Keynote Speaker - Simon Willison

Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data. He currently works full-time developing open source tools for data journalism, built around Datasette and SQLite.
Simon has spent the last year and a half deeply immersed in the world of Large Language Models, trying to solve the fascinating problems of how to responsibly use the technology in the two fields he knows best: journalism and software engineering.
Prior to becoming an independent open source developer, Simon was an engineering director at Eventbrite. Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010.
He is a board member of the Python Software Foundation and a co-creator of the Django Web Framework, and has been blogging about web development and programming since 2002 at simonwillison.....

[@VivekHaldar]

Big thanks to Simon for all his contributions to the LLM ecosystem, and beyond!

[@gabrielbrina]

Simon Willison is amazing. So great to see him on video after reading him weekly!

[@ChrisPatti]

The curse of the live demo! "Ai.. AI.. AI ... AI???" WOO IT WORKED! :)
Seriously great talk Simon, thank you for all you do for the Python community!

[@MegaVin99]

Terrific presentation!

[@coffeeedobrien]

great talk thank you ! Your blog is really helpful

[@muhannadobeidat]

Nice talk for sure, and great effort on slides, topics and delivery energy. But really nothing substantially new here that is not discussed in many other videos, blog posts or LinkedIn articles.