Conferences / PyCon (national Python conferences)
PyCon Ireland 2026
Nov 21, 2026 · Chartered Accountants House, Dublin, Ireland Announced
- Conference
- PyCon (national Python conferences) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Nov 21, 2026
- Venue
- Chartered Accountants House
- Place
- Dublin, Ireland
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Announced
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2026.pycon.ie
- Recorded
- 4 sponsors · 38 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Single-day, multi-track event (three talk tracks, two workshop tracks). Originally planned for 17 Oct 2026 at Trinity College Dublin; the venue withdrew (Python Ireland links this to a campaign against its chair) and the event moved to 21 Nov at Chartered Accountants House. Site says 'Connect with 500+ Python developers' (marketing, not an attendance figure). Keynote speaker not yet named in the schedule. Speakers: schedule as published on Sessionize on 2026-11-08; affiliations from speaker taglines/bios.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student | €35 | — | github.com | |
| General | €59 | — | github.com | |
| Corporate | €159 | — | github.com |
Sponsors 4
Title / headline 2
- Bank of America · Diamond
- nineDots · Diamond
Platinum 2
Speakers and talks 38
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Bell | Helios Labs | Talk | Agents Not Humans - A Perception-Based Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Human-Constrained Web Tasks | — |
| Afua Adu | Dell Technologies | Talk | Teaching Machines (Architecting Data For Machine Intelligence) | — |
| Albert White | — | Talk | From DIRT to Python: Resurrecting a 30-Year-Old MUD | — |
| Alessandro Pomponio | IBM | Talk | Science in the agentic era: structured experimentation with ado | — |
| Antonio Bevilacqua | Meetecho | Talk | An Italian plumbers story: how to fix your pipelines with Juturna | — |
| Ben Crane | Clear Strategy | Talk | Safe route optimisation for micromobility with swarm intelligence. | — |
| Brian MacCarvill | — | Talk | Hallucinating Images Using Neural Networks | — |
| Buket Benek Gursoy | ICHEC | Talk | Scaling Stencil Computations in Python | — |
| Christian Ledermann | Oomnitza | Talk | From Coverage to Confidence: Mutation Testing in the Age of AI Coding Agents | — |
| Dorian Turba | SWEPY | Talk | Supply Chain Security for Python Developers: Beginner's Guide to Secure GitLab CI/CD | — |
| Dylan Sinnott | UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School | Talk | Can Machine-Learning Models beat Classical Option Pricing? | — |
| Eoin Hurrell | — | Talk | Integrating Agents into Search: what actually earns its place in a RAG pipeline | — |
| Franz Kiraly | German Center for Open Source AI | Talk | Modern forecasting with sktime - foundation models, agents, and benchmarks | — |
| Helge Wehder | Ericsson | Talk | Python Secure Coding one stop shop onboarding station | — |
| Indranil Ghosh | — | Talk | Using Python to demystify mice 🐁 brains 🧠 | — |
| Jeremy Myers | Qualcomm | Talk | Generalized Tensor-on-Tensor Regression with `gtotr` | — |
| Jim Dowling | Hopsworks | Talk | General Purpose or Specialized Coding Agents for Data | — |
| John Rooney | Zyte | Talk | Getting Web Data in 2026: A Python Developer's Field Guide | — |
| Jonas Mayer | TNG Technology Consulting GmbH | Talk | Skill Issue: Teaching Robots to Play Video Games | — |
| Juarez Junior | — | Talk | Seamless Vector Search in Python with SQLAlchemy and the Oracle Database | — |
| Karthik Krishnakumar | ICHEC | Workshop | Introduction to Quantum Programming Workshop | — |
| Martin O'Hanlon | Neo4j | Talk | Build your own MCP server and knowledge graph. | — |
| Michael Johnston | IBM | Talk | Science in the agentic era: structured experimentation with ado | — |
| Muhammad Armaghan Shakir | sktime | Talk | Modern forecasting with sktime - foundation models, agents, and benchmarks | — |
| Nathaniel Forde | Personio | Talk | The Synthetic Crowd: Inferring Consumers to Understand Markets with PyMC-Marketing | — |
| Niall Murphy | Ciroos, Inc | Talk | Reliable Machine Learning | — |
| Oleksandr Saienko | Talk | Building Multi-Agent Workflows with the Agent Development Kit (ADK) | — | |
| Oyinkansola Onwuchekwa | University of Hull | Talk | Who Is Python's NLP Stack Built For? Lessons from African Languages | — |
| Pablo Nicolas Estevez Knopoff | Learnosity | Talk | Testing aiohttp with real requests: Inside aiointercept | — |
| Pablo Suárez Vieites | ICHEC | Workshop | Introduction to Quantum Programming Workshop | — |
| Pietro Mascolo | — | Talk | The 80/20 of ML Monitoring: What Actually Matters | — |
| Sarah Novotny | — | Talk | Learning in Public, Again | — |
| SeyedehRoksana Mirzaei | Sainsburys | Talk | Agentic AI in Production: What Breaks When You Let LLMs Take Actions | — |
| Stefanie Senger | Probabl | Talk | Training scikit-learn models on GPU (using the Python Array API) | — |
| Theodore Tucker | Codethink | Talk | Packaging FOSS Python applications and libraries for Debian | — |
| Thomas Endres | TNG Technology Consulting GmbH | Talk | Skill Issue: Teaching Robots to Play Video Games | — |
| Vicente Ruben Del Pino Ruiz | — | Talk | Beyond unit tests: a Python digital-twin harness for LLM agent evaluation | — |
| Victor Abimbola | Sainsburys | Talk | Agentic AI in Production: What Breaks When You Let LLMs Take Actions | — |
Sources
- https://2026.pycon.ie/
- https://2026.pycon.ie/sponsors/
- https://2026.pycon.ie/schedule/
- https://github.com/PythonIreland/2026.pycon.ie/blob/main/content/blog/schedule-available.md
- https://github.com/PythonIreland/2026.pycon.ie/blob/main/content/blog/venue-change.md
- https://python.ie/policies/python-ireland-2026-statement-on-cancelled-events/