PyConDE & PyData

A 2011 paper on multimodal deep learning was years ahead of its data and compute. Hilde Kühne's keynote on multimodal ML and Python. 🎥 pycon.de/archive/2026/talks/… 📍 Join us at PyCon DE 2027, Heidelberg · 19–24 April

🚀 Propose a Sprint Project for PyCon DE 2027 Two days of open-source sprints in Heidelberg, 23–24 April. Maintainers, bring your project and onboard new contributors. scikit-learn, spaCy and Project Jupyter have already joined. Propose yours: pycon.de/sprints/

🎤 Call for Proposals for PyCon DE 2027 is open. The programme comes from the community. Built or solved something worth sharing? We’d love to see it in Heidelberg. Submit by 20 Dec → pycon.de/call-for-proposals/ 📍 Heidelberg · 19–24 April

Germany's EVs hold ~150 GWh of battery capacity, idle 90% of the day. Christopher Sedlaczek-Bock (Mobility House) on turning that into grid storage with Python + Rust. 🎥 pycon.de/archive/2026/talks/… 📍 Join us at PyCon DE 2027, Heidelberg · 19–24 April

🤝 Call for Hackathons & Satellite Events at PyCon DE 2027 is open Got an idea for a hackathon, workshop, or meetup around the conference? We would love to hear it. Open until 21 February 2027: pycon.de/satellite-events/ 📍 PyCon DE 2027 · Heidelberg, 19–24 April #PyConDE

😱 Just 10 Early Bird tickets left for PyCon DE 2027. It shows the trust in the conference and what it brings, the talks and the people. Selling out every edition for over a decade, this far ahead, speaks to the quality of the conference. pycon.de/buy-ticket/

A 32B open-source model runs on a laptop and lands top 20 on a 110-model tool-calling leaderboard. Serhii Sokolenko (Tower) on small language models. 🎥 pycon.de/archive/2026/talks/… 📍 Join us at PyCon DE 2027, Heidelberg · 19–24 April

🎟️ Tickets for PyCon DE 2027 are on sale, and more than half of Early Bird is already gone. Early Bird is the first of four drops, and the best-priced tickets we offer. Each drop also comes with its own edition T-shirt. pycon.de/tickets/ 📍Heidelberg, 19–24 April

💛 Financial Aid applications for PyCon DE 2027 is open. We want PyCon DE to reflect the whole community. The programme supports students, job seekers, community contributors, and people from underrepresented groups, helping with ticket and travel costs. pycon.de/financial-aid/

A greedy script took 38 color changes to paint a car sequence. Proven optimal: 23. Justine Broihan (GAMS) on heuristics vs solvers. 🎥 pycon.de/archive/2026/talks/… 📍 Join us at PyCon DE 2027, Heidelberg · 19–24 April

Tickets for PyCon DE 2027 go on sale 21 October. A full week in Heidelberg: Masterclasses, 3 days of conference, Sprints and Hackathons. We reward those who trust us early with the best price, four drops, each with its own T-shirt. 📍 PyCon DE 2027 · Heidelberg, 19–24 April

Sponsorship for PyCon DE 2027 is open, and the first sponsors are already on board. Around 2,000 practitioners around Python, AI, data, and open source, the largest Python conference in Europe. Request the prospectus: pycon.de/sponsoring/ 📍 Heidelberg, 19–24 April

Ports and adapters make databases easy to swap, and code easy to hand to an AI assistant. Luke Gerstner (Rosenxt) on hexagonal architecture. 🎥 pycon.de/archive/2026/talks/… 📍 Join us at PyCon DE 2027, Heidelberg · 19–24 April

Trainers, the Call for Masterclasses at PyCon DE 2027 is open. Before the conference days, we run a full day of Masterclasses: hands-on workshops on 19 April. We are looking for experienced trainers. Details and submit: pycon.de/masterclasses/

190 Python repos, one shared template, almost no manual merge-conflict cleanup. Yannik Tausch (QuantCo), who also contributes to conda-forge, on how. 🎥 pycon.de/archive/2026/talks/… 📍 Join us at PyCon DE 2027, Heidelberg · 19–24 April

Dashboard in days, deployment in weeks. Merck got it to three minutes, with each app's token scoped to its use case. 🎥 pycon.de/archive/2026/talks/… 📍 Join us at PyCon DE 2027, Heidelberg · 19–24 April

The team that built the last PyCon is coming back for Heidelberg. Almost everyone signed up to do it all over again, which is the best kind of vote of confidence in this community. There are still two great ways to help shape the conference: pycon.de/blog/call-for-comit…

"I live 200 m from a car wash. Should I walk or drive?" The LLM missed that you need the car. Silke Horn on when you need a solver. 📍 PyCon DE 2027, Heidelberg 🎥 pycon.de/archive/2026/talks/… #PyConDE #Python

They vibe-coded crypto and asked their CISO if it was secure. It wasn't. Gabriela Bogk's keynote on using LLMs in security without letting them think. 📍 PyCon DE 2027 · Heidelberg, 19–23 April 🎥 pycon.de/archive/2026/talks/…

Our survey on how AI is changing developer work has been reported on by Handelsblatt and Tagesspiegel. Link to the blogpost 2027.pycon.de/blog/ai-jobs-s… Handelsblatt handelsblatt.com/karriere/be… Tagesspiegel tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/k… 📍 PyCon DE 2027 · Heidelberg, 19–23 April