Mark Shannon
Appearances by year
- EuroPython
- PyCon (national Python conferences)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2026 | PyCon US 2026 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | speaker | Memory management in CPython, fast or slow? When considering Python performance, memory management often gets less attention than features like free-threading or the JIT compiler. | Video |
| Jul 14, 2025 | EuroPython 2025 | EuroPython | panelist | CPython Core Development Panel as Microsoft Python has been evolving very rapidly in the last few years, and this is because new ideas have been taking over the Core Development. | Video |
| Jul 14, 2025 | EuroPython 2025 | EuroPython | talk | Performance improvements in 3.14 and maybe 3.15 as Microsoft After making a splash with major performance improvements in Python 3.11, things were relatively quiet for 3.12 and 3.13. | Video |
| Jul 17, 2023 | EuroPython 2023 | EuroPython | panelist | CPython Core Developer Panel as Microsoft Come meet the folks who make the Python programming language! A panel discussion of core Python developers will take place on Wednesday at 2pm. | Video |
| Jul 17, 2023 | EuroPython 2023 | EuroPython | talk | How we are making CPython faster. Past, present and future as Microsoft Python 3.11 is considerably faster than 3.10. How did we do that? | Video |
| Apr 19, 2023 | PyCon US 2023 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | speaker | How we are making CPython faster. Past, present and future. Many of you will will have heard that Python 3.11 is considerably faster than 3.10. How did we do that? | Video |
| Oct 14, 2022 | PyCon JP 2022 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | keynote | Untitled as Microsoft (Faster CPython team) | |
| Jul 11, 2022 | EuroPython 2022 | EuroPython | panelist | CPython Developer Panel as HotPy Ltd Come meet the folks who make the Python programming language! A panel discussion of core Python developers will take place on Wednesday at 2pm. | Video |
| Jul 11, 2022 | EuroPython 2022 | EuroPython | talk | How we are making Python 3.11 faster as HotPy Ltd Python 3.11 is between 10% and 60% faster than Python 3.10, depending on the application. We have achieved this in a fully portable way by making the…Show lessPython 3.11 is between 10% and 60% faster than Python 3.10, depending on the application. We have achieved this in a fully portable way by making the interpreter adapt to the program being run, and by streamlining key data structures. | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pablo Galindo Salgado | 5 | 2 | 2026 |
| Paolo Melchiorre | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Russell Keith-Magee | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Nicholas Tollervey | 4 | — | 2025 |
| Reuven M. Lerner | 4 | — | 2025 |
| Łukasz Langa | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cristián Maureira-Fredes | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Fabio Pliger | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Jodie Burchell | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Judite Cypreste | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Larry Hastings | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Vinícius Gubiani Ferreira | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Adrin Jalali | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Antonio Cuni | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Hynek Schlawack | 3 | — | 2025 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.