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hi everybody
Welcome Pon Australia 2024 is held on
the lands of the wry wer young people of
the Coolin Nation we pay our respects to
their Elders past and present the buong
has been a place for building community
and exchanging ideas for thousands of
years and we are honored to continue
that
tradition welcome to Pon Au I am jev
Buckley I'm one of the Scientific Python
track organizers and I'm so thrilled to
have so many of you here
today and thank you for wearing a
mask this enables uh many people who
wouldn't otherwise be able to safely
attend speak and help us run this
conference we have a code of conduct and
we mean it we all deserve to feel safe
comfortable and welcome if at any time
during the conference you feel unsafe or
want to report questionable Behavior
please contact a member of the safety
team if you're not sure whether
something is worth raising talk it
through with one of our team and they'll
help you figure it
out we have a couple of things that we
try not to do here first we don't Trash
Talk other communities whether that's
programming languages or other groups of
people we're just not the sort of
community that acts like we're better
than other
languages we also don't assume that
anyone isn't technical if they don't
adhere to the stereotypical programmer
archetype and last we don't make jokes
at the expense of others punching down
isn't
funny if you see anything like this uh
happen at the conference look most
people are people who want to be part of
a Kind community so it can be worth
gently but firmly calling them in an
easy way to do that is what we have up
on the slide you just say hey we don't
do that
here we also have a culture page we love
our in jokes but we want everyone to
feel included so you can read more about
some of those things uh up on our
website at the culture
page all of the bathrooms are marked
according to the type of facilities that
I inside through the venue uh all of our
bathrooms are gender neutral but through
the public areas of the Melbourne
convention and Exhibition Center the
bathrooms are gendered if you'd prefer
to use a gendered bathroom the nearest
one uh to here is outside behind the
goldfields theater next to the AV
room if you see someone you think is in
the wrong bathroom no please respect
their privacy and identity and just
carry on with your day
we also have a number of uh items
available for use in baskets in the
bathroom they include tampons pads
deodorant toothbrushes Combs and tissues
if we're running low on stock please let
one of the organizers know this might be
a great slide to take a photo of we have
Wi-Fi there'll be up on posters around
the conference venue for you um
oops no we've missed the Wi-Fi um I'm
very sorry um we do have uh QR codes
around the venue alternatively the name
of the network is Pyon Au and to access
it you need the past phrase curly boy
forever it's forever with a four um so
oh here we go I'm so
sorry all right everyone got
that just flick back to the venue map so
right now we are in goldfields theater
that is the orange uh marked on this map
here you see the bathrooms located
around us the river is to the North in
green and blue are rooms Eureka 2 and 3
that is where other talks will be
happening today and next to us in red is
the exhibition Hall where our sponsors
will be there'll be coffee all day and
we'll be serving
lunch if this is your first time at Pon
Au welcome we're so thrilled to have you
here tomorrow at 8:25 there is a first
Tim session here in in the goldfields
theater so come along if you'd like
there will be some of our longtime
attendees to give you some tips and
tricks to get the most out of the
conference plus you'll get to meet a
whole bunch of other first
timers by now you should have all
received a link to the conference
Discord in your attendee email that's so
you can socialize throughout the
conference we have a scientific uh track
Channel there as well as well as a bunch
of other fun
things also a place you can socialize is
at birds of a feather sessions um these
can be uh these are self-organized
events very small uh can be on any topic
whatsoever things from functional
programming queerness crochet running uh
you can set up your own bird of ather
session um using the Discord Channel or
on the Whiteboard near the registration
desk they happen in breaks before and
after the conference um and it's
something that we'd really like you to
get involved with so also lightning
talks on on Saturday and Sunday
afternoon we'd love to hear you speak
especially if you're a firsttime speaker
they're usually very short three-ish
minute talks so if that sounds like
something that would be fun for you have
a little think about what you might want
to share and you could submit your idea
uh tomorrow more details coming
then python uh we really want you to be
welcoming so we use the Pac-Man rule
when you're having
conversations usually you'll end up
making a bit of a circle but try and
keep an open Wedge in that Circle so
that when somebody new comes along
they can
join and now with your bigger Circle we
make a new space again we want you to
always be welcoming and on that note
something else you can try is the
snowball rule where every day try and
meet as many new people as the number of
pons that you've been to so if you've
been to three of these conferences
before try and meet three new people
every day there are communication
stickers available in the expo hall
you're free to use them and stick them
on your lanyard if you see a green
circle on somebody's lanyard that means
they're happy to chat at any time a
yellow triangle means check with them
first and if you see a red octagon just
wait for that person to initiate
conversations with you please respect
people's
preferences we have a lost and found so
if you find somebody's lost item please
let a volunteer know if you've lost one
item of yours again let us know and
we'll try and return it to you we really
could not run this conference without
the generous support of our sponsors it
just would not be possible for us to
offer discounted tickets financial aid
programs and the amazing lineup of talks
that we do like to give them all a
really really big thank you thank you to
our Platinum sponsors mongod DB and the
python software Foundation our gold
sponsors Kraken Tech and Cipher stash
and our sponsors Google
elastic uh
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multitudes and Linux Australia for this
support this
year we also couldn't run this event
without the logistical and financial
support of Linux
Australia there is a job board both on
the Discord Channel and also a
whiteboard near the registration desk if
you're looking for work post some
information about yourself if your
company is hiring on the other side of
the Whiteboard you can pop information
about those
roles speakers if you are speaking
please come up to the front um in the
break before before your talk check in
with your MC and stay in that Hall
before your
talk these are all our specialist track
organizers for the Scientific Python
track they are Paige Martin Kai strier
Adam Graham Charles Turner and me we are
so thrilled that you're
here we're going to have four blocks of
talks today split by morning break lunch
and afternoon break uh we have so many
Fantastic talks uh for you um we are
super thrilled to be introducing we have
um talks from a really wide range of
scientific uh Fields including astronomy
microscopy bioinformatics for genomics
data and we also have a lot of practical
actionable talks with demonstrations so
what I hope is that you will both hear
about something that is completely new
to you and hear about some things that
might be really useful that you can take
home and use
yourself with that that I'd like to say
again welcome to the conference