<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[PyCon Malaysia]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://pycon.my]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[PyCon MY]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://pycon.my/author/pyconmy/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Announcing PyCon APAC 2017 Keynote Speaker Wes&nbsp;McKinney]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><strong>Note from organizers 2017-06-22: Wes has withdrawn from keynoting for PyCon APAC 2017, and in his place we have <a href="http://pycon.my/2017/06/22/announcing-pycon-apac-2017-keynote-speaker-luis-miguel-sanchez/">invited Luis Miguel Sanchez to keynote for us.</a></strong></p>
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<p>We are excited to announce our first keynote speaker for PyCon APAC 2017, Wes McKinney, well known as the author of <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do">Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>Wes is a software architect at Two Sigma Investments in New York City.He is the creator of the pandas project and wrote the book &#8220;Python for Data Analysis&#8221;. He is a PMC member for the Apache Arrow and ApacheParquet projects. Wes was previously a software engineer at Clouderaand, before that, the co-founder and CEO of DataPad.</p></blockquote>
<p>We&#8217;re delighted to give him hearty welcome to Kuala Lumpur for PyCon APAC and looking forward to seeing him soon.</p>
<p><a href="http://pycon.my/2017/01/19/pycon-apac-2017-dates-and-venue-announced/">PyCon APAC is happening this year from 26 August to 27 August 2017 at Connexion@Nexus Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.</a></p>
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