🛎️ Our hotel reservation link is live for booking at voco Downtown in Chicago. We're glad we were able to keep the nightly price the same as last year!
https://2026.djangocon.us/venue/#welcome
For folks looking for cheaper options, there are some not too far away, but we'd suggest booking soon.
Don't forget to grab your Extra Early Bird ticket, too. 📈 Prices go up after Monday!
The DjangoCon US 2026 Call for Proposals 📢 has been extended one week!
✅️ Already got yours submitted? This is a great time to tell a friend that you'd love to see them talk.
📝 Still working on yours? You have a little extra time. If you'd some mentorship just email program at djangocon dot us
🎙️ 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.
Extra-Early Bird tickets 🎟️ for DjangoCon US 2026 are still available. These are the lowest ticket prices we offer all year and they go away after March 16.
Join us August 24–28 in Chicago for five days of talks and sprints with the global Django community.
💸 Need help getting to DjangoCon US 2026? Opportunity Grants are available!
Grants can cover travel, lodging, and other conference-related costs. No need to be a speaker or first-timer to apply — we consider everyone.
⏰ Deadline: March 16 at 11AM CDT
👉 https://forms.gle/xYSsdAGR5RbvtH9q7
🏛️ 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
🎙️ TALK: Taming PostgreSQL Bloat in Production Django by @kdpisda
Your Django app gets slower every week and no amount of ORM tuning helps. The silent killer is table bloat — dead rows piling up from every UPDATE and DELETE. Learn to diagnose, fix, and prevent it.
🎙️ TALK: What's in your dependencies? Supply chain attacks on Python projects by Mateusz Bełczowski
Every pip install is an act of trust. Attackers have exploited that trust - phishing maintainers, hijacking CI/CD pipelines, turning popular packages into malware. Learn how these attacks work and practical defenses for your projects.
🎙️ 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.
📢 Silver sponsor: Waracle
Waracle is an end-to-end digital product partner across strategy, design, engineering, data and AI, working with organizations in Financial Services, Energy, Healthcare, the Public Sector and more.
Thank you Waracle for supporting DjangoCon Europe 2026. See you in Athens! 🇬🇷
