[Inpycon] Keynote Speaker Suggestions

[Vijay Kumar]

On Monday 11 February 2019 11:06 AM, Vijay Kumar wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> While we wait for the confirmation of the dates, we can start the 
> keynote speaker selection process. For people new to the conference, 
> the keynotes at PyCon India, are inspiring talks from speakers, that 
> leave a lasting impact on the conference attendees. The keynote 
> speakers also help to tip the scales, for people having second 
> thoughts about attending the conference. This increases participation 
> in the conference and enriches the overall experience of the conference.
>
> As indicated in the proposal we will be having 4 keynote speakers. 
> Please send in your keynote speaker suggestion, to the mailing list. 
> Please send in one keynote speaker suggestion per mail, containing a 
> brief description about the speaker. If you like a suggestion, use +1 
> style voting to indicate preference for a particular keynote speaker. 
> Once the dates are confirmed, we will ping the keynote speakers in the 
> order of preference.

Creating a separate mail thread for Wes McKinney, since it was posted 
along with another speaker. The following is the description about the 
speaker from Wikipedia:

Wes McKinney is an American software developer and businessman. He was 
the CEO and founder of technology startup Datapad. He is the creator and 
"Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL) of the open-source pandas package 
for data analysis in the Python programming language, and has also 
authored two versions of the reference book Python for Data Analysis. 
McKinney is one of the co-creators of the Apache Arrow project. He 
worked as a software engineer for Cloudera following their acquisition 
of Datapad in 2014.

Regards,
Vijay