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A conference for everyone in the Python community, from beginners to old hands. 🐍 We're based in South Africa. Website: https://za.pycon.org Mastodon: @[email protected]
@za.pycon.orgIntroducing #PyConZA2026 speaker, Gianluca Rizzo! 🐍
AI researcher who turns cutting-edge models into production Python. He’ll build an evolutionary search loop that uses LLMs as mutation operators, with Pydantic AI 🧪
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@za.pycon.orgIntroducing #PyConZA2026 speaker, Vuyolwethu Mfidi! 🐍
Your code works in the tutorial. Now someone else has to run, debug and maintain it. Vuyolwethu shares the production lessons nobody teaches you.
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@za.pycon.orgIntroducing #PyConZA2026 speaker, Brayan Mwanyumba! 🐍
Google Developer Expert for Cloud AI and speaker at 30+ conferences. Tired of rewriting prompts? He’ll show how AI agents can learn from their own runs 🤖
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@za.pycon.orgExcited to welcome @coder_levelup as a Patron of #PyConZA2026! 🐍
100+ code clubs, hundreds of teachers trained and a growing community of coders, from kids to pros. Here’s to 1 million coders in SA!
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@za.pycon.org✨ 3 DAYS TO GO!
From your first line of Python to Rust-powered tooling and AI in the public sector, there's a talk for every level.
Last call for tickets!
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@za.pycon.orgIntroducing #PyConZA2026 speaker, Schalk Venter! 🐍
Design and engineering consultant to the Google Foundation, Coca-Cola and Replit, and co-founder of FEDSA. He’ll show how to add polished, app-like transitions to Django apps ✨
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@za.pycon.orgIntroducing #PyConZA2026 speaker, Joao Futi Muanda! 🐍
Python educator from Angola 🇦🇴 who has taught thousands of students. In the AI era, he challenges the idea that beginner projects are a waste of time 🧮
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@za.pycon.orgMeet #PyConZA2026 speaker: Sebastien Williams-Wynn! 🐍
Has led engineering teams at Revolut, Midnite and Typeform.
100 wedding guests, 2 tables. He solved the seating chart with Python and a constraint solver.
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@za.pycon.org🛠️ Makers Room at #PyConZA2026!
Made something cool? Bring it along: electronics, robots, 3D prints, or the tools you make things with.
The makers room available throughout the whole conference! It’s open all conference with no registration, and locked safely after hours.
@za.pycon.orgExcited to welcome @afrolabs as a sponsor of #PyConZA2026! 🐍
Since 2004, this Cape Town-born tech lab has built tech for positive impact organisations in Africa. Their credo? “Love creating.”
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@za.pycon.org☕ 4 DAYS till #PyConZA2026!
The best conversations often happen between talks. Meet developers, data scientists, teachers and tinkerers from across Southern Africa.
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🗓 14–16 October 2026
📍 Rondebosch, Cape Town
@za.pycon.orgIntroducing #PyConZA2026 speaker, @Shaun Shaun De Ponte! 🐍
A software and data engineer with 8+ years in Python, Azure and AWS. He built BrightInvoice, an open-source invoicing tool, and co-founded Naughty Bean Coffee ☕
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@za.pycon.orgIntroducing #PyConZA2026 speaker, Mikhail Shishatskii! 🐍
Senior software engineer at Yandex Infrastructure, Mikhail shows how a small DSL on top of Jinja2 turns sprawling test fixtures into readable specs, and helps AI agents navigate code.
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@za.pycon.org🛠 5 DAYS till #PyConZA2026!
After the talks, stay for two days of community sprints. Contribute to open source projects alongside the people who build them.
Learn more about Sprints: za.pycon.org/sprints
@za.pycon.org🗣️Volunteers Wanted!
Help us make PyConZA2026 amazing! We're looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join our team and be part of something special.
No experience needed
🔗 Find out more and register here: za.pycon.org/volunteering
@za.pycon.orgExcited to welcome @NITheCS as Gold sponsors of #PyConZA2026! 🐍
The National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences connects researchers at every South African public university, across eight core fields, from astrophysics to data science.
@za.pycon.org💬 6 DAYS!
First Python conference? You'll fit right in. PyConZA is friendly, welcoming and full of people happy to talk code over coffee.
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🗓 14–16 October 2026
📍 Rondebosch, Cape Town
@za.pycon.orgIntroducing #PyConZA2026 speakers, Alex Zeeman and Astrid Beyers! 🐍
New to Plone? They'll introduce it, then show how they built the NITheCS site on Volto with no fixed brief, just a shared direction.
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@za.pycon.orgIntroducing #PyConZA2026 speaker, Kim van Wyk! 🐍
By day, Kim is Lead Data Engineer at SA Home Loans. He's also a PyConZA organiser and the one-man dev team behind southern Africa's Lions clubs. He'll share the pragmatic, low-cost choices that make it work.
@za.pycon.orgIntroducing #PyConZA2026 speaker, Kudzayi Bamhare! 🐍
Django developer, coding teacher and conference organiser Kudzayi will make OOP click using , Squirtle and Bulbasaur. Beginner-friendly!
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