Cheuk Ting Ho; Workshop
These may be the most important skills to keep your job or to find a new one in the future!
AI-generated code is a powerful tool, but it should never be blindly trusted. This intensive workshop, "Audit and evaluate AI generated Python code," teaches you the critical skills you need to stay relevant in the future.
Mai Gimenez; Keynote
In the era of agentic AI, our role as developers is no longer just about code creation but it’s about code curation. The blank page is dead, but AI-slop is rising. Discover how to use architectural guardrails to force AI to code with your taste, not its training data.
Mariatta; Talk
In 2025, PyLadiesCon team said no to spreadsheets and instead started building our conference infrastructure: an open source web app for managing various aspects of our conference. Learn more our challenges in managing the online PyLadiesCon conference, and how we're solving our problems with Python and Django.
Stefanie Molin; Workshop
Come learn how to use the Python standard library’s ast module to parse and analyze code. Using just the standard library, we will implement a couple of code analysis checks from scratch, giving you the skills and confidence to use ASTs in your own projects.
Yulia Markelova; Talk
In Python, objects live as long as something is holding on to them—and sometimes that’s way longer than you expect. This talk explores how references, the garbage collector, and weak references interact to determine object lifetimes, with real-world examples like lru_cache quietly keeping objects alive.