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PyCon DE & PyData 2026

Apr 14–16, 2026 · darmstadtium, Darmstadt, Germany

Conference
PyData Data science & ML
Dates
Apr 14, 2026 – Apr 16, 2026
Venue
darmstadtium
Place
Darmstadt, Germany
Format
Hybrid
Status
Past
Attendance
—
Sponsoring page: 'Every year, we host ~2,000 practitioners, researchers, and technologists' (generic organiser claim).
Website
2026.pycon.de
Recorded
54 sponsors · 181 speaker appearances
Notes
PyCon DE & PyData (formerly 'PyCon DE & PyData Berlin') moved to Darmstadt in 2025, so it is recorded under the darmstadt suffix; a separate standalone PyData Berlin was held in Sept 2025 (berlin suffix). Organised by PySV e.V. with NumFOCUS/PyData. Sprints & community day 13 Apr, conference 14-16 Apr, masterclasses 17 Apr 2026. Hybrid (remote tickets). The 2027 edition (20-22 Apr 2027, HCC Heidelberg) is branded 'PyCon DE 2027' without PyData, so it is not recorded. Speakers: full pretalx schedule; affiliations parsed from pretalx bios. The 2027 edition (HCC Heidelberg, conference 20-22 April 2027; CFP 4 Nov - 20 Dec 2026) is branded 'PyCon DE 2027' without PyData in the name (pycon.de, Nov 2026), so it is not recorded as a PyData edition.

Ticket prices

TicketPriceValid untilNotesSource
Remote, Student€0—2026.pycon.de
Remote 3-day, Individual (early bird)€90—2026.pycon.de
Remote 3-day, Standard (early bird)€190—2026.pycon.de
Discounted community pass, Student (early bird)€250—2026.pycon.de
On-site 1-day, Standard (early bird)€350—2026.pycon.de
Discounted community pass, Student (late bird)€350—2026.pycon.de
Discounted community pass, Individual (early bird)€400—2026.pycon.de
On-site 1-day, Standard (late bird)€450—2026.pycon.de
Discounted community pass, Individual (late bird)€550—2026.pycon.de
Conference pass on-site, Standard (early bird)€690—Early-bird price for the first 750 tickets; late bird from 11 Feb 2026 at the latest2026.pycon.de
Conference pass on-site, Standard (late bird)€890—2026.pycon.de

