Paolo Melchiorre (41)
Closing the second day of @pycon 2026 as talk manager for @BajoranEngineer keynote.
After a long day, I’m tired but genuinely happy to help Dawn on stage. Years ago, she helped me when I gave my first talk abroad at @djangoconeurope 2019 in Copenhagen. It feels special to return the favour.
Her keynote, "Stop Being a Generalist", explores why going deep on a domain can be more valuable than trying to do everything.
This afternoon I had the pleasure of introducing @sarahboyce keynote at @pycon 2026 🐍
Her talk, “Django has a marketing problem”, tackled some old myths about Django and reminded us that, after 20 years, it is still modern, fast, and actively developed.
As someone involved in the Django community, it was a real pleasure to welcome Sarah on stage 💚
@pycon @BajoranEngineer @djangoconeurope Dawn’s keynote was a great way to close the second day of PyCon Italia 2026.
The talk sparked lots of questions from the audience, and the discussion could probably have continued much longer.
To wrap up the session, we took a final selfie together on stage before bringing the second day of the conference to a close.
Day 2 of PyCon Italia 2026 has started! ☕🐍
After a social evening that ended a little later than planned, we're back in the keynote room this morning with Diego Russo talking about the evolution of CPython performance.
It's always a pleasure to see friends from the Python community on stage, especially when the topic is how Python itself keeps getting faster release after release.
A strong start to the second day of the conference. 🚀
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. 🐍🇮🇹
Today I'm helping my friend @carlton present his talk "Static Islands, Dynamic Sea" at PyCon Italia 2026.
We've known each other for years through Django, and we're currently co-organising Django on the Med together.
Former @django Fellow, maintainer, and co-host of @Djangocha, Carlton is exploring how typing can add safety where needed while keeping Django's dynamic nature intact.
This afternoon, after the closing keynote, around sixty PyCon Italia participants joined a guided tour through the historic centre of Bologna.
For an hour we walked through streets, squares, and porticoes while discovering the history of a city with more than two thousand years of history and home to the world's oldest university, where I had the pleasure of studying 😊
Today I'm helping my friend Piero Savastano as talk manager at PyCon Italia.
Piero is presenting his talk in Italian, "Stregatto 2.0", about Cheshire Cat AI, an AI agent framework born in Italy and released under the GPL license.
He brings a lot of energy to the stage: moving around the room, engaging the audience, asking questions, and throwing Cheshire Cat t-shirts to people with the right answers.
We wrapped up the first day of PyCon Italia 2026 with the traditional PyDrink in Via Zamboni 🍻🐍
It was a great chance for participants and organizers to relax together, join the karaoke, and enjoy long conversations outside along Bologna’s historic university street.
And, of course, a small group of us ended the evening with what might be the best crêpe in Bologna at the legendary Bombo Crepes dei Fondatori 😄
