PyCon Portugal 2026

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Anastasia Mikheeva
  • This Agent Will Judge Your Bias!
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Anže Pečar

I write code and surf waves

  • Speeding Up Django Startup Times with Lazy Imports
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Cheuk Ting Ho

After having a career as a Data Scientist and Developer Advocate, Cheuk dedicated her work to the open-source community. Currently, she is working as a developer advocate for JetBrains. She has co-founded Humble Data, a beginner Python workshop that has been happening around the world. Cheuk also started and hosted a Python podcast, PyPodCats, which highlights the achievements of underrepresented members in the community. She has served the EuroPython Society board for two years and is now a fellow and director of the Python Software Foundation.

  • Debug smarter, not harder - all you need to know about debugging in Python
  • Audit and evaluate AI generated Python code
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Daniel Reis

Daniel Reis is an Odoo ERP specialist, implementing business solutions in businesses in multiple sectors and countries. He is an active open source contributor, board member at the Odoo Community Association, and has several published books on Odoo development. Daniel has a degree in Applied Mathematics, a Master in Business Administration.

  • Running Companies with Python and Open Source ERP
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David Vaz

A software developer for over 20 years, he fell in love with Python early in his journey. Django developer since 2007. He loves Python and Django so much that he has brought developers into the community ever since, and he ended up starting his consultancy firm around these technologies.
DjangoCon Europe Organizer for a few of the last editions, and PyCon Portugal organizer since the beginning in 2022.

  • I Am a Sucker for Conventions. Why Django’s Defaults Work, Until They Don’t
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Hilal Işık

Hilal Işık is a Senior Data Analytics Coach, researcher, and community-driven practitioner working at the intersection of data, education, and social impact. She has hands-on experience in Python, SQL, machine learning, and data visualization, and focuses on translating complex data into clear, actionable insights for diverse audiences. Alongside her work in data analytics, she is an independent researcher and published author with a background in sociology, human rights, and European Studies. Hilal is also actively involved in the tech community, including initiatives such as PyLadies, where she supports knowledge sharing and collaborative learning around AI and data projects.

  • This Agent Will Judge Your Bias!
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Hugo van Kemenade

Hugo van Kemenade is a Python core developer and the release manager for Python 3.14 and the next one. He maintains open-source projects such as Pillow, is a PSF Fellow and PEP editor, and organiser of NaNoGenMo, Helsinki Python and PyData Helsinki. As a Sovereign Tech Fellow, he's lucky to work on maintaining critical digital infrastructure full-time. Hugo lives in Helsinki and sometimes cycles on the frozen sea.

  • What's new in Python 3.14 & 3.15
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Juan Caraballo

I'm Juan Caraballo, an Infrastructure and Reliability Engineer from the Dominican Republic, currently based in Lisbon, Portugal.

I started my career as a Django developer at the Utah Water Research Laboratory, where I spent nearly a decade, before moving into data engineering and eventually infrastructure and site reliability.

Outside of work, I'm drawn to the connective tissue between fields like physics, biology, ecology, and computer science, and I try to bring that cross-disciplinary lens to the way I think about engineering problems.

  • Your Software Mirrors Your Conversations. Your Conversations Just Went Private.
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Juan Castillo del Río

I studied Mathematics and Statistics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and I work as a Data Scientist at Decide4AI.

  • Predicting the future with machine learning and Python
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Laís Carvalho

Laís Carvalho works on growth and developer content for Logfire, the observability platform from the team behind Pydantic, writing and building across the Pydantic AI ecosystem. In March, she organised and moderated a panel on open source in the age of AI with Guido van Rossum.
On the community side, she's a PSF Fellow, a EuroPython Society Fellow, and a 2024 PSF Community Service Award recipient, with a long history organising Python community events. She also builds with the same tools she writes about, which is the only reason she's qualified to tell you most of your AI output is slop. She'd know. She's produced plenty of it.

  • Keynote: Most of your AI output is Slop (and how to optimise it)
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Mai Gimenez

Dr. Mai Giménez is a staff research engineer working in generative AI at Google Deepmind. They are passionate about building the most useful technology for everyone.
Mai is a former board member of the Spanish Python Association, and a proud member of the Pyladies.

  • Keynote: Becoming a code curator: developing engineering taste in the age of generative agents
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Marcos Manuel Ortega González
  • Cloud consultant, architect & trainer - 14 years of experience
  • Working on Google Cloud, data/AI/Gemini, Pulumi, finOps, pythonista
  • Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud
  • Google Cloud Authorized Trainer
  • Former community organizer: Club Python Almería, GDG Almería, GDG Cloud Español, Databeers ALM, Hacklab Almería, etc.

Working on and publishing about googly cloudy things, now also interested in Pulumi for IaC. Python lover since I learnt to program!

