Paolo Melchiorre (41)
Missed the PyCon US 2026 CFP deadline because you were “just about to submit”? ⌛
If you too are a “professional procrastinator”, don’t worry, this is your lucky exception 😉
The CFP for PyCon is still open…
just not the one in Long Beach 🏖️
Jokes apart, you can present your talk in Bologna at PyCon Italia 2026: English talks, 1k+ attendees, late spring weather, great food, and a historic city 🇮🇹
Submit here 👉 https://2026.pycon.it/en/call-for-proposals
Another Italian-language talk this morning at PyCon Italia 2026 🇮🇹🐍
This time I’m following Luca Di Vita, co-founder of @pescara together with me, as he takes the audience on a journey from derivatives and differential equations to Neural ODEs and continuous neural networks.
It’s always nice to see local community members sharing their expertise on stage, especially on topics that combine mathematics, machine learning, and research ✨
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 📊
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.
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 ✨
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 🤖
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.
After the closing session this afternoon, several conferences and community initiatives from around the world were presented on stage 🌍✨
I also had the chance to go on stage to briefly talk about @pycon 🇮🇹 and Django on the Med 🏖️
Pictures from @kati 🙏
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 💚
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.
