Over the weekend I attended my first Pycon in Dublin, Ireland. It is organised by the wonderful crowd of Python Ireland, I would actually recommend that you go to one of their monthly meetups if you have any interest in the Python language. !day 2 Main stage

I was not sure what to expect, but the experience turned out to be truly enjoyable, and I finished up the weekend, my head full of ideas to investigate with python.

Here's my favourite highlights of the weekend, in no particular order.

• Ian Ozsvald @ianozsvald with its talk titled: The Real Unsolved Problems in Data Science

• A lightning talk by @saoili about getting into python jobs, which comfort me in my current chosen path. See her lightning talk slides.

• On the same lightning talk show, a very entertaining demonstration of failing at data science (Homeless cloud by an engineer from rehabstudios, I sadly forgot the name), but also a silent presentation by @dontusethiscode

• Rachel Willmer @rwillmer in her keynote: A Tech Person's Adventures in Startup, gave me some inspiration and food for thoughts on creating your own company.

• I realize that Python was widely used in the financial industry (something I did not know before ) thanks to Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch @dyjh keynote : Python and the Financial Industry.

• Finally a very cool demonstration, inside iPython notebook on how to build an earth centered universe by Brandon Rhodes @brandon_rhodes.

Overall it was fun, exciting and energizing conference, I will probably be back next year, more engaged.

The conference happen every year, have a look on the python ireland website for more information on Pycon. Also they usually make the presentation available on youtube, see Python Ireland channel.

UPDATE 2019: Sadly I did not engage more nor attended since 2015.