From Almería, Spain with ❤️

  • Now available: A pythoneer's guide to IaC with Pulumi
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Mariatta

Mariatta is a Python Core Developer, open source maintainer, and community leader with over 15 years of experience in software development. She is passionate about workflow improvements and automation, as well as building inclusive developer communities.

As a serial conference organizer, Mariatta has helped kickstarted the PyCascades and PyLadiesCon conference.

For her contributions to the Python open source community, she has received the Python Software Foundation Community Service award and Google Open Source Peer Bonus award. She also appears in the official Python Documentary.

  • Reverse-engineering the QR code generator and URL forwarder service
  • No More Spreadsheets! Building PyLadiesCon Infrastructure with Python and Django
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Mohnish Awade

Mohnish is a software engineer and a math enthusiast. He has been working with Python especially in the field of Machine learning from developing cutting-edge algorithms to demystifying complex mathematical theories, and his career has been driven by the intersection of computer science and mathematics.

With over a decade of work experience in Python software development under a highly competitive problem solving environment. He has a solid foundation in Python compiler(CPython) and its programming.

He love to work with low level programming languages such as C/C++ to build performance oriented applications interfaced with python programming. He regularly apply OOP with functional programming principles to create and maintain high-quality clean code.

  • Code Smarter with Functional Python
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Natalia Riveros Núñez

Natalia Riveros is an engineer and lawyer working in cybersecurity for infrastructure systems. Her work focuses on how software decisions affect systems such as energy, water, and industrial environments. She combines hands-on work in API security and system analysis with a strong background in legal frameworks. Natalia has worked on topics including ethical hacking, system security, and governance, and has spoken about the role of AI in cybersecurity within the energy sector. Her approach connects technical work with real operational and legal challenges.

  • Building Resilient Python APIs for Systems That Can't Afford to Fail
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Pier Paolo La Pastina

I developed a passion for mathematics at an early age, which naturally led me to feel comfortable working with data and abstract thinking. I earned a PhD in Mathematics and later worked as an applied researcher at a startup, where I also developed strong skills in writing technical papers and speaking at international conferences.

I have been working as a data engineer for the past four years. Over this time, I have gained strong hands-on experience in several key areas of the field, including ETL, data warehousing, data quality, data lineage, data modeling, and master data management. I have designed, built, maintained, and optimized large-scale data pipelines using Python, Scala, Java, SQL, and several data processing engines, including Apache Spark. In my daily work, I take pride in writing clear and maintainable code, and I strongly support the continuous improvement of both technical and people processes.

  • The illusion of sequential execution in PySpark
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Rafael Araújo

I have more than 10 years of experience working on data projects, with prior experience in roles such as Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Data Architect, and Data Governance.

I had the honor of being a speaker at events such as GopherCon Brasil and Python Brasil, talking about topics related to data.

Currently, I work on a Data Governance project, implementing Data Quality routines.

  • Implementing Data Quality Control with Python
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Rodrigo Girão Serrão

Hi, I'm Rodrigo Girão Serrão from sunny Portugal 🇵🇹.

I'm a prolific Python author and speaker, with multiple books published independently and dozens of talks and tutorials given at the largest Python conferences in the world. I also blog frequently about Python and publish a Python newsletters: the weekly mathspp insider 🐍🚀.

I have extensive experience teaching people from all walks of life – from kids in school, to professionals in various industries, to retirees – and there is a clear consensus that my students enjoy my clear examples, the live-coding during my lessons, and most surprisingly: my quirky sense of humour.

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  • Fast Python development with uv
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Stefanie Molin

Stefanie Molin is a software engineer at Bloomberg in New York City, where she tackles tough problems in information security, particularly those revolving around data wrangling/visualization, building tools for gathering data, and knowledge sharing. She is also a core developer of numpydoc and the author of “Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas: A Python data science handbook for data collection, wrangling, analysis, and visualization,” which is currently in its second edition and has been translated into Korean and Chinese. She holds a bachelor’s of science degree in operations research from Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, as well as a master’s degree in computer science, with a specialization in machine learning, from Georgia Tech. In her free time, she enjoys traveling the world, inventing new recipes, and learning new languages spoken among both people and computers.

  • Build Your Own (Simple) Static Code Analyzer
  • Process, Analyze, and Transform Python Code with ASTs
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Tiago Montes
  • Trust Me, I'm a Certificate Authority
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Yulia Markelova

Hi! I’m Yulia, a Python developer who enjoys building backend systems — and occasionally breaking them just to understand how they work better. I’ve spent more than 7 years working with Python in production, mostly on data-heavy applications.

Originally from Russia and now based in Portugal, I enjoy learning new languages and exploring life in a new country.

  • strong ref, weakref and garbage collector walks into a bar