Speakers and instructors

Ewa is the Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation. She has been with the PSF since 2012 and prior to that she assisted with PyCon as a contractor since 2008. Ewa's responsibilities include managing the staff, giving direction and leadership to the Foundation, working with the board of directors on long-range strategic planning, and overseeing financial and program operations to name a few.

Mariatta is a Python Core Developer, a software engineer at Zapier, Vancouver PyLadies co-organizer, and one of the founding members of the PyCascades conference. She moved to Canada almost two decades ago and now lives in Vancouver with her husband and two children. In her free time, she contributes to open source, builds GitHub bots, fixes typos, and likes to tell you about f-strings. Her favorite emoji is :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: 😝.