 Hello, everyone. Welcome to Picon India 2021 conference days. Welcome all keynote speakers, attendees, and volunteers who made this conference possible. I would like to thank all the in-kind sponsors, packet, Toyota, E-Pam, DeepSource, IBM Quantum, Wiproch technologies, Fulfill, AFrost. I would also like to thank Outreach partners, InfoSight Girls, Allias, NullCommunity, and ForceInvited. And our own local Python communities. Bankpiper, ShandaiPy, PyDelhi, PyLadiesIndia, PythonPune, HyderabadPy, and PyChapel. Without them, this conference would not be possible. Since many of the people will be joining this conference for the first time, let me tell you about the journey of Picon India. The first edition of Picon India was organized in 2009 at Pune. This is our 13th year anniversary. The whole conference is organized, planned, and executed by volunteers. It totally relies on the soldiers of volunteers. And it's a true volunteer-driven conference. The whole conference will be a 4D event. Yesterday, we have successfully hosted our workshop days. Today and tomorrow, we are having a conference. On 28th of September, we will be hosting our developer's friends. This year, around 1200 plus people have registered for this event. For hosting this platform, we will be using following tools. Hopin is the video platform where you are watching me live during the presentation. Jilip is our text-based communication platform. StreamYard where a speaker will be joining to deliver their presentations. StreamYard is now acquired by Hopin and integrated with Backstage. So we sometimes call Hopin Backstage, so do not get confused with that. Now it's time to show you the features of Hopin so that you can make most out from this conference. One of the first things is Hopin Stages. So this year, we have five stages. Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. All the stages are named after numbers as they are easy to remember. On stage 1, all the keynotes will be happening. Since you are on Hopin, just below the reception, you can find a stage tab. If you click on that, you can find Select Stages to enter. And there you will find all the five stages and what with the talks which are going to start there. On top right side, you can find a section named TypeLip. Nearby that, you can find a calendar icon. If you click on that, it will show you a calendar which shows upcoming sessions which are about to start. So I found it very handy to use like what are the same things are coming or which are happening. You can use it. Next is our Hopin Stages. So just below Stages, you can find Stations tab. If you click on that, it will show you a list of hallway tracks which are basically stations. So this year, we have four general purpose hallway tracks. Alpha, beta, gamma, and delta. Hallway tracks are basically open stations which will be live during the whole conference. Anyone can join there and start a discussion or they can talk with others attendees to make a connection there. We also have domain-specific hallway tracks. If a series of people want to talk on specific topics, please use those hallway tracks. In Stays and Stations, on right-hand side, when you enter, you can find chat, polls, and Q&A. So if you are on Stays or on Stations during attending the session, if you have any questions related to a particular talk, you can use this feature. So you can go on ask a question button and please add your questions. It will help our volunteer to find the questions easily and pass it to speakers so that they can easily answer your queries. Next is one of the most important features is Hopin networking. Just below the Stations, you can find a networking tab. It's a best way to make connections with other attendees. When you are ready to meet someone new, when you click on Join button, Hopin will randomly find other attendees and pair it with Q. There you can meet and do one-on-one conversations. The duration of the conversation is generally three minutes and it's a great way to exchange your contacts with other attendees. You can leave it anytime. Let's move to the next section. That is Hopin Expo. In the Hopin Expo, this year we have got outreach partner booths and help techs to check them out. These are kind of similar to the booths or companies booths which we host in the offline conference. Do check them out. In the Expo area, we also have poster presentations as a booth. Our poster presentation speakers has worked very hard to put this presentation. Do check out them. Moving ahead, Jolip Communications. It is our test-based communication platform. Be here, exchange messages via text. There is no support for audio or video. Since you have already joined the Jolip, on the left-hand side, you can find a list of streams. For example, here, generally the stream. On the right-hand side, you can see the conversations getting exchanged. In each stream, we have a set of topics. For example, sign-up and Twitter announcements are two topics. Anyone can exchange messages based on topics moving ahead. If you want to join a particular stream, what you can do? So, near the streams, you can find a plus icon. Click on that. Then you can see a browse stream icon. If you click on that, it will take you to the stream search bar. You can type any stream's name. If it is there, it will appear there. If you are not subscribed, if you click on that, it will check and you will get subscribed to it. This year, all the streams starts with 2021 slash with topic names. For example, 2021 slash announcements for Picon India 2021's general announcements. I recommend following streams to join 2021 slash announcements, 2021 slash decisions to discuss with all the Picon India attendees, 2021 slash POFs, 2021 slash help text, 2021 slash jobs, 2021 slash posters if you have any questions related to posters, 2021 slash stage, slash stage number that is 2021 slash stage 1, stage 2, stage 3, stage 4 and stage 5. So, once talk finishes and you can find the speaker on 2021 slash stage, stage number to ask question or interact with the speaker later on. All keynotes will be happening on stage 1. The lightning talks will be also happening on stage 1. Once the keynote finishes, we will be sharing the lightning talk form. This year, our team has put together panel discussions, which I would recommend two panel discussions to attend. One is CS education will be happening on stage 3. Python in space will be happening on stage 1. I would recommend to attend that. By continuing with the tradition from the last year, so this year, we have perceived more than 150 plus talks. Due to our limited constraints, we are not able to select all the talks. Not any talk. Every talk deserves an audience. So, without like, without by taking the idea from cloud native results conference, we want to continue the same tradition and keep some of the rejected talks into the dot extent category. So, you can find these talks on stage 4. On stage 5, this year, we have brought neurodiversity and experience setting sessions. We will be also hosting a panel discussion on neurodiversity. Do check out on stage 5. During the lunch break, we are hosting Pilates India lunch, which will be happening in hop and sessions. Please do check out. Words of feeders. Words of feeders is what is basically a serious discussion. And a group of people having interest on a particular topic comes together and discuss on various stuffs related to a particular topic. It's a great way to learn from each other. So, do check out and it will be happening in the hop and sessions. As we were going through the expo, we have saw the post-representations. So, the post-representations will be happening in the expo area. The speaker will be available tomorrow for the session and answers. In the sessions area, we are having hallway tracks. And in order to find out what is happening during the conference, where, what is there, our content and design team created the Python India 2021 program guide. You might have received the link in the email when you checked in on the hop-in. Do check out. It contains all the information like where keynotes are happening, who are all the speakers, who are panel discussions, where depth sprint is going to happen, if the information is there, please do check out. This year, we are also bringing back the job part. So, many of the attendees might be looking for jobs and many of people also want to hire. So, do check out in.pycon.org slash 2021 slash jobs. You can saw the listed jobs there and you can also post the jobs there. Once you log into the hop-in, you have received an email which contains the link of the virtual swag bags. It contains some goodies. If you open the swap bag, you can find a readme.pxt file. Our sponsors has put together a way to receive goodies from them. Do check them out and last one of the favorite piece. Don't forget to share your favorite movement on social media platform using hashtag Python India 2021. Python India 2021 conference has the code of conduct. By seeing the online scenario of the conference, treat everyone equally and nicely. And I would suggest do not spam anyone. You can read more about the code of conduct on in.pycon.org 2021 slash COC. And enjoy the conference.