PyCon AU

All 75 #pyconau videos we have permission to release are up on YouTube, with archival quality AV1 encodes on the LA mirror. As always, huge thanks to the incredible AV team! @pyconau.bsky.social www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... mirror.linux.org.au/pub/pycon-au...

That's a wrap on PyCon AU 2026 🐍 Five days in Brisbane - talks, workshops, sprints and plenty of hallway chats - closed out today with the development sprints. Thank you to our volunteers, speakers, sponsors and everyone who came along. Recordings coming soon. #pyconau

It's day 2 at #PyConAU. We'd like to shout out to the amazing Taylatopia for creating our artwork this year, including the majestic PyCon AU ibis. You can check out her other work at www.instagram.com/taylatopia/ and ko-fi.com/taylatopia/s...

What an amazing first full day at #PyconAU 2026. Thanks so much to all our contributors, supporters and attendees. More professional photos, speaker video streams and more will follow. Feel free to post your experience in the replies.

Dinners are one of the best parts of PyCon AU. Our Community & Culture Lead Chelsea shares how to self-organise: pick a place, grab 4-5 people, keep it to about 8 🐍 Read: 2026.pycon.org.au/posts/commun... Ideas: 2026.pycon.org.au/attend/dinners

For a brief moment there #pyconau was sold out! Worry not - we've just confirmed the last available seats and there are now just 15 full conference tickets remaining before we sell out once and for all! This is your final_final_FINAL.pdf reminder to register to join us!! 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets

In 5 days, PyCon AU 2026 opens its doors at the Sofitel Brisbane Central (26–30 August), and honestly? We're just excited. Haven't grabbed a ticket yet? There's still time, including online tickets if Brisbane isn't on the cards this year: pretix.eu/pyconau/2026/ See you there. 👋 #pyconau

One codebase, one workshop, an app running on your laptop and your phone by the end of it. Russell Keith-Magee's hands-on BeeWare workshop is an escape-room-style puzzle, Wed 26 Aug. Find out mroe about the workshop: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/H33...

Most AI agents fall apart when a tool call fails. Shubham Londhe's hands-on workshop builds one with AWS Strands and MCP, then adds durability with Temporal, Wed 26 Aug. Find out more about the workshop: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/PZP...

Research papers cite the literature but rarely the software that made the results possible. Stephanie Chong on why that matters, and how to make your own software easier to cite, Sat 29 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/8PX... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

A quick word from George Coldham, previewing why passkeys finally make sense — closing the gap left by humans managing reusable passwords, with two real-world phishing examples. Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/K3M... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Straight from Erin Zimmer: a preview of "Enterprise Grade Accessibility for Everyone", an often-overlooked topic that deserves more airtime. Thu 27 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/NGF... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Meet Freddy Mcloughlan, previewing "Launching Rockets with Python" with co-speaker Amber Taylor: RMIT's rocketry ground control system, running at under 1% CPU on a Raspberry Pi 5. Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/9KB... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Alex Zinovev walks us through optimising scientific Python with C++, CUDA and serverless compute: 3–10x speedups, minus most of the assumptions. Sat 29 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/NF9... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

A short note from Adarsh Divakaran, previewing "Goodbye GIL": benchmarking Python 3.13's free-threaded mode against the GIL-enabled interpreter. Thu 27 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/RQ7... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

In his own words: Paul Leopardi previews "The 20-Year Port," on taking a PhD toolbox to polished, professional Python packaging with help from coding agents. Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/8LE... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Abby Mitchell (Meta) previews her hands-on workshop taking type annotations from first steps to full typechecker setup. Wed 26 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/GGC... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Your code works, your data's shared, so why can't anyone reproduce your results? Zara Hassan on "reproducibility debt," research software that breaks down slowly, not all at once, Sat 29 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/ZPG... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

We breathe 20,000 times a day without thinking about it, which makes it hard to animate. Peta Muir built an interactive breathing simulator in Python Arcade to find out why, Sat 29 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/FCL... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Piles of print statements only get you so far. Raphael Gaschignard on the tools and techniques for introspecting a live Python process, even when restarting it isn't an option, Sat 29 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/97G... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

The AEC draws Australia's electoral boundaries and does it well. Rachel Bunder asks what happens if you use their own data to become the anti-AEC, and redraw the map yourself, Sat 29 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/ZJE... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

A word from one of our PyCon AU 2026 Platinum Sponsors: Twilio. Glad to have them supporting the Australian Python community in Brisbane this August. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 📋 Become a sponsor: 2026.pycon.org.au/sponsor #PyConAU #Python #Brisbane #Twilio

