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💙💙 Py4AI 2026: here we are! 💙💙 👉The third edition of our conference is official! All-day, fully free, event for AI & #Python lovers. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬: 🚀Piotr Skalski | Roboflow 🟪 🚀Raul Singh | Datapizza 🍕 🚀Eldar Kurtić | Red Hat 🟥 🚀Ines Montani + Matthew Honnibal | Explosion 💥 🚀Chiara Plizzari | Università Bocconi 🎓 🚀Marco Tamassia | Amazon Web Services (AWS)☁️ 🚀Daniele De Gregorio | eyecan.ai 😈 🚀Alessandro Maserati | Logol AG 📑 🚀Alberto Danese | Nexi Italy 💳 👉The final version of the line-up will be announced next week, it's gonna be crazy! LLMs, Computer Vision, Gen-AI, Cloud, HPC, and much more. No commercial, only technical contents curated by a scientific committee. Yes, DAMN AI only. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 ARGO Vision, SEA Vision & Python Milano with the support of Datapizza & Red Hat. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬: ✅13th June 2026 (Saturday) | all day + party! ✅Location: Pavia, at SEA Vision HQ ✅Talks in ENG & ITA 💚🤍❤️ ✅Speakers: 16🔥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞: 👋 Alessandro Ferrari 👋 Cesare Placanica👋 Francesco Zuppichini 👋 Luca Baggi and 👋 Valeria Zuccoli - Event manager: Aurora Ianna 🔥Tickets: https://www.py4ai.com/ 🔥Telegram: t.me/Py4AI_Conference 🔥LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/dUeBDPpi 🔥Instagram: https://lnkd.in/deMYPYrA 💙💙See you all there, 13th June - Pavia💙💙

I'm back from PyCon DE & PyData and here are some of my favourite moments and highlights: 🚄 running into like 5+ people before even getting on the train, including 🧐 Laura, Andy, Sarah and Xia ⚡ hosting the Feminist AI LAN Party with Katharine and Jesper (and help from Tereza + our great volunteers), with a super chill lounge, workshops (building a "femosphere" bot and many other community contributions), DIY collage zine making and great conversations 🕵️♀️ hacking on a mini app for making cute Pokémon-style cards for attendees with Cansu and Laura for the Schnitzeljagd (scavenger hunt) – the work you put into this was so so impressive! ✨ presenting my talk on "Vibe NLP" and sharing what we've been building: a virtual assistant for NLP projects, distilling our experience from 10+ years of solving real-world NLP problems with out-of-the-box infrastructure to run everything you need. See below for the slides on how we built it, and stay tuned for more updates and beta access! 🎙️ joining two panel discussions on the future of Python coding in the age of Generative AI and building a business on open-source software 🔮 chatting to people from all kids of industries about their AI worflows – my mission was to find out more about the state of vibe coding for practical (and sometimes even boring) use cases and I left with lots of interesting data points 🖤 hanging out with old and new friends who have become so much more than just conference buddies (too many to tag), plus Alexander and all the other organizers and volunteers who made the conference happen My next Python conferences will be PyData London in June and PyCon Armenia + PyData Yerevan in July. Hope to see you there! (Also, it's my first time in Armenia so let me know if you have any tips for what to do or see.)

🔐 Open Source ist keine Lizenzfrage - Sie ist eine Souveränitätsfrage Wer KI-Systeme nicht selbst betreiben, anpassen und weiterentwickeln kann, ist abhängig - von Plattformanbietern, von Preismodellen, von Entscheidungen, die anderswo getroffen werden. #OpenSource ist der strukturelle Ausweg aus diesem Lock-in. Aber nur dann, wenn die Kompetenz mitgebracht wird, ihn zu gehen. Genau das ist der Auftrag unserer neuen Arbeitsgruppe Open Source: klare Positionen entwickeln, die in Wirtschaft und Politik ankommen. Darum geht es: 🎯 Den strategischen Beitrag von Open Source zur digitalen Souveränität Deutschlands und Europas vermitteln - gegenüber Entscheider:innen, Regulierer:innen und der Öffentlichkeit 💡 Handlungsempfehlungen entwickeln, die über Compliance-Rhetorik hinausgehen 🧩 Zeigen, was Open Source in der Praxis bedeutet: nicht einen Anbieter gegen den nächsten tauschen - sondern aus verfügbaren Bausteinen genau das aufbauen, was das eigene Unternehmen braucht. Maßgenau, anpassbar, ohne Herstellerabhängigkeit 🤝 Den Austausch zwischen Community, Wirtschaft und Regulierung strukturieren -mit dem Ziel: Impact, nicht Sichtbarkeit ✉️Der Ansprechpartner für die AG ist Alexander C.S. Hendorf 👋 Wenn ihr auf der PyCon DE & PyData in Darmstadt (14.04-17.04) seid, könnt ihr Alexander natürlich auch direkt treffen – schickt ihm einfach eine DM bei LinkedIn. Ihr seid kein klassisches Open-Source-Unternehmen? Genau richtig. Diese AG lebt von Perspektiven aus Produkthäusern, Beratungen, regulierten Industrien und der Tech-Community. Wer Open Source bislang als Beschaffungsthema betrachtet hat, wird hier verstehen, warum es ein Strategiethema ist. 👉Interesse an der AG? Jetzt über das Online-Formular, das ihr per Mail bekommen habt, anmelden - der Kick-Off-Termin findet am Di, 28.04. um 16 Uhr online statt!

Our Ask an Expert! Series continued yesterday with AI star, Ines Montani of Explosion.We covered a lot of ground, but the most salient takeaway for me was not to disrupt the analyst’s spatial memory (see: where are the buttons I need?). I am also adding nuance to my previous post from the paper regarding Increasing Speed and Accuracy of Data Labeling, where we concluded that providing multiple inferences to an analyst lead to higher quality. As you’d expect, however, there are diminishing returns. You can see in this example image how overwhelming it is to have that number of values and that they are populated in different orders each time.   Ines wrote more about these idea in her blog post here: https://lnkd.in/dvg3czGC

This year PyCon DE & PyData will again host a Feminist AI LAN Party! 🎉 The satellite event is free of charge and open to all, and this year Ines Montani and I are hoping you all wanna join in and help co-create the space, bring your ideas and connect locally. We need volunteers (facilitation, IT-Crew and room setup/breakdown), donations (zine supplies, computers + cables, your art) and your ideas for workshops, talks, activities! Setup and IT-Crew starts on Monday, April 13 in Darmstadt. Facilitation, activities, talks and workshops run from April 14-16. Breakdown and "see you next years" happens on April 17. 🥲 Want to join and help out? Wanna do some IT-crew support or bring your GPU (you get a special shirt y'all!)? Have a cool idea, workshop or activity to present? Please reach out! You can connect here, on BlueSky or via email: organizers@feministai.party More details on our site: https://lnkd.in/diPTHkyN Looking forward to seeing you all there and connecting locally :)