DjangoCon Europe (35)
🎤 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.
🎙️ 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.
⚙️ 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.
📣 Community Partner: PyGreece
PyGreece is a non-profit Python community, run entirely by volunteers, that supports the Greek Python ecosystem by bringing together Python programmers from all over Greece and leading important initiatives like the Greek translation of the official Python documentation. 🐍 🇬🇷
We are so grateful to have PyGreece and its fantastic team as a Community Partner of DjangoCon Europe 2026. Welcome on board!
🎙️ TALK: Django Task Workers in Subinterpreters: Single-Server Django Applications Without Process Overhead by Melhin Ahammad
Deploying Django applications with background tasks typically requires managing multiple processes and queues. But what if you could run everything in a single process without sacrificing isolation or performance?
🎙️ TALK: Django forms in the age of HTMx: the single field form by Hanne Moa
This talk will look at previous “interesting” (ab)uses of Django forms, followed by a hands-on demonstration of techniques and patterns for working with single fields.
🎙️ TALK: How Django helps to build the biggest X-ray observatory to date by Loes Crama.
Explore how Django is applied to ESA's NewAthena project, where significant amounts of data are managed in a scientific context, illustrating how a web framework can be extended to enable a large-scale space mission.
🛸 Space missions and Django. Fascinating, right?
🎟️ Grab your ticket: https://2026.djangocon.eu/tickets/
🏛️ Venue reveal! DjangoCon Europe 2026 will take place at the Athens Conservatoire — one of Greece's most historic cultural institutions and a landmark of the Bauhaus movement in Greece.
📍17–29 Rigillis Street, Athens 106 75, Greece
👀🎙️ Have you submitted your proposal yet?
If not, what are you waiting for? 🤨 We want to hear all about your Django ideas, projects and the stories behind them—from frameworks and tooling to real-world lessons learned.
⏰ CFP closes on February 8, 2026
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