Sponsors 54

Title / headline 1

Community 17

Other 4

Speakers and talks 181

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Aaron Glenn—KeynoteA View of Sovereignty from The Cloud—
Gabriela Bogk—Keynote"Honey, I vibe coded some crypto" - Security in the age of LLMS—
Hilde KühneTübingen AI CenterKeynoteThe Multimodal Era of Machine Learning (and How Python Made It Possible)—
Sebastian RaschkaLightning AIKeynoteFrom Scratch to Scale: Turning LLM Code into Architecture Insights—
Abdullah TahaZalandoTalkHolistic Optimization: Implementing "Pipeline-as-a-Trial" HPO with Ray and Cloud Infra—
Aimilios TsouvelekakisFrontiers Media SATalkFrom Row-Wise to Columnar: Speeding Up PySpark UDFs with Arrow and Polars—
AjayAnsysTalkSurviving AI Fatigue: Staying Sane and Relevant in a Fast Moving Field—
Akif Cakir—TalkFrom Struggling to Mastery: A Practical Guide to Data Pipeline Operations—
Alejandro SaucedoZalandoTalkProduction ML across 2015-2035: A Journey to the Past and the Future—
Alexander CS Hendorf—PanelStop Waiting, Start Shipping: Real-World Strategy for Open-Source LLMs—
Alexander CS Hendorf—TalkProblem Clinic: Python in Regulated Environments --- What Works, What Doesn't—
Alexander CS Hendorf—PanelOpen Source as a Business — Models, Paths, and Practice—
Alexander ZaytsevBlue YonderTalkDemystifying Containers with Python: Building a Minimal Engine from Scratch—
Alina DallmannscieneersTalkBeyond Vibe-Coding: A Practitioner's Guide to Spec-Driven Development in AI Engineering—
Andreas AlbertQuantCoTutorialBuilding reliable data pipelines with polars and dataframely—
Andreas WurlMerckTalkOctopus AutoML: Extracting Signal from Small and High-Dimensional Data—
Andrei BeliankouE.ONTalkDon’t call your LLM too often! How to build your dialog graph with confidence and sleep at night.—
Andy Kitchen—TalkOn Interventional Generalisation—
Annika Herbertsovanta AGTalkLetting AI Move: Robotics Demos Powered by Python—
Arne Grobrügge—TalkSimplifying RAG Document Pipelines with Multimodal Embeddings—
Asya Melnik—PanelPanel: Evolution, Revolution, or Illusion? The Future of Python and Coding in the Age of AI—
Asya Melnik—TalkThe Day the Agent Started Lying (Politely)—
Axel BuddendiekREWE GroupTalkPair & Share: How formal Mentoring pushed REWE Analytics to a new level—
Bastian Wandtidealo internet GmbHTalkWhen LLMs Are Too Big: Building Cost-Efficient High-Throughput ML Systems for E-Commerce Cataloging—
BenjaminOTTOTalkWetterdienst: Fast, Unified Access to Open Weather Data with Polars—
Bernhard SchäferMerckTalkEmpowering Data Scientists with Zero Platform Friction: Deploying Streamlit & Friends in 3 Minutes—
Bruno Vollmer—TalkSimplicity Scales: Rewriting to a Django Monolith and Monorepo—
Camila MaiaCumbuca DevTalkDesigning and Scaling a Python Library in the Open: Architecture, Automation and CommunitySlides
Camila MaiaCumbuca DevTutorialYour First Open Source Contribution in Python: From Fork to Pull Request—
Carlina BennisonHessian AIPanelStart-Ups & Investors—
Catarina FilipeSiemensTalkFrom Research Models to SLAs: Operationalizing TSFMs with Python—
Celeste HorganSnowflakeSponsorMaking my Apache Spark™ talk more interesting using AI—
Cheuk Ting HoJetBrainsTalkAre we free-threaded ready? Looking at where free-threaded Python fails—
Cheuk Ting HoJetBrainsTutorialDo you know how well your model is doing? Evaluate your LLMs—
Christoph FreyCentre for Financial EconometricsTalkTidy Finance in Practice: How Explicit Assumptions Avoid Bad Investment Strategies—
Christopher Sedlaczek-BockThe Mobility HouseSponsorPython in Climate Tech: Vehicle-to-Grid—
Claudia ComitoJülich Supercomputing CentreTalkHeat: scaling the Python scientific stack to HPC systems—
Claudio Giorgio Giancaterino—TalkFrom Pixel to Payouts: A Multi-Agent System for Real-Time Insurance Claims Processing—
Cosima Meyer—TalkWhy Did The Model Do That? Debugging the Ghost in the Machine—
Daniel FinnanLirsaTalkTo nest, or not to nest? Nested data types in Polars with big data—
Darya PetrashkaSLBTalk"You are an intelligent business analyst": how i learned to talk to business—
Dawn WagesAnacondaPanelPyLadies Fireside Chat—
Dennie DeclercqDDSoftTalk(Autism and) The Predictive Brain Theory (in Tech)—
Dennis SchulzTNGTalkRestaurants around train stations are bad and I can prove it—
