Conferences / PyCon (national Python conferences)
PyCon AU 2026
Aug 26–30, 2026 · Sofitel Brisbane Central, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Conference
- PyCon (national Python conferences) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Aug 26, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026
- Venue
- Sofitel Brisbane Central
- Place
- Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2026.pycon.org.au
- Recorded
- 15 sponsors · 80 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 26 Aug workshops, 27-29 Aug conference incl. specialist tracks (Data & AI, Education, Cybersecurity, DevRel, Platform Engineering, RSE), 30 Aug sprints. Online stream ticket available ('not a hybrid conference'). Speakers: keynotes and talks from site session data (pyconau/2026-website), with YouTube links; affiliations parsed from bios.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student (per day) | A$120 | — | 2026.pycon.org.au | |
| Online stream | A$120 | — | 2026.pycon.org.au | |
| Enthusiast (per day) | A$250 | — | 2026.pycon.org.au | |
| Student (3 days) | A$300 | — | 2026.pycon.org.au | |
| Professional (per day) | A$380 | — | 2026.pycon.org.au | |
| Enthusiast (3 days) | A$550 | — | 2026.pycon.org.au | |
| Educator (3 days) | A$550 | — | 2026.pycon.org.au | |
| Professional (3 days) | A$850 | — | 2026.pycon.org.au | |
| Contributor | A$1,500 | — | 2026.pycon.org.au |
Sponsors 15
Platinum 2
Gold 3
Other 6
- Cater Care · digital
- Girls' Programming Network · industry
- Honeycomb · industry
- Linux Australia · supporting
- Python Software Foundation · supporting
- Visit Brisbane · supporting
Speakers and talks 80
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cam Wilson | — | Keynote | Why Australians don't trust AI and what that means for all of us | Video |
| Justin Warren | PivotNine | Keynote | The Care of Software: Ethics and Ecosystems | Video |
| Liz Fong-Jones | — | Keynote | 30 to 70 PRs a day: How we managed to not wreck our systems | Video |
| Abby Mitchell | — | Workshop | Typed Python: from Zero to Hero | — |
| Adarsh Divakaran | SerpApi | Talk | Goodbye GIL: Exploring the Free-threaded mode in Python | Video |
| Alex Penna | — | Talk | Hash It Out: Teaching Password Security Through Code | Video |
| Alex Zinovev | — | Talk | Optimizing Scientific Python with C++, CUDA, and Serverless Compute | Video |
| Alisdair Robertson | — | Talk | Automation First, Regrets Later | Video |
| Alison Wong | University of Sydney | Talk | Student Showcase | Video |
| Alyssa Coghlan | — | Talk | from where?!? import what?!? | Video |
| Amanda Hogan | — | Talk | Not Black and White: Cryptic Crosswords, Code Golf, and the Rules of a Language | Video |
| Amanda Hogan | — | Talk | Student Showcase | Video |
| Amber Taylor | — | Talk | Launching Rockets with Python | Video |
| Arshia Sharma | — | Talk | Please Don't Put That in a Dict: Better Data Models in Python | Video |
| Ash | — | Talk | Vibe-Check Your Vibe Code: Surviving the Era of Agentic Open Source Dependencies | Video |
| Ashley Lamont | Atlassian | Talk | Is storing files in Slack emojis a bad idea? Maybe. Let’s do it anyway! | Video |
| Ben Taylor | Stile Education | Talk | Experiments in Engineering without reading code | Video |
| Benno Rice | — | Talk | State of Exception(s) | Video |
| Benno Rice | — | Talk | Productivity: a dialogue | Video |
| Brett Morgan | — | Talk | DevRelling in the age of GenAI | Video |
| Charli Posner | — | Talk | Vibing Vision: how we built a pose tracking art installation in two weeks | Video |
| Chelsea Finnie | REANNZ | Talk | TOGA: Checklists and Safety Measures for "Yoloing" in Prod | Video |
| Daisy Leigh Brenecki | — | Talk | Productivity: a dialogue | Video |
| Damian Brady | GitHub | Talk | When the demo has to land | Video |
| David Bell | — | Talk | What Happened in Production?! Instrumenting with OpenTelemetry | Video |
| Dipendra Paudel | Cater Care | Talk | Kubernetes as LEGO: Building Platforms one block at a time | Video |
| Erin Zimmer | Atlassian | Talk | Enterprise Grade Accessibility for Everyone | Video |
| Eve Martin-Jones | Talk | Whoops! I Accidentally Leaked My Credentials (again) | Video | |
| Freddy Mcloughlan | — | Talk | Launching Rockets with Python | Video |
| George Coldham | Microsoft | Talk | Authentication for humans, why passkeys finally make sense. | Video |
| Graham Dumpleton | — | Talk | Hands-on learning in the age of AI: are developer workshops still relevant | Video |
| Gwyneth De Guia | — | Talk | How Being Terrified of Code Helped Me Get Girls to Love It | Video |
