June Newsletter: Talks Schedule Released

Hi all Pythonistas! 👋

We have just one month left until we all meet up in Kraków, and we’ve got a lot of new stuff to tell you: the schedule is available, new keynote announcements, our 25 years of EuroPython celebrations (win a free ticket!), the release of our Speaker’s Orientation Workshop video on YouTube (in case you missed it!), remote ticket availability, a reminder about ticket prices (going up on June 26th!), plus plenty more 💚

🎉 Talk Schedule Available

Let’s start with the big one: the programme team have been working tirelessly to get the talk schedule finalised, and you can now read it, in full, over on our website. The talks this year were selected from a record breaking number of submissions, and we are really excited about the number of topics covered from such a wide range of speakers.

👉 Start noting down your ‘must see’ favourites now, and plan out your 'journey' through the conference: https://ep2026.europython.eu/schedule/

🎤 Keynote Announcements

Guido van Rossum, Łukasz Langa, Pablo Galindo Salgado, and Leah Wasser were already on the schedule as keynote speakers, but we’ve now confirmed three more! We are very excited to have the following speakers joining us in Kraków:

William Woodruff is a Member of Technical Staff at Astral, where he works on building high-performance, secure tooling that is modernising the Python developer experience. Prior to Astral, he was an Engineering Director at Trail of Bits, leading high-impact security initiatives across open-source ecosystems.

Marlene Mhangami is a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft and GitHub, where she focuses on the cutting edge of Python and AI. As a computer scientist, keynote speaker, and explorer, she is a massive driving force behind community growth across the globe.

Imogen Wright is a Senior Engineer at Amazon EC2, where they focus on making incredibly complex systems behave. Their career spans over two decades of solving high-stakes challenges across theoretical physics, HIV drug resistance, COVID genomics, cloud technologies, and even ad tech!

All of our keynote speakers are some of the most respected leaders in the industry and in their specific fields, and we are privileged to have them join us at EuroPython 2026. We are so pleased to be able to put together such an incredible line up! 🐍💚

⌛ Get Your Ticket Before Prices Increase

We know that many of you have already purchased tickets (thank you!) but a quick reminder to those who have yet to do so: ticket prices will increase on June 26th and our Late Bird prices will apply, so if you’re thinking of coming, it definitely makes sense to secure your ticket before then!

👉 Purchase your tickets today on the EuroPython 2026 website: https://ep2026.europython.eu/tickets/

💻 Remote Ticket Sales

If you are joining us remotely this year, just a heads up that remote sales will start next Monday, 15th June. The tickets will be available to purchase on our website as soon as Monday rolls around!

🎂 25 Years of EuroPython

We are celebrating 25 years of EuroPython this year (I know, we can’t believe it either!), and we have a few fun things planned to make it special, including a chance to win a free ticket - which you can transfer to someone else, if you’ve already got yours!

📜 The Oldest Badge Contest

Are you one of those people who keeps your badges from previous conferences? It might be about to pay off: we will be having a contest to find the Oldest EuroPython Badge amongst all attendees this year! Dig around in your drawers, boxes, attic or other archive and find the oldest EuroPython badge (with your name on it…) that you can. Whoever has the oldest will win the contest!

🎫 Free Ticket Competition: Your EuroPython Experiences

We’re running a competition - open to anyone who has attended EuroPython in the past - who can record a short video telling us about their most impactful EuroPython experience! The competition is open to anyone who has attended EuroPython before, and is really easy to enter. No need for anything very fancy: just record yourself talking and tell us why your particular experience at EuroPython made such an impact on you.

The competition will be closing on June 21st (extended!), so you’ve still got plenty of time to enter.

👉 For the details, see the entry form: https://forms.gle/WNPErwWtpE1oPVhD9

💭 Taking a Trip Down Memory Lane

Finally, we thought you might appreciate a little video we’ve posted on YouTube recently: Jonathan Hartley spoke to us at PyCon US about one of his favourite EuroPython experiences of the past:

We are sure many of you are already aware of Django Girls and the great work that they do in making Python and Django more accessible to people around the world (often but not only girls!), and we are super pleased to announce that they will be running a workshop at EuroPython 2026 in Kraków!

👉 The workshop is a full day, on 18 July (a sprint day), and you can register on the Django Girls website: https://djangogirls.org/en/krakow2/

🏃‍♀️ Women in Python 5K Run

On Thursday 16th July there will be a group run with the aim of enabling some friendly networking and friendship building between women in the Python community.