Dominik Haitz—TalkHow to create effective data visualizations—
Dr. Evelyne GroenMaltTutorialAccelerate FastAPI Development with OpenAPI Generator—
Dr. Irena BojarovskaZalandoTalkFoundation Models in Forecasting: Are We There Yet? Lessons from the Trenches—
Dr. Juan Orduz—TalkCausal Inference through the lens of probabilistic programming—
Dr. Kristian Rother—TalkWorkshop: What do we still need to learn? [no-video]—
Dr. Kristian Rother—PanelPanel What Do We Still Need to Learn?—
Dr. Maria Börner—TalkIs digital sovereignty a new buzzword in AI development?—
Dumky de WildeMotherDuckTutorialSQL is Dead, Long Live SQL: Engineering reliable analytics agent from scratch—
Eduard Thamm—TalkArchitecture Under Constraints: Designing Systems That Still Evolve—
Eric GlaserSteadforceTalkEscape the Hype: Teaching LLM Concepts Through an Interactive AI Factory Game—
Étienne TremblayTransitTalkUsing Sensor Fusion and ML to Navigate Underground When GPS Fails—
Evgeniya Ovchinnikova—TalkDon’t call your LLM too often! How to build your dialog graph with confidence and sleep at night.—
Falko SchindlerZauberzeugTalk5 Years of NiceGUI: What We Learned About Designing Pythonic UIs—
Filip BacicReversingLabsTalkHow to Search Through 800 Billion Records in Real Time—
Florian WilhelminovexTalkSentinel Values in Python: Semantics, Double Dispatch, and the Limits of Typing—
Francesco Conte—TalkRoll for Architecture: DungeonPy – A D&D Companion as Server + Thin Clients—
Frank HutterPrior LabsSponsorThe foundation model revolution for tabular data—
Frank RustneunzehnTalkIt Works on My Machine: Why LLM Apps Fail Users (Not Tests)—
Franz Wöllert—TalkOpen Table Formats in the Wild™ - Reloaded: Vortexing Ducks over Floating Icebergs—
Freya Bruhin—Tutorialpytest tips and tricks for a better testsuite—
Friederike Bauer—TalkBuilding MCP at the Speed of Hype: Principles That Outlast the Trends—
Gabi Kadlecovadistil labsTalkSmall Language Models for Tool Calling Are Better Than You Think—
Gaël Pegliasco—TalkDemystifying Parallel Programming in Python: from CPU to quantum processors, including GPU and TPU—
Gaweng Tan—TalkLearnings Building DevOps as a Software EngineerSlides
Giancarlo MattiaMax-Planck Institute for AstronomyTalkPost-Processing and Visualization of Astrophysical Data with PyPLUTOSlides
Gift Ojeabulu—TalkDon’t Let Imposter Syndrome Win: U Can Do Big Things from a Small Place, A 7-Year African AI Journey—
Harald NezbedaAnexiaTalkBuilding Secure Environments for CLI Code AgentsSlides
Haruto MoriDaikin EuropeTalkSchema-Driven Lambdaliths in Python with AWS Lambda Powertools and Pydantic—
Heiner WolfCERNTalkBeyond Stateless: Why Your Web Service Architecture is Fighting Against Performance—
Holger NösekabelTD ReplyTalkBuilding Agentic Systems with Python, LangGraph, MCP, and A2A—
Huijo Kim—TalkAgent-Based Hyperparameter Optimization for Gradient Boosted Trees—
Iason KrommydasRice UniversityTutorialArray-Oriented Programming in Python: Libraries, Techniques, and Trade-offs—
Igor Anokhin—TalkAsyncIO vs Threads: who survives in the No-GIL Era?—
Illia BabounikauecastingTalkAccuracy Is Overrated: Ship Stable Forecasts (Without Lying to Yourself)—
Ina Schlie—PanelStart-Ups & Investors—
Ines MontaniExplosionPanelPanel: Evolution, Revolution, or Illusion? The Future of Python and Coding in the Age of AI—
Ines MontaniExplosionPanelOpen Source as a Business — Models, Paths, and Practice—
Ines MontaniExplosionTalkVibe NLP for Applied NLPSlides
Iryna KondrashchenkoDataForce Solutions GmbHTalkState of In-Browser ML: WebAssembly, WebGPU, and the Modern Stack—
Jakob Leander Müller—TalkDynamic Knowledge Graphs—
Jannis LübbeOsnabrück University 2012 PhDTalkOffline Fallback for a Mobile LoRaWAN Gateway—
Jessica Greene (she/her)EcosiaPanelPyLadies Fireside Chat—
Jeyashree KrishnanSiemensTalkSurviving AI Fatigue: Staying Sane and Relevant in a Fast Moving Field—
Jeyashree KrishnanSiemensTalkFrom Research Models to SLAs: Operationalizing TSFMs with Python—
Johanna Goergen—TalkScaling Data Processing for Training Workloads at DeepL Research with Rust—
Johannes Dröge—TalkBeyond Kafka and S3: Python Data Pipelines with HTTP-Native Bytestreams—
John RobertSunnic Lighthouse GmbHTalkSecuring AI Agentic Systems: Enforcing Safety Constraints in AI Agent—
