a student-run research lab at his university, mentoring and leading over 200 members working in fields like AI, AR/VR, IoT etc.

Johnny Estilles

Engineering Manager, Freelancer.com

Johnny Estilles is a seasoned software engineer with more than 25 years of experience, specializing in cryptography and embedded systems for military applications. He has lead and managed engineering teams throughout the world, in countries that include the United States, Panama, Belgium, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar, Oman and now the Philippines. Johnny currently serves as Engineering Manager for Freelancer.com, one the world's largest online outsourcing marketplaces.

Niño Eclarin

Hacarus, Software Engineer

Music, tech, startups, astronomy and physics. If you can't find me in front of my laptop doing some eloquent stuff or with my guitar playing some majestic riffs, then I'm probably with my trusty mountain bike and telescope exploring the universe! :P

Jolly Ann Bilad

Data Scientist in Training, Pez.AI

Jolly is a jolly good fellow who works as a Data Scientist in Training in Pez.AI. Typically an R person, she is now just discovering Python. Her curiosity has led her to Data Science and other interesting stuff like meditation, cats, and the arts. Right now, she's obsessed with intuitive learning (and tries her best to learn new things this way). She also wants to meet new people in this conference so please say hello to her.

Albertus Kelvin

A student majoring in Computer Science, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)

A student majoring in Computer Science at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Currently working as an assistant at the Graphics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, ITB. My research interests are all about Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially the Program Synthesis. This field of research is all about how to build a system that can generate desired source code in certain programming language based on user intention. By having such system, the programmers only need to provided the problem specification in natural language, then the system will generate the desired source code. In my free time, I love reading books, listening to music, learning new technologies from the internet, and watching movies. Besides of research (science and technology), I also have personal interest on education, environment, health, and human rights.

Errazudin Ishak

Data Munger, Johor Analytics Syndicate, Malaysia

Errazudin works as Data Munger at Johor Analytics Syndicate, Malaysia. His job focuses on making sense out of massive data. He has previously spoken at several meetups and conferences and has worked with various technologies. In his free time, he loves to compose Ahmad-Jais-like tunes in his dream or try to help his little daughter with her super tough kindergarten homework.

Manoj Pandey

Founder, PyData Delhi

Manoj is the founder of PyData Delhi where he manages the community and organizes meetups to gather folks working around Data Science. Apart from that he is a Pythonista at heart, and try to tackle research problems by working with external collaborators, the recent being Gensim (Python package for Topic Modelling). He goes by the handle "onlyrealmvp" on social networks.

Rodney Quillo

Co-Founder, SilverOrbit.com

Previous maintainer Ansible PPA for Ubuntu https://launchpad.net/~rquillo/+archive/ubuntu/ansible Github: http://github.com/cocoy

Mark Mangoba

IT Manager, Python Software Foundation (PSF)

Mark has been with the Python Software Foundation (PSF) since 2016 as the IT Manager coordinating the PSF Infra operations along with the PSF Infrastructure Workgroup Chair. Mark also works for the University of California, Los Angeles, as an IT Manager and Software Engineer, working in the Department of Social Welfare. Mark has over 10+ years in IT Management, working for various non-profits and universities such as Caltech, Stanford and Northwestern University. Most recently, Mark was an Associate Director for Technology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) managing a team of 35 IT staff, overseeing Infrastructure and Software Engineering. Mark contributes to multiple open source software projects, has managed multiple large-scale enterprise IT projects, deployments and focused on DevOps. Mark is an MSc student in the United Kingdom at the University of Hertfordshire.

Women Who Code Manila

Women Who Code Manila is part of a global non-profit organization (Women Who Code) that inspires women to excel in their tech careers. We work to support this generation of technology professionals in being and becoming leaders and role model in the tech industry. We provide technical study groups, How to be you po? series, hackathons, panel talks and more. This year we aim to encourage more women to speak and participate in tech conferences.

Romulo Gapuz Jr.

Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Rom help customers design and build highly available and scalable architecture on the cloud. He has over a decade of experience in IT particularly in applications development. Prior joining AWS, Rom has led IT organizations in the field of ecommerce, logistics and startups. He is a self-proclaimed geek, homebody and coffee lover.

Howard Lince III

Director Of Engineering, LenddoEFL

Director Of Engineering at LenddoEFL

Joseph Ross Lee

CEO, Cocoon

Cocoonlabs

Marylette Roa

Molecular Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman

Molecular Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman Marylette is a molecular biologist who works in genomics and bioinformatics, and uses programming to process large data and create simple tools. She is also a mentor for the Python and Machine Learning/AI study group of Women Who Code Manila.

Iris Diana Uy

Molecular Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman

Iris is a molecular biologist and bioinformatician doing resesarch primarily on marine organisms (i.e., an ex-labrat who has found a happy place where programming, bioinformatics, and the ocean meet). She is also a mentor for the Python study group of Women Who Code Manila.

Clau Yagyagan

Software Developer, Awesome Labs, Inc.

Clau is an Android and web developer switching to any platform if needed. She enjoys exploring and learning different programming languages, frameworks, libraries, and tools to add to her arsenal for her craft and currently learning Python. She is also a mentor for the Android, Python study group of Women Who Code Manila.

Isabelle Tingzon

Research Fellow, UP Diliman

Issa is currently a research fellow at UP Diliman. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, optimization, and game theory. In her spare time, she enjoys playing video games and learning new languages. She is also the Machine Learning and AI Tech Lead for Women Who Code Manila. By being an active member in the Women Who Code community, she hopes to be able to empower women to excel in STEM.

Prof. Eugene Rex Jalao, PhD

Associate Professor of Analytics and Industrial Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman

Dr. Eugene Rex L. Jalao is an Associate Professor of Analytics and Industrial Engineering in the University of the Philippines Diliman, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He specializes in Decision Support Systems, Business Analytics Solutions, Data Mining, Optimization and Systems Simulation. He obtained his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU) in May 2013. Additionally, he obtained his Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering degree as well as his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2009 and 2007 respectively. He was inducted into the Alpha Phi Mu, Industrial Engineering Honor Society in 2012. His ten years of work and research experience are in the fields of business analytics both here in the Philippines and in the United States of America, specifically in the Banking, FMCG, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Information Technology industries. Also, he is the current director of the Business Analytics Certification Program of UP National Engineering Center. Furthermore, he was part of 50-person APEC team that drafted the Recommended Data Science and Analytics Competencies last May 2017 in Singapore. He is also a certified SAP ERP Materials Management consultant, a Matlab computing associate and an advocate of the R Programming language.

Michelle Alarcon

Organizer, R Users Group PH, Managing Director, Z-Lift Solution

Organizer, R Users Group PH; Managing Director, Z-Lift Solution

Registration

8:30AM - 9:30AM

Opening Remarks

9:30AM - 9:45AM

Keynote 1

9:45AM - 10:45AM

Erika Fille Legara Ph.D.

Introduction to the Natural Language Processing with Python

10:45AM - 11:45AM

Albertus Kelvin

Primarily, this talk is intended to the enthusiasts of NLP who would like to grasp the basic concepts of NLP and the way of implementing NLP tasks using Python. Therefore, this tutorial does not only give the concept of NLP, but it also provides the practical side by using Python programming language. The Python programming language can do the basic tasks of NLP, but it can not handle the standard task of NLP. Therefore, a special library called the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is needed to solve such problem. This library provides some functions, wrappers, and the corpora samples that could be used to support the NLP research. By the end of this talk, hopefully the audience could get some insights on the basic concepts of NLP. Moreover, they could apply the NLTK for assisting their works.

