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Agenda:

• 18:30 - Opening doors of the venue

• 19:00 - Welcome to PyBerlin! // Organisers

• 19:10 - Welcome from the host - Ecosia

• 19:20 - Pixi - radically new ways to deal with Conda packages // Wolf Vollprecht In this talk we are going to explore `pixi`. Pixi is a new package manager that is built for the Conda ecosystem. It comes with a few unique features: - project based workflow with a powerful task system - globally install your favorite developer tools into encapsulated environments - build packages for Python, Rust, C++, R, and many more languages from pixi projects

Speaker's bio: Wolf is a long-time member of the conda and conda-forge communities. He is the original author of the mamba package manager, and now founder and CEO of prefix.dev where they try to re-imagine what's possible with Conda packages

• 19:50 - Short break

• 20:20 - Building Customer Support Agents // Noam Etten Large Language Models (LLMs) and their surrounding ecosystem have finally matured enough to be seamlessly integrated into customer-facing applications. The time is now to start automating and embedding them into real-world services! I'll share how we built our AI-powered customer support agent using Python!

Speaker's bio: Noam studied Applied Mathematics for AI in Italy and is now putting theory into practice at Nelly Solutions!

• 20:50 - Python internals: tips to understand better the current and future state of Python // Cristián Maureira-Fredes Did you know python has many implementations, but most people use the standard one, which is written in C? In case you did know, or didn't this talk is for you. Understanding how things works are usually a good strategy in order to make more informative decisions on "what's better" or "what's faster" when writing code. But where to start? On this talk we will go through some CPython internals, and key concepts in order to understand the current C-extension modules, and what's happening with the Rust-extensions as well.

Speaker's bio: Python enthusiast currently working at The Qt Company. Cristián is the team lead of the Qt for Python project (offering Python bindings to the Qt/C++ framework). On his free time, Cristián is a serial confernece and community organizer, currently being a Python Software Foundation Board member and Fellow.

• 21:20 - Closing session // Organisers

This event will be only in-person. Please check our Code of Conduct and official health regulation in Berlin before coming. If you feel some signs of sickness, please consider skipping this event and attending another time. We will have plenty of events in different formats in the future. Looking forward seeing you all soon!

** RSVP: Register here to receive joining link before the deadline. There are also two other sessions, you need to register each one:

• May 28th: AI Workshop (Virtual): Full-Stack ML with Metaflow
• May 30th: AI Workshop (Virtual): LLMs, RAG, and Fine-Tuning

Description: The live session is at 9AM CEST. If you can not make the live event, still register to receive the recording.

​​Wolf Vollprecht has spent the last five years trying to make sure that the conda ecosystem can grow unbounded! He worked at Quantstack (C++ numerical computing with xtensor, Jupyter, and mamba) before starting his own venture (prefix.dev) where they are trying to take package management to the next level!

​In this fireside chat, Wolf joins Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Outerbounds’ Head of Developer Relations, to talk about package management and software supply chain challenges for data scientists and machine learning engineers, the magic of making it all "just work" for developers across stacks and platforms, and the future of package management and accessibility for GenAI and foundation models.

They’ll discuss: - ​​The main challenges developers\, data scientists\, and ML/AI engineers face in shipping software; - ​​How his team is working to improve the conda ecosystem by rewriting everything in Rust; - ​​What the developer experience needs to be like and how we can make package management “just work”; - ​The future of efficient and user-friendly tools for distributing and using LLMs and other foundation models. - And much more.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations
• Join Slack/Discord (link is at the bottom of the page)

Speakers: If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 350K+ AI developers worldwide.

** RSVP: Register here to receive joining link before the deadline. There are also two other sessions, you need to register each one:

• May 28th: AI Workshop (Virtual): Full-Stack ML with Metaflow
• May 30th: AI Workshop (Virtual): LLMs, RAG, and Fine-Tuning

Description: The live session is at 9AM CEST. If you can not make the live event, still register to receive the recording.

​​Wolf Vollprecht has spent the last five years trying to make sure that the conda ecosystem can grow unbounded! He worked at Quantstack (C++ numerical computing with xtensor, Jupyter, and mamba) before starting his own venture (prefix.dev) where they are trying to take package management to the next level!

​In this fireside chat, Wolf joins Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Outerbounds’ Head of Developer Relations, to talk about package management and software supply chain challenges for data scientists and machine learning engineers, the magic of making it all "just work" for developers across stacks and platforms, and the future of package management and accessibility for GenAI and foundation models.

They’ll discuss: - ​​The main challenges developers\, data scientists\, and ML/AI engineers face in shipping software; - ​​How his team is working to improve the conda ecosystem by rewriting everything in Rust; - ​​What the developer experience needs to be like and how we can make package management “just work”; - ​The future of efficient and user-friendly tools for distributing and using LLMs and other foundation models. - And much more.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations
• Join Slack/Discord (link is at the bottom of the page)

Speakers: If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 350K+ AI developers worldwide.

** RSVP: Register here to receive joining link before the deadline. There are also two other sessions, you need to register each one:

• May 28th: AI Workshop (Virtual): Full-Stack ML with Metaflow
• May 30th: AI Workshop (Virtual): LLMs, RAG, and Fine-Tuning

Description: The live session is at 9AM CEST. If you can not make the live event, still register to receive the recording.

