DjangoCon Europe

📢 Silver sponsor: Divio

Divio is a developer-first PaaS built for digital agencies that removes DevOps friction so teams can build, deploy, and scale web applications faster.

Thank you, Divio, for supporting DjangoCon Europe 2026. See you in Athens!

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🌺 Only ONE MONTH to go!

The DjangoCon countdown has officially begun. In just one month, you could be in Athens talking about all things Django and connecting with the community under the sun. Why miss it?

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✨ Community partner: WE LEAD

WE LEAD is an independent, non-profit organization with the aim of paving the way for women to rise to leadership positions in the fields of technology and innovation.

We're so happy to have WE LEAD on board for DjangoCon Europe 2026. See you in April! 🌺 🇬🇷

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🎙️TALK: Reliable Django Signals by Haki Benita

The existing implementation of Django Signals does not address fault tolerance in any way, which makes Signals unreliable for mission critical workflows! In this talk, Haki presents an alternative underlying implementation using the new tasks framework in Django 6, which makes Signals fault tolerant and reliable.

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🎙️ TALK: AI-Assisted Contributions and Maintainer Load by @paulox@fosstodon.org

AI-assisted contributions are changing how open source work happens. This talk looks at real maintainer experiences from projects like Django, Python, GNOME, and OCaml, focusing on review load, responsibility, and the governance questions that appear when AI replaces understanding instead of supporting it.

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🎙️ TALK: Oh, I Found a Security Issue by @m_holtermann@birdsite.lakedrops.com

This talk is your behind-the-scenes guide to Django's best in class security processes. Markus will give an introduction to how the team handles security issues, review the history of Django’s security issues and explore the impact of AI and LLMs on the security of Django as well as its security team.

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🎙️ TALK: Digitising Historical Caving Data with Python and Django by Andrew Northall

A pipeline using Python, Django, and LLMs to extract, structure and publish 2,700 incidents, turning old typewritten documents into useful data.

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🎙️ TALK: Is it time for a Django Admin rewrite? If so, how? by @EmmaDelescolle@mastodon.social

Let's explore together a proof-of-concept Django admin replacement, powered by pluggy and generic views, where CRUD operations are just actions, knowledge transfers both ways, and everything feels like Django.

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🎙️ Keynote speaker: @EvilDMP@mastodon.online

Great news! Daniele Procida, Director of Engineering at Canonical, is joining us as a keynote speaker. Beyond engineering practice, leadership and transformation, he helps organize community conferences, including the first editions of PyCon Africa and DjangoCon Africa, and supports open-source projects in improving their documentation.

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📢 Silver sponsor: Maykin

Maykin is a Dutch software company that specializes in designing and building user-friendly digital solutions for governments and public organizations. The company focuses on open-source technology, collaboration, and agile development to create secure, accessible, and sustainable web applications.

Maykin, we're truly grateful for the support. See you in Athens! 🇬🇷🌺

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🏛️ Venue reveal! DjangoCon Europe 2026 will take place at the Athens Conservatoire — one of Greece's most historic cultural institutions and a landmark of the Bauhaus movement in Greece.

📍17–29 Rigillis Street, Athens 106 75, Greece

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🎙️ TALK: Advanced ORM kung-fu for on-demand filtering, sorting & summing 40M financial transactions by Mathias Wedeken

Harness the Django ORM for massive datasets: annotations, subqueries, window functions, conditionals & JSONB, almost entirely without raw SQL.

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🎙️ TALK: Taming PostgreSQL Bloat in Production Django by @kdpisda@fosstodon.org

Your Django app gets slower every week and no amount of ORM tuning helps. The silent killer is table bloat — dead rows piling up from every UPDATE and DELETE. Learn to diagnose, fix, and prevent it.

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🎙️ TALK: Zero-Migration Encryption: Building Drop-in Encrypted Field in Django by Vjeran Grozdanic

Learn how we built a drop-in replacement for standard Django Fields at Sentry to encrypt database columns with almost no overhead & zero migrations.

