Call for Proposals at PyCon DE 2027
Our 2027 conference will take place in Heidelberg, offering dedicated tracks for diverse interests, with both on-site and remote access for attendees. Please note, while attendees can choose their mode of participation, presenters must deliver their sessions on-site.
You will need to set up an account on Pretalx, and you can edit your proposals until the Call for Proposals closes.
Please feel free to forward this call to anyone you think might be interested in submitting a proposal.
PyCon DE brings together developers, DevOps engineers, scientists, and individuals from the Python community to discuss application techniques, updates to the language, further Open Source development, and the community. Talks often include new features of the Python language, new libraries, security, testing, web, and programming & software engineering in general. The conference also attracts analysts, scientists, developers, engineers, researchers, enthusiasts and individuals from the AI & Data Science community to discuss applications of new tools and techniques. Talks often include data management, analytics, visualisation as well as new machine learning, statistical, and deep learning approaches.
Conference Tracks & Topics of Interest
The conference will feature the following five main tracks and topics of interest.
To simplify the review process and the creation of the program, we ask that you select a track and topic for your talk from the list below:
Core Python & Web
- Python Language & Ecosystem
- Software Engineering, Testing & Architecture
- Django, Web Frameworks & APIs
- Embedded Systems, Hardware & Robotics
Applied AI & Data Engineering
- Data Pipelines, Storage & Architecture
- Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Predictive AI
- Generative AI, LLMs & Audio/NLP
- Computer Vision & Spatial Computing
- AI-Assisted Software Engineering
Operations, Cloud & Systems
- MLOps, Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps
- Autonomous Systems & AI Agents
- Systems Programming & Cross-Language Interoperability
- Security, DevSecOps & Privacy
Organizational Practice & Future Work
- Ethics, Governance & Responsible AI
- Education, Career Development & Mentorship
- AI Transformation
Community
- Community & Community Building
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Culture
To see the presentation of previous events, please look at our past conference videos on YouTube at PyData and PyConDE.
Presentation Format
Presentation content can be at a novice, intermediate or advanced level. Talks will have two possible lengths, either 30 or 45 minutes, and hands-on tutorials will last 90 minutes. While attendees can participate remotely, we require all speakers to deliver their presentations in person at the conference venue. We encourage submissions aimed at a highly python-proficient target audience, following the insights from last year's attendee self-evaluation:
- Beginner 20%
- Intermediate 45%
- Advanced 35%
Accepted submissions will receive one free ticket. Travel expenses will not be covered; however, we offer a support program aid and strongly encourage speakers, who may face financial barriers, to apply for travel funding when submitting your proposal.
Submission Process
After the submission deadline, proposals will be peer-reviewed and later selected by the program committee.
Your Submission
In our experience, attendees pay close attention to proposal abstracts when deciding which talks to attend during the conference. The submitted abstract will be published as is in the conference program (you can edit the submission later).
We are committed to offering our attendees a program filled with fresh and engaging perspectives. To achieve this, we seek submissions that bring innovative ideas, practical insights, and unique experiences to our audience. We kindly ask potential presenters to refrain from submitting material that has already been shared at other conferences or events, ensuring that our conference remains a platform for new and valuable content. Submissions that do not adhere to this guideline will be automatically rejected.
In your submission, please include details about the theory, concepts and/or practice you will discuss. Specifically, if the system you've built uses open source tools, please mention the libraries in the proposal and make it clear whether you will be presenting a case-study of their use or if you will discuss details of their design.
In general, conference attendees, as well as the program committee and reviewers, should be able to answer these questions based on your submission:
- What problem is your talk addressing (are you talking about a well-known problem, or have you found something new during a project)?
- Why is the problem relevant to the audience?
- What is (are) your solution(s) to the problem?
- What are the main takeaways from your talk? For a tutorial submission, this is extremely important, please specify what people will have learned at the end of the tutorial session.
We recommend including an outline of your talk to help the audience assess the content and structure of your submission.
As a reminder, PyCon DE presentations are intended to share knowledge and experience. To this end, we encourage the code and/or data that your talk relies on to be open-source. Ideally, the audience would have access to the necessary tools to reproduce the results of the talk. Also, we welcome talks focused on your own practical application of tools and concepts either at work or in your free time, but discourage sales-oriented proposals whose sole aim is to sell a product.
Finally, we require your full name (as you would like it to appear in the PyCon DE Conference Programme) and organizational/corporate affiliation. To ensure a diverse range of perspectives in the program, a maximum of three talks per organization will be accepted. If you or your company seeks to have a deeper impact on the program, please consider becoming a Sponsor of PyCon DE 2027.
Important Dates
Talk Proposal Deadline: 20 December 2026 23:59:59 CET
Acceptance Notification: 10 February 2027
Conference Dates: 20 - 22 April 2027
Pre-Conference events (Masterclasses, Djangogirls): 19 April 2027
Post-Conference events (Sprints, Hackathons and Beginner's Day): 23 - 24 April 2027
First-Time Speakers
We especially encourage first-time speakers and submissions by underrepresented members of the community.
Travel Sponsorship
As a volunteer-run, non-profit conference, we are unfortunately unable to provide automatic travel sponsorship for speakers. Being accepted as a speaker does not make you eligible for travel support by default. Instead, we offer a Financial Aid Programme (https://pycon.de/financial-aid/) that is open to all community members. If you need financial assistance to attend the conference and present your talk, please apply to the programme immediately after submitting your proposal - do not wait for the acceptance notification.
Code of Conduct
We strive to maintain the Python community’s reputation for being welcoming, friendly, and supportive. To this end, we ask all attendees, organizers and sponsors to follow the Code of Conduct.