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! 🌟
📣 Call for Proposals: Extended
Missed the CFP deadline? Don't fret about it. We decided to give a one-week extension to the CFP process, so you have time to craft that talk proposal you've been thinking about.
⏳ Sunday, February 15 (end of day)
📮 https://2026.djangocon.eu/cfp/
🎙️ TALK: Django templates on the frontend? by @christophehenry
Explore Django Template Transpiler: render Django templates in JavaScript to share UI between backend and frontend without extra SSR calls. Ideal for unreliable networks.
🎙️ 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.
👀🎙️ 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
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dAWhYiRy
⚙️ 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.
🏛️ 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
🎙️ 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.
⏰ Early Bird tickets end soon! Take advantage of the reduced price and join us in Athens for the leading Django conference in Europe. Your ticket includes access to all conference days (talks & sprints), workshops, coffee and meals.
☄️ Only two weeks left. Take the ticket and run!
🎙️ TALK: Scaling the database - using multiple databases with Django by @jake
The question is simple: How do you scale Django beyond a single database? The answer isn't simple, but it is fun and interesting.
