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EuroPython 2026: Videos Published

By Andrew Northall, Daria Linhart Grudzien in EP2026 on

Hi all Pythonistas! 👋

EuroPython 2026 took over the ICE Congress Centre in Kraków from 13 - 19 July and it wouldn’t have been possible without all of our attendees, speakers, volunteers, and sponsors. You allowed us to showcase the Python community at its best once again, and the conference truly belongs to all of you 💚

We are now two months on, and we’ve just finished tying up the loose ends over here at EuroPython HQ. In this newsletter, let us look back at some of the highlights of the conference, from Guido van Rossum to gelato.

P.S. Yes, we’ve got the videos!

🙏 Thank You

Thank you to all of you who attended EuroPython 2026 and dedicated a week of your life to Python. We’re endlessly grateful to be host to some of the best technical presentations on the planet, which makes it all the more meaningful when people say what they remember is the community 💚

A very special thank you to:

  • all of our speakers, tutorial and sprint leads, without whom there would be no EuroPython
  • our team of more than fifty volunteer organisers, most of whom worked for months ahead of the conference
  • on-site volunteers, who kept the conference running smoothly and took care of all of us
  • our sponsors, without whom the conference would simply not be possible
Many thanks to the whole EuroPython 2026 Team

Finally, thank you to our faultlessly helpful onsite volunteers - those with the yellow T-shirts - for taking ownership of the conference during the week, and being the cheerful face of EuroPython, and taking care of us all in Kraków.

👉 The EuroPython 2026 Credits Reel: https://ep2026.europython.eu/thank-you

🎥 Talk Recordings & Photos

The video recordings from all of our tracks are already up on our YouTube channel, so you can catch the sessions you missed, or send that session to a friend.

Recording of the core.py podcast on the main stage: Pablo Galindo Salgado, Guido van Rossum, and Łukasz Langa

👉 EuroPython 2026 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZuZfG8_jH8&list=PLd3Y9yzyC5Uo

👉 Conference photos on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/europython/collections/72157725522022865/

📊 Some interesting facts about this edition

EuroPython 2025 brought the community together in Kraków for another packed week, and the numbers tell a lovely story: a genuinely international crowd, heavily weighted towards experienced Pythonistas, with a healthy remote contingent tuning in from further afield. Here are the figures that stood out to us:

  • 1,386 tickets in total — 1,263 onsite and 123 remote
  • Attendees came from across the globe, with Poland (236), Great Britain (169) and Germany (154) leading the way
  • 70.7% of attendees rated themselves as advanced or expert Python users
  • Out of those who answered the question, 23% identified themselves as women, 1% as other, and 76% as men
  • Core Python was the most popular topic (66.8%), followed by Web Development (51.0%) and Data Science & ML (49.4%)

Additionally, the Code of Conduct team provided the transparency report: https://www.europython-society.org/europython-2026-code-of-conduct-transparency-report/

🏆 Community Service Recognition

EuroPython Society Fellows

We're delighted to announce two new EuroPython Society Fellows: Cristián Maureira-Fredes and Piotr Gnus, in addition to Martin Borus who was recognized recently. The Fellow Grant is the Society's way of honouring members of the EPS and the EuroPython Workgroups whose contributions have significantly shaped our mission, the conference and the organisation itself.

Fellows are nominated by EPS members, confirmed by the Board, and receive lifetime free attendance at EuroPython alongside a permanent listing on our Fellows page. Our heartfelt thanks to all three for everything they've given to this community.

👉 Find out more about EPS Fellowship: https://www.europython-society.org/europython-society-fellow-grant/

Python Software Foundation Community Service Award

For the first time ever, a Python Software Foundation (PSF) Community Service Award was handed over on the EuroPython stage. Rodrigo Girão Serrão was nominated last year, but the award was presented during the closing ceremony in Kraków.

The award recognises work that "significantly improves the Foundation's fulfillment of its mission and benefits the broader Python community." Plenty of CSA recipients are based in Europe, so we hope this was the first of many.

👉 Read about the award: https://www.python.org/community/awards/psf-awards/#introduction

🎂 EuroPython’s 25th Birthday

Since its very first edition back in 2002, EuroPython has grown into the longest-running community Python conference in Europe. Over the years it has travelled across the continent, hosted by volunteers in city after city, bringing together thousands of Pythonistas to learn, share, and build the community we know today.

