diff --git a/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/10._Guest_Speakers.md b/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/10._Guest_Speakers.md index 9d5eb78..aa47af5 100644 --- a/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/10._Guest_Speakers.md +++ b/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/10._Guest_Speakers.md @@ -4,8 +4,13 @@ After our EGM in semester 2 we continued the evening with two guest alumni speak They introduced us to their respective companies and took us on a journey of both understanding and a descent into madness in making systems work in production. ### Speakers -#### Evan _________ -#### Mark _________ +#### Evan Cassidy +Evan is an Electronics Engineer working at Analog Devices with three years of industry experience. +Evan graduated from UL with a Bachelors in Electronic and Computer Engineering. +He was previously a committee member of Compsoc. + +#### Mark Mc Nabola +Mark is a software engineer working at Cisco on video conferencing devices and has four years of experience.. +Mark graduated from UL with a Bachelors in Computer Systems. +He was previously a committee member of Compsoc, being on committee for all four years of his degree. -### Event Photos -(if available) diff --git a/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers.md b/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers.md index 1e1341d..fef89e1 100644 --- a/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers.md +++ b/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/11._Profile_Speakers.md @@ -1,32 +1,27 @@ ## Profile Speakers -This year 30 members of Computer Society attended PyCon 2023 in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin. +This year 30 members of Computer Society attended PyCon 2024 in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin. PyCon is an international conference about the programming language Python. There are several PyCon conferences run in Europe each year, with the Dublin one being one of the largest ones. As such there is a large variety of top tier and distinguished presenters. While it is a two-day event we were only able to attend the Saturday of it. -### Pablo Galindo Salgado -#### The snake of Theseus -Pablo was the keynote speaker for Saturday of this conference. -His presentation was focusing on how the language itself has changed over time, so much so that the original code has all been replaced. -Yet it is still Python. -Even with Countless contributors over the years Python has changed, yet remained the same. -Different syntax, personalities and methodologies have contributed to shaping the language to what it is today and inspiring it forwards into the future. +### Mykalin Jones +#### A journey into Regular Expressions +I am a Particle Physicist-turned-Data Analyst with over a decade of teaching experience. +I have written curricula for various topics including Python for Children, The Basics of Python, Intermediate Python, and Data Science for Beginners. +I provide individual and group classes on all of these topics as well as maths, science, and standardized test prep. +I am currently based in France, but I especially enjoy traveling as much as possible and discovering different cultures and languages. -![Pycon Info card on Pablo Galindo Salgado](11._Profile_Speakers_01.png) +![Pycon Info card on Mykalin Jones](11._Profile_Speakers_01.jpg) -### Mia Bajić -#### The Standard Library TourK -Mia is a regular speaker at Python Conferences as well as co-organising the Prague PyCon in 2023. +### Marcel-Jan Krijgsman +#### E-ink dashboards everywhere +Marcel-Jan Krijgsman is a senior data engineer with 25 years experience in data. +Learning Python when switching his career to data engineering, he used it to plot locations of cycling videos on a map, to land rockets in a computer game and automatically categorise space and astronomy news. -Her talk was aimed at enlightening attendees by informing them of the tools they did not know they needed, the unknown unknowns. -She opened up the powerful functions and methods contained within the inbuilt library to show us what we had been missing before now. -It was quite interesting seeing the emotions flash through the audience when folks realised that there were inbuilt and easier ways to handle objects and arrays. -Everyone left the lecture hall knowing far more than they entered. - -![Pycon Info card on Mia Bajić](11._Profile_Speakers_02.png) +![Pycon Info card on Marcel-Jan Krijgsman](11._Profile_Speakers_02.jpg) ### Rodrigo Girão Serrão #### How to implement a Python-like programming language @@ -38,17 +33,4 @@ Within the two hours participants had constructed a small functional language an Several of the attendees from our group have continued to work on their own language, taking inspiration from this workshop -![Pycon Info card on Rodrigo Girão Serrão](11._Profile_Speakers_03.png) - -### Steve Holden -#### The death of PyCon -Steve is the founder of PyCon. -He has been the Chairman and a director of the Python Foundation. - -He had the honor of opening the Lightning Talks for the conference. -Lightning Talks are 5-minute presentations where anyone can volunteer to present. - -His chosen topic was ``The Death of PyCon`` where he outlined that community run events die if all the attendees stand back and watch. -The way forward is to roll up your sleeves and pitch in, in doing so it is a far better experience for all involved. - -<> +![Pycon Info card on Rodrigo Girão Serrão](11._Profile_Speakers_03.jpg) diff --git a/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/Pictures/11._Profile_Speakers_01.jpg b/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/Pictures/11._Profile_Speakers_01.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ea4e6b --- /dev/null +++ b/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/Pictures/11._Profile_Speakers_01.jpg @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:679185d5365a604b1648c59e36de2e3cdfd5f2f8af3a2ac6f277c8b1ec99cf3e +size 31121 diff --git a/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/Pictures/11._Profile_Speakers_03.jpg b/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/Pictures/11._Profile_Speakers_03.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f652988 --- /dev/null +++ b/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/Pictures/11._Profile_Speakers_03.jpg @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:b8f2077128e7bed20bfa595b1c78d30892fdfceb2988e53ae99d454c9ae5562b +size 16830