 First of all welcome to Basel. So this is EuroPython 2019. It's the 18th EuroPython conference So we've come a long long way We sold even more tickets than last year. We sold 1200 tickets for the conference and 300 for the training days and I'd like to Welcome, especially the new EuroPythonistas. I had an in the opening session for the training days I had a call of hands. So please put up your hand if you're new to EuroPython Wow Excellent So who's a regular who's been to EuroPython before? Not that many that's interesting So for all the regulars I'd like to ask you to help all the newcomers Feel feel at home at EuroPython to you know, maybe explain a bit how things work because every year Basically, we do more or less the same thing And so if if someone needs needs help, please please do guide them Please help them and and and let them know how how we do things For example, what lightning talks are or what a poster session is or what open space is That would be a really nice of you because you know, this is our conference And so we want to make it really nice for everyone. I'd also like to say a big thanks to our sponsors The sponsor exhibit is out just outside on the second floor Something that I'd like to mention here because you know, you typically just go to a conference. You see all the sponsors Maybe you go to their booths What you typically don't realize is that the sponsors actually make the tickets affordable So we'd have to charge you about 200 euros more per ticket If if it were not for these companies to help us so please give them a big hand And now I'd like to hand over to to Martin Christen He's gonna tell you a bit about Basel Welcome to Basel. Welcome to Europe as in 2019. I'm actually from Basel I will tell more about but actually in Switzerland. We do have four languages So German French Italian and this retro Romanian language and Basel You can speak German English French. So it's no problem at all You see here the picture of the Baselisk. That's a dragon or something like a dragon It's a symbol of Basel and also the name Basel Basilea came from from the Roman Basel is a very old city. It was founded by Kelt's 120 BC so Really really old that didn't program Pison back then but I think they would have if they knew it And the most important thing in Basel is the River Rhine It actually separates Basel in two places the lower and the higher part or the Yeah lower and higher could say and you will see Basel also has two city centers in on each side I think you will enjoy that Basel is a Pison city. I'm actually from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, North Switzerland Northwestern Switzerland. That's where the tutorials yesterday and on Monday were happening. Those of you who are there Remember that certainly I'm teaching Pison. So many students here. They know Pison and they spread the word how cool this language is I'm also the organizer of Pi Basel and There is the big Geo Pison event every year in Basel. It's about Pison and Geo data you could say the Geospatial data science with Pison conference and There are also new trends like Pi Pharma because Basel is a pharma city So the pharma industry discovered how important Pison is in data science and discovered that it is really useful for that and As I said before Pison in education is very popular in Switzerland more and more University switch to Pison It's a it's a perfect language for many purposes So I'm giving back the word to Mark So yeah, please give a big hand to Mark him because he he actually invested a lot of time getting all this working here in Basel It was really a pleasure I like Pison I do everything for Pison So Which brings me to the next slide who's making all this happen. It's actually just a very few people These are essentially the the main main organizers plus of course we have lots and lots of onsite volunteers The people in the yellow t-shirts who are helping us enormously make this happen without the volunteers We are the onsite volunteers that we have this wouldn't be possible all of the people that you see here Do this for free. This is all volunteer jobs. This is no one gets paid for these things So I think all of these people deserve deserve a big hand from you as well right The Europe Pison Society is is running the show. It's just running your Pison More recently. We also started to support the Europe European Pison community So if you for example run a conference somewhere and you need a grant you need some money to to get you started Or you need some other help might be organizational help then please contact us. We are very open to to helping you out If you want to help us even more then of course you can you can earn one of these yellow t-shirts and for that you only need to register on the website and To to become a volunteer and then please come to the registration desk And then we can find something for you to do or you can go to the volunteer app that we have to register there This is the hitchhiker's guide to Europe Pison Especially important is the Wi-Fi information in there because as you can see the username is not exactly something you can easily remember We've tried to put these you know pieces of paper around the venues with all the data So hopefully you can get the information from there if if not you can go to the conference app It has the information as well and we'd like to encourage you to install the attend if I app Again, you can go to the website to learn how to use that. We have a telegram channel. That's open to the public So anyone can register If you want to for example arrange dinner or what you want to meet some other people Then in the in the city then you can coordinate on that channel You can also post post images post videos and so on there Just please be aware that this all is subject to our code of conduct. I'm gonna get to that later on so You shouldn't post anything that could could you know Make people unhappy Everything else is at available at the conference desk So if you have a question, then you can just go down there and ask them I Tried to put these maps on on the slide here. They're too small. You can't really see them If you have the the app installed it has a section with the maps So you can you can find out where things are we also put some signage out outside with the Which explains you where the different rooms are so the different monitors around the venue which show you things Essentially, we have we are