We looked for some of the people who have been with the conference the longest:

Jacob Hallén
Marc-André Lemburg and David Allan

🍨 The Sprints Had a Gelato Truck

Genuinely. The Free Software Foundation Europe joined us for the sprints, and one of their volunteers, Luca Bonissi, drove his home-made ice cream up from Milano - along with the freezer and all the equipment needed to serve it to everyone sprinting. Reusable cups, fruit flavours reportedly around 70% fruit, and a queue that said everything.

Luca Bonissi serving gelato at EuroPython 2026 Sprints

This is the kind of thing that only happens when a community shows up for each other.

Thank you, Luca, and the Free Software Foundation Europe 🍨

🧠 How Well Do You Really Know Python?

One of the surprise hits of the week was Rodrigo Girão Serrão’s 15-minute Kahoot quiz in the main hall, covering the conference, the community and the language itself. It was hard: the top 8 players only managed 5 out of 10, and 9th place got 4.

The best moment? Rodrigo asked exactly how many commits Guido had made over the lifetime of Python. It was worth double points. Nobody got it right. Three questions later he asked the same thing again - and this time 20–25% of the room got it.

All the questions and answers are written up now, so you can find out how you'd have done. Participants rated the quiz at the very top of the sessions they attended, so yes - it's coming back next year.

👉 Test yourself on Rodrigo’s quiz: https://mathspp.com/blog/python-quiz-europython-2026-edition

🎨 Made by You

We were sent some wonderful artwork from the week - including Michaela Dušková's sketch of the core.py panel (three cats on stage, which feels about right) and Ava Katushka's illustration of the PyLadies crew. Shared with permission, and both very much loved by the team.

Michaela Dušková's sketch of the core.py panel
Ava Katushka's illustration of the PyLadies crew

👬 Community Partnerships

🌷 PyCon NL

PyCon NL has grown from a small meetup in 2019 to a thriving community and conference. After hosting the first official edition in 2024, they return in 2026 with the newly founded PyNetherlands Foundation and a conference fully organised by the Python Community in the Netherlands.

PyConNL is creating a program for every kind of Pythonista, whether you’re just starting out, exploring the world of data, or building with DevOps and architecture. 

👉 Get your ticket: https://www.pycon-nl.org/

☀️ PyCon España

PyConES 2026 already has its programme and tickets are available. Don't miss the chance to be part of the most important Python conference in Spain in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

👉 Don't have your ticket yet? Now is the time! 👉 https://pretix.eu/python-spain/pycones-2026/

🏖️ Django on the Med

Django on the Med is a free three-day Django sprint on the Mediterranean coast, bringing together seasoned contributors and first-timers to shape Django's 6.x roadmap and get the work done. Mornings are for sprinting, the rest of the day for the coast. The second edition runs 23rd–25th September 2026 in Pescara, Italy

👉 Find more details at https://djangomed.eu/

💚 Thank You to Our Sponsors

EuroPython simply does not happen without our sponsors. Enormous thanks to our Platinum sponsors - Manychat, Microsoft and Vercel - and to every other sponsor who backed the conference this year.

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

Open Source enables Microsoft products and services to bring choice, technology and community to our customers.

Vercel provies Agentic Infrastructure for every app and agent. They are the creators of AI SDK, Next.js, Turborepo, and v0.

👋 Stay Connected

Follow us on social media and subscribe to our newsletter for all the updates:

👉 Sign up for the newsletter: https://blog.europython.eu/portal/signup

We hope that you'll enjoy relieving your favorite EuroPython 2026 moments as autumn approaches. Until next time! 🐍💚

Cheers,

The EuroPython Team

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June Newsletter: Talks Schedule Released

By Andrew Northall in EP2026 on

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:

🦄 Django Girls Workshop Sign Up

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

💬 Last Call for Sponsor Booths

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!

🎁 Sponsor Spotlight

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

View job openings at Manychat

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

Open Source enables Microsoft products and services to bring choice, technology and community to our customers.

Vercel provies Agentic Infrastructure for every app and agent. They are the creators of AI SDK, Next.js, Turborepo, and v0.

