PyCon Israel 2025

Lightning Talks
09-09, 16:00–16:45 (Asia/Jerusalem), Main Hall (30)
Language: English

A rapid series of 5-minute talks where each speaker shares one clear idea, keeping it short, focused, and engaging.


The Ben Bot – Using Python & AI to Clone Myself for Seamless Knowledge Transfer
Ben Zagagy
With Python and LLMs, I automated docs, diagrams, and planning - turning years of knowledge into a smooth, scalable handover so my successor could step in easily.


You Can Build Python Code with Bazel (and Why You Might Actually Want To)
Ohad Ravid
Python's tooling is improving, but scaling projects remains challenging. See how Bazel helps you build faster and ship with confidence.
Presentatoin will appear in Ohad's Blog


Zen and the Art of Breaking Chatbots
Aviv Vromen
A tale of a chatbot who lost its way, and what the Zen of Python has to say about it
Presentation to be posted in Aviv's LinkedIn


The Optimization Paradox: When "Good Enough" Beats Perfect
Sharon Rones-Makmal
See links in Sharon's Link Tree


Write Less Code
Dor Schwartz
Python's nature makes boilerplating easy. Learn how to do more with less


A day in the life of a variable: when x met y A Python love story
Moty Zer Kavod & Ashley Stendel
Zipped then unpacked together with no prior familiarity - x and y go on a journey together. happily ever after?


Organized by Gábor Szabó and Udi Oron


Expected experience level of participants

Basic

Target audience

Developers

Solution Architect and Tech Lead with 17 years of experience building infrastructure and UI systems. Passionate about technology, communication, and driving teams to success.

Engineer, Programmer, Explorer.
10+ of experience as an Electrical & Electronics Engineer, with experience in various roles and fields.

I love building stuff, sushi and tea.

I've been working in software for more than 15 years, in a lot of different areas (networking, backend, big data, frontend, embedded) and in a variety of languages (C, Python, TypeScript, Rust).

A Senior Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks, with a warm place in heart for clean code.

Senior ML Engineer at Bluevine. Passionate about AI, Python, and all things tech.

Tech educator, people person.
Giving Python & Git courses for bootcamps and tech companies, also CS lecturer @ RUNI.
Former SW dev for MLP, Mellanox, Intel.

Former Python developer and Team Lead @MLP