Programme · 12–13 Nov 2026

Two days of PyData

Day one is hands-on — parallel workshops on data cleaning, analysis and machine learning. Day two takes the stage, with talks on the real data problems we solve with Python.

* Part of PyCon Tanzania 2026 · 10–14 November · Dar es Salaam.

Days

2 12–13 Nov 2026

Sessions

12 talks · day two

Workshops

6 hands-on labs

Speakers

15 leaders & speakers
Tracks Workshop Talk Keynote / Plenary
08:30

Registration & welcome coffee

Grab your badge and settle in

Foyer
Plenary
09:00

Data cleaning & wrangling with pandas

Workshop · Aisha Mbwana

Room A
Workshop
09:00

Exploratory data analysis & visualization

Workshop · David Okello

Room B
Workshop
09:00

Intro to machine learning with scikit-learn

Workshop · Neema Shirima

Room C
Workshop
12:30

Lunch & networking

Catered lunch

Terrace
Plenary
14:00

Feature engineering & model evaluation

Workshop · Aisha Mbwana

Room A
Workshop
14:00

Time-series & geospatial data

Workshop · David Okello

Room B
Workshop
14:00

Deep learning with PyTorch

Workshop · Neema Shirima

Room C
Workshop
16:30

Day 3 wrap-up

Recap & Q&A with the leaders

Main Hall
Plenary
08:30

Doors open & coffee

Grab a coffee before we begin

Foyer
Plenary
09:00

Taming messy data: robust cleaning pipelines

Grace Mushi

Main Hall
Talk
09:00

From CSV to insight: practical EDA

Emmanuel Kihwelo

Room A
Talk
09:00

Handling missing data without losing your mind

Salma Juma

Room B
Talk
11:00

Scaling DataFrames with Polars & DuckDB

Baraka Mollel

Main Hall
Talk
11:00

Reproducible notebooks that don't rot

Zawadi Mrema

Room A
Talk
11:00

Geospatial analysis of Tanzanian data

Frank Massawe

Room B
Talk
12:30

Lunch & lightning talks

5-minute talks, sign up on the day

Terrace
Plenary
14:00

Feature stores & the ML data lifecycle

Hawa Ally

Main Hall
Talk
14:00

Deploying & monitoring models (MLOps)

Peter Nyerere

Room A
Talk
14:00

LLMs on local data: what actually works

Lucy Mwakasege

Room B
Talk
16:00

Data ethics & privacy in practice

Joseph Lyimo

Main Hall
Talk
16:00

Visual storytelling with Python

Rehema Said

Room A
Talk
16:00

Building data products for impact

Daniel Kimaro

Room B
Talk
17:30

Closing remarks

Wrap-up & thanks

Main Hall
Plenary

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