It is open to runners of all experience levels, and will be a nice route around Kraków - along the river and at walking distance from the conference venue. If you are interested, please fill out the form below to help us prepare better (no commitment required - yet!), and we will send details of how to confirm your place closer to the time.

We’d like to thank our sponsor Arm for supporting this run.

👉 Register your interest here: https://forms.gle/bcsBTtNX1crEQhbw8

⭐ On-Site Volunteering

A big thank you to all who responded to our call for on-site volunteers, and we are now considering the applications. We had over 110 applications (far more than last year), and we loved to see applications from countries all over the world! 💚

We are now selecting volunteers, and you will receive notification of the status of your application in the following week (13-19th June). We will contact everyone who applied, even if you were not selected.

Thanks again to all of you - volunteers are the heart of EuroPython and we could not run the conference without you. ✨

👩‍🏫 Speaker Orientation Workshop

The EuroPython Speaker Orientation ran on the 3rd June 2026, and contained valuable tips from some of the most experienced speakers in our community. The panel spent an hour and a half giving practical advice on preparing talks, creating effective slides, managing nerves, engaging audiences, and handling Q&A sessions.

Cheuk Ting Ho, Rodrigo Girão Serrão, and Sebastian Witowski answered questions from new and returning speakers, sharing insights and lessons from their own conference speaking journeys.

Thank you to our amazing panel and everyone who joined us - we can’t wait to see you in Kraków!

💚 Financial Aid Round Up

This year, we received a record-high 217 financial aid applications across two rounds. We know how much care, hope, and effort goes into every application, and our financial aid team have worked hard to review them all with the attention they deserve.

We’re happy to share that all financial aid decisions have been sent out. With the €35,000 budget provided by the EuroPython Society, we have issued 84 grant offers. We are grateful to be able to support so many members of our community, and sincerely hope that all grantees will be able to join us in Kraków this summer to learn, connect, and celebrate the 25th anniversary of EuroPython.

To everyone who applied but was not offered a grant: we are very sorry for the disappointing news. If we miss you in Kraków, we still very much hope you’ll be part of the conference and connect with us remotely.

📺 EuroPython YouTube Channel

We've been posting a lot of new content over on the EuroPython YouTube Channel, including some fun short interviews from PyCon US:

👉 Subscribe and keep up with our latest videos: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroPythonConference

We're down to our last few sponsorship slots with booths! Want to meet the Python community face-to-face at EuroPython 2026? This is your final chance to connect with our thousands of attendees.

👉 Email sponsoring@europython.eu before the slots are gone!

⚙️ Reminder: Rust Summit

Registration is still open for the full-day Rust summit, exploring the intersection of Rust and the Python ecosystem - it is a ‘must-see’ for anyone interested in how Rust is turbocharging Python tooling and Python computational libraries in 2026.

This summit is designed for developers who already possess some practical experience in these topics and are looking to deepen their expertise, share lessons learned, and contribute to the community's collective knowledge.

👉 Register for the Rust Summit: https://ep2026.europython.eu/session/rust-summit-at-europython

🤝 Community Partners

🦬 PyStok

PyStok #83 lands on June 17th at 18:00 at Zmiana Klimatu in Białystok – and free registration is officially live!

Between the "speed dating" networking, JetBrains giveaways, and the legendary "Podlaskie afterparty", it’s the perfect spot to soak up those unique North-East Polish vibes and talk Python and AI with the local crowd.

👉 Grab your spot at https://pystok.org/najblizsze-wydarzenie

📣 Community Outreach

The EuroPython Society has continued our world tour of Python events, and as always, thank you to everyone that came to speak to us!

🇺🇸 PyCon US

Several members of the EuroPython Society were at PyCon US in Long Beach, and we were very happy to have a stand at the conference and meet friends old and new. We know many of you will be joining us in Kraków as well, and we look forward to seeing you again!

👉 For more information about what we got up to PyCon US, check out our post on the EuroPython Society blog: https://europython-society.org/europython-society-at-pycon-us-2026/

🇮🇹 PyCon Italia

The EuroPython Society also had a stand at PyCon Italia, which we shared with the Django Software Foundation, and we were pleased to see such interest in our stickers, which we managed to ‘sell out’ of on the 2nd day of talks! If you want more stickers, you know where to go!

We'd like to thank our three Platinum sponsors for supporting EuroPython:

Manychat builds AI-powered chat automation for 1M+ creators and brands at real production scale.

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Okay, what a packed edition this one has been! It’s all go here at EuroPython and as you can see, we have so much in store for you. Don’t forget: get your tickets before the prices increase, and we can’t wait to see you really, really soon! 🐍💚

Cheers,

The EuroPython Team