Jade Edward previews "An Intro to Glue Work" on the unglamorous work of connecting people and systems that keeps everything running. Thu 27 Aug. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Talk details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/3CYQGY

Python 3.14 shipped t-strings alongside the familiar f-strings, and the two are easy to mix up. Simon Merrick on what t-strings actually do, and how they help you write safer code, Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/8CA... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Python 3.15 ships a new lazy keyword for on-demand imports, cutting startup time and memory use. Peter Lovett live-demos it on pre-release Python, Sat 29 Aug. Watch the clip for more. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/HZU... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

What does a trauma ICU nurse have in common with an infosec officer? Sam Marsh on her pivot into cybersecurity, and why the skills gap won't be solved by fishing in the same pond, Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/T3A... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Jacob Seiler previews "From Pixels to Points," on inferring archery scores from video using computer vision. Thu 27 Aug. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Talk details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/YGUJEG

20 years, one PhD toolbox, and a Python port finished with the help of coding agents. Paul Leopardi on keeping scientific rigour intact when AI does the heavy lifting, Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/8LE... \Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

From GitHub Stars to Twilio Champions, Michelle "MishManners" Duke has spent a decade building developer communities. What separates a good one from a great one, Sat 29 Aug. Watch for more. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/CWF... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

A look at our DevRel specialist track: developer advocacy, community building, and the craft of technical relationships. Sat 29 Aug, Brisbane. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Track details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/specialist-tracks/devrel/

📣 Yes! You can stream PyCon AU 2026 remotely! We've also just published a significant community discount for anyone between jobs. Get the details at 2026.pycon.org.au/posts/last-m...

Yannik previews "From Jupyter Notebook to Eruption," on getting geohazard research out of the notebook and into production. Sat 29 Aug. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Talk details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/QNHZNS

Deleting a customer's data shouldn't mean scanning every table. XiaoHan Li built an open-source Python library using crypto-shredding, so erasure is one action: delete the key, Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/PZT... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Meet Alison Wong, track organiser for our Education track. Fri 28 Aug. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Talk details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/KRR377

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Matt Collyer previews his talk on Python in Queensland secondary schools, and the gap between what's taught and what industry expects. Fri 28 Aug. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Talk details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/QCWMLU #PyConAU #Python #Brisbane

A quick word from Luke, previewing "From On-Prem to the Cloud and Back Again": running your own infrastructure with a 4-person team since 1999. Thu 27 Aug. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Talk details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/8VSJFM #PyConAU #Python #Brisbane

Modularity, design patterns, code reviews: Tennessee Leeuwenburg reframes them all as one thing, managing the trade-off between short-term speed and long-term cost, Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/JK7... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Jesse Manser previews his talk on building control surfaces and real-time performance frameworks in Python: the view from a musician turned engineer. Sat 29 Aug. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Talk details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/HH8MA3 #PyConAU #Python #Brisbane

COBOL, HyperCard, low-code, now AI agents: every wave promises to make developers obsolete. Sam Bishop tours six decades of that pitch, and why it keeps not happening, Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/K3B... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

A short note from Gwyneth De Guia previewing "How Being Terrified of Code Helped Me Get Girls to Love It" on keeping girls in STEM through the moments they're most likely to leave. Fri 28 Aug. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Talk details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/CGG8LN

When students can get AI to write and explain their code, what does assessment even measure? Stephen Tierney redesigned a unit around draft workshops and peer critique instead of bans, Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/HBK... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Straight from Damian Brady: a preview of "When the demo has to land," on what it takes to keep a high-stakes demo together when the features are still coming in hot. Sat 29 Aug. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Talk details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/MDSJTA

A quick word from Pavel Oborin, previewing "Breaking the PR Review Bottleneck" - how projects like Kubernetes and Chromium keep review queues moving. Fri 28 Aug. 🎟️ Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au 🔍 Talk details: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/QUZ9TS

A quick hello from Ashley Lamont, previewing her talk on storing files as Slack emojis... a deliberately weird way to learn how file systems actually work. Sat 29 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/Q7L... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

Python powers the world's most critical research, but the software behind it often stays fragile. Paula Andrea Martinez on four years of lessons in sustainable, citable research software, Fri 28 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/J9D... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/

A quick word from our Thursday keynote speaker: Liz Fong-Jones (Honeycomb.io) previews "30 to 70 PRs a day: How we managed to not wreck our systems". Thu 27 Aug. Talk: 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/NDW... Tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets/