DjangoCon Europe (51)
๐ค Keynote speaker: @carlton
We're elated to announce Carlton Gibson as a keynote speaker for DjangoCon Europe 2026! ๐
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. ๐ฌ๐ทโจ
Can't wait to hear everything he has to share! ๐
๐บ ๐ฌ๐ท What a start!
Day One of DjangoCon Europe 2026 was full of incredible talks, interactive workshops and cool conversations all around. Thank you everyone for bringing such amazing energy! ๐ ๐ฅ Rest up and we'll see you tomorrow for more Django.
๐ฌ๐ท ๐บ DAY THREE has started!
Last day of talks and workshops. Soak it all in. ๐
๐๏ธ 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.
๐๏ธ 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.
โ๏ธ 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.
DjangoCon Europe 2026 DAY ONE, here we go! ๐ฌ๐ท ๐บ
Talks and workshops are already in full swing, people are lining up, amazing companies are at their booths and we're just getting started!๐ฅ
๐ธ ๐๏ธ Aaaand here are the group photos!
What an incredible three days it's beenโfull of everything we hoped for and more. Thank you to each and every one of you for being part of DjangoCon Europe 2026. None of this would have been possible without you. We hope you had as much fun as we did. ๐ซถ ๐ฌ๐ท ๐บ
๐ฃ 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. ๐ ๐ฌ๐ท
We are so grateful to have PyGreece and its fantastic team as a Community Partner of DjangoCon Europe 2026. Welcome on board!
๐๏ธ 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?
