Thursday 09:00 in room 1.38 (ground floor)

The Fellowship of the Stack: Scientific Discovery in Python

Dawn Wages

Transformed from humble beginnings into a catalyst for breakthrough science—decoding cosmic mysteries, healing human diseases, predicting planetary futures—our hero joins millions of computational explorers pushing the boundaries of human understanding. Every scientific revolution starts with a single spark of code. What epic will you write?

In this keynote we'll take a narrative approach to the evolution of scientific experimentation, the daunting challenges that await and how we as the protagonists can find refuge with each other in the Python ecosystem.

Dawn Wages

Dawn Wages is a community-centered technologist, open source advocate, and software engineer whose work bridges scientific computing, ethical technology, and inclusive community building. She currently serves as Lead of Community & Developer Relations at Anaconda, where she supports the Python ecosystem through education, outreach, and infrastructure advocacy.