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About
A conference for people who write Python every day and want to get better at it.
What this is
Three days of talks on the language and the machinery underneath it: the interpreter, packaging, typing, async, and the long tail of making Python fast enough and safe enough for production.
The programme runs Friday through Sunday so people can come without spending the whole week away from work.
Organisers
21 people across 7 teams
Leadership
3 roles
Conference Chair
Ellen Barrett
Independent
Treasurer
Janet Ho
Independent
Program
6 roles
Sponsorship
2 roles
Sponsorship Lead
Jon Mitchell
Independent
Logistics
4 roles
Venue & Logistics Lead
Paul Schneider
Independent
A/V & Recordings
Tom Reyes
Independent
Community
3 roles
Code of Conduct
3 roles
Technology
1 role
The shape of it
- Dates
- 4-6 December 2026
- Days
- Fri 4 Dec · Sat 5 Dec · Sun 6 Dec
- Sessions
- 10:00 to 17:20 each day
- Venue
- Gateway Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
What the talks cover
- 01
The interpreter and the language
Free threading, the JIT, lazy imports, subinterpreters, t-strings, and what is new in Python 3.15.
- 02
Packaging and releases
Moving to uv, Rust extensions, securing a release pipeline, and turning notebooks into packages.
- 03
Writing reliable code
Typing a large codebase, async cancellation, property-based testing, flaky tests, memory leaks, and data classes.
- 04
Web services
Django and FastAPI: background tasks, dependency injection, Pydantic, tracing, and splitting up a monolith.
- 05
Data, AI and beyond
Polars, accessible charts, MCP servers, evals for LLM applications, Python in the browser, and MicroPython sensors.
- 06
Maintainers and teams
Maintaining a library alone, onboarding junior engineers, and making a first CPython pull request.