I attended PyCon 2018 in Cleveland, for the talks portion May 11 -- May 13. I had a good time, and I managed to put a face to the name of several of the more famous python developers.

All of the keynotes were good, but Saturday morning's keynotes were amazing:

• Ying Li gave a talk on security (and parenting)
• Qumisha Goss gave an amazing talk on teaching programming and python to children at the Detroit Public Library

Notable talks I attended include:

• Don't Look Back in Anger: Wildman Whitehouse and the Great Failure of 1858 - Lilly Ryan
• You're an expert. Here's how to teach like one. - Shannon Turner
• Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level - Hillel Wayne
• How We Do Identity Wrong - Amber Brown ("HawkOwl")
• Systemd: why you should care as a Python developer - Alvaro Leiva Geisse
• How to Write Deployment-friendly Applications - Hynek Schlawack
• Python Data Sonification for Science and Discovery - Erin Braswell
• All in the Timing: How side channel attacks work - Asheesh Laroia and Phillip James

Thanks to the organizers, the Python Software Foundation, and the city of Cleveland.