Integrate Two Systems Using Hive Swarm

11:45AM - 12:05PM

Joseph Ross Lee

Integrate Two Systems Using Python & Hive Swarm (Hyperledger in a box) solution

Lunch

12:05PM - 1:00PM

Keynote 2: Hello, Community

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Al Sweigart

Author Al Sweigart talks about his experience learning to code, teaching others to code, and finding community with Python. He shares his insights attending his first tech conference (US PyCon 11) and how growing technology involves more than the technical aspects.

Python and the Blockchain Revolution

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Johnny Estilles

Though the blockchain space continues is continually expanding, its knowledge and understanding throughout the technical community and the general public has not kept pace. The goal of this talk is to: - Increase awareness of blockchain - Explain the technical aspects of blockchain - Explore potential use cases for blockchain beyond cryptocurrencies - Encourage the development of blockchain projects in Python

Put your analysis to a web app using Dash

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Jolly Ann Bilad

We aim to use Dash in providing web apps for our analysis. This is important because analysts also aim to showcase their analysis to audiences. In this project, Twitter data is the one we'll use. Simple analyses and basic plotly graphs will be enough to show how to use Dash in the most basic level. We're only be using line graphs and distributions from the plotly package in python.

Snack Break

4:00PM - 4:15PM

Write Clean and Maintainable Code with Service Objects

4:15PM - 5:15PM

Mitchel Cabuloy

Code architecture is hard. Make it easier by using service objects! It's a design pattern that decouples your business logic from everything else. No more mixing presentation logic with business logic. No more putting business logic in model methods. With service objects, writing and testing features has never been easier. Come and learn how to use this nifty little design pattern. You'll see the benefits of service objects, how to write them, how to test them, and how it all fits in when used on a real-world project.

Designing Reliable, Scalable & Secure Data-Intensive Python Apps

5:15PM - 6:15PM

Joshua Arvin Lat

Designing and building data-intensive systems require proper planning and execution to effectively analyze and process large amounts of data. We'll discuss different techniques and technologies used to meet scalability, performance, and reliability requirements in your production Python applications.

Announcements

6:15PM - 6:30PM

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11:45AM - 12:05PM

Lunch

12:05PM - 1:00PM

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1:00PM - 2:00PM

Intro to Python

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Sony Valdez

Healthy Python: Applying Python in Healthcare

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Niño Eclarin

The talk will mainly focus on the following points. - What are the different challenges in the healthcare sector - How to identify if python is the right tool for those problems - What are the tools/resources that python provides that can help solve these challenges. Will introduce several tools/libraries/project available in python for several healthcare use cases - Identify execution plans when using these tools, will discuss the implications of using python vs the expectation of the intended stakeholders in health care - Future assumptions and directions for people who want to step into healthcare using python and similar technologies

Snack Break

4:00PM - 4:15PM

Containing bugs.python.org

4:15PM - 5:15PM

Mark Mangoba

bugs.python.org, a tracker maintained by the Python community and for the community. For years, since 2011 it has helped the community triage thousands of issues. The trackers vintage infrastructure has needed a refactor to keep up with today’s standards. Python Community Member and Red Hat Engineer, Maciej Szulik and PSF IT Manager Mark Mangoba have been working on deploying bugs.python.org to Red Hat Open Shift, https://github.com/python/bpo-builder for the past year. Mark will be going over Red Hat Open Shifts benefits and how the community can contribute to its Infrastructure.

Ansible as Configuration Management: Features and Beyond

5:15PM - 6:15PM

Rodney Quillo

Processing the Social Web

2:00PM - 5:00PM

Howard Lince III

Flask Basic Concepts, OAuth2 w/ Facebook & Google, Celery Job Queuing

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8:30AM - 10:00AM

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10:00AM - 11:00AM

Resurrecting the dead with deep learning

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Aditthya Ramakrishnan

Recently, results of projects like twitter.com/deepdrumpf and twitter.com/deeplearnbern have shown how neural networks can generate remarkable text by being trained on corpora of literature, MIDI files, tweets etc. We will use deep neural networks, namely the LSTM RNN to generate text based on the input training data. People have used these techniques to generate literature in the style of dead writers and poets like Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Robert Frost., Generate beautiful AI composed music inspired by the likes of Mozart, Beethoven and Bach., Generate lyrics and rap by training on Lennon-McCartney & Hamilton songs respectively.

