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🎤 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! 🌟
🚨 Last call for proposals! The CFP closes on Sunday, February 8 (end of day), so if you've been working on a talk idea, now is the time to polish it and send it in. We'd love to see you on stage this April. 🌺
📣 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!
📣 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: When SaaS Is Not Allowed: Shipping Django as a Desktop App by @jochen
What if your Django app cannot rely on servers at all? This talk shows how to package Django inside Electron for confidential, offline, compute-heavy workloads, based on Steel-IQ, an open-source steel-industry simulation tool. You will see a production architecture running across macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus practical lessons from building and running it.
🎙️ 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/
👀🎙️ 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
🎙️ TALK: ATLAS: Building a Zero‑Budget IT Service Management Platform with Django in the Public Sector by Georgios Poulos
Learn how ATLAS was built with Django and zero external budget for the Greek Ministry of Migration & Asylum, resulting in 70% faster incident response initiation and 98% user satisfaction.
🎙️ 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.
⏰ 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.
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