| Jack Reichelt | — | Talk | Adventures in FastAPI: A Choose-Your-Own PyCon AU Talk | Video |
| Jacob Seiler | — | Talk | From Pixels to Points: Inferring Archery Scores with Computer Vision | Video |
| Jade Edward | — | Talk | An Intro to Glue Work | Video |
| Jay Stein | — | Talk | AI-assisted coding, Python and dbt: taking Chronos live in two days | Video |
| Jesse Manser | — | Talk | Why computer science matters to musicians | Video |
| Kai Striega | — | Talk | Things I don’t worry about as NumPy does them for me | Video |
| Kattni | — | Talk | Switching from Sphinx to Markdown | Video |
| Lilly Ryan | — | Talk | Solutions and Other Problems | — |
| Luke | Fastmail | Talk | From On-Prem to the Cloud and Back Again | Video |
| Maddie Mackey | — | Talk | The Neurospicy Toolbox: A Guide for Educators | Video |
| Marty Kieliszek | — | Talk | Stop Prompting, Start Composing: Agent Skills in Practice | Video |
| Matt Collyer | Fairholme College | Talk | The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – Python in Secondary Education in Queensland | Video |
| Michelle "MishManners" Duke | — | Talk | Unlocking growth, collaboration and impact through developer communities | Video |
| Nicky Ringland | — | Talk | Student Showcase | Video |
| Nicky Ringland | — | Talk | Vibe-Check Your Vibe Code: Surviving the Era of Agentic Open Source Dependencies | Video |
| Noah Kantrowitz | — | Talk | I am bad at things – And that’s okay | Video |
| Oliver Bassett | — | Talk | Can I Trust You? Service-to-Service Identity with SPIFFE | Video |
| Paul Leopardi | — | Talk | The 20-Year Port: from PhD project to polished professional Python packaging | Video |
| Paula Andrea Martinez | Australian Research Data Commons | Talk | Research Software Stories: Four Years of Lessons in Sustainable Science | Video |
| Pavel Oborin | — | Talk | Breaking the PR Review Bottleneck | Video |
| Pedram Hayati | — | Talk | 40,000 CVEs and Counting: What 60 Years of AppSec Tells Us About 2026 | Video |
| Peta Muir | — | Talk | How to make a blob breathe like a human | Video |
| Peter Lovett | — | Talk | The Virtues of Being Lazy | Video |
| Prashanth Gurram | Snowflake | Talk | Why Your ML Pipeline Needs an Agent (and How to Build One) | Video |
| Rachel Bunder | — | Talk | Gerrymandering Australia | Video |
| Raphael Gaschignard | — | Talk | Knocking On A Process’s Door: Introspecting Live Python Processes | Video |
| Ravi Vats | Thoughtworks | Talk | Ship Reliable RAG: Evals That Grow with Your Retrieval Complexity | Video |
| Russell Keith-Magee | — | Workshop | Build a cross-platform GUI app with Python | — |
| Russell Keith-Magee | — | Talk | How to give your Python code to someone else | Video |
| Sam Bishop | — | Talk | From COBOL to Copilots: Why “No-Code” Never Kills the Coder | Video |
| Sam Bishop | — | Talk | Testing Beyond Examples: Property Based Testing with Hypothesis | Video |
| Sam Marsh | — | Talk | From Trauma ICU to InfoSec: A Nurse's Pivot into Cybersecurity | Video |
| Scott Norris | Chainguard | Talk | Your Python container is 90% stuff you didn't ask for | Video |
| Sergio Pintaldi | — | Talk | AI-assisted coding, Python and dbt: taking Chronos live in two days | Video |
| Shaun O'Keefe | — | Talk | Just Enough Reliability | Video |
| Shubham Londhe | Temporal | Workshop | Building Durable AI Agents with Open AI Agents SDK, MCP, and Temporal | — |
| Simon Merrick | Trade Me | Talk | Disentangling formatted strings with T-strings | Video |
| Stephanie Chong | — | Talk | Why and How to Cite Software (and Get Your Software Cited Too) | Video |
| Stephen Tierney | University of Sydney | Talk | Feed-Forward, Not Feedback: Rethinking Project Based Assessment | Video |
| Tennessee Leeuwenburg | — | Talk | Why should I write software well? | Video |
| Thea Koutsoukis | — | Talk | Assessment in the age of AI | Video |
| Wesley Volz | — | Talk | Is This Actually Getting Better? A Three-Layer Approach to Measuring AI Products | Video |
| Will Cohen | Stile Education | Talk | Vibing Vision: how we built a pose tracking art installation in two weeks | Video |
| XiaoHan Li | — | Talk | Privacy data encryption & deletion while preserving analytical integrity | Video |
| Yannik Behr | — | Talk | From Jupyter Notebook to Eruption: Getting Geohazard Research into Production | Video |
| Yusuke Shibui | Snowflake | Talk | Why Your ML Pipeline Needs an Agent (and How to Build One) | Video |
| Zara Hassan | Australian National University | Talk | Your Research Code Works.. Until It Doesn’t: Rethinking Reproducibility | Video |
| Zoe Braddock | GitLab | Talk | Developing Problem Solvers under Pressure: SREs, DBREs and Ponies <3 | Video |