Group Picture and Lunch

12:00PM - 1:00PM

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1:00PM - 2:00PM

Rage Against The Learning Machine (A New Hope)

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Errazudin Ishak

This talk aims to make machine learning simple, fun and accessible to anyone. (Although honestly, it is close to impossible). Working examples in Python and couple of tools such as word2vec (Google) and fasttext (facebook), might be demoed to prove some love/points.

Data visualization in Python

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Brian Baquiran

Thanks to its accessibility, and the availability of powerful toolkits for statistical and scientific computing, Python is now the most popular language for data science and machine learning. Data visualization is an important part of the data science process. It is vital both in the early stages, when exploring a new dataset, and in the final stages when communicating findings and results to your audience. This talk will cover several different data visualization tools in Python, explore their use cases, and how to use them effectively.

Video editing with MoviePy

4:00PM - 5:00PM

Sony Valdez

Using MoviePy, we will create short clips of videos. We will demonstrate how to do this programmatically or from a different Python library. We will create GIFs that are perfect for memes. Jupyter support will also be demonstrated.

Walkthrough cpython 3.6 source code

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Prashanth Raghu

This talk will be an introduction to cpython from a source code level. We will walk through the source code of python from the parser, compiler, assembler and interpreter phases. We will also understand the design of the garbage collector, memory allocator from a source code perspective. We shall also explore the different design philosophies of cpython. There will be special emphasis on python objects such as lists, tuples, dictionaries etc and their design internals. This talk is for people who are interested to explore how cpython works internally.

Python + AWS: Cool things you can do with Python on AWS

4:00PM - 5:00PM

Romulo Gapuz Jr.

Registration

8:30AM - 10:00AM

Keynote 3: Python Community in APAC

10:00AM - 11:00AM

Younggun Kim

Django, Angular5 and Docker - The road to production

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Dean Christian Armada

Django is a famous python web framework that is very good for the backend. Angular5 is currently the latest rewrite of angularjs Docker is the most famous tool for containerization and the new generation of deployments Using these three together will help us to create applications from small to enterprise level quickly, reliably and easily

Group Picture and Lunch

12:00PM - 1:00PM

Lightning Talks

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Generating Music with Python

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Rolando Cruz

The talk will be a quick demonstration of how Magenta can be used to generate music. The talk will start with an introduction on the research (hopefully) focusing on the elements of music that may be suitable for machine learning. Then it will delve into the challenges of generating creative content using algorithm (e.g. novelty, story-telling, etc.). Then, basic usage of Magenta and a few clips demonstrating music created by Magenta and the talk will end on possibilities and limitations of the library and the field in general.

Exploring hidden Python gotchas

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Manoj Pandey

This talk will be about common pitfalls (termed warts/landmines) that people face using Python programming language. We'll dive into discussing some small issues that most Python developers face with, and give remedies to those issues. Also, will discuss some crazy ideas hidden behind the language that makes it efficient.

Writing your first Alexa Skill

4:00PM - 5:00PM

Philamer Sune

A talk/demo that demonstrates building an Amazon Alexa Skill. At the end of the talk, the audience should be able to utilize different types of Alexa Skills to create their own custom skill. Specifically, the talk will demo creating a skill that deploys an application in Kubernetes.

Community Panel

5:00PM - 5:30PM

Games and Closing Remarks

5:30PM - 6:00PM

"Hello World of Data!"

2:00PM - 5:00PM

Women Who Code Manila

Your ABC blocks in data handling, analysis,and visualization. Requirements for the participants are: 1) Bring your own laptop 2) Install the latest version of Anaconda

Python + R

2:00PM - 5:00PM

Prof. Eugene Rex Jalao, PhD

Introduction to R + Python