🎤 Keynote speaker: @carlton
We're elated to announce Carlton Gibson as a keynote speaker for DjangoCon Europe 2026! 🎉
Carlton is a former Django Fellow and the creator/maintainer of multiple open-source projects in the Django ecosystem. You may also know him as the co-host of the @djangochat podcast. All in all, we just had to have him in Athens. 🇬🇷✨
Can't wait to hear everything he has to share! 🌟
🎙️ Keynote speaker: @EvilDMP
Great news! Daniele Procida, Director of Engineering at Canonical, is joining us as a keynote speaker. Beyond engineering practice, leadership and transformation, he helps organize community conferences, including the first editions of PyCon Africa and DjangoCon Africa, and supports open-source projects in improving their documentation.
🚨 New Episode Alert! 🚨
Episode 7: The Definitely Not 3 Months Too Late DjangoCon US 2025 Recap 😉
Adam and Sangeeta finally get around to recapping #DjangoConUS 2025 in Chicago, then immediately derail into lightning talks, Labubus, and deeply questionable horror movie discussions 👻
Was this episode overdue? Yes 😬
Was it worth the wait? Also yes 😎
Now streaming on your favorite podcast app 🎧
🎙️ TALK: Partitioning very large tables with Django and PostgreSQL by @timb07
Database tables in PostgreSQL cause increasing performance and maintenance issues as they grow larger. In this talk, we'll look at ways of managing those problems with partitioning, the choices available, and how to partition existing tables at Kraken scale with Django.
👀 I'm not sure when Vivaldi added this split-pane tiling window feature, but I love the hell out of it. There are a ton of options, but I have been blissfully using it for the last 3 to 4 weeks, and it's wonderful.
PSA: @djangocon had to move the conference up a few weeks to August 24th to the 28th because venues...
I hope to still see you there!
Thanks to our sponsors, last year we were able to send people to five different conferences around the globe! 💜
You can find out more about our finances, how to become a sponsor and our future financial goals here: https://djangonaut.space/comms/financial-report-2025/
⚙️ WORKSHOP: Django-Admin-Deux: From First Steps to Custom Plugins by @EmmaDelescolle
Explore Django-Admin-Deux: a proof-of-concept Django admin replacement where CRUD operations are just actions, knowledge transfers both ways, and everything feels like Django. We'll dive into the core concepts behind Django-Admin-Deux and build an application together, including a custom plugin.
Carson Gross's 2025 Keynote: Lateral Thinking with Weathered Technology: How The Nintendo Philosophy Applies to Modern Web Development
We'd love to have you on our stage this year, but you have to get your talk proposal in by Monday at 11am Chicago time: https://pretalx.com/djangocon-us-2026/cfp
🚀 The DjangoCon US 2026 CFP is OPEN!
We’re heading BACK to Chicago and looking for talks from all experience levels.
Got an idea about Django, Python, or the web? We want to hear it!
👉 Submit here: https://pretalx.com/djangocon-us-2026/cfp
Trip to the #DjangoCon booked. I'm terrified 😅