Jon NordbySoundsensingTalkEmbedding Data Science in IoT devices with MicroPython and emlearn—
Jonas BöerinovexTalkRediscovering single-node processing: When does it make sense to move from Spark to Polars?—
Jonas DeddenDeepLTalkScaling Data Processing for Training Workloads at DeepL Research with Rust—
Joshua FingerinovexTalkFight your garbage data: implementation of a pythonic data quality monitoring framework in PySpark—
Joshua Görner—Talk7 Anti-Lessons from Building a PydanticAI Agent: Mistakes We Made So You Don't Have To—
Jovana Walter—PanelStart-Ups & Investors—
Justine BroihanGAMSSponsorThe Art of the Optimal: A Pythonic Approach to Complex Decision-Making—
Kateryna BudzyakMaltTutorialAccelerate FastAPI Development with OpenAPI Generator—
Kavish Nareshchandra DahekarSAPTalkPython Hates Being PID 1: Writing Container-Aware Code for Kubernetes—
Kyle IntoMetaSponsorType Errors for Better Agent-Assisted Development—
Larissa HaasAutomation & AnalyticsTalkLetting AI Move: Robotics Demos Powered by Python—
Laura SummersPydanticTalkNo, you can't 'eval' your way to fairness—
Laurent DirerPython for 10+TalkPractical Refactoring with Syntax Trees—
Leon Lukas—TalkFrom Ticket to Draft: How Munich Automates Citizen Inquiries with AI—
Lisa Amrhein—TalkEscape the Hype: Teaching LLM Concepts Through an Interactive AI Factory Game—
Luke GerstnerRosenxtSponsorLeveraging Hexagonal Architecture When Building Applications—
Mahe Iram KhanAnacondaTalkHow to mix conda and pip without causing “environmental” damage.—
Marcel Kurovski—TalkPersonalized Restaurant Recommendations at Scale combining Transformer with Gradient-Boosted Ranking—
Marcel NeunhoefferStatistical Methods Unit of the Institute for EmploymentTutorialYour Data Is Leaking: A Hands-On Introduction to Differential Privacy with OpenDP—
Maris Nieuwenhuis—TalkBuild a web coding platform with Python, run in WebAssembly—
Markus KleinSupermetalPanelPanel: Evolution, Revolution, or Illusion? The Future of Python and Coding in the Age of AI—
Martin SeelerBlue YonderTalkAI Evals Done Right: From Vibes to Confident Decisions—
Mehdi OuazzaKlarnaTutorialSQL is Dead, Long Live SQL: Engineering reliable analytics agent from scratch—
Mirano TukReversingLabsTalkHow to Search Through 800 Billion Records in Real Time—
Mohamed Amine Jebari—TalkHierarchical Models in MMM: Can Structure beat data size?—
Moin UddinPar-Tec S.p.ATalkDjango-Q2: Async Tasks Made Simple—
Mones RaslanZalandoTalkHow to compare apples with oranges: Proper evaluation of article-level demand forecasts—
Moritz BauerBlue YonderTalkMaking bad CLIs fun with Small Language Models—
Nico Buhl—TalkIncrease productivity of CNC-machining of aerospace engine parts with Python—
Nicolas Renkamp—TalkEmpowering Data Scientists with Zero Platform Friction: Deploying Streamlit & Friends in 3 Minutes—
NiklasinovexTalkSimulating the World using SimPy: A practical Example—
Nils HaaseMerckTalkOctopus AutoML: Extracting Signal from Small and High-Dimensional Data—
Oleh Kostromin—TalkState of In-Browser ML: WebAssembly, WebGPU, and the Modern Stack—
Oliver Borchert—TutorialBuilding reliable data pipelines with polars and dataframely—
Pascal Puchtler—TalkDestructive Testing: 10 Practical Ways to Expose Hidden Application Risks—
Paula Gonzalez Avalos—PanelPanel What Do We Still Need to Learn?—
Paula Gonzalez Avalos—TalkWorkshop: What do we still need to learn? [no-video]—
Pavlo PenenkoCAPCOM CO., LTDTalkMetashade: Compilerless Immediate-Mode Shader Generation in Pure Python—
Petar IlijevskiZalandoTalkZero-Copy or Zero-Speed? The hidden overhead of PySpark, Arrow & SynapseML for inference—
Rahkakavee Baskaran—TalkBuilding MCP at the Speed of Hype: Principles That Outlast the Trends—
Raniere Silva—TutorialA minimalist introduction to Ansible—
Raphael HvidingMax-Planck Institute for AstronomyTalkBlack Hole Stars: An Astronomical Mystery (Mostly) Solved with NumPyro and JAX—
Rashmi NagpalPoseidonTalkWhat Breaks When Automatic Speech Recognition Systems Go Multilingual—
Rostislaw KrassowRationalTalkFight your garbage data: implementation of a pythonic data quality monitoring framework in PySpark—
Ryan SequeiraGetYourGuideTalkShip Data with Confidence: Declarative Validation for PySpark & PandasSlides
Samuel OslovichQuTechTalkProgramming Quantum Networks in Python—
