Paolo Melchiorre (74)
And here are the last ones from the day 😄📸
Just like every year, one of the best parts of PyCon Italia was meeting so many people from the community 🐍✨
Thank you to everyone who stopped for a chat, shared a story, an idea, or simply a few minutes together.
And an extra thank you to all the people who kindly agreed to be part of yet another one of my conference selfies 😄📸
Here are some of today's!
This afternoon @pycon 2026 came to an end with the closing session 🎤🐍
As a very tired but very happy staff team, we thanked all the participants, speakers, sponsors, volunteers, and everyone who helped make this edition possible.
And before leaving the stage, we already set the next appointment: PyCon Italia 2027, back in Bologna from June 2 to June 5 ✨
See you next year 🙂
One thing I always appreciate about PyCon Italia is that part of the schedule is in Italian, making the conference accessible to people who may not be comfortable following talks in English 🇮🇹🐍
This morning I’m attending Juna Salviati’s talk, “L’essenziale è invisibile agli occhi (ma non a Python)”, an introduction to steganography and the art of hiding messages in plain sight. Very interesting topic and a great example of how broad the Python ecosystem can be ✨
One of the nice things about the social dinner was also getting up from the table to say hello to people at other tables and meet even more members of the community 🍝🍷🙂
We also witnessed Andrew attempting to order a cappuccino at 11 PM, with the predictable reaction from the bar staff 😄☕
And after dinner, many of us moved to the hotel bar to keep the evening going a little longer with another drink and a few more conversations ✨
Tonight was the PyCon Italia 2026 social dinner 🍝🍷🐍
A lovely opportunity to share good Italian food, meet new people around the table, catch up with old friends, and enjoy conversations that rarely fit between talks and conference sessions.
Sometimes the best part of a conference is simply sitting down together and talking for a few hours ✨
This afternoon, after the closing keynote of the second day of PyCon Italia 2026, many of us gathered by the hotel pool for a group photo, a drink, and a chance to relax together ☀️🏊🍹
After a full day of talks and conversations, it was nice to slow down for a moment and enjoy a few more chats with friends old and new before the evening events ✨
This afternoon after lunch at @pycon 2026 we gathered for a community photo with many local Python groups from across Italy.
From @pycatania to @pybari , Campania @pescara , Marche, @pyvenice , Turin, @pythonmilano , Genoa, @pbg and the newest community joining the network, like Salento, it was great to see so many people representing local Python communities in one place.
The @pythonitalia community keeps growing. 🐍🇮🇹
I'm also helping Jonathan Ehwald as talk manager for his session at PyCon Italia.
Jonathan is presenting "What I learned migrating @FastAPI & Friends to uv", sharing lessons learned while migrating FastAPI, Typer, SQLModel and other projects to uv.
As someone who maintains libraries himself, it's great to hear practical advice from somebody who has already done the migration work at scale.
Piero throws Cheshire Cat t-shirts into the audience for people who answer questions during his talk 😄