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🎙️ TALK: What's in your dependencies? Supply chain attacks on Python projects by Mateusz Bełczowski

Every pip install is an act of trust. Attackers have exploited that trust - phishing maintainers, hijacking CI/CD pipelines, turning popular packages into malware. Learn how these attacks work and practical defenses for your projects.

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🎙️ TALK: Django templates on the frontend? by @christophehenry@mastodon.social

Explore Django Template Transpiler: render Django templates in JavaScript to share UI between backend and frontend without extra SSR calls. Ideal for unreliable networks.

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📢 Silver sponsor: Waracle

Waracle is an end-to-end digital product partner across strategy, design, engineering, data and AI, working with organizations in Financial Services, Energy, Healthcare, the Public Sector and more.

Thank you Waracle for supporting DjangoCon Europe 2026. See you in Athens! 🇬🇷

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🎙️ TALK: Scaling the database - using multiple databases with Django by @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net

The question is simple: How do you scale Django beyond a single database? The answer isn't simple, but it is fun and interesting.

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🎙️ TALK: Scaling the database - using multiple databases with Django by @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net

The question is simple: How do you scale Django beyond a single database? The answer isn't simple, but it is fun and interesting.

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🎙️ TALK: Partitioning very large tables with Django and PostgreSQL by @timb07@chaos.social

Database tables in PostgreSQL cause increasing performance and maintenance issues as they grow larger. In this talk, we'll look at ways of managing those problems with partitioning, the choices available, and how to partition existing tables at Kraken scale with Django.

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🎙️ TALK: Partitioning very large tables with Django and PostgreSQL by @timb07@chaos.social

Database tables in PostgreSQL cause increasing performance and maintenance issues as they grow larger. In this talk, we'll look at ways of managing those problems with partitioning, the choices available, and how to partition existing tables at Kraken scale with Django.

https://2026.djangocon.eu/tickets/

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🎙️ TALK: ATLAS: Building a Zero‑Budget IT Service Management Platform with Django in the Public Sector by Georgios Poulos

Learn how ATLAS was built with Django and zero external budget for the Greek Ministry of Migration & Asylum, resulting in 70% faster incident response initiation and 98% user satisfaction.

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🎙️ TALK: When SaaS Is Not Allowed: Shipping Django as a Desktop App by @jochen@fedi.wersdoerfer.de

What if your Django app cannot rely on servers at all? This talk shows how to package Django inside Electron for confidential, offline, compute-heavy workloads, based on Steel-IQ, an open-source steel-industry simulation tool. You will see a production architecture running across macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus practical lessons from building and running it.

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🎙️ TALK: How Django helps to build the biggest X-ray observatory to date by Loes Crama.

Explore how Django is applied to ESA's NewAthena project, where significant amounts of data are managed in a scientific context, illustrating how a web framework can be extended to enable a large-scale space mission.

🛸 Space missions and Django. Fascinating, right?
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📣 Call for Proposals: Extended

Missed the CFP deadline? Don't fret about it. We decided to give a one-week extension to the CFP process, so you have time to craft that talk proposal you've been thinking about.

⏳ Sunday, February 15 (end of day)
📮 https://2026.djangocon.eu/cfp/

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🚨 Last call for proposals! The CFP closes on Sunday, February 8 (end of day), so if you've been working on a talk idea, now is the time to polish it and send it in. We'd love to see you on stage this April. 🌺

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👀🎙️ Have you submitted your proposal yet?

If not, what are you waiting for? 🤨 We want to hear all about your Django ideas, projects and the stories behind them—from frameworks and tooling to real-world lessons learned.

⏰ CFP closes on February 8, 2026
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Many thanks to Kraken Tech from @OctopusEnergy for supporting DjangoConEurope 2023 as a Gold sponsor!