​​Wolf Vollprecht has spent the last five years trying to make sure that the conda ecosystem can grow unbounded! He worked at Quantstack (C++ numerical computing with xtensor, Jupyter, and mamba) before starting his own venture (prefix.dev) where they are trying to take package management to the next level!

​In this fireside chat, Wolf joins Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Outerbounds’ Head of Developer Relations, to talk about package management and software supply chain challenges for data scientists and machine learning engineers, the magic of making it all "just work" for developers across stacks and platforms, and the future of package management and accessibility for GenAI and foundation models.

They’ll discuss: - ​​The main challenges developers\, data scientists\, and ML/AI engineers face in shipping software; - ​​How his team is working to improve the conda ecosystem by rewriting everything in Rust; - ​​What the developer experience needs to be like and how we can make package management “just work”; - ​The future of efficient and user-friendly tools for distributing and using LLMs and other foundation models. - And much more.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations
• Join Slack/Discord (link is at the bottom of the page)

Speakers: If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 350K+ AI developers worldwide.

** RSVP: Register here to receive joining link before the deadline. There are also two other sessions, you need to register each one:

• May 28th: AI Workshop (Virtual): Full-Stack ML with Metaflow
• May 30th: AI Workshop (Virtual): LLMs, RAG, and Fine-Tuning

Description: The live session is at 9AM CEST. If you can not make the live event, still register to receive the recording.

​​Wolf Vollprecht has spent the last five years trying to make sure that the conda ecosystem can grow unbounded! He worked at Quantstack (C++ numerical computing with xtensor, Jupyter, and mamba) before starting his own venture (prefix.dev) where they are trying to take package management to the next level!

​In this fireside chat, Wolf joins Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Outerbounds’ Head of Developer Relations, to talk about package management and software supply chain challenges for data scientists and machine learning engineers, the magic of making it all "just work" for developers across stacks and platforms, and the future of package management and accessibility for GenAI and foundation models.

They’ll discuss: - ​​The main challenges developers\, data scientists\, and ML/AI engineers face in shipping software; - ​​How his team is working to improve the conda ecosystem by rewriting everything in Rust; - ​​What the developer experience needs to be like and how we can make package management “just work”; - ​The future of efficient and user-friendly tools for distributing and using LLMs and other foundation models. - And much more.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations
• Join Slack/Discord (link is at the bottom of the page)

Speakers: If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 350K+ AI developers worldwide.

** Important RSVP here. (Due to room capacity and building security, it's required to pre-register at the link for admission).

​Outerbounds and prefix.dev, the teams that bring you metaflow, mamba, rattler, and pixi, invite you to a meetup and after-hours networking happy hour as we bring together fellow builders and practitioners to trade notes, build peer-to-peer relationships, and discuss the latest on dependency management, software supply chain for ML/AI systems and more!

Agenda:

• 6pm: Open the doors, food, and drink! 🍕
• 7pm: Managing your ML/AI software dependencies the easy way, by Savin Goyal (CTO and co-founder, Outerbounds)
• ​745pm: Managing Python, AI and more with pixi by Wolf Vollprecht (Founder & CEO of prefix.dev)
• ​830pm: Mixer and chats 🍻 🤗

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 8,000+ AI developers in Berlin or 350K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees

• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations

• Join Slack/Discord (link is at the bottom of the page)

After a long time of hibernation, the PyData Zurich meetup is finally back! We would like to rekindle the community and provide regular meetups with talks revolving around all things data in the Python ecosystem.

Schedule:

• 5:45 doors open
• 6:00 introduction
• 6:10 Talk #1 (30’ + 10’ questions)
• 6:50 Talk #2 (30’ + 10’ questions)
• 7:30 Apéro
• 9:00 Sending people home

Talk 1: Uplift Modelling: An Overview - Matteo Courthoud

Abstract: When evaluating a policy, we are interested in its incremental effect, the uplift. Uplift modelling combines techniques from causal inference and machine learning to estimate individual effects. Knowing the distribution of incremental effects rather than just the average allows for a better understanding of the policy mechanism and for effective targeting. In this talk, we will overview existing uplift modelling techniques from both a theoretical and applied perspective, using a toy business case.

Talk 2: Python Package Management: Future, Present, Past - Wolf Vollprecht

Abstract: Have you ever wondered how a package manager works? What are the differences between pip and conda and mamba? This talk gives a brief history of software package management software, particularly in the Python space, and shines some light on more recent advancements.

We will discuss

• what wheel files are, sdists and bdists, as well as conda packages.
• how semantic and calendar versioning schemes function
• whether you should use upper bounds to constrain dependencies or not!

Recently the team at prefix.dev took a deep dive into the Python resolver (resolvelib) and ported it to Rust – we will also discuss how that went, and how SAT solvers make modern package management possible. As an outlook we will take a look at some up-and-coming technologies in the package management space:

• rye, a new Rust based Python package manager
• pixi, a new Rust based conda / Python package manager
• sigstore, a modern way of signing packages, that replaces PGP

This event is kindly hosted by QuantCo. Find out more at https://www.quantco.com/.