[Xoxzo] Introducing PyCon Thailand 2018

On June 16 and 17 2018, PyCon was first held in Thailand, at the Knowledge Exchange Center (KX) in Bangkok.

Xoxzo does not support the Thailand (at this moment) but I personally know Dylan Jay, the chairperson for this PyCon so as a show of support for him and from the larger APAC community, I flew into Bangkok on the morning of June 15 to join the conference as a normal attendee.

On the night before the conference itself, the organizers held what they call a "Code War", a programming competition between teams to solve questions given out by the MC.

This is how the sponsor booths were lined up Even though it's their first in Bangkok, I noticed they have managed to get a healthy amount of interest from sponsors, to show case their products to the attendees.

For the Lightning Talk session on Saturday, I presented the different PyCons around the APAC region.

On Saturday night, we went to the conference party at a bar

These are the people that came to Bangkok to give support to PyCon Thailand from Japan:

Wes McKinney giving his keynote on Saturday morning:

At the end of the conference, Dylan went up to the stage and gave the credits roll for all the hard-working staff that made PyCon Thailand 2018 a success:

Congratulations to Dylan for leading the PyCon Thailand 2018 team, and the community for a having a local conference that gives space, time and opportunity to the local python users and developers to share ideas and grow.

Welcome to the APAC family!