Paolo Melchiorre (41)
This afternoon at PyCon Italia 2026 I’m serving as talk manager in the “Gnocchi” room 🎤🍝
Right now I’m helping Aastha Asthana prepare her talk “Beyond Caching: Supercharging Python with Redis Data Structures”.
It’s always nice to help other speakers feel comfortable on stage, especially people giving one of their first talks, just like many others helped me years ago with mine ✨
After the keynote I spent most of the morning meeting lots of people around the Python Italia booth, by the pool, and around the conference venue 🐍✨
I also met more people contributing to Python itself or involved in the Django project, and then we all headed together to the legendary PyCon Italia lunch 😄
Try zooming into the photos to better appreciate the amount of food that appeared on those tables 👀🍝
PyCon Italia 2026 has officially started 🐍
The opening by Valerio and Sara walked everyone through the whole PyCon Italia opening: talks, lightning talks, social events, community spaces, and all the practical details around the conference.
We also received an important introduction to one of the key local topics in Bologna: the difference between tortelli and tortellini 🍝🙂
The first keynote of the first day at PyCon Italia 2026 has just started 🐍
Right now Merve Noyan from Hugging Face is walking through the current state of open-source multimodal AI, from vision-language models to agents and OCR tools 👀
A very packed room for a topic that feels increasingly close to everyday developer workflows lately 🤖
Right now I’m helping Francesco Bruzzesi present his talk “Narwhals: One dataframe API to run them all” as talk manager here at PyCon Italia 🐍
Even if Francesco is already a very experienced speaker, it’s always nice helping behind the scenes with the setup, timing, microphones, questions from the audience, and all the small details that help a talk flow smoothly.
Lots of interest around the Python dataframe ecosystem right now 📊
Just finished presenting my talk at PyCon Italia 2026: “Django GeneratedField by Example” 🐍
The schedule was a bit tight, but somehow we still managed to get through all the questions after the talk 😄
Thanks to everyone who joined the session, asked questions, grabbed Django on the Med stickers, or adopted one of the small 3D-printed Python Pescara keychains 🐬
Now time to finally breathe a little before the next hallway conversation starts ☕️
