We are delighted to announce the first of our two keynote speakers for Kiwi PyCon XIII this year in Wellington: Dr Russell Keith-Magee!

Dr Keith-Magee is the founder of the BeeWare project, a project developing GUI tools and libraries to support the development of Python software on desktop and mobile platforms. He joined the Django core team in 2006, and was President of the Django Software Foundation for five years. He is a frequent speaker at Python and Django conferences around the globe, sharing his experience as a FLOSS developer, community maintainer, and (unsuccessful) startup founder. In his day job, he is a Principal Engineer at Anaconda, working on BeeWare in the OSS team.

“Wither Python?”

The first version of the Python programming language was released 33 years ago. The computing world that existed then is radically different to the world that exists today – and as a result, the language, community and users of Python have changed as well.

In this keynote, Dr Keith-Magee will reflect on how Python, and computing as a whole, has changed over the years. He will also look at what hasn’t changed – and make some predictions about what the future may hold for Python.

Kiwi PyCon

Kiwi PyCon is New Zealand’s Python language and community conference. It will be held at Shed 6, the Wellington waterfront from 23-25 August 2024. Earlybird-discounted ticket sales are available until the end of March and the call for proposals is available now!

We can’t wait to see you there!