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 💚
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🐍🇮🇹
#PyconIT day 2 just started with a great opening keynote by Diego Russo about python performance
Yesterday our Python team was on stage at PyCon Italia 2026 👾
FastHTML, Django E2E testing with Playwright, async workflows and background tasks in Django 6.0 — plus a lot of great hallway discussions after the talks.
The conference isn’t over yet: our desk is still active in the Networking Area.
🫵 Have you tried the AI Debug Challenge?
👋 Come find us before the day ends.
#PyConIT #PyConIt2026 #PyConItalia #PyCon #Python #Django #OpenSource
@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.
This afternoon, after the closing keynote, around sixty PyCon Italia participants joined a guided tour through the historic centre of Bologna.