using three floors. We're not using the first floor. We're just using the ground floor We're using the second floor and the third floor so Actually, I'm not sure. Did you get your bags already? Yes. No. Yes. No, okay so if you Already received your bags so the people who went to the train days already received the bags for example You you'll have a booklet in there the conference booklet which has all the information it has the program the program in the booklet booklet is not Really up to date anymore because we made a few changes, but most of the talk should still be fine You should have a t-shirt You should have the official your Python Pew Pew device Did you get that already? Yeah You'll probably also find some sponsor gadgets coupons and other sponsor information in there Coming to the Pew Pew device. This is it. This is how it looks like It's a specially made device for your Python. It was designed by Radomir. I don't know whether he's here Radomir No, okay We had workshops for this for this device to teach you how to use it It's programmable in Python. You can do lots of you know nice stuff with it. You can play games on it Batteries are included. We have our own Python batteries for these devices and If you want to read up on how it's used and you can either go to Radomir And maybe he can help you a bit or you can go read the documentation there to figure out how it works So essentially just put in the batteries you turn it on and it starts with showing the Europe Python, then you have to press a few buttons to go to the games right Okay, so the official part of the conference. Of course, we have lots of talks. We have lots of poster sessions we have Keynotes and these are our keynotes. We're going to start with Lynn today As you can see we have four ladies one gentleman there so Diversity wise this is I think a good selection We also have some other events that I want like to I would like to mention so we already had on the training days all the great ones We're gonna have the poster session I don't know exactly when it is maybe today or tomorrow Then we have a pie data truck so lots of talks in the pie data field We have a recruitment session for those of you who are looking for a new job We have an open space where you can arrange talks yourself. We're gonna put up a whiteboard or Something to to manage this We're gonna have help desk where teams can can have registered to to then show you certain open source projects and help you with Any questions that you might have and of course on the weekend we have the sprints and hackathons at the university again So just a few words about the open spaces I'm not gonna go into detail open space essentially something that you arrange yourself The room is called Delphi. It's at the level zero so ground floor and Similarly, we have the lightning talks. How many of you don't know what a lightning talk is Excellent, so I don't have to explain so it's first come first serve We're gonna have them on Wednesday Thursday and Friday We're gonna set up a flip chart probably near the registration desk where you can then mark your your your talks that you want to give and then This is all gonna be at organized by Alexander. Where's Alexander Alexander? There he is down there and So these are usually a probably the most exciting part of the conference so These are always fun and and nice to to go to Already mentioned the conference app. I won't go into detail here The only thing I want to mention is that you can actually rate the sessions So there's they have the for each session. We have this rating bar in there Whether it works out this year or not. I don't know last year didn't work out. So maybe you know But it's definitely good to to find the schedule. We're updating it regularly And it works offline then we have a social event on Thursday. Very important. Please get your tickets We don't we only have a Fixed number of seats. I think 400 we have right So if you want to it go to these the social event, then please get your tickets in the ticket shop We're gonna have grilled sausages baked potatoes. We're gonna have the ticket includes two drinks But of course you can buy more We're gonna have a very special Python music session in there. So what's he called leash leash man the traverse? This is a group that's actually using Python to produce music. It's a bit experimental So it's not you know the stuff that you get in discos, but But it's gonna be very interesting We have a quiet room for those of you who want to take a break. It's also at the level zero ground floor We have a code of conduct like I mentioned So the very very very short version is be nice to each other Because this is our conference. We want to make it enjoyable for everyone and be professional and don't spam This is more gear towards companies attending the conference who are not sponsors Or even the the companies who are sponsors, but because we don't want to we don't want to spam people If you want to read the full version of the code of conduct you need to go to our website The people on the right here. These are the code of conduct work group members So if you have any issues, please contact one of these people It's probably best to contact them personally if you don't see them Please go to the registration desk and they can then inform us and we will come to the registration desk to sort out Any issues that you find this applies to all the channels that we have all the social channels the of course the conference But also the social event and anything That happens around the conference Right, so last slide speaker guidelines if you are a speaker Please do test your notebooks before you come to the session, you know, we should have done that as well But we kind of forgot After your talk, please do upload your slides and There was one more thing I wanted to say about the catering we have a special food point to the when you when you exit on the second level to the right from you know On that side, so it's the left on your side For vegetarian food and vegan food and any other diets I suppose that they can also serve other diets as well if you if you want to have food specifically on One of those diets and please go there for all the others I would recommend not going there because otherwise we're gonna run out of vegetarian food and we don't want that So we have plenty of other food points available to For you to get your food, so That's it. Enjoy the conference