Guido van Rossum is the creator of the Python programming language. In 2005 he joined Google, where he obtained the rank of Senior Staff Engineer, and in 2013 he started working for Dropbox as a Principal Engineer. In October 2019 he retired. Until 2018 he was Python's BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life), and he is still deeply involved in the Python community. Guido recently came out of retirement in November 2020 to join Microsoft’s Developer Division.

Ifeoma is an experienced leader with two decades of professional experience and is currently the Director of Operations at the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF). She is also the current John E. Pepper Humanitarian Award Winner 2021 and an Associate of the Institute of Directors of Nigeria.

Wes is an open-source software developer focusing on data analysis tools. He created the Python pandas project and is co-creator of Apache Arrow, his current development focus. He authored 2 editions of the reference book “Python for Data Analysis”. Previously, he worked for Two Sigma, Cloudera, and AQR Capital Management, and he was co-founder and CEO of the startup DataPad.

Dr. Sakinat Folorunso, is a senior lecturer in the department of Mathematic Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye Ogun State, Nigeria. She is a very strong advocate of female inclusiveness for young ladies in the AI ecosystem.

Political scientist turned coder, Lorena Mesa is a GitHub data engineer, Python Software Foundation Chair, JOSS editor, & PyLadies Chicago co-organizer. Lorena's time at Obama for America & background in research and applied mathematics drove Lorena to pursue a career in engineering and data science. One part activist, one part Star Wars fanatic, and another part Trekkie, Lorena abides by the motto to "live long and prosper".

Yomi is an Associate Director with KPMG Professional Services, the Nigeria member firm of KPMG International, a network of firms focused on Advisory, Audit and Tax services. He currently leads the Data & Analytics business which is the function responsible for assisting clients get more value from data to raise the level of decision-making in the enterprise.

Ewa Jodlowska has been with the Python Software Foundation since 2012 and prior to that she assisted with PyCon as a contractor. 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.

Bayo is an award-winning business executive who combines 19 years of cognate industry experience in Strategy, Marketing, Analytics and Business Transformation from two largest economies in Africa (Nigeria and South Africa). He is a Kaggle-validated hands-on Data scientist and a doctoral researcher with a Data Science product patent on Social Pricing Recommender.

Oluwatobi Aiyelokun, is a Geospatial-Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) enthusiast, and currently leads a team of young professionals at OEA Consults Ltd with the goal of delivering innovative solutions that integrate the power of AI and GIS. He is an experienced geospatial intelligence analyst delivering innovative solutions that integrate the power of AI and GIS.

Sarah is a member of the global member of PyLadies, she won the award being the highest ranked lady at the DSN bootcamp competition of 2019. She is passionate about getting more females involved in STEM.

Psalms Kalu is the CEO of Ashpot - a software company in Nigeria that builds enterprise solutions with Python and AWS Cloud; and trains developers as well. He has over a decade experience in software engineering and is passionate about improvement of technology awareness and accessibility of IT education in his local community Abia State where he serves as a mentor to the Python and PyData community. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors at Python Nigeria.

Daniel served as a Payment Solution architect at Access Bank, leading the Channels Solution Delivery Group. He has spent the better part of the last 15 years innovating and creating cutting edge e-Payment platforms in the financial sector. Daniel spent over a decade at Diamond Bank and was an integral part of the team that led the bank's Digital Banking transformation. He led the architecting and delivery of Diamond Bank's transition from a multichannel platform to the first Omnichannel Platform in the country.

Samuel is a Senior Software engineer at EAR1, he is an Open Source Advocate and Technical Writer. He's passionate about building Machine learning applications with a great focus on accessibility alongside contributing to and supporting FOSS.

Precious is a Machine Learning Cohort at Ashpot and an organizing member Python Abia, Pydata Aba and Pyladies Abia. She is also a data scientist and real estate consultant.

Senior QA Engineer at Ro. Interested in a wide range of QA related subjects - from test architecture to server setups. DevOps and automation enthusiast. Conference speaker with over 30 talks at international and nationwide events such as: SeleniumConf, InfoShare, TestCon Moscow, Testing Stage (twice), What The H@ck, DelEx, , DevTalks Reimagined, Serverless Days (Amsterdam and ANZ), Testing United, Devoxx Poland, 4Developers, TestWarez (four times), TestCamp, TestFest (twice, three talks), ConSelenium (twice), PyCode, TestDive (twice) and others.

Pratibha is an enthusiast Pythoniasta, passionate for coding and books. Through her PyCon talks, she love to explore and share new things she learn in Python.

Aakash has over 12 years of experience in building data science teams from scratch. He is also the co-founder of Th!nkEvolve Consulting. He has won multiple hackathons. But at heart he is a kaggler and loves to connect and give back to the community. Currently he is also volunteering with CoronaWhy, which is a global community of 900+ professionals, who have come together to tackle issues caused by the pandemic.