Physical Conference Date: October 29 ( Friday ) , 2022Time: 10:00am – 5:30pmVenue: 8/F., The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Building, 21 Pak Fuk Road, North Point, Hong Kong PyCon HK x COSCUP 2022 Online Special Track Date: November 5 ( Satruday ) , 2022Time: 2:00pm – 5:30pmVenue: Virtual Website: https://pycon.hk/2022Videos: PyCon Hong Kong…
Year: 2022

Schedule – PyCon HK 2022
November 5, 2022 (Saturday) Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/83928780464?pwd=UmlTTmt2TGprRGEvWElMYnZ1RTZBZz09Meeting ID: 839 2878 0464Passcode: 997549 Time (UTC+8) Track 1 14:00 – 14:15 Opening 14:15 – 14:45 Triton As NLP Model Inference Back-endMr. Ko Ko@Chatbot Developers🇹🇼 /🎙English 15:00 – 15:30 Deep Learning with PyTorch: From Beginner to ResearchMr. Ted Lu@Taiwan Open Education Develop Unit🇹🇼 /🎙English 15:45 – 16:15 Introduction to…

[PyCon HK x COSCUP 2022 Online Special Track] Introduction to Kedro – Building Data Pipeline with Python
Introduction to “kedro”, which is an open-source Python framework for creating reproducible, maintainable, and modular data science code. Kedro is an incubation-stage project of the LF AI & Data Foundation. Why it is useful and why you may want to use it as a data engineer, data scientist, or Product Manager. Date and Time :…

[PyCon HK x COSCUP 2022 Online Special Track] Deep Learning with PyTorch: From Beginner to Research
Machine learning (ML) / deep learning (DL) projects and techniques have been increasing rapidly in the past few years. With the diffusion of technology, more people get to approach ML/DL. In this session, we will have a discussion of how to learn ML/DL by model re-implementation and open source projects, and the experience of medical…

[PyCon HK x COSCUP 2022 Online Special Track] Triton As NLP Model Inference Back-end
If there is a Chatbot with massive users and uses your own NLP model, it might face a bottleneck that back-end service is not easy to handle such NLP concurrency. To solve this kind problem, Nvidia has introduced an open-source inference server, Triton, which allowed to deploy AI model on GPU or CPU. It will…

Ticket – PyCon Hong Kong 2022
PYCON HK physical conference is back! Our theme this year is “Delight Yourself in Python”, Don’t miss this chance to meet others in person.

Accelerate data preparation with Pandas and AWS Glue DataBrew
Data preparation takes up to 80% of time for a Data Scientist role. Nonetheless, it is still a necessary step to identify and fix errors, duplicates and irrelevant data and run effective analysis. In this talk, I will talk about how data preparation could be made easy with AWS Python SDK for Pandas, an open-source…

What if…Python + Azure
Python. Azure. Innovation. It’s more than a linear path. It’s a prism of endless possibilities where a single choice can branch out to limitless innovation with Python. In this session, Eason will be the mastermind to showcase different use-case scenarios of implementing Python in various industries and domains. Join him to discover the new possibilities…

Django Apps at Scale: Mistakes to Avoid
History I started using Python when I was in school and kickstarted my development with Django in 2018 with Django. To enhance my experience and learnings in Django I also interned at an Infrastructure as Code Platform StackGuardian. It’s an OpenSource robust and scalable Project built with Django. I & the Team wrote everything from…

Healthcare by a Pythonista
Leverage Python for Healthcare Applications for Accelerated Data Discovery. Every Human Body is different. Similarities are in the patterns of demographic, environmental factors & habits. The need for today is to have customized Health Profiling & Diagnostics for so many chronic & complex health issues. Being a Python coder, I saw this pain point closely…

How Python is applying in Architecture, Engineering & Construction Industry
It is well-known that Python is normally using in developing software, automating task, data analysis & data visualisation. However, the application of Python in AEC has becoming popular thanks to the technological advancement and open source software. Architecture Designers and Engineers are start using visual programming with Python to create their design with higher efficiency….

Managing R and MATLAB GUI environments in Jupyter
You probably know it is possible to write R and MATLAB notebooks in Jupyter , but did you know you can run their graphic user interface through Jupyter? This talk shows you how to do so through the use of jupyter-server-proxy, particularly in a multi-user JupyterHub setting. If you are willing to do a bit…

Taking machine learning models to production using Python and FastAPI
The talk will focus on building a FastAPI application to serve simple NLP and object detection models aimed for production use-cases. Beginning with a brief introduction to building servers using Python covering the basics for beginners, then exploring/discussing alternatives to using REST (such as gRPC), and finally a live coding for building out the application…

Healthy Machine Learning: From Theory to Practice
Cluster analysis is a machine learning technique designed to group similar objects or data points together. It has wide applications from customer segmentation to the development of recommendation engines. This talk will cover the basis of clustering and offer a practical guide on how to implement it. There’s a saying that 80% of a data…

Airflow v2 – Using Airflow to manage ETL workflows
In this talk, MJ will share his experiences of translating a traditional scripted workflow to using Airflow as a framework, and introduce some tips and common gotchas for Airflow. Date and Time : October 29, 2022 / 11:45-12:15 ( UTC+8 ) Language : English Speaker : Mr. MJ Tung / ActusRayPartners / Hong Kong Speaker…

Exploration of MySQL Operator for Kubernetes in Python
MySQL Operator is written using Python- https://github.com/mysql/mysql-operator/tree/trunk/mysqloperator, for those interested in Kubernetes/Container deployment for MySQL and application, you can join us to explore the operation and how MySQL operator work Date and Time : October 29, 2022 / 11:45-12:15 ( UTC+8 ) Language : English Speaker : Mr. Ivan Ma / Oracle / MySQL /…

Automation and Monitoring in WealthTech
WealthTech changes how individuals and companies manage their finances. However it is not as much of a rocket science as it may sound. There are some tools and methods that can help us perform market analysis / performance analysis in a quick easy way. We will cover a few simple methodology for beginner / intermediate…

Education Track | A Journey to be a Python Angel
Our sharing will share the practical experiences on curriculum planning, lesson implementation, assessment and resources used in Python teaching. We develop a school-based Python curriculum in S3 to build up students’ computational thinking through different pedagogies. Different types of assessments are also carried out to measure students’ competence and standard on Python learning. To keep…

3D Visualization with Spatial Data for 5G Planning + Websites auto-tagging algorithm
While Hong Kong is progressing with the next-gen 5G network (e.g. mmWave), 3D-visualization with spatial data published by HKGov’s Smart City initiative could offer a unique angle in our next-gen 5G rollout which is expected to include more dense cells with even higher throughput but weaker in coverage. We’ll demonstrate how we use Python libraries…

Organizers – PyCon Hong Kong 2022
Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association 香港創意開放科技協會 Open Source Hong Kong 開源香港 Python User Group Hong Kong (HKPUG)

Supporting Organizations – PyCon Hong Kong 2022
The Hong Kong Association for Computer Education 香港電腦教育學會 Internet Society Hong Kong 香港互聯網協會