Schedule 2018

PyCon Hong Kong 2018 Schedule is now published, conference team reserves the final right to change the program without further notice. Program introduction in PDF format is also available for download.

23 November 2018, Friday

	Function Room 1-3	Training Theatre
9:30 am – 10:00 am	Participant Check-in
10:00 am – 10:15 am	Opening
10:15 am – 10:45 am	Breast cancer classification in digital pathology using Python and Deep Learning
10:45 am – 11:10 am	Python Community and PyCon in Hong Kong and APAC
11:10 am – 11:30 am	Break
11:30 am – 12:00 pm	Big Data Journey in HK01	Honey, There is a Python in my Android Phone!
12:00 pm	Train and optimize your models with automated machine learning	Secure yourself (& your apps) with Secretless
12:40 pm – 1:40 pm	Lunch	Lunch
1:40 pm – 2:10 pm	Unlock the power of insurtech! A case study of digitizing the risk assessment in insurance using powerful python libraries and optimise performance with advanced machine learning models	Current use cases for machine learning in the industry
2:20 pm – 2:50 pm	Deploying Machine Learning Models in Python	Deploying Django App On AWS Lambda – Serverless Architecture
2:50 pm – 3:10 pm	Break	Break
3:10 pm – 3:40 pm	Industrial Machine Learning Pipelines with Python & Airflow	Enjoy type hinting and its benefits
3:50 pm – 4:20 pm	Ready, Get Set, Go! Development Sprints in Python community	Lightning Talks
4:20 pm – 4:30 pm	Announcement	Announcement

24 November 2018, Saturday

	Training Theatre	Training Room 1-2
10:30 am – 10:40 am	Announcement	Announcement
10:40 am – 11:10 am	Distributed System in Deep Learning	How to Evolve Life using Python
11:20 am – 11:50 am	Demystifying speech recognition with Project DeepSpeech	Collaboration hack with slackbot
11:50 am – 12:10 pm	Break	Break
12:10 pm – 12:40 pm	Quant Trading with artificial intelligence	How I battle with HK open data in Python
12:40 pm – 1:40 pm	Lunch	Lunch
1:40 pm – 2:10 pm	Deep Learning in Python: Image Recognition for Anime Characters	Heterogeneous Job processing with Apache Kafka
2:20 pm – 2:50 pm	Neural network image recognition: A “Kong girl” approach to DIY photo sorting	Thumbor: a smart image processing pipeline
2:50 pm – 3:10 pm	Break	Break
3:10 pm – 3:40 pm	Exploiting Emotional Knowledge from Emojis and #Hashtags	NoSQL Development for MySQL Document Store using Python
3:50 pm – 4:20 pm	Developments of Super Resolution	IoT in Home – Building a Toilet Vacancy Indicator
4:20 pm – 4:30 pm	Closing	Closing