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PyCon US 2026

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yCon US 2026 is the largest and longest-running annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. The 2026 event is held in Southern California and features tutorials, sponsor presentations, and the main conference sessions. With over 90 sessions, including new tracks such as the Future of AI with Python an…

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36Voices
30Underwriters
59Exhibitors
20On the bill · sessions
80Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at PyCon, in alphabetical order.
Abhijeet Mote
Lead Python AI Engineer and Fellow · Python Software Foundation
Adrien Cacciaguerra
Alla Barbalat
Lead organizer · PyLadies San Francisco
Al Sweigart
amanda casari
Engineer and Researcher
Ariel Ortiz
Arthur Pastel
Barry Warsaw
Bhavani Ravi
Catherine Nelson
Corey Wade
Daniel Chen
Débora Azevedo
Public school teacher, PhD student
Donghee Na
Georgi Ker
Director and Fellow · Python Software Foundation
Iason Krommydas
Isabel Michel
Juliana Ferreira Alves
Kas Stohr
Lin Qiao
CEO and co-founder · Fireworks AI
Mario Munoz
Mason Egger

— and 14 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AlphaSenseSupporting Sponsors
AnacondaMaintaining Sponsors
AnthropicVisionary Sponsor
AstralPartner Sponsors
CapitalOneMaintaining Sponsors
ChainguardSupporting Sponsors
ClickhousePartner Sponsors
Commonwealth Bank of AustraliaParticipating Sponsors
Cubist Systematic StrategiesContributing Sponsors
ElasticPartner Sponsors
EverlawParticipating Sponsors
GoogleVisionary Sponsor
HexSupporting Sponsors
IndeedSupporting Sponsors
Jane StreetSupporting Sponsors
JetBrainsContributing Sponsors
Jinja.appPartner Sponsors
Kraken TechSupporting Sponsors
LablUpParticipating Sponsors
ManyChatSupporting Sponsors
NVIDIAVisionary Sponsor
PositSupporting Sponsors
PretixPartner Sponsors
PydanticSupporting Sponsors
QuansightParticipating Sponsors
SentrySupporting Sponsors
Six Feet UpParticipating Sponsors
Tower Research CapitalPartner Sponsors
VercelMaintaining Sponsors
Weiss Asset ManagementParticipating Sponsors
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The Programme

Selected from 20 sessions on the bill.
  • Thursday, May 14th 1:30

    One Pixel at a Time: DIY Image Manipulation with Pillow for Fun and Profit

  • Thursday, May 14th 1:30

    Python for Absolute Beginners

  • Thursday, May 14th 1:30

    Thinking in Arrays: An Introduction to Array-Oriented Programming

  • Thursday, May 14th 1:30

    Thinking of Topic Modeling as Search

  • Thursday, May 14th 1:30

    Writing Professional Python with AI Coding Agents

  • Thursday, May 14th 9:00

    Going from Notebooks to Production Code

    Tutorials
  • Thursday, May 14th 9:00

    Show off your data: Interactive dashboards in Python

    Tutorials
  • Thursday, May 14th 9:00

    The How and Why of Object-oriented Programming in Python

    Tutorials
  • Thursday, May 14th 9:00

    When KPIs Go Weird: Anomaly Detection with Python

    Tutorials
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 80 companies show up — and 15 bet on three roles at once?

80 companies. fifteen are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
15All threespeak · spons · exh
16Sponsoringsponsor only
44Exhibitingexhibitor only
5Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

AlphaSense·Anaconda·Capital One·ClickHouse·Elastic·Hex·Jane Street·JetBrains·Jinja.app·Kraken Tech·Pydantic·Sentry·Tower Research Capital·Vercel·Hudson River Trading

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

11% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite13%
  • Founder / Owner26%
  • Director / Head of13%
  • Manager / Lead38%
  • Research / Science13%
  • Other roles2878%

Of 36 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01AlphaSenseSp·SEx
  2. 02AnacondaSp·MEx
  3. 03Capital OneSp·MEx
  4. 04ClickHouseSp·PEx
  5. 05ElasticSp·PEx
  6. 06HexSp·SEx
  7. 07Jane StreetSp·SEx
  8. 08JetBrainsSp·CEx
  9. 09Jinja.appSp·PEx
  10. 10Kraken TechSp·SEx
  11. 11PydanticSp·SEx
  12. 12SentrySp·SEx
  13. 13Tower Research CapitalSp·PEx
  14. 14VercelSp·MEx
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
contributing sponsors2
7% of 30
maintaining sponsors3
10% of 30
participating sponsors6
20% of 30
partner sponsors6
20% of 30
supporting sponsors10
33% of 30
visionary sponsor3
10% of 30
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

In the same series

Prior and forthcoming editions