Sara JourdanGenow.aiPanelStart-Ups & Investors—
Sarah MasudUniversity of WashingtonTalkTracking Knowledge Diversity in LLM-Generated Responses.—
Sebastian KraussValidaitorTalkIs my AI Recruiting biased? - How to evaluate these systems—
Sebastian Neubauer—TalkHype, Hope, or Headache? Making Sense of GenAI, LLMs, and AI Agents with Anecdotal Evidence—
Sebastian Neubauer—PanelPanel: Evolution, Revolution, or Illusion? The Future of Python and Coding in the Age of AI—
Sebastian Neubauer—TalkWorkshop: What do we still need to learn? [no-video]—
Sebastian RaschkaLightning AIPanelStop Waiting, Start Shipping: Real-World Strategy for Open-Source LLMs—
Sebastian UnterreitmeierMercer GermanyPanelPanel What Do We Still Need to Learn?—
Serhii SokolenkoTowerPanelPanel: Evolution, Revolution, or Illusion? The Future of Python and Coding in the Age of AI—
Serhii SokolenkoTowerTalkDemystifying Agentic AI Using Small Language Models—
Serhii SokolenkoTowerTutorialFrom Prompt to Production: How to use AI Code Assistants for Python Data Systems—
Shiva Banasaz Nouri—TalkBuilding Non-Biased Synthetic Datasets: What Actually Works (and What Fails)—
Shlomi HodWeizenbaum InstituteTutorialYour Data Is Leaking: A Hands-On Introduction to Differential Privacy with OpenDP—
Silke HornGurobiSponsorFrom Hard Problems to Proven Solutions: Solving Decision Problems with Gurobi—
Silvia Hänig—PanelPanel What Do We Still Need to Learn?—
Simon Hedrich—TalkMastering the Hex: A Case Study in Reinforcement Learning for Strategy Games—
Simonas Černiauskastisix.ioTalkBefore You Ship Your Agent: An Agent Builder’s Primer on Jailbreaking Attacks—
Stefan BirrZalandoTalkHow to compare apples with oranges: Proper evaluation of article-level demand forecasts—
Stefan DienstCovestroTalkBuilding Trust in Your Data Pipelines with Observability—
Stefan KrausinovexTalkTy mypy: The New Generation of Python Type Checking—
Stefanie MolinBloombergTutorialProcess, Analyze, and Transform Python Code with ASTs—
Steffen Klempau—TalkPersonalized Restaurant Recommendations at Scale combining Transformer with Gradient-Boosted Ranking—
Stephen—TalkIn Praise of Documentation: Tools, Tips & Techniques for Literate Programming in the AI Age—
Subhosri BasuFraunhofer InstituteTalkCatch the LLM if you Can: Watermarking LLMs—
Sylvain CorlayQuantStackPanelOpen Source as a Business — Models, Paths, and Practice—
Tamara BadikyanNational Association of Statutory Health Insurance PhysiciansTalkMaking Tech Tutorials Accessible: Practical Techniques for Educators—
Tanio ToranosukeDaikin EuropeTalkSchema-Driven Lambdaliths in Python with AWS Lambda Powertools and Pydantic—
Tereza IofciuneuefischePanelPyLadies Fireside Chat—
Tereza IofciuneuefischeTutorialGetting Career Clarity in Uncertain Times—
Theodore MeynardGetYourGuideTalkSolving Marketplace Cold Start at Scale with Ranking—
Thomas Prexl—TalkIt Works on My Machine: Why LLM Apps Fail Users (Not Tests)—
Thomas SaupeJülich Supercomputing CentreTalkHeat: scaling the Python scientific stack to HPC systems—
Tim KreitnerVattenfallTalkFree T(h)r(e)ading: A Trading Systems Journey Beyond the GIL—
Tobias Senstidealo internet GmbHTalkWhen LLMs Are Too Big: Building Cost-Efficient High-Throughput ML Systems for E-Commerce Cataloging—
Tomas RuizLudwig Maximilian University of MunichTalkPyTorch and CPU-GPU Synchronizations—
Travis Hathaway—TalkExploring Germany's Urban Geography with Census and OpenStreetMap Data—
Vadim Vlasov—TalkEscape the Hype: Teaching LLM Concepts Through an Interactive AI Factory Game—
Valentin ZieglmeierTNGTalkReaching the next level of abstraction: meta classes and what they enable—
Valerio Maggio—TalkCome for the Code, Stay for the People.Slides
Vincenzo VentrigliaNational Institute of Geophysics and VolcanologyTalkWhen Space Weather Breaks Your GPS: Building an Explainable Early Warning System—
Werner Gothein—TalkAI Is Changing the Game: Building Modular, AI-Ready Platforms on Top of Legacy Systems—
Xia He-Bleinagel—TalkHow We Built an Inclusive Data Organization: Careers, Community & 50% Women—
Yann Lechelle—PanelOpen Source as a Business — Models, Paths, and Practice—
Yannik TauschQuantCoSponsorKickstart Coding at Scale: How Project Template Automation Unlocks Developer Productivity—

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