Keynotes Overview

The Vancouver Python Workshop keynote address is an opportunity to hear from leading members of the Python community. This years speakers are Guido van Rossum of Google, Jim Hugunin from Microsoft and Ian Cavén of Lowry Digital Images.

Details

Location:	Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre SFU Harbour Center Downtown Vancouver The Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre (room 1900) is located on the Main Concourse next to the escalators.
Time:	Friday, August 4th: 18:00 - 19:00 (conference registration) 19:00 - 21:00 (keynotes)
Cost:	Free
Availability:	All registered conference attendees are guaranteed admittance. SFU students are granted admittance on a first-come first-serve basis

	Guido van Rossum (Google) is the inventor of Python and has managed its growth and development for more than a decade. Guido was awarded the Free Software Foundation Award in 2002 and Dr.Dobb's 1999 Excellence in Programming Award. Guido works at Google and spends half of his time on Python.
	Jim Hugunin (Microsoft) is the creator of numerous innovations that take Python into new application domains. Jim's most recent project, IronPython integrates Python into Microsoft's .NET runtime. Jim's previous project, Jython is Python for the Java runtime and was the second production-quality implementation of Python. Before that, Jim's Numeric Python adapted Python to the needs of number crunching applications. Jim works at Microsoft adapting the .NET runtime to the needs of dynamic languages like Python.
	Ian Cavén is the primary developer of the Lowry Digital Images motion picture restoration system. This Python and Zope-based system has been used to restore over 150 motion pictures. Highlights include Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard and both the Indiana Jones and Star Wars trilogies. While Ian was Chief Scientist at Lowry Digital, his rack of computers grew from a few Macintoshes on his desktop to over six hundred Macintosh and Linux servers - at one point earning Lowry the title as the second biggest installation of parallel processing Maintoshes in the world. In 2005, Lowry Digital Images was acquired by DTS (the famous movie audio company) and renamed DTS Digital Images. The motion picture restoration system has been discussed in publications as diverse as IEEE Spectrum, USA Today, the BBC NEWS, the New York Times and Apple.com. Ian has been a Python enthusiast since 1999.