Gurpreet Singh from Microsoft gave a talk on scaling Python for data analysis and machine learning using DASK and Apache Spark. He discussed the challenges of scaling the Python data stack and compared options like DASK, Spark, and Spark MLlib. He provided examples of using DASK and PySpark DataFrames for parallel processing and showed how DASK-ML can be used to parallelize Scikit-Learn models. Distributed deep learning with tools like Project Hydrogen was also covered.