👋 Stay Connected

Follow us on social media and subscribe to our newsletter for all the updates:

👉 Sign up for the newsletter: https://blog.europython.eu/portal/signup

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

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Call for Onsite Volunteers: Make EuroPython 2026 Happen

By sangarshanan in EP2026 on

We need volunteers to make EuroPython 2026 happen. And you might be exactly who we're looking for!

Before sharing all the information, here is a personal story from me:

The first time I attended EuroPython in-person was as a volunteer. It was the first year after Covid, and I was nervous about traveling abroad for a conference where I didn't know anyone personally; there were only friendly faces from the previous year of volunteering online. When I volunteered online, it was easier. I could stay in my comfort zone. But stepping out of that zone to meet people face-to-face? That changed everything 🐍❤️

Those online faces became really good friends. Now I want to go for every EuroPython because I will get to meet them again. Volunteering with friends became such fun I didn't even notice that I was constantly stepping outside my comfort zone 💃

So, if you're thinking of volunteering, just do it! You will meet awesome humans and have fun while helping people surrounded by positive vibes 💖

As a volunteer, you're the face of the conference. Your job is to make sure everyone has a great time. We need volunteers to be welcoming, helpful, and collaborative; making sure everyone (including yourself) is comfortable and happy.

There are lots of different ways to help, depending on your interests and availability:

  • Registration Desk: Check in attendees, hand out badges, answer questions
  • T-Shirt Handout: Hand out awesome EuroPython merch to attendees
  • Room Manager: Keep things running smoothly in talk rooms, ensure speakers are ready
  • Session Chair: Introduce speakers, manage transitions, signal time, handle Q&A
  • Greeter / Badge Check: Welcome people, check for badges at entry
  • Runners: Help with whatever is needed at the moment! 

You can sign up for as many or as few slots as you want. Even a couple of hours helps. We'd appreciate it if you could do more than one, but no pressure, whatever you can give is valuable.

In the volunteering form, tell us what sounds interesting. Get matched with a role that fits your skills and availability. Show up, help out, and be part of something amazing.

That's it. No experience necessary. You don't need to be a Python expert. You just need to care about the community and be willing to help out. Whether that's greeting people at the door, managing the schedule, troubleshooting tech issues, or making sure speakers have what they need - we have a place for you.

What do you get?

  • 🎫 Free Ticket if you dedicate 10 hours or more (Tutorials + Conference)
  • 👕Volunteer T-Shirt: Awesome EuroPython merch to keep and show off
  • ⭐ <3 Forever: Featured on the EuroPython 2026 Team page

Check out this page for all the details, including descriptions of various roles: https://ep2026.europython.eu/volunteering/

Sign Up To Volunteer

And if you have more questions? Just reach out volunteers@europython.eu. We're here to help.

🎁 Sponsor Spotlight

We'd like to thank Manychat for sponsoring EuroPython.

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

👋 Stay Connected

Follow us on social media and subscribe to our newsletter for all the updates:

👉 Sign up for the newsletter: https://blog.europython.eu/portal/signup

Hopefully, we’ll see you on this side soon 🔜 😉

Cheers,

Sangarshanan Veera, EuroPython 2026 Communications Team

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EuroPython 2026: Ticket Sales Now Open

By Daria Linhart Grudzien, sangarshanan, Andrew Northall in EP2026 on

Hey hey, folks 👋

Get ready for EuroPython 2026: the conference for all things Python, Data Science, and AI! 

We’ve got an exciting week planned:

  • Tutorials (13–14 July, Mon–Tue) 🛠️
  • Conference Days (15–17 July, Wed–Fri) 🎤
  • Sprint Weekend (18–19 July, Sat–Sun) 🚀

We have a special keynote this year: Łukasz Langa and Pablo Galindo Salgado will be recording the core.py podcast right on the conference stage. It will feature their special guest Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python.

Ticket sales for EuroPython 2026 is now open

People who’ve been to EuroPython will tell you that it is more than just talks and tutorials: it's a time when the entire community is together, regardless of experience level or background. Each conference leads to new friends being made, projects gaining new contributors, and even people securing their next job. We want you all to be a part of it 💚

🎫 Grab your ticket before they sell out:

Buy a ticket for EuroPython 2026

Can’t wait to see you all in Kraków and hang out with the Python crowd again 🐍💚

Cheers,

The EuroPython 2026 Organisers ✨

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